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1. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Friday?. All the talk is about thursdays air quality and then talk about Saturday. WHAT ABOUT FRIDAY.

2. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Weather summary. When the exact temperature for the day or the night is needed the app only gives “in the”, “in the”. If I wanted that information such as it is I could look out a window or walk on the porch.

3. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Terrible app. The app is almost nothing but ads. I could not get the weekly or hourly weather forecast, only ads.

4. ★★★★★alerts fail both ways - silent on a real threat, screaming over nothing - so the user mutes…

   Unreliable. I downloaded this app to get alerts through Hurricane Helene. I set everything to all alerts including banners and sounds so I wouldn't miss anything especially through the night. I never got one alert!! We had tornado warnings in the early morning hours and the app never went off!! Channel 10 recommended everyone download the app to get timely and important alerts. What a joke. When we needed it most it failed. And YES, Again all settings were set to sounds and banners so we made sure we would receive any and all alerts ! Never got one. Would not recommend this channel's app. Try another one. This is unreliable!

5. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

   Alerts cry wolf, late radar, inappropriate ads.. App does ok, semi accurate forecast, but can be buggy sometimes. Radar timing has been off the last few months. Minutes count during tornadoes. First alert weather notifications notoriously cry wolf. These should only be used for potentially dangerous weather. I should not be woken up to be told by a weather alert that it’s going to be sunny and humid. The rating for ages 4+ is highly inaccurate. Some the the ads in the app showing clothing ads of scantily clothed women and tshirts making reference to “licking, sucking, and swallowing”, the tshirt is intended as a gag, but certainly not appropriate for younger individuals.

6. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   A joke. This app is a joke

7. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Could be better. Great weather app but could be better if it was an “ad free” version. Not satisfied at all!

8. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Horrible Loading. Loading the weather radar sometimes takes for ever. You have to close and re-open the app a bunch.

9. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Weather. Seems like the radar isn’t accurate

10. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    90% of this app is advertising. Way too many “fake” Alerts. This app should be on CNN. This is one of the most cluttered apps I’ve ever used. As a local weather app it should be more reliable and useful which it’s not. The ads are useless because there’s so cluttered and so many of them.

11. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Almost spam. It used to be good, only sending severe alerts. Now it sends things like “possible rain this weekend” on Monday and “warmer weather coming. “ We don’t need to be constantly interrupted by things like this. And there is no way to turn these notifications off.

12. ★★★★★ads disrupt the experience

    Constant ads. Along with their news app...constant ads.

13. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Wrong. They never get the weather right. I had a roof replacement and was told no rain for the weekend and after shingles were removed and it started raining the whole weekend my ceiling was damaged because of it. Thanks so much for your future cast

14. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Worthless App. WIS get it together... what good is it to have a weather app that doesn’t work in my area when there is bad weather. “Kershaw County?”?

15. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Quit working. I’ve had this app on my iPad for years and it suddenly says it’s not available for my Area. Yet I can get it on my iPhone. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled it. I’ve shut my iPad down and restarted it. Nothing works. I’m very disappointed.

16. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Great app if you are looking for carpets, not do good if you want to know the weather.. 99% advertisements, 1% information. The worst source for weather updates you could rely on. Plus, get ready to be awakened at 6 am to be told it’s is going to be a nice day.

17. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    It’s ok?. This is a nice app & I use to like it. If there are “Weather Alerts” I’d like to see them without ads. It’s obviously not too much of an lAlert” if there’s a commercial going on before there alert is aired..? I’ve found another local weather app that’s more appealing to my my liking so I’ll stick to that.

18. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    No good. The radar works decently when it loads up. But the daily forecasts are horrible. It will show 0 percent chance of rain and sunny but when you click on it it shows 40 percent chance of rain and cloudy..... it’s almost like one of them has to be right so just put both up there. The hourly forecast changes hour to hour to reflect what’s happening at that moment. I can do the same thing by looking outside.... it’s useless as a forecasting app. It’s great if you don’t feel like looking out a window to see what it’s doing outside at that moment though. Lol.

19. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Rarely works properly. Do not like the WIS Weather app. Rarely works properly. Very unreliable.

20. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    App Failing & Constantly Crashing. The week of 15 Dec 19, I had to delete and reload the app because it got stuck at the Rush’s advertisement. This week, 22 Dec 19, the app would ask to change location before opening and now today, 25 Dec 19, it won’t open again. 🤷🏼‍♂️ I’m deleting it and moving on to another app.

21. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Seldom correlated with WISTV weather report. What’s reported on TV is seldom on the app. Today, app said 20% chance of rain, immediately it poured for an hour. I am deleting it and trying another local station.

22. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Too many unnecessary alerts!!. The app itself is a decent app. The issue is all the alerts that don’t warrant an alert. Especially at 4:30 to 7:30 am just to tell me it’s going to rain the weekend, or it’s going to be hot in the summer, or it’s going to be cold in the winter. This is absolutely ridiculous and unnecessary. Has anyone there ever heard the saying if you cry wolf enough times, no one will believe you? And I personally don’t think there should be anything political, including advertisements about impeachment of our President or any other politician. This has nothing to do with the weather. I am deleting the app, and will no longer watch anything on WIS or NBC. I invested about 45 years to your station/network, but have had enough of the one sided reporting that goes on, and all the unnecessary weather alerts. Hope Management is listening and happy they are running their watchers/listeners away.

23. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Bluetooth access?!?. And why does WIS10NEWS need Bluetooth access???? Exactly what accessories is it trying to connect???

24. ★★★★★search fails to find what is needed

    Alerts are mostly for advertising cash in their pocket. Way to many alerts diminish the value of critical ones. These guys are putting out alerts now about things of virtually no value so advertisers can get more hits. I will be looking for others who care more about public safety than cash in their pockets. There appears to be no method of filtering useless alerts out on the settings page. I will further now make it a point to not shop at or use any of their advertisers

25. ★★★★★an update broke a familiar workflow

    Crashes and Glitches. I have used this app for several years and no problems. This new update is useless for me. It crashes all the time. I'm running iOS 9.35. I wish I had never updated. Please fix. Thanks for your attention to this problem.

26. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    App will not install. Have tried numerous times to install on iPad & iPhone. It downloads about 35% an stops.

27. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Wis Weather App. App will not install on iPad

28. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Weatherwoman. While I like some of the features available with this app, it is NOT user friendly. I like the old app much better because you could take a quick look to see where the rain was, what the 10 day forecast was or check watch and warning areas. These features are offered, but you have to jump through hoops to find them. I'm keeping the Charleston channel 2 weather app because it is easier to check Columbia from there, with the exception of temps.

29. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    Deleting locations. There is a glitch in the app. You can’t delete locations previously created

30. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Bring it back…. I do Not like the update. Bring back the prior version of the weather map with its options. This new one lacks.