Google News 12+
Top world & local news stories
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- Free
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Description
Google News is a personalised news aggregator that organises and highlights what’s happening in the world so that you can quickly catch up and discover more about the stories that matter to you.
With Google News, you’ll find:
YOUR BRIEFING: It can be nearly impossible to keep up with every story that you care about; Your Briefing makes it easy to stay in the know about what’s important and relevant in your world. It updates throughout the day to bring you the top local, national and world headlines, plus personalised news tailored to your interests.
LOCAL NEWS: Explore your community through stories and articles from news outlets in your local area. Customise and choose multiple locations so that you can know what’s happening near you or wherever home is.
FULL COVERAGE: Dive deeper into a story with multiple perspectives. The Full coverage feature organises everything online about a story, surfacing and highlighting coverage from different outlets and mediums. With just a tap, you’ll uncover how the story is unfolding and how everyone is reporting on it.
STORIES FOR YOU: The For You section delivers personalised news related to your interests. Take control and customise the articles that you see by following the topics and sources that you care about.
ACCESS FROM ANY DEVICE: Stay up to date on the news, no matter where you are. Pair the Google News mobile app with our desktop website, news.google.com, and enjoy your personalised content across all your devices.
What’s New
Version 5.92
· Bug fixes and performance improvements
Ratings and Reviews
Better than other news + apps
Compared to other news apps from well known, reputable developers, Google news does a much better job of presenting you with free content, supported by ads.
With some other news apps, 75% of the headlines I click on immediately present a pay wall for stories that aren’t exactly exclusives.
Large icons , inefficient screen space
no magazine subscription support, all paid content is almost unusable black screens no navigation ,. Despite paying money Google give no support.
The download content feature does not work. Although it downloads once offline it mostly displays this content is not available offline. If you connect to inflight access point this app fails to authenticate, but then it rembers that and so requires you to authenticate which can only occur after the flight has finished
The currated content displays identical stories from different magazines , that is a story written by the one author published by two magazines. It even does this when I say don't display stories like this on one of them.
Pointless change to new app, moving on
I've used Google News for years, was very happy, minimalist user interface gave me a lot of information over 6-7 stories on an iPhone screen, now I get useless big pictures and 2 stories per screen, if I'd wanted cartoons I'd have gone elsewhere.
Personalised news worked OK, bit buggy but ok. It's now useless, why would I want to see news articles from 2016, I don't even want to see your latest news which is dated August. And forget searching something specialist, a scientific or medical term for example, pretty much nothing comes up.
Before they killed the old Google News I compared the new and the old dude by side, no comparison, more news in the old version.
App Privacy
The developer, Google, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Location
- Contact Info
- Contacts
- User Content
- Search History
- Browsing History
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
- Other Data
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Google LLC
- Size
- 165.4 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Afrikaans, Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Zulu
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humour Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco or Drug Use or References
- Copyright
- © 2018 Google, Inc
- Price
- Free