{"slug": "apple-news", "name": "Apple News", "category": "media", "category_name": "Media and creative", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 14, "warners": 9, "score": -4.754, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2025-12-18", "latest": "2026-10-14", "why": "", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 2, "compare": 0, "warn": 9}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "", "kind": "", "icon": false, "domain": "apple.news", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.apple.com/apple-news/", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Apple News"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 750809680, "item_id": 46925605, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46925605", "by": "insane_dreamer", "date": "2026-02-07", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use it daily and it's decent.", "excerpt": "I use it daily and it's decent. It's easy enough to just filter out all of the low-quality news sources (either block those channels or \"suggest less\"). I use it for sources I want to occasionally read articles from but wouldn't subscribe to: WSJ, New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Scientific American, or sources I do subscribe to but it's convenient to have them in one place (Atlantic, Wired, my local paper) in", "context": "", "use_case": "Reading news sources", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Now Assume That All Ads on Apple News Are Scams"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 801459056, "item_id": 50091191, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50091191", "by": "andykellr", "date": "2026-10-14", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "This is a service I pay for and these ads are insulting.", "excerpt": "This happens in Apple News and it's really sad to see. All of the ads are terrible: * junk hearing aids that appear to produce a strange glow in the users ear * lead generation ads with clickbait statements (looking right now at \"Senior Drivers in Your State With No DUI Should Read This\") * \"Motley fool issues first-ever 9x buy alert\" (wow first ever!) * \"Little-known Roth conversion strategy allowed by IRS\" I've nev", "context": "paying subscriber", "use_case": "news reading", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI"}, {"id": 796862193, "item_id": 49803887, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803887", "by": "kstrauser", "date": "2026-09-22", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "awful, awful ads in News", "excerpt": "Whenever I see an ad in Apple Maps, I leave a bad review for the advertiser, specifically giving them a thumbs-down in customer service. They are making the service worse for me, the customer. I can dream that this would become common practice such that these ads get the reputation of providing negative value to the companies who buy them. They urgently need to rip the ads out of the App Store and news, too. One of m", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"}, {"id": 759134704, "item_id": 47445919, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47445919", "by": "girvo", "date": "2026-03-19", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "the apple news app on my phone is still riddled with ads", "excerpt": "I pay for Apple One and yet the apple news app on my phone is still riddled with ads with weird AI generated people and horrible articles from crappy publishers pushing some other sensationalist garbage.", "context": "", "use_case": "Reading news on phone", "switched_from": "", "story": "'Your Frustration Is the Product'"}, {"id": 750652752, "item_id": 46915797, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46915797", "by": "redundantly", "date": "2026-02-06", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Otherwise it's a garbage app.", "excerpt": "I use Apple News every day, but just for the puzzles. Otherwise it's a garbage app.", "context": "", "use_case": "Daily puzzles", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Now Assume That All Ads on Apple News Are Scams"}]}], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["news reading", "reading news on phone", "reading news sources", "daily puzzles", "reading news"], "compared": [{"slug": "apple-tv", "name": "Apple TV", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46911901", "title": "I Now Assume That All Ads on Apple News Are Scams", "mentions": 7}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50087524", "title": "Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49801939", "title": "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48891463", "title": "Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772906", "title": "Apple App Store threatened to remove Grok over deepfakes: Letter", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47437655", "title": "'Your Frustration Is the Product'", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"warn": 1}, "2026-01": {"warn": 1}, "2026-02": {"warn": 4, "recommend": 2, "neutral": 1}, "2026-03": {"warn": 1}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {"warn": 1}, "2026-10": {"warn": 1}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 801459056, "item_id": 50091191, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50091191", "by": "andykellr", "date": "2026-10-14", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "This is a service I pay for and these ads are insulting.", "excerpt": "This happens in Apple News and it's really sad to see. All of the ads are terrible: * junk hearing aids that appear to produce a strange glow in the users ear * lead generation ads with clickbait statements (looking right now at \"Senior Drivers in Your State With No DUI Should Read This\") * \"Motley fool issues first-ever 9x buy alert\" (wow first ever!) * \"Little-known Roth conversion strategy allowed by IRS\" I've nev", "context": "paying subscriber", "use_case": "news reading", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI"}, {"id": 796862193, "item_id": 49803887, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803887", "by": "kstrauser", "date": "2026-09-22", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "awful, awful ads in News", "excerpt": "Whenever I see an ad in Apple Maps, I leave a bad review for the advertiser, specifically giving them a thumbs-down in customer service. They are making the service worse for me, the customer. I can dream that this would become common practice such that these ads get the reputation of providing negative value to the companies who buy them. They urgently need to rip the ads out of the App Store and news, too. One of m", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"}, {"id": 782283152, "item_id": 48892697, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48892697", "by": "nozzlegear", "date": "2026-07-13", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I read it in Apple News where it's not paywalled", "excerpt": "Didn't realize it was paywalled. I read it in Apple News where it's not paywalled: https://apple.news/AYYcOLLOwSSmWqYuPlYALPA", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance"}, {"id": 764398912, "item_id": 47774932, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47774932", "by": "sssilver", "date": "2026-04-14", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "> If they were smart they would do a Netflix of news where you subscribe to one service and it gives you access to a ton of different subscription news sites Isn\u2019t this exactly what Apple News[1] is? \u2014 [1] https://www.apple.com/apple-news/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple App Store threatened to remove Grok over deepfakes: Letter"}, {"id": 759134704, "item_id": 47445919, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47445919", "by": "girvo", "date": "2026-03-19", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "the apple news app on my phone is still riddled with ads", "excerpt": "I pay for Apple One and yet the apple news app on my phone is still riddled with ads with weird AI generated people and horrible articles from crappy publishers pushing some other sensationalist garbage.", "context": "", "use_case": "Reading news on phone", "switched_from": "", "story": "'Your Frustration Is the Product'"}, {"id": 751044688, "item_id": 46940293, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46940293", "by": "int_19h", "date": "2026-02-08", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Yes, it still wraps them into https://apple.news links.", "excerpt": "Yes, it still wraps them into https://apple.news links. However when one such is opened in the browser, it - like any other app link - asks if you want to open it in the news app. And if you close that popup and click on \"tap here\", you get the link to the original article.", "context": "", "use_case": "News reading", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Now Assume That All Ads on Apple News Are Scams"}, {"id": 750809680, "item_id": 46925605, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46925605", "by": "insane_dreamer", "date": "2026-02-07", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use it daily and it's decent.", "excerpt": "I use it daily and it's decent. It's easy enough to just filter out all of the low-quality news sources (either block those channels or \"suggest less\"). I use it for sources I want to occasionally read articles from but wouldn't subscribe to: WSJ, New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Scientific American, or sources I do subscribe to but it's convenient to have them in one place (Atlantic, Wired, my local paper) in", "context": "", "use_case": "Reading news sources", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Now Assume That All Ads on Apple News Are Scams"}, {"id": 750789600, "item_id": 46924350, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924350", "by": "SkipperCat", "date": "2026-02-07", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Agreed. I used to subscribe to the WSJ and WashPo and I cancelled both because I get both in Apple News. Plus I get the Atlantic, New Yorker, Wired and so many other magazines. The user interface sucks. Sometimes I go to the actual websites to find articles and then search for them on Apple News. But for $13 USD a month, its a huge bargain and worth the crappy interface. Another thing that kinda helped me was that Ap", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Now Assume That All Ads on Apple News Are Scams"}, {"id": 750652752, "item_id": 46915797, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46915797", "by": "redundantly", "date": "2026-02-06", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Otherwise it's a garbage app.", "excerpt": "I use Apple News every day, but just for the puzzles. Otherwise it's a garbage app.", "context": "", "use_case": "Daily puzzles", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Now Assume That All Ads on Apple News Are Scams"}, {"id": 750617616, "item_id": 46913601, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46913601", "by": "afavour", "date": "2026-02-06", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "the News experience is crappy so the audience doesn't grow", "excerpt": "In fairness Apple did come up with a custom JSON format for articles: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applenewsformat The problem is that people don't use it. I imagine it's a chicken/egg thing, the audience on News isn't big so it isn't worth the publishers time catering to an entirely new format, the News experience is crappy so the audience doesn't grow. They could have insisted that everyone use their f", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Now Assume That All Ads on Apple News Are Scams"}, {"id": 750613360, "item_id": 46913335, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46913335", "by": "scratchyone", "date": "2026-02-06", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Truly cannot believe someone at Apple though that was an acceptable user experience for ads.", "excerpt": "I'm genuinely haunted by these TurboTax ads, I see that download app popup at least 3 times a day when I use Apple News. Truly cannot believe someone at Apple though that was an acceptable user experience for ads.", "context": "", "use_case": "Reading news", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Now Assume That All Ads on Apple News Are Scams"}, {"id": 750603344, "item_id": 46912709, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46912709", "by": "ksec", "date": "2026-02-06", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "None of these are of any quality of what Apple used to be.", "excerpt": "Ever since Apple moved to Services Strategy in 2014 it has been like this. Services were not there so they could provide a better experience for its \"customers\". I use the word \"customer\" here which is what Apple / Steve Jobs used to call their loyal fans, and not user. But to further growth their Revenue pie because they foresee iPhone one day will stagnant. You now have Apple Fitness+, Apple TV, News, Music, Arcade", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Now Assume That All Ads on Apple News Are Scams"}, {"id": 745281616, "item_id": 46580101, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580101", "by": "indymike", "date": "2026-01-11", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "I once fired up my macbook, only to be jarred by Apple News notifications about a gristly mass murder.", "excerpt": "Since 2008 I've been on linux as my daily driver. You'll find two laptops in my backpack: a macbook air and whatever linux machine I'm using for development. I'm almost to the point with the mac, I use it maybe once a month. So much works better on linux. The Mac (and occasions where I've tried Windows) is not nearly as easy to deal with as it was. Far too many decisions for the user to make, and far too many situati", "context": "Linux daily driver since 2008", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"}, {"id": 741167395, "item_id": 46322962, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46322962", "by": "dangus", "date": "2025-12-18", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Try removing Apple News on your Mac! You can't delete the app, not allowed!", "excerpt": "I hate to break it to you, but it's been like this for YEARS now. The frog has been boiled. Line must go up and the market is saturated. I watched an \"Android user switched to iOS\" YouTube video recently and it's interesting how much you don't see when you haven't been removed from an environment. This Android user was shocked at how much iOS advertises to you, which is not intuitively what any of us would think an A", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results"}]}