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News Widget

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  • 24-04-2017 10:06am
    #1
    CathalDublin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭


    Anyone else having trouble with the news widget not working since Saturday?
    IOS 10.3.1 iPhone7


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    michellemcc24
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭michellemcc24


    Have you updated yet? that might help. Hope so!


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    #3
    morritty
    Registered Users Posts: 888 ✭✭✭morritty


    10.3.1 is the latest update.

    Same issue on my phone.


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    nava
    Registered Users Posts: 4,739 ✭✭✭nava


    Yes also having the same issue with the News widget on latest IOS.


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    #5
    Cloudio9
    Registered Users Posts: 1,351 ✭✭✭Cloudio9


    Am on 10.2.1 and have the issue so probably not an iOS issue.

    Anyone know can you edit the news feeds in the widget. It's often the Irish times which is paywalled.


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    CathalDublin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    Good to know I'm not alone so
    Cloudio9 wrote: »
    Anyone know can you edit the news feeds in the widget. It's often the Irish times which is paywalled.
    I don't think you currently can, the I.T feed is really annoying alright, there should be an option to turn each source on/off


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    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Cloudio9 wrote: »
    Am on 10.2.1 and have the issue so probably not an iOS issue.

    Anyone know can you edit the news feeds in the widget. It's often the Irish times which is paywalled.

    The people experiencing problems are on 10.3.1 so it probably is an iOS issue.


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    Cloudio9
    Registered Users Posts: 1,351 ✭✭✭Cloudio9


    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »
    The people experiencing problems are on 10.3.1 so it probably is an iOS issue.

    And I just said I'm on 10.2.1 and also have the issue


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    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,678 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    10.2.1 broke it. 10.3 fixed it. 10.3.1 broke it again.

    News.app officially isn't supported in Ireland, so fixing this is unlikely to be a high priority for Apple.


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    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,678 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    It's working for me now, so maybe it was a server side issue after all.


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    #11
    murpho999
    Registered Users Posts: 28,484 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Working for me too.

    How come we have the news widget but not the app in Ireland yet?


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    ondafly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭ondafly


    I've also noticed the calendar stopped working at the same time


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    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users Posts: 26,579 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    afaik and I could be woefully wrong, but Apple News (inside the app) requires the publications to serve their articles in a certain format or needs some sort of integration on the publisher side. I'm guessing there's tons of ad code that just won't work inside Apple News and therefore the publications just don't bother.

    the widget just seems to push to their websites, it's kinda weird but it works enough. Apple probably didn't even know that it works and was just a happy accident.


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    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,678 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Yeah, the widget is just links. The News app has to be localised for Irish news sources with curators, etc. It's currently only available in 3 countries and is kinda in beta. But you can still get it by changing your region to one of the 3 countries.


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    awec
    Administrators Posts: 53,845 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    I'm pretty sure the widget is just a curated RSS feed with the most popular items shown. It's entirely random, it has no concept of the news you're actually interested in.


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