iOS 9.1 enables Apple's News app, new content sources for users in UK, Australia
The iOS 9.1 update activates the News app for users in the U.K. and Australia, users and Apple itself confirmed on Thursday.
Content for the U.K. launch includes the BBC, The Times, The Sun, The Telegraph, The Guardian, and the Financial Times, as well as magazines from publishers like Haymarket and Conde Nast, Apple told TechCrunch. This is on top of the material already present for U.S. readers.
It was not immediately clear which Australian publications were on board.
The News app is a replacement for the Newsstand feature in iOS 8 and earlier, which simply gathered together select apps in a shelf motif, with behind-the-scenes work done to allow background downloads and notification of new issues.
By contrast, News is essentially a Flipboard-style RSS reader, allowing users to browse through multiple sources at once and see stories presented in a magazine-like format. The app will also let users track stories on specific topics, such as space exploration.
iOS 9.1 is otherwise a relatively modest update, mainly adding new emoji, and compatibility with the iPad Pro and fourth-generation Apple TV. When shooting Live Photos on an iPhone 6s or 6s Plus, the OS will now detect when an iPhone is being raised or lowered and skip recording those motions.
Recently it was revealed that Apple is actively blocking News within China, even for readers simply visiting the country.
Content for the U.K. launch includes the BBC, The Times, The Sun, The Telegraph, The Guardian, and the Financial Times, as well as magazines from publishers like Haymarket and Conde Nast, Apple told TechCrunch. This is on top of the material already present for U.S. readers.
It was not immediately clear which Australian publications were on board.
The News app is a replacement for the Newsstand feature in iOS 8 and earlier, which simply gathered together select apps in a shelf motif, with behind-the-scenes work done to allow background downloads and notification of new issues.
By contrast, News is essentially a Flipboard-style RSS reader, allowing users to browse through multiple sources at once and see stories presented in a magazine-like format. The app will also let users track stories on specific topics, such as space exploration.
iOS 9.1 is otherwise a relatively modest update, mainly adding new emoji, and compatibility with the iPad Pro and fourth-generation Apple TV. When shooting Live Photos on an iPhone 6s or 6s Plus, the OS will now detect when an iPhone is being raised or lowered and skip recording those motions.
Recently it was revealed that Apple is actively blocking News within China, even for readers simply visiting the country.
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Anyone know how I change the news sources that show on the search screen? It's still showing nonsense from The Telegraph despite me not selecting it as a source.
In the UK and made my preferences today. The hideous pink colour of the News app was a surprise and not quite Applesque. The source of the news story should be highlighted more prominently under each headline, and it all has quite a boring look about it at the moment. Surely the Apple designers can do better than this.
How is it not obvious?
Once I got past this longwinded setup I was happy. So far my post setup experience is a positive one.
Yeah go to setting >Lang and region. Then down at the bottom change your country to USA or Australia and Uk which ever you like Hope it helps
Not sure if it is related to iOS 9.1, but AT&T Wi-Fi calling now works for me.
Just FYI.
You need to consider the number of iOS devices vs OSX. Apps on laptops haven't fully caught on yet, even though on a Mac it's pretty organic. Not Apple's fault. The 3rd parties need to commit.
In the UK and made my preferences today. The hideous pink colour of the News app was a surprise and not quite Applesque. The source of the news story should be highlighted more prominently under each headline, and it all has quite a boring look about it at the moment. Surely the Apple designers can do better than this.
Thanks for coming out though. If these are the best complaints you can muster (which are invalid), I guess Apple did a pretty damn good job.
I'm in canada and when i got my new iphone 6s the news app was on it. But after I added some feeds to it it erased itself.
Is news available in canada if not why was it there the firstt few days.
The app is PINK. End of.
More Coral than pink I think. Anyway so far I'm liking this app...certainly more interesting than many of Apple's other pre-installed ones.
The News app is from Apple, that's the one I would like on OS X. But to your point, one wonders why some bright spark hasn't simply made an OS X app able to wrap iOS apps so they run on OS X.
The app skeleton is from Apple, but the content is 3rd party. They have plenty of news sources on board to deliver in the news app format. It's similar to Apple TV. It has the skeleton, but the media devs need to cater to the format.
Now add a news app to a Mac and you need those 3rd parties to format for that. It'll happen eventually. Just like HBO GO will eventually be natives to ALL smart TVs. For now they must develop for the largest market and work down.
Go to Settings / Language & Region and set Region to USA, and Voilà!
Edit - just noticed caribbea_mac's post above. So...yeah, that.
It gives me a quick clean glance at estimated travel times.
It is free to try with an in-app purchase to remove ads and enable some features.
Please check it out and thanks for your support.