You can look up stocks & other equities by name or ticker symbol, and you can create a watchlist of stocks that you want to follow. These will show up when you open the app. Shows current price, gain/loss from open, day’s opening price, day’s high & low, day’s volume, PE, 52-week high & low, and price charts for the day, week, month, year, etc. There’s a tab for the related business news on the bottom. But sadly that’s it. Nothing else. Apple’s Stock App could be SO much more. Apple needs to add more functionality and features. It would be cool if the app could notify you when a stock moves up or down by a certain amount of points, or goes past certain price points. Also, it would be great to have real-time prices instead of delayed quotes.

This is the default stock app for tens of millions of iPhone, iPad, and Mac users and it’s existed for the iPhone for well over a decade. It once worked great up until a few years ago but now has major bugs that are infuriatingly bad. Many reviews document the bug where the stock list jumps up or down 5-10 stocks or more as it refreshes. So annoying and it’s been going on for well over a year. Now even worse is when the stock list refreshes with the wrong prices. From the day before. The market will be down and the list will refresh and jump up in price going from red to green or visa versa, the market will be up and the stock list will refresh and it will go from green to red. You can tell when it’s happening if you’re paying attention and it eventually will correct itself but it’s incredibly frustrating. Also the app has been painfully slow when it loads charts of stocks. It takes forever when you click and load the chart for a stock so you can see the trend in the stock chart for the day and you move from stock to stock in your list. Sometimes it will load and sometimes it will take longer or load a chart from the day before (it’s 9:30-10am and you get a chart showing 4pm the previous day). This really needs to be fixed so it’s actually useable in a timely fashion. After all we’re trading stocks not loading fantasy football scores. Time to move on from Yahoo Finance for data. Apple has the $ to use another service since they’ve clearly outgrown this one.

I’ve been using this app to track my stocks, and the markets in general, for years now. Been an outstanding tool until a recent update that contained a small tweak, that has been a major nuisance to my use of the app now. Prior to update, when you were in any given stock’s main profile/info screen, the default view at the top was always the current real-time price. Listed with that price, was always the current day’s price change for that stock. That information was static and wouldn’t change when you selected different time periods for the bar graph. THIS WAS PERFECT.After the recent update, the real-time price still stayed the same as you manipulated the bar graph settings. However, now the price change figure changes to match the time period selection you make for the bar graph display. THIS IS NOT GOOD. Please revert back to the old way of this stock price and price change info being displayed, as it was much better to see the same-day info while manipulating historical data with the bar graph function. Seems like an insignificant change, but really it has hindered my ability to use the app efficiently and has become quite annoying for me. At the very least, create a setting where the user has a choice to have that same-day info remain static to the current day, or toggle it so that it can follow whatever time period selection is made with the bar graph function.

This was once a good ore-installed app on the iPhone. However, over a number of updates the app has become unstable and glitchy. One perfect example: NEE is NextEra Energy. They’re a power utility. I track them as an indicator for the sector. Several weeks ago I realized the stock price hadn’t changed for several days. I started investigating and found the stock price shown was wrong. Over the next few weeks, the graph might or might not be updated depending on which time frame I was looking. Sometimes the graphs wouldn’t load at all. MOST of the time, it was only this one stock having an issue. I checked at 2 weeks into the issue and realized both the stock price, day, week and month were all wrong. I deleted the NEE stock and added it again. No change. I deleted all stocks and added them again, no change. I deleted all the stocks then deleted the app, restarted the phone, added the app again and added the stock again .. no change. Then I decided to ask several other people to check NEE on their iPhone’s stocks apps. Guess what .. they ALL had the same issue! NEE isn’t updating properly on anyone’s iPhones. This shows that the app has a serious widespread problem. The problem is, because this is a built in Apple app, there’s no way to contact the developer to let them know there’s an issue. Overall, this means I can’t trust the Stocks app to provide timely and accurate stock information.