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Last verified 30 Aug 2026

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4.6 123674 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5Update ruined this app

   UPDATE 2: they finally rolled back the “back button” issue too! App is fixed! Hurrah! UPDATE: The “Welcome to the MSN” problem has been fixed! The app still doesn’t let you click “back” in the browser from links on the Bing rewards page, but I will still put my review up to a four, as the “Welcome” screen was the most egregious problem by far. If they correct the “back” button issue, I’ll go back to a five! (Original review follows) I loved the Bing app and used it everyday. Unfortunately when they “updated” it to this “MSN” app, they made it so, so much worse. Anytime you click on an article, when you click “back” it brings you to the “WELCOME TO THE MSN” screen that you have to click “continue” to get back to the homepage. It also GOT RID OF the “Back” button for any links you click in the “Bing rewards” section. There’s just an X to click instead, which—surprise, surprise, also brings you right back to that infuriating “WELCOME TO THE MSN” page. It’s basically impossible to navigate the app now without clicking that “continue” button every minute or so. Very disappointing. I’ll update this review if and when they fix it.

   AStirlingMacD · 30 Aug 2026

2. 5/5It’s all messed up now

   Ugh where to begin. I’ll just stick with the first screen to you once starting the app. The continue screen. Every time I start the app that MSM screen is always present, I click continue get to the main page. Then I click on an article read it click the back button and what to I get? The MSN screen again. I get this screen over and over again. I look at my profile I click the back button and get that nag screen again, because that’s what it is now. A nag screen. Even though I’m using a paid Microsoft account and clicked continue. When it was Start it was great it was my go to app for internet and AI. Now it’s more of a pain than anything else. I haven’t even started on the blank page you get when you click a reference from returned from CoPilot then click the back button and you just get a black screen. Did you guys do any bug testing??

   Rick_D · 30 Aug 2026

3. 1/5Poor News App

   This app needs to label stories that are opinions and NOT news. the headlines on many stories are unclear or suspiciously misleading to appease to the appeal of the political party of the target audience. please do better. Particularly when it comes to favoring Conservative viewpoints. It will suggest stories to me, and be completely biased against Democrats, and not a single story even has that is an opinion/editorial, instead saying something like “according to legal analysis”. This is just one example and I also believe they are using my location to suggest that I am one political party that I’m not bc it’s advertising driven. I love the app bc I can get access to stories not on Apple News for free, but I don’t want fed misinformation and this is DANGEROUS DURING THIS ELECTION CYCLE. Please take this seriously bc I read the comments from people on the app commenting on the “news” stories and they are misinformed and speak in a violent manner. They believe these opinion pieces are news and dont understand bc the app doesn’t let people know that it’s an opinion piece and most people don’t even understand what an opinion piece is. They just assume since it’s from a news app, its news. It’s dangerous. Please stick to your policy about unbiased news reporting and balanced editorials. Please. I would stop using location to assume that I want to be fed news from certain sources just based on my current location when it comes to national politics. That’s dangerous bc just bc my location moves around doesn’t mean I change my core beliefs and political views. We all just want the news and the truth.

   Jkeeton · 30 Aug 2026

4. 4/5First review

   I have been using the Microsoft Start app since it came public. I found it’s one of the only apps that I’ve been able use to get my Bing points. Using a Start app to get Bing points is a little complex and buggy at times. While I like the all in one app for news, shopping and receipt scanning here are a few drawbacks… I getting points takes much more time now. Sometimes you get points on clicks and sometimes nothing. Sometimes you can click through the trending news and click click click and get points, sometimes nothing at all and you have to come back later in the day to finish. In the last few days, I had the app freeze up on both iPad and iPhone. While I could clear history for the day and week without a problem the app crashed when trying to clear the longer dated history, i.e. 4 week history and all history. This was replicated on my iPhone and iPad both and this maybe due to limitations of the RAM or sandbox memory but hopefully this information will help to may the app better in future updates. Thank you Microsoft support teams for all you are doing.

   Bobcat's · 30 Aug 2026

5. 2/5Disappointed

   Over a year ago, my biggest complaint was the repetitive Twitter, and Facebook inclusions that were already in the article. Now we get the same strange repetitions within the article, plus we get more links to things that appear to be an article, but it’s just a click bait ad, I can no longer highlight a word and search the definition, and I can no longer select a picture in an article and zoom in. The video articles I am most interested in, get stuck in a constant buffer but not the one I really don’t care about…those ones load just fine. I no longer get local news for my area, so I have to go back to doing a web search for local news, because the app only picks up neighboring city news. The closest city that I can get news for is 20 miles to the city limit but really the city is more like 40 miles away. I have setup the local news and areas of interest, but it just says “Sorry! No news for this area” Back to using google news now, which is only slightly better. Go back a few updates and you will win me back Microsoft.

   Discord gamer · 30 Aug 2026

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4.5 302442 ratings · Google Play

1. 5/5

   awesome 👍 informative... 💯 🧡

   Arvin White Cow · 29 Jul 2026

2. 5/5

   👍

   Soljebee Bombeo · 29 Jul 2026

3. 4/5

   It's fun with rewards but upset they took away rewards for searches that were worth 100 points.

   Michelle B. · 29 Jul 2026

4. 5/5

   nice apps for sareching

   Sonaton Dev · 29 Jul 2026

5. 2/5

   The app used to be better. It's extremely biased with the articles it shows me and I often see the same 1s over and over again. Since about 7/18/2026, it won't give me credit for the daily set streak, despite me completing it EVERYDAY, and clicking on the circle.

   A M · 29 Jul 2026

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