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Apple News isn't available in a lot of countries for whatever reason. So this not only means its inaccessible to non-iOS9 devices, but it's also inaccessible to
by torrance 11y ago
Apple News isn't available in a lot of countries for whatever reason. So this not only means its inaccessible to non-iOS9 devices, but it's also inaccessible to, eg., all of New Zealand.
- noob_learning 11y agoI'm in NZ, you can change your region to US to get the new Apple News
- exodust 11y agoWorth trying only for short term curiosity. Beyond that it's a clumsy workaround with consequences for other apps and services that depend on the region being true.
- joosters 11y agoNot sure why people are downvoting the comment though, it's a valid workaround if you needed to temporarily access something.
- derefr 11y agoI'm guessing it's just a paucity of news agencies in the given country that have set up a feed in Apple News format; Apple doesn't want to flip the switch for a country until they have a good default selection of that country's local feeds to let people pick from. I noticed that on the iOS9 beta, with my region set to Canada, the News app was unavailable, but on the springboard search view, the embedded news items were from (two) Canadian sources. So it seems like they're working on it.
- kozukumi 11y agoIndeed, this just confused me for a minute. I am in the UK and Apple News isn't available here yet.
- AriinPHD 11y agoThis explains a lot ... I thought something was broken.