FOX 26 Houston: News & Alerts 12+

Great news coverage but the interface isn’t as smooth as it can be and when you get a push notification about a news article, tapping on it takes you to safari to read the article rather than opening the app itself to read the story. The problem with reading a news story from Fox 26 in Safari is that it is riddled with pop up ads and you can’t read the full story without being interrupted by a random pop up that basically fills up your screen.

I know the reporters had received some verbal attacks. I just want to say, the sacrifice you guys and gals have done for us during Harvey has really shown a special side to your position. Not only being out in the middle of it for hours, if not days. Without food or breaks at times. You used resources we don't have and save so many lives. You showed from a eye view, with out a filter of all that was happening moment by moment. Our families and friends were worlds apart it seemed with all this water rising. The news crew never left the front lines, they jumped into the water and remained recording areas we could not get to or view. Thank you, thank you. We couldn't of known if you did not sacrifice your time away from your family, and put yourself at risk. You shed the same tears as we did, if not more.

I don’t usually write reviews but the older app was much better. Being a native Washingtonian I still have the app for that area and Fox5 DC updated first and I hated it. It made me look forward to checking Houston news and glad they hadn’t changed yet. But low and behold they changed to the same design probably the same app designer and I don’t understand why it’s so subpar. As you scroll the same stories repeat over and over again sometime within the same feed. I understand advertisements but why is it the same one each time I click on a different story. I’m sure Dr. Alisha Howard is a wonderful evangelist but personally being non religious it feels like it’s being shoved down my throat. There are usually ads from different business in the town the news centers on. It’s honestly disappointing and I expected better. But that how we mess ourselves up in life when we expect things so it’s really my own personal issue of expectations. I’m working on it though. Expect nothing and accept everything!