KING 5 News for Seattle/Tacoma

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I’m not happy with the recent changes to the weather section. I used to read the detailed weather forecast every day, and now it’s nowhere to be found. It’s been replaced by a weather forecaster’s 20-second summary of the weather via shaky handheld phone, which is not insightful at all.

I loved this app until this morning. No more seagull and app won’t load on any device.

The new app update that completely redesigned the app is total garbage. A huge down-grade, full of spam advertisements, terrible loading times, ugly layout and sloppy looking articles. Looks more like a knock-off click-bait news source now, not an actual place for reliable information.

Headline fonts are gigantic and article text fonts are teeny tiny making text almost impossible to read. Text font size doesn’t respond to iPhone text size changes either. Recent app updates are a disaster making the app useless. AND the news is very stale these days!

I used to regularly check the King 5 for local news updates and weather. The updated and remodeled app has made the whole experience not worth my time. Clunky, not intuitive, and frustrating. Bye, local news. ☹️

Update: Forced to use the light mode on this app can be managed, but seeing nearly pornographic ai generated ads on this news app, with NO way of reporting these ads, is very disturbing. Why am I being subjected to pillows and clothes meant to look like female intimate anatomy in ads. Absolutely shameful King 5 and Tegna, do better. Been using this app for nearly 6 years now, they finally updated the app a few days ago and my god is it unusable. Forced white background, unable to conform with my devices local dark mode strings is very troubling to me, as I use white text on a black background due to a visual impairment, but unfortunately this app, King 5, and Tegna don’t care about disabled Americans being able to consume news. Absolutely shameful, and to think I’ve always considered King 5 to be the preeminent news service in the region; I cannot in good conscience continue to believe and recommend that to others when they so blatantly disregard the accessibility needs to their disabled readers. Absolutely SHAMEFUL! DO BETTER

A lot of features that were convenient and had me using the app suddenly no longer exist. Clips and segments have completely replaced long form videos and entire broadcast. I wish the reel/tiktok tab had just been an addition instead of a replacement for videos.

I love watching King 5 everyday, starting my day with it, driving to work, going home etc. Ever since they updated the app with this new platform there are so many glitches and I feel like I can’t watch live news anymore. Terrible AI ads, and won’t play through a whole video. Yes I’ve reset my phone, deleted the app/re-downloaded. I’m 25 years old so if it’s difficult for me to navigate then I wonder what that’s like for others. I rarely make reviews so I hope they tells you something King 5

I frequently watch older newscasts (like from the Friday night if I’m watching on Saturday morning) and the new “upgrade” makes this impossible.