# NBC 6 South Florida: News

> Miami Weather Radar & Alerts

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id331807842](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id331807842)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id331807842`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** NBCUniversal Media, LLC
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (1,257 ratings)
- **Version:** 8.9
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-12
- **First published:** 2009-10-05
- **Size:** 232 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-16
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nbc-6-south-florida-news/id331807842)
- **Website:** [https://www.nbcmiami.com](https://www.nbcmiami.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.nbcuniversal.com/privacy?brandA=Owned\_Stations&intake=NBC\_South\_Miami](https://www.nbcuniversal.com/privacy?brandA=Owned_Stations&intake=NBC_South_Miami)

## Description

The NBC 6 South Florida: News extension connects you with local stories, weather forecasts, breaking news, live TV, and investigative journalism across Miami, Hialeah, Fort Lauderdale and South Florida. Enjoy a free 24/7 streaming NBC South Florida News channel for on-demand video and live coverage.

Key features include First Alert Weather with a customizable home screen, Doppler 6000 radar, hourly forecasts, location-based alerts, school closings, hurricane tracking, and weather news videos. The app also provides personalized news alerts, saved articles, and the NBC 6 i-Team investigations, ensuring you stay informed on the go.

## Rankings

- #49,570 — Overall

## Review summary

Users praise NBC6 South Florida: News for solid real-time radar/weather updates and useful hurricane coverage, plus decent live streaming. However, repeated issues hurt usability: portrait-only on tablets, heavy ads, frequent crashes and slow loading, video/notification playback problems, and a cluttered, duplicated feed. Restoring landscape mode, reducing ads, stabilizing performance, fixing notification/video navigation, and simplifying the feed would significantly improve the experience while preserving the app’s strengths in local news and weather.

### Pros

- Strong real-time radar and weather updates.
- Reliable NBC6 live video streaming.
- Very useful during hurricane coverage.
- Generally helpful for staying informed about local news and weather.
- Feature to add weather locations across the country enhances usefulness (positive feedback).

### Cons

- Portrait-only orientation on iPad and lack of landscape mode after updates.
- Excessive and intrusive ads disrupt viewing and overall experience.
- Frequent crashes and slow loading after updates affecting usability.
- Video/notification navigation issues (notifications opening wrong content, videos auto-playing or continuing in background, etc.).
- Cluttered UX with duplicated stories and a confusing timeline (no single, streamlined feed).

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id331807842)