Apple News Fails to Load After iOS 18.2 Installation

This thread is getting messy, so let's sum up where we stand...

Until/if Apple comes through with a real fix for the Apple News won't load issue, we iPad7th Generation users are on our own.

But thanks to user RCF001, a set of steps was found that, if you follow them exactly, MAY get you past the loading screen. Here is a link to those steps: Apple News Fails to Load After iOS 18.2 I… - Apple Community

These steps did not work for everyone, but it worked for some of us. It was also discovered that if the fix did work for you, you may still get sent back to the "loading" problem if you close the Apple News app. So try not to close Apple News after you've applied the steps.

Note for less experienced users: As far as I know, there are two ways to avoid closing Apple News app: 1) Avoid (as long as possible) powering off or restarting your iPad, which clears the memory. 2) There's a screen mode in which you can see all the apps that are running in the background and, if you press one of those app images and swipe upward, it will close that app. So don't do that. Just let Apple News run in the background all the time.

Hope this helps.

I’ve called and explained it to 4 different people, so I’d be curious to know what it is Apple doesn’t understand. I too have a Gen7 iPad and paid Apple News plus subscription

I have responded to your instruction and yes it did work only once. The fact that it was closed, it did not open up again. It was suggested to leave the app open in the background and I did but the app if not use for more than an hour or more has the same problems as closing.

I’ve noticed quite a few other responses mentioned it work, and then it stopped. What I started to do and I’ve been doing this for quite a while, but I wanted to make sure it worked before I put it out there.

1 Delete the app and make sure you keep your subscription

2 Reinstall the app

3 go to settings and turn off Wi-Fi

4 Open up the app, and it will indicated app cannot open because of Wi-Fi

5 go to settings and turn Wi-Fi back on

6 Go back to the app and click on it and it will open with News.

This takes just a couple of minutes to get it back installed properly.

As long as I’m reading and have the app open, the News app will work. Of course once I stop reading it and it sits in background after a couple hours it goes back to the original problem. I do this every morning when I wake up spending about an hour or more reading and that’s it. If I decide I want more news I just go to Google News or Yahoo! News or MSN to stay up-to-date.

I have been doing this for over a week. I just hope Apple comes through and fixes this problem in the very near future.

good luck, and I hope this works for you.

Well, as it turns out, the iCloud approach wasn’t a true fix. The AppleNews app didn’t load the next time I tried to open it. I had tech support then update the transcript of the service record accordingly to reflect that no fix was achieved.

We should get reimbursed for the time the news app has not been available plus’s one extra month free. I’ve been using google news, yahoo news or msn news. I’m getting use to their news media so thinking about canceling anpple News. Apple has dropped the ball and has not apologized pertaining to this problem cause by release 18.2.

I have the exact same problem on a Gen 7 iPad. I went to the Apple chat support and they were unable to address the issue. I moved to phone support and they were unable as well. This is a widespread problem and customer support can’t solve it. They also have no timeline for a solution so …. we wait.

I agree, I don't think a fix is coming. it would be nice if apple would give us some path back to iPadOS 18, so it would work. I don't think it was very nice of apple to let us break our iPads, especially the people with a subscription to news, and then not give us a path to undo the update. they had to have known this would happen.

I am experiencing this issue as well. I turned in a report to Apple as well and we’ll see if/when anything is done to fix the problem. I’m just wondering what it is with 7th generation iPads that seem to have problems with updates. A while back Apple Music was not working on my iPad after an update. I came here and many others with the 7thG iPads were having the same problem. News works fine on my iPhone. Strange this particular iPad model is so vulnerable to problems.

An interesting thing about this bug is that news will load sometimes. Maybe for a few minutes to the longest I have had it on is 2 hours before it crashed. It may be able to be fixed in the app itself. Apple would never tell us. While all of us 7gen iPadders are here, how is everyone’s battery doing. Mine doesn’t last very long anymore about 3 hours and it will be down in the 30% range.

This isn’t even in my iCloud list. I can’t toggle anything. Just fails to load. I uninstalled and reinstalled the app, and just spins on the Welcome to Apple News screen. Hopefully they have an update when the teams get back to work after the holiday season.

I thought the recent iPadOS 18.2.1 would have fixed this problem. Apple News still will not load on my 7th Gen iPad running iPadOS 18.2.1. The iPad was my portal to Apple News. The only solution is to cancel my subscription until Apple fixes it, which may or may not happen. If anyone has any ideas, I'm all ears.

Many thanks,

Michael