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Q: Apple News App: Channel Unavailable

Many channels that I subscribed to using the Apple News share button in Safari that previously updated and worked, have stopped updating and now display as "Channel Unavailable" whenever I try to re-add them or any other website for that matter. This is a new behavior that's pretty disturbing because Apple News is only allowing me to add content providers from its list in app. What's going on here? Has anybody else noticed this?

iOS 9.3.3

Posted on Jul 30, 2016 8:25 AM

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  • by Luigi A,

    Luigi A Luigi A Sep 7, 2016 8:04 PM in response to Jayspinion
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    Sep 7, 2016 8:04 PM in response to Jayspinion

    I have the same problem. It seems that apple news no longer supports adding RSS feeds as channels since iOS 9.3.3 (maybe 9.3.2 which I skipped, it worked great in 9.3.1). Since then, I have experienced what you just described: All channels I had added using the 'add to news' button in safari were disabled. They no longer update and I get "Channel unavailable, this channel is no longer available in news" when I tap on each of them from the favorites tab. Not only that, but when I tried removing some of those channels and adding them from safari again, I got "[website name] could not be added to news" every time. Also, the "add to news button" no longer appears in the share page when I browse many of those websites using safari, like it used to. And it happens on both my iPhone 6s and ipad air 1.