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What's new in the News app? Apple is always tweaking, adjusting, and redesigning their software and the News app is no exception. As the app changes, we report on what's new. How to get started with the News app for Mac The first time you open the News app, all you need to do to get started is click Continue. If you've used News on your iPhone or iPad before, and haven't turned off iCloud syncing, your favorite channels and topics should soon populate the sidebar of the News app on Mac. If you haven't used the news app, you're going to need to start following channels. How to follow a channel or topic.
Open News on your Mac. Click the Search bar and search for your channel or topic you want to follow. Click the heart icon next to the channel or topic. How to unfollow a channel or topic. Click on the channel or topic you want to unfollow.
Click File in the menubar. There should be a checkmark next to Follow Channel. Click Follow Channel so the checkmark disappears.
You'll no longer be following the channel. How to block a channel or topic. Click on a story from the channel or topic you wish to block or select that channel or topic from the sidebar if you've previously followed it.
Click File in the menubar. Click Block Channel. How to manage notifications in the News app. Open News from your Dock or Applications folder. Click File in the Menu bar. Click Manage Notifications.
Click on the switches to the green 'on' position for those publications from which you'd like to receive notifications. Click switches to the white/gray 'off' position if you want to turn notifications off. How to read articles in the News app. Open News from your Dock or Applications folder.
Click on a channel or topic. Click on a story.
How to save an article in the News app. Click File while reading an article. Click Save Story. How to like and share articles in the News app. Click the heart button while reading an article to like it. Click the heart with a slash through it to dislike.
Click the Share button for sharing options. Choose one of the available options for sharing the article or sending it to another app.
How to view your reading history in the News app. Open News on your Mac. Scroll down the sidebar and click History.
Click on a story to open it. How to clear your reading history in the News app. Open News on your iPhone.
Scroll down and click History. Click Clear in the upper-right corner of the app. Click Clear History, Clear Recommendations, or Clear All. Clearing recommendations will delete the recommendations that Apple News has made for you based on your reading history, clearing your history will delete your reading history, and Clear All will delete both. How to restrict stories in Today in the News app. Open News from your Dock or Applications folder. Click News in the Menu bar.
Click Preferences. Click the checkbox next to Restrict stories in Today. Questions about the News app? If you have any more questions about how to use the News app on iOS, let us know and we'll work to answer them.
Click to expand.My thoughts exactly. The recent trend has been for iOS apps to make their way to OS X eventually (iBooks, Maps, Photos, Messages to some extent, as well as the renaming of iCal to Calendar, a Address Book to Contacts, etc).so I wouldn't be surprised at all if this happened within the year. If iBooks can find a home on OS X, then News would certainly have a place there, I think. It would be nice if it did. So far I really like News, and I would like to have a similar browsing method on all my devices, personally. Click to expand.I've been using the News app on iOS since the public beta launched, and for those reasons (and others) I'm finding that I really am liking it more than I initially thought I would. It's just become a really easy way for me to quickly check some of my blogs and news sites.
The one big thing I wish it would add (in addition to an OS X app) is the ability to support subscriptions, so that I could read all of the New York Times articles (and articles from a few other subscriptions) that I already subscribe to in there. Hopefully that'll be something in the 2.0 version of the app.
For now though it's off to a good start, and I've seen lots of noticeable improvements since its earliest days in the beta. Click to expand.Aww, it's a beta! Give it a chance. I've been using it since its first public beta release, and for the first month or so, it literally wouldn't load. Like I'd hit the icon and it would immediately crash.
Then out of the blue it started working, and it's been fine for me ever since. I haven't had one crash.
Personally I really like the way that navigation works. I don't use the For You section much, but I like the 'Favorites' section, where I have everything I'd read normally in Safari. For some reason the way it's all organized makes it feel easier to navigate than Safari to me, sort of like a nice cross between Safari and iBooks that's more conducive to reading.
But everyone's different! Now that I've gotten used to this on my iPad, though, it'd be nice to have a similar system on my laptop too.