ABC7 Chicago

Growing increasingly frustrated with this app! Not only do I have to search for an article I'd just received an notification for, but i have to constantly log in with my user name and password, wait for the app for load (5 - 10 seconds), then search for the article I just received a notification for! I can't do this anymore. I'm sure there are better apps to get news from concerning Chicago. DELETE!! 😠😡

Ever since the latest update, this app keeps putting my phone to sleep 😤 I listen to the news when I shower and get ready for work in the mornings. Also have it playing in the background in my office. It is NOT a timer issue with my phone. The abc7 app is the only one that puts both my phone and tablet to sleep while I am actively watching or listening to it. Netflix, Prime, etc. do not do that. I can watch/listen to entire movies on other apps just fine. But not this one.

I primarily use this app to stay updated on the weather. The daily forecasts are pretty accurate, and the videos of the weather broadcasts are definitely helpful. I have experienced a couple glitches with the app. The hour by hour temperature forecast is often incorrect, and it seems to be displaying the "real feel" temperature instead of the actual temperature. The other problem I frequently experience is the live Doppler radar images of precipitation not appearing on the maps at all.

App doesn't always open. I end up having to close all apps and reopen to get it to work. Features in the app do not work (links for video or pictures) and ALOT of the articles and stories have a ton of grammatical and spelling errors. *UPDATE* Here it is 7 years later (Feb. '22) and the same remarks still apply. Nice job whoever maintains this app. How silly of me to think they might actually address the issues and fix them.

The app times out after 20 min; it did not do this before. it's annoying

TRASH! Live Stream newscast quality and loading is very bad 12-31-25.. STILL NOT FIXED 2-2026

Since the major redesign of your app it has been terrible. Especially when trying to access it from an external site. You went for pretty and lost functional in many ways. You're welcome. Additional and more in-depth. When you click on a link outside the app it takes you to the app but not the story itself. Then you have to search and a lot of times that article is not able to be found.

Having video, along with the written article, enables me to get the background of a story; the side notes. They give both sides of an issue; not just the popular point of view. On the technical side, this app had a few snags that have been smoothed out. I haven't completely explored the app, so this rating has a chance to increase!

I like the app's UI and design, but consistently when clicking news notifications, I am taken to the app and a blank article page. This has been happening for months on different phones. If I open the app another way it's fine. I also occasionally get prompts that the app is not responding. It's too bad.

The app is just "clunky". Downloaded during the riots since you couldnt watch the live helicopter on the website for some reason. Half the time the video wouldn't play when clicked on though. Kept the app after the riots just in case. Now getting notifications constantly and if you click any when you have the app open in the background, it goes to the last article you had open and then good luck finding the article you wanted to see. Just not useful in the end.

The app freezes constantly, but plays several minutes of commercials. When the live news comes on, it plays five seconds pauses ten seconds and after a few rounds goes back to play screan and you have to start over with commercials. A friend asked if I saw the news and hour ago and I said no, I'm still trying to get thru the first news story. The app is useless!

9/8/23--new interface easier to read, addressed memory leak. But they removed ability to go directly from one article to the next, making reading news tedious. Filter setting on My News doesn't hold, must turn off unwanted choices (videos and galleries in my case) every time it's used. There's too much non-local (but local to elsewhere, like small towns in southern states) news for an app that specifies Chicago. Articles still full of typos, headlines often don't reflect content accurately.

Although the app works well as a general rule, it has the ANNOYING habit of JUMPING AHEAD during a live feed!!!!!! Thx reporter can be right in the middle of a statement, then the video will SUDDENLY JUMP AHEAD, sometimes right to the end of the feed!!!! Many times I've had to keep TAKING IT BACK, AND TAKING IT BACK, AND TAKING IT BACK to the point before the jump just to get the full statement!!!! I mean, I ask you, WHAT GOOD is a live feed if playback isn't CONTINUOUS! from THE BEGINNING?!

Great news source, just can't use the share button so good luck sharing what you read with others. When you click the share button, you see it looks like it was clicked as it greys out for a second as it was pushed, not nothing opens to allow you to share the article. So do what I do, read the article, Google search for the same thing, then share another news source from the web.

This app will constantly send notifications. Even if you manually turn them off the app will turn them back on because you have you give permission for the app to access your system settings. Very annoying! Uninstalled after a couple days - couldn't tolerate all the interuptions...

This app is ridiculous. Constantly showing me a weather alert from JANUARY OF 2018. Makes no sense. Images don't load half the time. I would like to see what's happening not just read it. Oh, and if I leave the app to do something else & come back to it, nothing at all will load back up. Just shows that it's "thinking" until I restart it. Complete garbage.

Poor. News videos don't often play. True to form, the commercials, which are often longer than the news item do, but the video more often than not, don't. Very frustrating but, not surprising. So much of this modern technology is promoted as something that it is not.

App is slow when I click a notification most of the time it takes 20 to 30 seconds to load then if I dont clear the app from running in the background and I get a new notification and click the new notification it takes me to the previous viewed notification as of 11/1/2020 it is still the same you have done nothing to correct the issues

They recently updated this app. I really like the newest update. It is customizable and you can read the stories you want. 6/28/20; this needs to be updated again. Anytime my push notification alerts me of a story, I can not click on it and read it. It goes to a blank page. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling and that didn't help.

sometimes the app messes up but still I like to see what's going on since I moved from Chicago.