My Apple news widget disappeared after updating my phone to iOS 17.4.1

since yesterday the news widget is not available anymore in Belgium

The news widget on my iPhone has suddenly disappeared(2 days ago). Is this an issue or normal? Italy 🇮🇹

Same in Norway, as soon as I updated to iOS 17.4.X from 17.3 it disappeared. It’s not even selectable in the widgets, completely gone.

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Looks like it has disappeared worldwide. Some people speculate there will be a change regarding this news app / widget at the upcoming Apple iPad event “let loose” on 7 May.

This widget was my life, now it is gone.

Who gave the permission to do that.

Now i dont have any update regarding what is happening around the world.

They ruined my fone.

Disappeared for me in Mexico yesterday on the 15 Pro but its still working on my 13, both on 17.4.1.

I switched to USA region and was able to download News App. Then switched back to Mexico and the widget appeared again for a few hours and then it disappeared yet again.

I NEED MY NEEWS!

I am also running 17.4.1 on my iPhone 15 pro max in India and Apple News has completely disappeared. At first I did not see any news all day as it said the phone is offline, but it was connected to the Internet and all other apps were working fine. I switched it off and then turned it on and Apple News widget completely disappeared !

Found a workaround that works the same for me here in Ireland… downloaded the Google News App and you can then ad the widget. Has five various local news outlet articles and even the 4th one down is sports oriented, like the Apple widget…happy so far…😀

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My apple news widget disappeared since 2 days ....have iPhone 6 Plus in India

… and before the widget was gone, they showed almost only those news which weren’t readable without paying.

Same here. Located in the Netherlands. News widget is gone since a couple of days.

running iOS 17.4.1 on iPhone Pro Max 15.

The News widget has disappeared from iPad as well.