Q: iOS10 - News widget : "Couldn't Load Stories"
Does anyone know why this might be?
I'm located in France, but using my iPhone 6 in English. After initial update to iOS10, stories were showing up in the widget, too many in fact. I turned them off, but then discovered other news categories and turned those on. They work fine in the News app (as do some of the originals, not all because of region) but nothing is showing in the widget (swipe-right from Home screen).
iPhone 6, iOS 9.2.1
Posted on Sep 14, 2016 3:59 AM
Try this...it worked for me here in the US with a US account on my iPad Pro (see my previous post):
In iOS 10 since you can now delete stock apps, you can "delete" and reinstall the News app (yeah I know it doesn't completely delete it from the system, but I figured why not give it a try). Surprisingly that corrected the issue.
I deleted the News app as I would with any other problematic app, then I rebooted the phone (I don't know if the reboot was necessary, but I figured it couldn't hurt). I opened the App Store, searched for "News" and redownloaded the News app. After reinstalling and launching the app, the News widget began to function normally. So far so good for 24 hours.
If all your notification and location settings are correct and the News widget isn't working, before you try a drastic step like a restore, try a delete and reinstall. Post here if that works.
Posted on Sep 18, 2016 6:18 PM