Quick verdict
- What it is
- The WLOX News Now app provides local news coverage for South Mississippi, including breaking news alerts, live local news headlines and clips, storm tracking, and sports.
- Best for
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- someone who wants local news
- At a glance
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- Free to download
Categories and search queries
Official categories
- News
- Weather
AppCorpus categories
Key functions
| Function | Availability | Access | Scope | Evidence |
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| Free app | Yes | Free | — | Store published |
Screens
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12 store screenshots
Pricing & paywalls
App Store
- Free
Ratings & reviews
App Store
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4/5Lacks local sports
Football is over; all I see are JUCO or High School football choices. What about Basketball, among other things. Coast teams have been trying to get to Jackson, but I can’t seem to find anything about them. Hard to support them if we don’t know where/when they’re playing next.
Papa0861 · 6 Aug 2026
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2/5Unwanted Audio
If you’re going to have an advertisement automatically start when you pull up a news article, why doesn’t the content of the video that follows match the content of the news article you clicked to read? And if you’re unwilling to match the news article to the video, can you at least let the user mute the unwanted audio? Or just give an option to mute all audio including advertisements as some prefer to read the article over watching a video and the audio of those advertisements can be distracting while trying to read????
Too much audio · 6 Aug 2026
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2/5Poorly optimized and unavoidable ads!
I enjoyed the access to local news headlines, and I appreciate that the news stories were never behind a paywall. However, this app made my phone’s performance abysmal! The app constantly refreshed in the background, even after disabling this option in settings, and unavoidable full-screen animated ads (with embarrassing sound) popped up at random intervals. Extremely frustrating, and there’s no paid ad-free version available. Save your phone and just pin the WLOX homepage to your home screen!
smy822 · 6 Aug 2026
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3/5Don’t like new update
This new update isn’t as user friendly as the previous one. The colors and the set up seem distracting. It just kind of irritates you look for what you want to see first. It also freezes up, you have to close it and reopen. Sometimes change isn’t always the best. Also couldn’t rate the app in the actual app. That link doesn’t do anything. I had to go to the App Store.
Sassy polly · 6 Aug 2026
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3/5Good news, the app needs a little tweaking
The problem with the app is when I turn my iPhone sideways to view a picture or video I can’t go back, the app freezes. I have to completely close the app and reopen it to continue. Very frustrating. And I realize the news has to advertise, but do I have to see one EVERY TIME i view a video? I have to admit that I don’t watch as many because of the ads. Thank you for letting me air my thoughts.
Tims-22 · 6 Aug 2026
Privacy & accessibility
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Privacy
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Accessibility
No accessibility labels collected yet.
Versions
App Store
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6.7.11
General fixes and performance enhancements
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7.0.1
General fixes and performance enhancements
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7.0.10
General fixes and performance enhancements
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7.0.11
General fixes and performance enhancements
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7.0.12
Improvement to livestreams in webview
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7.0.13
Change to iPad splash screen images
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7.0.14
Station branding update
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7.0.15
Changes to the livestream player
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7.0.16
General fixes and performance enhancements
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7.0.17
Station branding update
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7.0.2
General fixes and performance enhancements
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7.0.3
General fixes and performance enhancements
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7.0.4
A fix for push notifications not taking users to the correct page
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7.0.5
General fixes and performance enhancements
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7.0.6
General fixes and performance enhancements
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7.0.7
General fixes and performance enhancements
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7.0.8
- Improvement for notification badges on device homescreen - Improvement for notifications in the in-app inbox
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7.0.9
General fixes and performance enhancements
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8.0.1
Welcome to the redesigned app! Get the latest news directly on the home screen, easy-to-find live news and weather video and instant notifications about what’s important to you.
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8.0.2
Improvements to the video players
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8.0.3
Corrected the look of splash screen images Added support for some embeds in stories Addressed issues with some images being cut off in stories Addressed issue causing users to not be able to share stories
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8.0.4
Improved how images display in stories and on the home screen. Fixed an issue where sharing a story was not working on some devices. Video playlists now display all videos correctly Improved video playback reliability.
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8.0.5
Improved how images display in stories and on the home screen. Fixed an issue where sharing a story was not working on some devices. Video playlists now display all videos correctly Improved video playback reliability.
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8.0.6
Improved how images display in stories and on the home screen. Fixed an issue where sharing a story was not working on some devices. Video playlists now display all videos correctly Improved video playback reliability. General bug fixes and performance improvements.
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8.0.7
· 16 Jul 2026
Improvements to the video player, including addressing a crash caused when using video controls
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Availability by market
- US
Data quality & evidence
- Page completeness
- Independent summary published
- Last verified
- 6 Aug 2026
- Sources
- App Store