
Yahoo News: Breaking & Local 17+
National News & Live Video
Yahoo
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- Free
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Description
Focus on what’s important with the newest version of the Yahoo News app. Now you can customize your news with your favorite topics and publishers, while our expert editors curate top stories from trusted sources. It’s time to reframe your newsfeed around what matters to you.
• Trusted sources - News from The New York Times, USA Today, TIME, Politico, the AP, Fox News and more.
• Customize topics and sources - Personalize your newsfeed like never before.
• Search across all news sources - Easily find what you’re looking for.
• The 360 - See all sides of important topics with a variety of viewpoints.
• Exclusive and live video - Watch trending news, press conferences, the day's soundbites and more.
• Expert editors - Get curated top stories of the day and premium content like our Skullduggery podcast, highlighting scandals and investigations in the Trump era.
• Breaking news alerts - Never miss an important story.
• Local News - Follow headlines from your hometown
What’s New
Version 9.90.0
To enhance your Yahoo News experience, we've made various bug fixes and performance improvements.
Ratings and Reviews
Variety and less biased
Yahoo offers a much broader look at the news with many articles about human interests and not just political views about every aspect of life. Yahoo news is more enlightening and less anger. I like the news Yahoo offers. It is one of approximately 15 news feeds so I am able to see many viewpoints of what is happening in United States , from around the World.
Developer Response ,
Thank you for the info, we will pass it along to our product team for consideration. -BR
Decent with flaws
Overall, this isn’t a bad app. Reading other reviews I see a lot of complaints about inability to comment and “fake news”. Neither are an issue for me personally.
My complaints about this app include the following. First, I cannot set my location, which means I cannot get local news tailored to me. Second, I cannot set filters. I’d like to filter out specific topics/keywords/etc. so that the news is actually interesting rather than an exercise in frustration. And last, I’d like to also filter out specific contributors (e.g. TikTok, Instagram).
Terrible app
Not sure if it’s the algorithm but the app pushes a lot of clickbait and one-sided/biased articles. Not too many objective articles which is terrible for the current state of the world where people just want straight fact and reporting without the biased opinion of the writer. Not to mention, the comments section is a rotten cesspool of people who seem to be on the extremes, in echo chamber, and only there for confirmation bias.
I probably had the app for 5+ years and I thought it was pretty neat. I thought it was more of just objective news back then and I was hoping it would get better but it just kept getting worse so finally deleting it.
App Privacy
The developer, Yahoo, 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 Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Location
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Yahoo! Inc.
- Size
- 99.5 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 17+ Unrestricted Web Access
- Copyright
- © 2023 Yahoo. All Rights Reserved.
- Price
- Free