While there’s always an adjustment period as I learn my way around a new version of a favorite app, I’m not sure I’m going to be able to get past the way this one displays the same articles multiple times on the first page. I liked being able to scroll through a long list of articles on a variety of topics in Top News to get an overview of the day’s happenings. Now I need to link to specific pages to see more than 4-6 articles from a broad area of interest. And of those few, a couple are always repeats from a previous section. My other gripes: the horizontal scrolling at the top of the page for market listings is slower; there’s no way to close the window after you look at details for a stock listing from a watchlist. All that said, I’m hoping CNBC is listening and will improve the usability of this now very attractive app. Really, usability should come first.

Edited review - The app now (Mar 1/2, 2023) now immediately crashes on load, and because of this, you cannot use the app to contact the developers (settings->contact us). iPhone 14pro is up to date with all iOS patches.Old review below.Not as much information is presented on a screen as the older version. I don't like the new presentation of watch lists. On the old version of the watch list, I could get 10 or more stocks on one screen without scrolling, the new version only 6. I don't like the chart icons being on the watch list, it's not very useful being that small, and it forces each row to be taller (limiting # of rows on a screen) than it needs to be. Also, when selecting a stock and rotating the phone to be landscape and viewing the full chart takes way way too long, it takes so long it times out a lot. And changing the timeline from day, to 1 day, to week, etc, also takes way too long. It is not very useful. There should be a setting to prefer the old chart version because it was infinitely faster. Overall this is not a better version, and I will continue to use the old version.

I’ve used the CNBC iPad app for about a year in the mornings to stay updated on the markets and watch the news while I get ready or go through morning routines. There is rarely a morning where I don’t spend ~5+ minutes resetting the app or re-launching the video. 1) Anytime there is a commercial, the application loses the broadcast and video stops, resulting in permanent loss of playback until the app is exited and re-launched. 2) Picture in picture is even worse, loses playback once about every 15 or 20 minutes. 3) The app cannot keep track of my TV provider credentials. It will show me logged in, then only play 10min of preview content, then ask me to login again. After a (pull down) refresh on the watch tab, the credentials are back magically but it takes -minutes- to resume playback. -When it works- the app is overall great, but CNBC developers have a long way to go for a consistent experience with video. Happy to run betas or participate in bug reporting program as I have some experience with iOS apps several years back.

Even with “Major Breaking News” as the only alert it includes topics that are NOT. On a Saturday I have now received 2 alerts about Epstein committing suicide in jail. To me, this is not “Major Breaking News” and certainly not worth 2 alerts on a weekend. They do the same thing to announce tweets by various people as well as other items that are not major. They really need another classification for these that can be disabled.It would be nice to be able to configure an alert if an index moved a certain %.Is there a way to receive an alert on a stock in a watch list?As other reviews have pointed out, the same story will also be duplicated throughout various sections. They really need to filter out the dupes.It would also be great to have the option to disable the images both in the story preview list and the article itself (sorry Getty, but the stock photos of traders either shouting or pouting are just pointless).