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When you want to know what’s happening, tap into the global news gathering power of CNN. With correspondents and bureaus reporting from across the world, no other news source even comes close.
- Watch live CNN, CNNi or HLN television anywhere, anytime*
- Custom alert settings - stay informed without getting overwhelmed
- Experience the world of breaking news through in-depth stories, photo galleries and news clips.
- Watch CNN Original Series like “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown”, CNN news programs like “Anderson Cooper 360” and award-winning CNN Films.
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- Watch live CNN, CNNi or HLN television anywhere, anytime*
- Custom alert settings - stay informed without getting overwhelmed
- Experience the world of breaking news through in-depth stories, photo galleries and news clips.
- Watch CNN Original Series like “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown”, CNN news programs like “Anderson Cooper 360” and award-winning CNN Films.
Video on Demand and Live TV limited to US consumers.
* 10 minute preview each day, log in with your satellite or cable provider for unlimited viewing.
Manage sharing your data at: warnermediaprivacy.com/do-not-sell
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USE of White lettering
Feb 25, 2021 The use of white lettering over an image on the app that describes the essence of the article. The “headline” informs me if I might want to click on the article - more often than not it cannot be read at least in part because it’s not all against a darker background. Could you not use some other color or banner so one can read the basic headline that’s over a particular report. Often I am looking for a quick overview and if I see a headline over the image that I want to come back to I can’t really make out what it is saying. My friends who use the app agree & have the same issue (Most of us are in a hurry and will take mental note & come back later to an article of interest for the more in-depth information ). It just makes no sense & surprising that CNN has not noticed the issue. If I may add, you’re breaking news banner so often blocks the bottom half of an image/ event that you are showing It’s really frustrating even with the candle lighting ceremony at the White House that banner was there they actually took it away pretty quickly but that’s not usually the case. Perhaps it could just be a little smaller👍🏻. Thanks for all your great reporting.more -
Feb 24, 2021 LOTS of notifications, but otherwise pretty good. It's kind of annoying that you can't just watch live TV for longer than 10 minutes and half of it are super long commercials and ads so you really only get 5 minutes if you're lucky unless it's breaking news.more -
Pathetic download times and long commercials
Apr 8, 2019 This App would be great if it was actually designed specially for iPads, instead of strictly for sponsorship profit. The many CNN video snippets generally take 10-15 seconds to download from the internet to the iPad (even with high speed WiFi), then you have to wait for a commercial to slowly completely open up, then you have to endure a boring 13 second commercial....all before you actually get to see the real video. Thus a 30-40 second waste of time to view a 15 second snippet. This App is not optimized for anything other than video viewer annoyance. If I didn’t like and respect CNN so much I would delete it out of frustration. I prefer Apple News as it is much quicker. Wake up CNN......you’re supposed to be the most trusted news network. I trust you should be able to do a better job of optimizing your video management.more -
Feedback for better performance
Sep 2, 2018 The app itself is done well. No bugs or glitches that I have come across. The two major complaints I have come from the articles themselves. Many stories are video only which I understand as it being a television network application. But not all of us have the ability to watch a video to get the news. It would be great if there was an actual article along with the video for those of us unable to view. I have found myself leave the app to go to another source to get the story due to not being able to watch the video. The second issue I have is with the “breaking news” alerts that pop up on my phone. I remember when breaking news was important information that needed to break into a regular broadcast to give viewers the information. The amount of breaking news is ridiculous as not everything is that important. Please get back to marking stories as breaking news when they are truly urgent/important and not every time an article gets posted.more -
Feb 21, 2021 Not working since a few weeks ago. Deleted hoping a new install will help. ... Update Oct 20,2020: the deletion and installation of the current cnn app worked like a charm. No more freezing, hang ups or crashes. Now why did cnn not advise me two weeks ago the app needed an update? Instead, I've lost my saved articles due the reinstall version using an update method. Arrrggggh ..... update Jan 2nd, 2021 For over a month the is again loading slowly or not at all no matter how close to wif. 2/21 okmore
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Feb 13, 2021 The layout of the app is horrible. You have to scroll forever to even find a news story with all of the ads. And the watch tv function is 50/50 for loading. Unacceptable for a large news organization. I use my web browser to go to the site instead of opening this trash app.more -
Feb 22, 2021 Shows true colours of media. This app is jammed full of fake articles and click bait links that are surly going to cause problems for any device you're browsing on. You think a major media outlet like CNN would take the time to monitor what is posted on there app.more -
Feb 22, 2021 I have been using this App since year 2017 , but since 08 September 2020, it has crashed. I tried to use it but no response. I was directed to Update it, but it could not be done via the play store . What's wrong ? Please kindly try and rectify the situation. The app is now functioning properly , with clearer and faster response. Kudos to CNN .more -
Feb 15, 2021 "You are not authorized to view this content". But...I've been using it fine for months. I logged in and everything. Nope. The app just decides I cant ever use it again. Even restarted my phone. So if this is a news app where I cant watch news even though I should be authorized to watch news...then its not a very good news app, is it?more -
Horrible... Sick of the biased news
Sep 9, 2020 I'm sick of the biased news like we need more fuel to the covid 19 crisis, or the elections, or the riots?? So a new article says Trump "knew that covid 19 was 'deadly' in February and kept that information from Americans"... First, I'm pretty sure nobody knew the virus would come to America, as far as anyone is concerned NOBODY CARED, nor nobody took the proper precautions to keep it from spreading, they never thought it would come here, they NEVER thought we couldn't handle it. Heck they weren't gods! It's like someone who blames (put-your-favorite-mighty-entity-name-here) is to blame for all their misery. No Republicans don't have all the answers, but if they don't, I'm sure as heck that Democrats don't have them either. Democrats used an injured ARMY veteran to throw dirt on Trump saying he didn't care about them... Until the ARMY veteran stood up to say "that's not what Trump said and stop throwing dirt on Trump using my image and my name!" Those are facts, not opinions. Sadly, CNN is looking everyday more and more based on opinions than facts. Sick of this. Time to check out Epoch times or fox rather.more
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Reviewed by Laura S on January 11, 2018
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USE of White lettering
Feb 25, 2021 The use of white lettering over an image on the app that describes the essence of the article. The “headline” informs me if I might want to click on the article - more often than not it cannot be read at least in part because it’s not all against a darker background. Could you not use some other color or banner so one can read the basic headline that’s over a particular report. Often I am looking for a quick overview and if I see a headline over the image that I want to come back to I can’t really make out what it is saying. My friends who use the app agree & have the same issue (Most of us are in a hurry and will take mental note & come back later to an article of interest for the more in-depth information ). It just makes no sense & surprising that CNN has not noticed the issue. If I may add, you’re breaking news banner so often blocks the bottom half of an image/ event that you are showing It’s really frustrating even with the candle lighting ceremony at the White House that banner was there they actually took it away pretty quickly but that’s not usually the case. Perhaps it could just be a little smaller👍🏻. Thanks for all your great reporting.more -
Pathetic download times and long commercials
Apr 8, 2019 This App would be great if it was actually designed specially for iPads, instead of strictly for sponsorship profit. The many CNN video snippets generally take 10-15 seconds to download from the internet to the iPad (even with high speed WiFi), then you have to wait for a commercial to slowly completely open up, then you have to endure a boring 13 second commercial....all before you actually get to see the real video. Thus a 30-40 second waste of time to view a 15 second snippet. This App is not optimized for anything other than video viewer annoyance. If I didn’t like and respect CNN so much I would delete it out of frustration. I prefer Apple News as it is much quicker. Wake up CNN......you’re supposed to be the most trusted news network. I trust you should be able to do a better job of optimizing your video management.more -
Child abuse
Feb 18, 2021 I was raised by Democrat parents in west central Ohio. The fight I see for minority rule of the Republicans my dad was teaching me back in the seventies. Real republicans I have found that you can at least agree to disagree. But the Trump Republicans it’s there way or the highway. So what needs to be done by the true Republicans. The Democratic Party has a left and a right. And the need for the Eisenhower Republicans could not be needed more. The progressives need a side to balance the books as we move forward. Trump conservatives are only for the wealthy because Trump only serves himself. And a wise man (my father) wants told me. It’s surprising how smart I’ll get by the time you turn twenty-one. But it takes a working man with a weak mind to vote the way a rich man votes. Because he has the time and the means to sway everything towards his favor. So if you’re the one on the opposite sides trying to compete for jobs or scholarships it is child abuse.more -
I’m obsessed
Jul 21, 2020 I like to consider myself rather independent, so to watch both sides and be unbiased, I downloaded both Fox News and CNN. I was absolutely dismayed at how horrifying the Fox News app was. Not only was it extremely biased and full of Fake News, but the app was so full of ads and pop-ups that I couldn’t get any news without being diverted to another site. My phone crashed 4 times before I finally deleted it. This made me nervous to open CNN, because I figured they were all the same, but boy was I pleased. There were no ads, the site was completely safe and easy to use, and they provided good-quality news. Yes, they are obviously a bit biased, however they were so accurate and provided only the best sources. I was shocked to see such good-quality journalism. And, that Anderson Cooper fellow is quite attractive. He alone made me a Democrat. Ah, if only he was straight!more -
Feb 24, 2021 I always check CNN because it's easy to find on my tablet, phone, or computer. The content always seems accurate but not sensationalized.I rely on it to keep me informed. Thank you!
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Feb 24, 2021 LOTS of notifications, but otherwise pretty good. It's kind of annoying that you can't just watch live TV for longer than 10 minutes and half of it are super long commercials and ads so you really only get 5 minutes if you're lucky unless it's breaking news.more -
Feedback for better performance
Sep 2, 2018 The app itself is done well. No bugs or glitches that I have come across. The two major complaints I have come from the articles themselves. Many stories are video only which I understand as it being a television network application. But not all of us have the ability to watch a video to get the news. It would be great if there was an actual article along with the video for those of us unable to view. I have found myself leave the app to go to another source to get the story due to not being able to watch the video. The second issue I have is with the “breaking news” alerts that pop up on my phone. I remember when breaking news was important information that needed to break into a regular broadcast to give viewers the information. The amount of breaking news is ridiculous as not everything is that important. Please get back to marking stories as breaking news when they are truly urgent/important and not every time an article gets posted.more -
Feb 21, 2021 Not working since a few weeks ago. Deleted hoping a new install will help. ... Update Oct 20,2020: the deletion and installation of the current cnn app worked like a charm. No more freezing, hang ups or crashes. Now why did cnn not advise me two weeks ago the app needed an update? Instead, I've lost my saved articles due the reinstall version using an update method. Arrrggggh ..... update Jan 2nd, 2021 For over a month the is again loading slowly or not at all no matter how close to wif. 2/21 okmore -
Disappointed in New Version of CNN App!
Dec 1, 2017 I am so displeased with this latest version of the CNN App! The developers have totally stripped away the control and flexibility the user once had. I used to be able to Go Live, click on Schedule and select a show to watch which had previously aired that day. I LOVED that feature and now it’s gone! If for example I missed the airing of The Situation Room which airs at 2:00 pm PST here in Cali, no worries. I knew that I could watch the full show, in its entirety anytime later that same day. I could click to watch any show that had already aired by Judy clicking on it. Now I can no longer watch a show that I missed...How could the developers remove this important feature?! This app is now just a ho-hum app. It is boring and does not offer anything meaningful to the user. I used to watch CNN faithfully on the older app version because it meant so much to me. In my opinion it was the BEST news app out there. Now there is no reason for me to use it. Truly disappointing!more -
Climate change
Aug 28, 2020 What is CNN doing about climate change but merely mentioning it? Experts? Documentaries? Travel around the world and inviting people to see, feel, hear it? Where are the interviews with the environmentalists, scientists, activists? Why is the vegan community never invited on to the show? How many of the population are even aware of the fact that animal industrial agriculture is the leading cause of climate change? How many of the CNN interviewers and writers are vegan, and how many are hypocrites not supporting climate change themselves? Do you realize that your media plays a big part in climate havoc and destruction by concealing the facts causing climate change and that even CNN is not a sponsor of quelling the destruction to our planet? Most of the general population cannot see it, feel it, understand it! You are supposed to bring forth the news and education, but invest all of your air time on the “trump show” and unimportant documentaries. Our planet is dying. Thank you, CNN for your contribution to that.more
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Feb 25, 2021 Love CNN but the app has too many advertisements that you have to sit through. To make matters worse it's the same commercial over and over. Also there isn't that much to choose from in the course of day. I'm usually watching the clips I already saw a day or two ago.more -
Feb 6, 2021 Needs a way to report typos. This may seem like a silly little thing to complain aboutl. CNN has an appalling number of typos, formatting, and grammar mistakes. I understand they're cranking out news quickly and these things happen. The developers should make a feature like the one in kindle where a user can report issues in a book to the author for review. It would give CNN free proofing services and at the very least give the illusion they care about such things.more -
Love CNN hate the App
Dec 12, 2019 I love cnn and it’s content. The app always freezes, crashes, has a hard time loading, will drop signal and send you to commercials in the middle of a program. Makes you watch adds over and over when trying to regain access to live streams even when it’s the app that is failing. Audio cuts out unexpectedly and randomly. They use to update Inside Politics or State of the Union over the weekend but for a few months now you can no longer access that content except when using an actual television set so the mobile app is limited by comparison. I’ve used this app for years and very often but it’s always been on the struggle bus regardless of “bug fixes” or updates, the core of whatever is wrong continually gets worst. Disappointed by the decline to say the least. I know I can’t be the only one dealing with these issues regularly. *And full transparency I am writing this after over 10 failed attempts and over 20 minutes of waisted time just trying to get the live stream to load.*more -
Feb 4, 2021 It makes NO sense to send me an alert, AND have the app icon show there's an alert, and not be able to tap the app icon and go to the alert message - and have the alert on my phone go away. Instead of simply tapping the app icon and going directly to the news item you are alerting me about I have to drag down my screen, scroll through all my alerts, find yours, then tap that alert to go see it. If I have to manage your alerts, your app is not that useful to me. There are plenty of alternatives.more -
Feb 23, 2021 Doesn't give the audio, which can be got from the CNN audio podcasts site, but this site is woeful, it continuously drops out. The audio should be more reliable through the CNN app, you would think.
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Feb 13, 2021 The layout of the app is horrible. You have to scroll forever to even find a news story with all of the ads. And the watch tv function is 50/50 for loading. Unacceptable for a large news organization. I use my web browser to go to the site instead of opening this trash app.more
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Feb 22, 2021 Shows true colours of media. This app is jammed full of fake articles and click bait links that are surly going to cause problems for any device you're browsing on. You think a major media outlet like CNN would take the time to monitor what is posted on there app.more -
Feb 22, 2021 I have been using this App since year 2017 , but since 08 September 2020, it has crashed. I tried to use it but no response. I was directed to Update it, but it could not be done via the play store . What's wrong ? Please kindly try and rectify the situation. The app is now functioning properly , with clearer and faster response. Kudos to CNN .more -
Feb 15, 2021 "You are not authorized to view this content". But...I've been using it fine for months. I logged in and everything. Nope. The app just decides I cant ever use it again. Even restarted my phone. So if this is a news app where I cant watch news even though I should be authorized to watch news...then its not a very good news app, is it?more -
Horrible... Sick of the biased news
Sep 9, 2020 I'm sick of the biased news like we need more fuel to the covid 19 crisis, or the elections, or the riots?? So a new article says Trump "knew that covid 19 was 'deadly' in February and kept that information from Americans"... First, I'm pretty sure nobody knew the virus would come to America, as far as anyone is concerned NOBODY CARED, nor nobody took the proper precautions to keep it from spreading, they never thought it would come here, they NEVER thought we couldn't handle it. Heck they weren't gods! It's like someone who blames (put-your-favorite-mighty-entity-name-here) is to blame for all their misery. No Republicans don't have all the answers, but if they don't, I'm sure as heck that Democrats don't have them either. Democrats used an injured ARMY veteran to throw dirt on Trump saying he didn't care about them... Until the ARMY veteran stood up to say "that's not what Trump said and stop throwing dirt on Trump using my image and my name!" Those are facts, not opinions. Sadly, CNN is looking everyday more and more based on opinions than facts. Sick of this. Time to check out Epoch times or fox rather.more
What’s Groovy
I absolutely love the stories on the CNN app, because they go into very important side issues that often don't get enough play on other news media sites. And they also cover all of the big stories so you get the full picture. I think they're very clear and I trust their take on the important issues of our day. Great job!
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What’s Subpar
Too much trivia and gossip! But far worse are the endless links to unreliable clickbait sources that look like they are part of the news stories being presented. Mainstream news apps should not have advertisements for clickbait tabloid press stories, which sometimes include malware and/or unethical data mining practices. There are plenty of products to advertise without advertising click bait and inaccurate stories by unreliable sources of tabloid media.
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USE of White lettering
The use of white lettering over an image on the app that describes the essence of the article. The “headline” informs me if I might want to click on the article - more often than not it cannot be read at least in part because it’s not all against a darker background. Could you not use some other color or banner so one can read the basic headline that’s over a particular report. Often I am looking for a quick overview and if I see a headline over the image that I want to come back to I can’t really make out what it is saying. My friends who use the app agree & have the same issue (Most of us are in a hurry and will take mental note & come back later to an article of interest for the more in-depth information ). It just makes no sense & surprising that CNN has not noticed the issue. If I may add, you’re breaking news banner so often blocks the bottom half of an image/ event that you are showing It’s really frustrating even with the candle lighting ceremony at the White House that banner was there they actually took it away pretty quickly but that’s not usually the case. Perhaps it could just be a little smaller👍🏻. Thanks for all your great reporting. -
LOTS of notifications, but otherwise pretty good. It's kind of annoying that you can't just watch live TV for longer than 10 minutes and half of it are super long commercials and ads so you really only get 5 minutes if you're lucky unless it's breaking news.
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Pathetic download times and long commercials
This App would be great if it was actually designed specially for iPads, instead of strictly for sponsorship profit. The many CNN video snippets generally take 10-15 seconds to download from the internet to the iPad (even with high speed WiFi), then you have to wait for a commercial to slowly completely open up, then you have to endure a boring 13 second commercial....all before you actually get to see the real video. Thus a 30-40 second waste of time to view a 15 second snippet. This App is not optimized for anything other than video viewer annoyance. If I didn’t like and respect CNN so much I would delete it out of frustration. I prefer Apple News as it is much quicker. Wake up CNN......you’re supposed to be the most trusted news network. I trust you should be able to do a better job of optimizing your video management. -
Feedback for better performance
The app itself is done well. No bugs or glitches that I have come across. The two major complaints I have come from the articles themselves. Many stories are video only which I understand as it being a television network application. But not all of us have the ability to watch a video to get the news. It would be great if there was an actual article along with the video for those of us unable to view. I have found myself leave the app to go to another source to get the story due to not being able to watch the video. The second issue I have is with the “breaking news” alerts that pop up on my phone. I remember when breaking news was important information that needed to break into a regular broadcast to give viewers the information. The amount of breaking news is ridiculous as not everything is that important. Please get back to marking stories as breaking news when they are truly urgent/important and not every time an article gets posted. -
Not working since a few weeks ago. Deleted hoping a new install will help. ... Update Oct 20,2020: the deletion and installation of the current cnn app worked like a charm. No more freezing, hang ups or crashes. Now why did cnn not advise me two weeks ago the app needed an update? Instead, I've lost my saved articles due the reinstall version using an update method. Arrrggggh ..... update Jan 2nd, 2021 For over a month the is again loading slowly or not at all no matter how close to wif. 2/21 ok
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Disappointed in New Version of CNN App!
I am so displeased with this latest version of the CNN App! The developers have totally stripped away the control and flexibility the user once had. I used to be able to Go Live, click on Schedule and select a show to watch which had previously aired that day. I LOVED that feature and now it’s gone! If for example I missed the airing of The Situation Room which airs at 2:00 pm PST here in Cali, no worries. I knew that I could watch the full show, in its entirety anytime later that same day. I could click to watch any show that had already aired by Judy clicking on it. Now I can no longer watch a show that I missed...How could the developers remove this important feature?! This app is now just a ho-hum app. It is boring and does not offer anything meaningful to the user. I used to watch CNN faithfully on the older app version because it meant so much to me. In my opinion it was the BEST news app out there. Now there is no reason for me to use it. Truly disappointing! -
Love CNN but the app has too many advertisements that you have to sit through. To make matters worse it's the same commercial over and over. Also there isn't that much to choose from in the course of day. I'm usually watching the clips I already saw a day or two ago.
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Climate change
What is CNN doing about climate change but merely mentioning it? Experts? Documentaries? Travel around the world and inviting people to see, feel, hear it? Where are the interviews with the environmentalists, scientists, activists? Why is the vegan community never invited on to the show? How many of the population are even aware of the fact that animal industrial agriculture is the leading cause of climate change? How many of the CNN interviewers and writers are vegan, and how many are hypocrites not supporting climate change themselves? Do you realize that your media plays a big part in climate havoc and destruction by concealing the facts causing climate change and that even CNN is not a sponsor of quelling the destruction to our planet? Most of the general population cannot see it, feel it, understand it! You are supposed to bring forth the news and education, but invest all of your air time on the “trump show” and unimportant documentaries. Our planet is dying. Thank you, CNN for your contribution to that. -
Needs a way to report typos. This may seem like a silly little thing to complain aboutl. CNN has an appalling number of typos, formatting, and grammar mistakes. I understand they're cranking out news quickly and these things happen. The developers should make a feature like the one in kindle where a user can report issues in a book to the author for review. It would give CNN free proofing services and at the very least give the illusion they care about such things.
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Love CNN hate the App
I love cnn and it’s content. The app always freezes, crashes, has a hard time loading, will drop signal and send you to commercials in the middle of a program. Makes you watch adds over and over when trying to regain access to live streams even when it’s the app that is failing. Audio cuts out unexpectedly and randomly. They use to update Inside Politics or State of the Union over the weekend but for a few months now you can no longer access that content except when using an actual television set so the mobile app is limited by comparison. I’ve used this app for years and very often but it’s always been on the struggle bus regardless of “bug fixes” or updates, the core of whatever is wrong continually gets worst. Disappointed by the decline to say the least. I know I can’t be the only one dealing with these issues regularly. *And full transparency I am writing this after over 10 failed attempts and over 20 minutes of waisted time just trying to get the live stream to load.*
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USE of White lettering
The use of white lettering over an image on the app that describes the essence of the article. The “headline” informs me if I might want to click on the article - more often than not it cannot be read at least in part because it’s not all against a darker background. Could you not use some other color or banner so one can read the basic headline that’s over a particular report. Often I am looking for a quick overview and if I see a headline over the image that I want to come back to I can’t really make out what it is saying. My friends who use the app agree & have the same issue (Most of us are in a hurry and will take mental note & come back later to an article of interest for the more in-depth information ). It just makes no sense & surprising that CNN has not noticed the issue. If I may add, you’re breaking news banner so often blocks the bottom half of an image/ event that you are showing It’s really frustrating even with the candle lighting ceremony at the White House that banner was there they actually took it away pretty quickly but that’s not usually the case. Perhaps it could just be a little smaller👍🏻. Thanks for all your great reporting. -
Pathetic download times and long commercials
This App would be great if it was actually designed specially for iPads, instead of strictly for sponsorship profit. The many CNN video snippets generally take 10-15 seconds to download from the internet to the iPad (even with high speed WiFi), then you have to wait for a commercial to slowly completely open up, then you have to endure a boring 13 second commercial....all before you actually get to see the real video. Thus a 30-40 second waste of time to view a 15 second snippet. This App is not optimized for anything other than video viewer annoyance. If I didn’t like and respect CNN so much I would delete it out of frustration. I prefer Apple News as it is much quicker. Wake up CNN......you’re supposed to be the most trusted news network. I trust you should be able to do a better job of optimizing your video management. -
Child abuse
I was raised by Democrat parents in west central Ohio. The fight I see for minority rule of the Republicans my dad was teaching me back in the seventies. Real republicans I have found that you can at least agree to disagree. But the Trump Republicans it’s there way or the highway. So what needs to be done by the true Republicans. The Democratic Party has a left and a right. And the need for the Eisenhower Republicans could not be needed more. The progressives need a side to balance the books as we move forward. Trump conservatives are only for the wealthy because Trump only serves himself. And a wise man (my father) wants told me. It’s surprising how smart I’ll get by the time you turn twenty-one. But it takes a working man with a weak mind to vote the way a rich man votes. Because he has the time and the means to sway everything towards his favor. So if you’re the one on the opposite sides trying to compete for jobs or scholarships it is child abuse. -
I’m obsessed
I like to consider myself rather independent, so to watch both sides and be unbiased, I downloaded both Fox News and CNN. I was absolutely dismayed at how horrifying the Fox News app was. Not only was it extremely biased and full of Fake News, but the app was so full of ads and pop-ups that I couldn’t get any news without being diverted to another site. My phone crashed 4 times before I finally deleted it. This made me nervous to open CNN, because I figured they were all the same, but boy was I pleased. There were no ads, the site was completely safe and easy to use, and they provided good-quality news. Yes, they are obviously a bit biased, however they were so accurate and provided only the best sources. I was shocked to see such good-quality journalism. And, that Anderson Cooper fellow is quite attractive. He alone made me a Democrat. Ah, if only he was straight! -
I always check CNN because it's easy to find on my tablet, phone, or computer. The content always seems accurate but not sensationalized.I rely on it to keep me informed. Thank you!
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Thank you CNN!
Thank you especially Anderson Cooper, Chris Cuomo, Thank you Don Lemon, Thank you Andrew Cuomo, I am ashamed that I do not know the women’s names as well as I know these men’s names. I do not think, people of CNN, that you are shutting down stories in order to protect rich or powerful people on the government. Thank God we got rid of that pile of crap president who only cared for himself and his family. Who is important is unnamed people like my wife and her family and our kids and my kids and their families - you got that right and we trust you. We trust the people at MSNBC too - we are lucky to be citizens of a great nation who are trying just to stay alive and to have enough to eat and to stay healthy enough to get past this pandemic so that we and other unknown people all over the world can work together to help each other and live in peace. One lucky person. -
Constant Loading & Freezing Issues
What is causing the increasingly long load times? With the nation -and world’s - scene so rapidly changing, it’s incomprehensible that a major news outlet would allow its app to take a ... full minute ... or two ... and sometimes even close to three(!), to fully load. That, coupled with the constant delay in navigation responsiveness and freezing, has made CNN’s the most frustrating app I use. Having followed primarily CNN’s coverage of the news for many years, imagine how high the level of frustration must be to prompt consideration of deleting this app altogether so as not to continue the waste of storage space or my valuable time. So, am about to download another update, which one hope’s will address these issues by correcting or, at the very least, significantly improving the app’s performance. -
News Hound
Since I was 12 years old, I always enjoyed staying informed and current. CNN has been my primary source of news this past year. I enjoy listening to the experts give their view of the various matters that present themselves each day. Thank you for giving us the minute to minute, blow by blow accounts of the nation and world events as they unfold. This past year of 2020 has been a tumultuous year politically, economically, and racially, including the worse pandemic in my lifetime. Thus, I have depended on CNN to keep me current on the topics at hand. I rely on the dogged reporting of the FACTS as they unfold in real time. Since this year has started off with the literal storming of the Capitol, it is apparent that we are in for Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride. So I plan to hang on tight and once again look to CNN for up to date occurrences. -
I listen to the news all the time from this app. Great app, few bugs to workout. If the screen goes black the news here lately will cut off. That's annoying, please fix.
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Excellent tool for global news, currents affairs and keeping tab on the way the world works! Movers and shakers of politics and business... this is one stop shop for all things important and newsworthy!
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LOTS of notifications, but otherwise pretty good. It's kind of annoying that you can't just watch live TV for longer than 10 minutes and half of it are super long commercials and ads so you really only get 5 minutes if you're lucky unless it's breaking news.
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Feedback for better performance
The app itself is done well. No bugs or glitches that I have come across. The two major complaints I have come from the articles themselves. Many stories are video only which I understand as it being a television network application. But not all of us have the ability to watch a video to get the news. It would be great if there was an actual article along with the video for those of us unable to view. I have found myself leave the app to go to another source to get the story due to not being able to watch the video. The second issue I have is with the “breaking news” alerts that pop up on my phone. I remember when breaking news was important information that needed to break into a regular broadcast to give viewers the information. The amount of breaking news is ridiculous as not everything is that important. Please get back to marking stories as breaking news when they are truly urgent/important and not every time an article gets posted. -
Not working since a few weeks ago. Deleted hoping a new install will help. ... Update Oct 20,2020: the deletion and installation of the current cnn app worked like a charm. No more freezing, hang ups or crashes. Now why did cnn not advise me two weeks ago the app needed an update? Instead, I've lost my saved articles due the reinstall version using an update method. Arrrggggh ..... update Jan 2nd, 2021 For over a month the is again loading slowly or not at all no matter how close to wif. 2/21 ok
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Disappointed in New Version of CNN App!
I am so displeased with this latest version of the CNN App! The developers have totally stripped away the control and flexibility the user once had. I used to be able to Go Live, click on Schedule and select a show to watch which had previously aired that day. I LOVED that feature and now it’s gone! If for example I missed the airing of The Situation Room which airs at 2:00 pm PST here in Cali, no worries. I knew that I could watch the full show, in its entirety anytime later that same day. I could click to watch any show that had already aired by Judy clicking on it. Now I can no longer watch a show that I missed...How could the developers remove this important feature?! This app is now just a ho-hum app. It is boring and does not offer anything meaningful to the user. I used to watch CNN faithfully on the older app version because it meant so much to me. In my opinion it was the BEST news app out there. Now there is no reason for me to use it. Truly disappointing! -
Climate change
What is CNN doing about climate change but merely mentioning it? Experts? Documentaries? Travel around the world and inviting people to see, feel, hear it? Where are the interviews with the environmentalists, scientists, activists? Why is the vegan community never invited on to the show? How many of the population are even aware of the fact that animal industrial agriculture is the leading cause of climate change? How many of the CNN interviewers and writers are vegan, and how many are hypocrites not supporting climate change themselves? Do you realize that your media plays a big part in climate havoc and destruction by concealing the facts causing climate change and that even CNN is not a sponsor of quelling the destruction to our planet? Most of the general population cannot see it, feel it, understand it! You are supposed to bring forth the news and education, but invest all of your air time on the “trump show” and unimportant documentaries. Our planet is dying. Thank you, CNN for your contribution to that. -
Great app, but advertising is annoying
I like the app a lot, the content is well organized, varied and deep. It’s my go-to news app. When it comes to video content, every story is usually preceded by an ad, which, in itself, is ok and understandable. However, if you watch several videos, you’ll probably have to see the same commercial you saw the first time every time. I find this very annoying. I would think they’d have a way of knowing you already saw the ad and either not show any ad or at least replace it with some other ad, to keep viewers from having a negative reaction. This was particularly irritating leading up to the midterm elections, when a particular candidate’s commercial played over and over. Even though he happened to be my preferred candidate, I had to watch the same commercial way too many times. In the end, I frequently avoid watching videos altogether because of this and stick to the written stories. -
Im a regular viewer of CNN as well as other news sources . Its important to have several points of view on the news and events . I find CNN to be timely and informative on events . I like the updates on my phone and keeps me clued in to events . I sometimes use the live streaming on my phone to watch live coverage of events when im out . I like this app .
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Great app/ hyperlink issue
It’s a great app. It delivers all the news of the cable news channel in a digestible format. It delivers rapid updates and clearly defines opinion pieces from news. It typical has less than a 30 second delay from major news networks for breaking events if you have alerts on and the alerts aren’t so cumbersome or numerous that they impolitely beg for dismissing the app. There are ads. I don’t find them overbearing in the least, but should you want to watch a quick clip you should be prepared for them. They aren’t required when simply reading articles, however they do appear between them. The only deterrent I find is hyperlinks within articles. Touching any of them moves you to a new page or opens your browser. This is atypical of all other apps and a bit counterintuitive to the UI as reading requires scrolling. This has only happened for the past few months and will most likely be soon corrected. -
CNN keeps me abreast of news happening in the US and around the world as it happens. It provides news, special interest stories, and weather. With timely alerts and notifications, you can't go wrong with CNN.
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Missing CNN on Smart TV
I just purchased a Samsung Smart TV. I cannot find CNN live anywhere in the huge list of channels in Samsung Plus. My Apple TV account has been setup on it. The main unit on another TV in the house. Only a list of recommended channel from the APP store appear. CNN is not there but is my is on my main system using the CNN Go channel. If I connect a cable box then I get CNN and my fav channels that are not to be found on the Samsung TV Plus. There are other major news programs in the list of hundreds. CNN should take a look at loss audience as please move away from classic cable providers. It will cost me $19-22 the add the basic cable box so my new not smart enough TV can deliver CNN and other competitive news programs. I’ll be informing them on my dissatification of my finding you big networks in Smart line ups on major TV brands. I feel like I’ve been reduced to something a kind to Dish TV. That’s the listing I think is this Samsung TV Okus. Save CNNplease.
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Love CNN but the app has too many advertisements that you have to sit through. To make matters worse it's the same commercial over and over. Also there isn't that much to choose from in the course of day. I'm usually watching the clips I already saw a day or two ago.
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Needs a way to report typos. This may seem like a silly little thing to complain aboutl. CNN has an appalling number of typos, formatting, and grammar mistakes. I understand they're cranking out news quickly and these things happen. The developers should make a feature like the one in kindle where a user can report issues in a book to the author for review. It would give CNN free proofing services and at the very least give the illusion they care about such things.
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Love CNN hate the App
I love cnn and it’s content. The app always freezes, crashes, has a hard time loading, will drop signal and send you to commercials in the middle of a program. Makes you watch adds over and over when trying to regain access to live streams even when it’s the app that is failing. Audio cuts out unexpectedly and randomly. They use to update Inside Politics or State of the Union over the weekend but for a few months now you can no longer access that content except when using an actual television set so the mobile app is limited by comparison. I’ve used this app for years and very often but it’s always been on the struggle bus regardless of “bug fixes” or updates, the core of whatever is wrong continually gets worst. Disappointed by the decline to say the least. I know I can’t be the only one dealing with these issues regularly. *And full transparency I am writing this after over 10 failed attempts and over 20 minutes of waisted time just trying to get the live stream to load.* -
It makes NO sense to send me an alert, AND have the app icon show there's an alert, and not be able to tap the app icon and go to the alert message - and have the alert on my phone go away. Instead of simply tapping the app icon and going directly to the news item you are alerting me about I have to drag down my screen, scroll through all my alerts, find yours, then tap that alert to go see it. If I have to manage your alerts, your app is not that useful to me. There are plenty of alternatives.
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Doesn't give the audio, which can be got from the CNN audio podcasts site, but this site is woeful, it continuously drops out. The audio should be more reliable through the CNN app, you would think.
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CNN is my main source of news and I use the app when I'm on the move. I appreciate the content but the embedded videos within the article takes a really long time to load. There are fairly simple IT solutions to address that. Eg. Ustream
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Good content. However, almost every item requires watching some kind of ad. Often I spend more time looking at ads than the news.
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Login Problems and Article Selection Still a Problem
The CNN app provides written news articles, short videos and live TV. It does this well but with two app-killing problems: (1) in order to watch live streams of CNN, one must login to a cable network over and over and over again. This increases the time it takes to get started and makes me use the app less. Complaints have gone unheeded with each update. (2) low-brow journalism heavily populated the articles and videos with such items as “Mother stays up all night after finding this in baby’s crib.” Its like the editors of buzzfeed and national enquirer choose every other article. This degrades the CNN brand and makes them less credible when their hosts decry the entertainment journalism of a certain other news network. All in all, I love being being able to watch CNN on my phone but these two problems greatly reduce my use and have led me to find other news apps.
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The layout of the app is horrible. You have to scroll forever to even find a news story with all of the ads. And the watch tv function is 50/50 for loading. Unacceptable for a large news organization. I use my web browser to go to the site instead of opening this trash app.
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Shows true colours of media. This app is jammed full of fake articles and click bait links that are surly going to cause problems for any device you're browsing on. You think a major media outlet like CNN would take the time to monitor what is posted on there app.
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I have been using this App since year 2017 , but since 08 September 2020, it has crashed. I tried to use it but no response. I was directed to Update it, but it could not be done via the play store . What's wrong ? Please kindly try and rectify the situation. The app is now functioning properly , with clearer and faster response. Kudos to CNN .
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"You are not authorized to view this content". But...I've been using it fine for months. I logged in and everything. Nope. The app just decides I cant ever use it again. Even restarted my phone. So if this is a news app where I cant watch news even though I should be authorized to watch news...then its not a very good news app, is it?
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Horrible... Sick of the biased news
I'm sick of the biased news like we need more fuel to the covid 19 crisis, or the elections, or the riots?? So a new article says Trump "knew that covid 19 was 'deadly' in February and kept that information from Americans"... First, I'm pretty sure nobody knew the virus would come to America, as far as anyone is concerned NOBODY CARED, nor nobody took the proper precautions to keep it from spreading, they never thought it would come here, they NEVER thought we couldn't handle it. Heck they weren't gods! It's like someone who blames (put-your-favorite-mighty-entity-name-here) is to blame for all their misery. No Republicans don't have all the answers, but if they don't, I'm sure as heck that Democrats don't have them either. Democrats used an injured ARMY veteran to throw dirt on Trump saying he didn't care about them... Until the ARMY veteran stood up to say "that's not what Trump said and stop throwing dirt on Trump using my image and my name!" Those are facts, not opinions. Sadly, CNN is looking everyday more and more based on opinions than facts. Sick of this. Time to check out Epoch times or fox rather.
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Slow to respond
App does not scroll easily any longer on my tablet. Seems glitchy and very slow. I still prefer it over other news sources though but wish CNN would go ahead and fix it.
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The layout of the app is horrible. You have to scroll forever to even find a news story with all of the ads. And the watch tv function is 50/50 for loading. Unacceptable for a large news organization. I use my web browser to go to the site instead of opening this trash app.
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Shows true colours of media. This app is jammed full of fake articles and click bait links that are surly going to cause problems for any device you're browsing on. You think a major media outlet like CNN would take the time to monitor what is posted on there app.
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I have been using this App since year 2017 , but since 08 September 2020, it has crashed. I tried to use it but no response. I was directed to Update it, but it could not be done via the play store . What's wrong ? Please kindly try and rectify the situation. The app is now functioning properly , with clearer and faster response. Kudos to CNN .
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"You are not authorized to view this content". But...I've been using it fine for months. I logged in and everything. Nope. The app just decides I cant ever use it again. Even restarted my phone. So if this is a news app where I cant watch news even though I should be authorized to watch news...then its not a very good news app, is it?
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Horrible... Sick of the biased news
I'm sick of the biased news like we need more fuel to the covid 19 crisis, or the elections, or the riots?? So a new article says Trump "knew that covid 19 was 'deadly' in February and kept that information from Americans"... First, I'm pretty sure nobody knew the virus would come to America, as far as anyone is concerned NOBODY CARED, nor nobody took the proper precautions to keep it from spreading, they never thought it would come here, they NEVER thought we couldn't handle it. Heck they weren't gods! It's like someone who blames (put-your-favorite-mighty-entity-name-here) is to blame for all their misery. No Republicans don't have all the answers, but if they don't, I'm sure as heck that Democrats don't have them either. Democrats used an injured ARMY veteran to throw dirt on Trump saying he didn't care about them... Until the ARMY veteran stood up to say "that's not what Trump said and stop throwing dirt on Trump using my image and my name!" Those are facts, not opinions. Sadly, CNN is looking everyday more and more based on opinions than facts. Sick of this. Time to check out Epoch times or fox rather.
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Reviewed by Laura S on January 11, 2018
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