Recently this app will not open to the stories for which I get notifications. It goes to the main menu. I don't want to then have to search for the story. This was a dumb update. Also, app will not close anymore with back button. Must force close. Not putting me into the requested story and then making me force close has started the habit of looking at other news sources first. These are not great updates, CNN. Get it together.

4* for news. But 1* because it does not exit when you use the back button. The cnn app opens when you click on CNN news in a browser ( don't want it to ). And the app doesn't exit when you hit back. News. I like the live audio only option on the front page. Handy during car drives. BUT it does not work on my pixel 4a 5g via bluetooth. All the other usual audio and music apps work ok.

I used to love this app and the notifications and emails I got all day to update on the latest news. Like others, when you open the app, it's a black screen with a logo and you have to force close it and try 2 or 3 times to reload. This is annoying and cumbersome for something that used to be so simple. Additionally, I have stopped getting email alerts entirely since the last update despite checking and resaving my email preferences via the app and the website. C'mon CNN .... what happened??