The News app

Take control of your news sources

Browsing the News app

The redesigned News app is kind of like the Music app, with categories across the bottom that give you different ways to view media. The For You section recommends stories chosen by Apple’s editors, while also bringing your favorite news channels and popular stories. Favorites takes you to just your favorites. Explore lets you browse for new outlets. Search lets you search for new channels or topics, and Saved shows articles you’ve saved.

Add Favorites

If want to see more from a particular channel, go to its main page (if you’re in a story, tap its name at the top of the story), then tap the + at the top-right.

Control your notifications

In the Favorites screen, tap the bell in the topleft corner to access notification options to individual channels, so important stories can be called to your attention. However, this only works for a select few channels right now.

Interacting and 3D Touch

Gestures play a big part in the News app. If you have a 3D Touch device, you can press hard on a channel or story to get a preview of it. When you’re in a channel’s view looking at a list of stories, you can swipe right to left to see options to Like a story (so the app will recommend more like it), share it via email or social network, or to save a story for reading in the future in the Saved tab. Swipe the other direction and you can Dislike a story, mute a channel so you don’t see stories from it, or report a problem with a channel. When you’re viewing a story, you can swipe left or right to go to the next or previous story, too.

History

The Saved tab doesn’t just show stories you’ve intentionally saved for later – switch to the History tab using the button at the top and you can see articles you’ve recently read. Swipe on them for more options.

Text size

In stories from some channels, you can make the text larger or smaller – look for the AA at the top right.