Apple News

News
A component of iOS, macOS, and watchOS
News running on iOS 11
Details
Type News aggregator
Included with
Replaces Newsstand

Apple News (or simply News) is a mobile app and news aggregator developed by Apple Inc., for its iOS and macOS operating systems. The iOS version was launched with the release of iOS 9. It is the successor to the Newsstand app included in previous versions of iOS. Users can read news articles with it, based on publishers, websites and topics they select, such as The New York Times, technology or politics.[2] The app was announced at Apple's WWDC 2015 developer conference. It was released alongside the iOS 9 release on September 16, 2015, for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. At launch, the app was only available to users in the United States, but the app has since become available to users in Australia and the United Kingdom as well with the release of iOS 9.1 on October 21, 2015.[3] During the keynote address at WWDC 2016, it was revealed that with the forthcoming iOS 10 update the News app will undergo new icon and app redesigns along with an improved For You section organized by topics. Furthermore, it was announced that there would be support for paid subscriptions for certain news sources and publishers as well as an opt-in system for breaking news notifications and email on top news stories.

It was reported in 2014 that Apple Inc. had acquired the Netherlands-based digital magazine company Prss, an application that simplified the creation of iPad-compatible magazines using a WYSIWYG editor that didn't require any knowledge of code.[4] Prss was seen as a magazine version of iBooks Author. The idea for Prss came after entrepreneur Michel Elings and longtime travel writer and photographer Jochem Wijnands designed their own iPad publication called TRVL. The Prss invention became what is now 'Apple News.'[5]

During the 2018 WWDC, Apple announced that the Apple News app would be ported to macOS and be available to users in Australia, United Kingdom, and United States starting in macOS 10.14.[6] The app is installed by default in every region but is not made visible to users outside those three regions. Users can still open it using various workarounds.[6]

The app works by pulling in news stories from the web through various syndication feeds (Atom and RSS)[7] or from news publishing partners through the JSON descriptive Apple News Format.[8] Any news publisher can submit their content for inclusion in Apple News, and users can add any feed through the Safari web browser. Stories added through Safari will be displayed via the in-app web browser included with the app.

News is fetched from publisher's websites through the AppleNewsBot web crawler bot. The bot fetches feeds, as well as web pages and images for the Apple News service. It has received criticism for being poorly behaved and not being fault tolerant; resulting in high loads on websites.[9]

The Apple News version distributed with iOS 9 made it hard to differentiate traffic originating from within the app from traffic originating from other apps. Apple News version 2, introduced in iOS 10, began identifying itself using its own User-Agent string, making it possible to measure the reach of Apple News using web analytics solutions.[10] Traffic analytics was previously only available to paying publisher partners through iAds.

In WWDC 2018, Apple announced that the News app would be available in macOS Mojave.

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References

  1. ↑ "Use News on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch". Apple Support. Apple. Retrieved June 30, 2017. News is available in the United States with iOS 9 or later, and in the United Kingdom and Australia with iOS 9.1 or later.
  2. ↑ "Apple unveils News app, with New York Times, ESPN and other big publishers on board - GeekWire". GeekWire. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Apple Releases iOS 9.1 With New Emoji, Live Photos Improvements". Mac Rumours. October 21, 2015. Retrieved October 21, 2015.
  4. ↑ Etherington, Darrell. "PRSS Digital Magazine Platform Acquired By Apple". TechCrunch. Retrieved November 23, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Apple Acquired Prss in 2014 and today their Invention that became 'Apple News' was Published by USPTO". Patently Apple. Retrieved November 23, 2017.
  6. 1 2 ""Getting the Apple News app for macOS in unsupported regions". Ctrl blog. June 5, 2018. Retrieved June 11, 2018.
  7. ↑ "RSS Content". Apple News Publisher. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
  8. ↑ "Apple News Format workflow". Apple News Publisher. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Attack of the AppleNewsBot". Slight Future. July 5, 2016. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
  10. ↑ "Apple News app getting its own User-Agent for analytics in iOS 10". Slight Future. July 13, 2016. Retrieved July 14, 2016.
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