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Last verified 30 Aug 2026

4.1 23397 ratings · App Store

1. 4/5Content fairly good, but glitches since last update

   I just updated the app last night to MS NOW”, and so I’m not completely familiar with the changes from the old, MSNBC app. But one change that I have noted is an especially unfortunate one. It used to be easy to share videos with others, simply by clicking on the share button that appeared on just about all the videos. And now it’s missing. I hope this is just an oversight and will be corrected soon. Other glitches: it used to be fairly simple to switch from portrait to landscape view. Now the app seems to be set up to primarily watch in portrait view, which is much less convenient when watching on the tablet. They also don’t seem to have their “update” times figured it out. When I looked at it this morning, many videos were shown to have been last updated one hour ago, even though many of them were posted last night or earlier. Other than these complaints, which I don’t consider minor, the app has generally been a pretty good one. Gives the ability to watch segments of of broadcasts for many of the top people at MSNOW/MSNBC. (Note: I assume anyone reading this review already knows that this network has a decided liberal bias. I personally am a moderate and prefer news from reporters without a bias. But I like to get a wide range of perspectives in my news intake. And I respect the work of several of the MSNOW/MS NBC reporters, tho not all.)

   Emerson_C · 30 Aug 2026

2. 4/5Almost perfect, except for....

   I watch MSNBC every day, sometimes I have it on all day, and the app lets me watch it while I’m away from home. App works very well EXCEPT that it freezes frequently and usually I can’t get it to unfreeze. Sometimes, after several minutes, it will begin to play again on its own but usually it stays stuck. I then have to go back to the MSNBC Home page, select Live TV and hope it will play correctly. In the meantime I’ll have missed part of the program. And sometimes, when a live program has frozen, it won’t let me go back to the MSNBC Home page at all and I actually have to turn my device off, then back on, select the MSNBC app... and start all over. This is very annoying and such a pain that I often just quit watching - which is certainly not what I want to do! But when a live program has frozen twice, or more, during a single viewing, it is just too aggravating and frustrating to go through the process of trying to get it to unfreeze and restart. Grrrrrrr!

   ccjnc1 · 30 Aug 2026

3. 5/5Great app. Most of the time

   I have really enjoyed this app on my iPad and iPhone for the past eight years since I got introduced to the Rachel Maddow show. The app works perfectly fine most of the time. As of late it’s been hard to start and Paul’s a show but hopefully technical support can get those bags word out. on another note the main thing I’m very sad about is that Rachael Maddow has went to one day a week, her show is only on Monday nights. Rachael Maddow was rated number one for many years in a row and I cannot understand is it today why they pulled her back to one day a week, I feel that this is a big mistake and that MSNBC is going to regret in the coming months as they notice ratings dropping dramatically in the 9 PM airtime slot due to Rachael‘s departure Tuesday through Friday, I sincerely wish that MSNBC and Rachel could re-negotiate her contract and at least have Rachel on maybe two or three nights a week and then Alex Wagner‘s new show the remaining nights, and I think your ratings will do much better with a more even mix of the two programs, Have own air the Rachel Meadows show on Monday and Tuesday evenings in the 9 PM timeslot as usual and then have on Alex Wagner‘s new show …….. Alex Wagner tonight on Wednesday Thursday and Friday!! I hope the producersavid N read these comments and Watch how the ratings go this fall and reconsider bringing Rachael back at least two nights a week because she is absolutely the best in TV journalism and I think that the ratings will show that this fall…. Just my take on MSNBC’S programming for the fall lineup…..David N.

   DavidN! · 30 Aug 2026

4. 1/5Can’t update app

   Update - February 4, 2022 I trust I’m not the only one with this problem. I can’t update the MSNBC app because I have an iPad mini2 with 12.5 and Apple won’t let the mini update to 13. The App Store won’t let me update the MSNBC app or let me keep option for my current MSNBC app. Please add an X or Later option to pop up on MSNBC app - that is in center of screen. It won’t move, I can’t do/see anything. I want to watch Live. I can’t do it because the pop up is holding me hostage. Please fix this problem. I really prefer MSNBC over CNN. Please....!? *** Yesterday I watched MSNBC on my iPad mini2 all day without a problem. Today I get an update message. I try to update app at the store and get a message I can’t update because I need iOS 13+ (I have 12.5). Ok I get it. But my iPad tells me it’s up to date. The MSNBC app in store tells me I can download an earlier version of MSNBC app - ok good. But when I click download nothing happens. Perhaps I have the appropriate app already on my iPad. I have 2 complaints: 1. Fix the app page so we who have an older iPad can still watch MSNBC (instead of having to switch to CNN for life (which I updated without a problem). 2. When I open MSNBC app on my iPad and get the pop up message to update, I can’t close it - it only goes to update store. Please fix pop up message to include: a. An X to close it or b. The word ‘Later’ to update at a convenient time. Now, I can’t watch MSNBC on my iPad because the pop up is holding us hostage and wants something I can’t give it. Alas, switching over to CNN now.

   Ms. Ette · 30 Aug 2026

5. 1/5Do NOT update this app. It only gets worse

   I stream evening MSNBCprograms on my phone while making dinner. For the past year, when my fave show Reid Out came on, inexplicably, service would freeze every few minutes or every 15 seconds. I'd have to turn off my phone to get it back. Latest upgrade, changed things for the worst. It made it harder to start live streaming and get the image to fill the screen. It offered more links and headlines and junk getting in the way of just turning on the show. Here's the kicker. Today, a few days into the latest update this app suddenly informed me I had to turn off my ad blockers to watch the program I had just brought up. You mean there is an ad blocker that turns of MSNBC's dreadful pharmaceutical ads for erectile dysfunction, female incontinence, the gold mine of life insurance buybacks that show retirees as too ignorant to know what they're "sitting on" but the men working mining jobs are smarter about about? I digress. The answer is no. There is no such ad blocker for TV ads, but MSNBC wants to control the possibiliity that a live stream viewer may wander into the blog or newsletter section and start reading without the barrage of internet ads? MSNBC, you are better than this. Get it together. And stop with the ageist ads that insult half your viewing audience.

   Very Disappointed 910 · 30 Aug 2026

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