News & Magazines
Apple News
Editor-curated top stories plus local news for all 50 US states, with a News+ tier for magazines.
Get the app
Opens the official store page
- Developer
- Apple Inc.
- Score
- 4.6
- Downloads
- 1M+ ratings
- Age
- Rated 12+
- Version
- 5.0
- Price
- Free
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About this app
Editors pick the Top Stories in Apple News, and personalisation builds on top of that the more you read. The free feed draws on newspapers, magazines and digital outlets, with local coverage from publishers in all 50 US states, London and the seven largest Canadian cities. Sports gets its own treatment with scores, schedules, standings, stats and highlights for followed teams and leagues. Two podcasts are built in: Apple News Today on weekdays, hosted by Shumita Basu, and Apple News In Conversation at weekends. Story recommendations are generated on the device, and Apple says personal data is not shared with advertisers. An Apple News+ subscription opens up more than 400 magazines and newspapers including The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, a library of 70,000-plus recipes with a full-screen Cook Mode, daily puzzles such as Quartiles and crosswords, narrated stories, Offline Mode and Family Sharing for six. Availability of the service varies by country.
Apple News: the full guide
What the app is
Human editors choose the Top Stories, and the rest of the feed learns from what you read. The free tier of Apple's news reader draws on newspapers, magazines and web outlets, and carries local coverage for every US state, London and the seven biggest Canadian cities, plus sports scores, standings and highlights for followed teams.
Two in-house podcasts are included: a weekday briefing and a weekend interview. Recommendations are computed on the phone itself, and Apple says nothing personal reaches advertisers. A News+ subscription adds more than 400 magazines and newspapers, a 70,000-recipe library with a Cook Mode, puzzles, narrated stories, offline reading and family sharing.
How it works day to day
The day opens with the Top Stories block and, for many people, the Apple News Today podcast on the way to work. Local headlines sit a swipe away, and the sports tab fills in last night's scores for followed teams. Reading a few articles on a topic gradually shifts what the feed offers, without a login to another service.
News+ households use it differently: a magazine issue on the sofa, a recipe in Cook Mode on the kitchen counter, a crossword or Quartiles round before bed, and narrated stories on a run.
Why people look for it
It's preinstalled on iPhones, so a lot of searches come from people deciding whether to open it rather than install it. The News+ bundle is the real question: access to The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic and hundreds of magazines for one fee is cheaper than two subscriptions. A 4.6 rating from over a million reviewers shows it's widely used.
Look and feel
The five screenshots presumably show the Top Stories layout, a magazine spread, the sports hub and the puzzle page. Apple's typography and card-based design give it a cleaner look than most of the News & Magazines category, and magazine content in News+ keeps its own layouts rather than being flattened into plain text. Expect the standard iOS visual language throughout.
Updates and upkeep
Version 5.0 is a round number, which usually marks a redesign or a major feature release, and Apple Inc. as developer means the app updates with the operating system rather than on its own schedule. More than a million ratings confirm the scale. App Store only, as you'd expect. The listing itself gives no dates.
