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

📣 Update:

Someone on Reddit posted about this.

He contacted Apple directly and talked to a senior manager.

The apple guy told him that probably support ended for the Apple News widget in the vast majority of countries where AN is not available as an app.

He also said that there will be news about this on May the 8th. Considering that the Apple event will take place on May the 7th, maybe, just maybe they’ll announce a widespread rollout of Apple News.

But this is just pure speculation.

Anyway, fingers crossed 🤞🏼

A workaround is… Download Google News app. Then you can add the google news widget. It has the same random 5 local news feeds as the Apple News widget. Works here in Ireland for me.

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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!

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…😀

Widget not showing for Region selected India.

I talk with Apple support and this widget will no longer be supported, so that’s why it is not on our iPhones anymore

We‘re not talking about the news app, that has never been released outside the countries you mentioned.

We are talking about the news widget, that has been working flawlessly since the introduction of widgets in iOS 14.

I have been using the news widget here in Germany on all of my devices daily as a source for a quick news overview. And as I said, it had been working like charm, updating from local news sources UNTIL May 2nd when the widget completely disappeared from all of my devices and can not be found in the widget selection. ☹️

Update from my earlier post…having spent a bit of time on the phone to Apple Support on this matter I was pleased for their advice, which included all matters expanded on this forum however they also suggested using the Google News stream. Uploading that replaced the lost Apple News stream with an even better local news section. You need a Google account for this but then who doesn't have that these days, other than that here is the answer to most if not all of our concerns over Apple's decision to shut down their news feed to most of the world outside the USA. Hope this helps

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since yesterday the news widget is not available anymore in Belgium

Cool story, no one is talking about the app, it’s the widget that seems to have been available to anyone, anywhere up until a few days ago, when it was removed for apparently top secret reasons 🤫.

Best solution atm is Google News app and drop into widgets… gl

Gone for me in New Zealand as well. Apple do something.. useless

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 !