Newswav - Latest Malaysia News 4+

Racist unite

This is a place where racist chinese and indians unite to rant about the current situation of Malaysia and even the news have nothing to do with Muslims, it always is the right thing to bring up the unfairness and violence Muslims are. A truly amazing app with no moderations to its comments section. Its even greater that they are outright speaking againts the Sultan which is a great offense but why not? this is the only place they can say such things without any repercussions. Great Racist App 🫶

Notifications hell

The app is genuinely [quite] useful as a source of Malaysian news, but the notification settings are appalling. There are 4 notification settings: none, important, top headlines and everything. The “important” setting is only meant to push 0-2 notifications a day -this is the app’s own description. But at this setting I get close to 10 or more notifications a day (daily Covid number reports alone contribute 3-5 notifications even at this setting!)…what’s the point. The app becomes ridiculously intrusive at this point. So the only option is to turn off notifications, which means zero alerts even for important news. It’s fairly unbelievable that the developers set the definitions for the notification settings, but they then make an app that is completely at odds with it.

Developer Response ,

Hi Alex Lee, our team has taken note on this and have improvised since then. If you can give us another try by selecting "Important" setting only and let us know if you're happy with the changes made, it'd be much appreciated! 😊

Stop interrupting my music and radio stream!

I don’t mind ads in your news article, but the way the embedded ads cut out the music/audio stream in the background is way too annoying. I typically listen to news and business radio in the morning while going through important news on the app, I find myself having to restart my music/radio stream numerous times every time I read a news article in this Newswav ad, it’s getting unbearable. My solution at the moment is copy the link to the article and open it in Safari, then enable Reader mode, a bit too many steps to achieve a peaceful news reading experience though.