App Profile: News 9 Weather

Sparkita46

Rating: 2/5

This app has been great from the time I first downloaded in 2013. I didn’t care for the new layout but I figured I’d get used to it. I used it a great deal for the radar when I lived in Oklahoma for farming. Then when I moved, I kept it because of how accurate the radar was and the notifications. I have family scattered all over Oklahoma; I have relatives that are terrified of tornadoes so I keep tabs when weather events are happening in their area. Last night I received alerts of excessive heat, lightning, thunderstorms, and flooding for the Guthrie area. At no time did I receive alerts for high wind or the freaking tornado that bounced through there. I emailed the app to ask why the TORNADO notification didn’t come thru, explaining I’d received other notifications. I was told there were notifications and I needed to make sure the notifications option was turned on. I sent a screen shot of the notifications I’d received, asking if they could just have someone look into why some alerts were sent but not others and was told I should have had my news alerts on too. Be aware this app just isn’t what it used to be and the support isn’t very helpful.

RwsDbs

Rating: 2/5

I am relatively new to OKC and I was staying at a family’s home with their pet. It was during that very warned Saturday over Memorial weekend. One of the early storms that produced a lot of rain in the Metro was due to our neighborhood at a specific time. It never got far enough north to produce any rain here but I was nervous because I was caring for their house and pets and I know little about this area. People told me to watch channel 9 or get the App so I have the App because I have a tv that still has someone else’s Apps on it so I use my iPhone Once the skies cleared and all was fine but the app cut out every time I watched for over a few minutes and to get back to what I was watching I had to keep watching from the beginning. So I literally saw about 2 or 3 stories that night because I kept having to go ba k to the beginning of watching live every time. I don’t think it was my phone.

lajahi1988

Rating: 2/5

News 9 is the only news station I’ll watch in OKC but their weather app is not very user friendly. KFOR (who I don’t watch) has a very simple and clean weather app that sends out warnings when needed. I wouldn’t know if News 9’s app does because it’s too cluttered to keep on my phone. I strongly suggest making the home page of the app more simplistic with maybe the radar with a strip along the bottom showing the forecast and maybe a side with options to watch live, recent videos etc. The current layout involving scrolling and and opening different stuff up is just not user friendly in my opinion. Again, News 9 is the only news station I’ll watch but I wish they’d update their app.