Apple News
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
9warn against
Dec 18, 2025first mention
Oct 14, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I use it daily and it's decent.”
Caveats and dissent
“This is a service I pay for and these ads are insulting.”
paying subscriberon “Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI”
“awful, awful ads in News”
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“the apple news app on my phone is still riddled with ads”
“Otherwise it's a garbage app.”
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
- I Now Assume That All Ads on Apple News Are Scams 7 mentions
- Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI 1 mention
- Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy 1 mention
- Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance 1 mention
- Apple App Store threatened to remove Grok over deepfakes: Letter 1 mention
- 'Your Frustration Is the Product' 1 mention
Data: apple-news.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 14
“This is a service I pay for and these ads are insulting.”
“awful, awful ads in News”
“I read it in Apple News where it's not paywalled”
> 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’t this exactly what Apple News[1] is? — [1] https://www.apple.com/apple-news/
“the apple news app on my phone is still riddled with ads”
“Yes, it still wraps them into https://apple.news links.”
“I use it daily and it's decent.”
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
“Otherwise it's a garbage app.”
“the News experience is crappy so the audience doesn't grow”
“Truly cannot believe someone at Apple though that was an acceptable user experience for ads.”
“None of these are of any quality of what Apple used to be.”
“I once fired up my macbook, only to be jarred by Apple News notifications about a gristly mass murder.”
“Try removing Apple News on your Mac! You can't delete the app, not allowed!”