Sacramento Bee News Reviews – Page 19
2/5 rating based on 193 reviews. Read all reviews for Sacramento Bee News for iPhone.
Sacramento Bee News is free iOS app published by McClatchy Interactive
Cheap
Newsjunkiesacto
This is the only news app that I pay for and coincidentally the only one that has pop up adds for cheap video games when you click on a story. The pop ups locks up the app so you can't navigate out. Locks your phone up until add finishes. Just plain cheap. Canceling my digital subscription just like most of my friends have until they fix this.
Annoying And Intrusive Pop-Up Ads
MoraEric
The Sac Bee is a relatively strong metro daily newspaper given the financial strains that all print media face these days—so the content is pretty good. The recent font change is an improvement and makes it a bit more readable on my iPhone screen. If it ended here, I might give four starts. The pop-up ads, however, are the worst that I have encountered in any app or web site. The ads pop-up and frequently won’t disappear, often getting stuck as they play, forcing me to restart the app and sometimes restart the whole phone. This is especially galling since I pay for an online subscription—and it’s not cheap.
Pop-up ads distracting
Bill in Arden-Arcade
The number of random pop-up ads is increasing and becoming a greater and greater distraction, only serving as a constant detriment to using the app. These ads are not targeted in any way and most are irrelevant to the current viewer who only wants to follow the news stories so well written by the Bee staff. I wish the ads would go away.
Lousy local news updates!
F E
The app for new stories is good but when it comes to the apps "local news" it stinks. For example. The "El Dorado" section of local news has not been updated for months. There lead story is if an empty Folsom lake. The last time I checked it's been full for a while now.
Local news for Folsom leads with a story from December
Cap'nPissGums
Seriously - I'd rather read the Bee on a browser ... plus the ads that pop up and cover the screen are particularly distracting and deceptive with the x to close them hidden or disguised - click on the "x" and it takes you into more ads. Local news for Folsom today Mar 23 leads with a story from December 29 about searching for human remains in an almost empty Folsom Lake, the second lead is a story from February 24 about the woman who fell down a laundry chute in Vegas, and the third lead a story from January 13 about a boulder on Highway 50. Then follows some slightly more recent news ...
Hard to read on an IPad
jacquiblueyes
The new version is very hard to read on an iPad. The print is blurry, even when enlarged. Also, since the IOS 9.3 update, it's even harder to read.
Unstable
Try and try again
When it works, it's good. Mostly, though, it usually crashes at least once before you reach the comics - pinching and spreading gestures are particularly risky. If you navigate away, or it crashes, it forces you back to page 1. Tries very hard to steer you away from the print edition. Tends to load very slow, both initially and again after 25 pages or so, and tries to blame your connection instead of their server. Overly sensitive pop up navigation screen, and the gesture selections they made (one tap to zoom, two to open an article) are the opposite of what most papers use. Only good option for the comics is zooming the whole page, risking the crash. No disclosure of what user data it tracks.
Ads "x" opens the ad
Ollyappleseed
Clicking the universally understood "X" on an ad, simply opens the ad! And local news out of date & not really local. Text & photos are clear though, unlike someone who said this update is blurry.