Updates to Apple apps (especially News) packaged with OS?

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Updates to Apple apps (especially News) packaged with OS?

Experiencing serious crashing problems with the Apple News app on my iPad since the OS 16 xx I have tried all suggested remedial actions to no avail.

One suggestion was to uninstall the News App and then re-install from the App Store. Although this did not remedy the problem I note that in the App Store the News App does not have a version number unlike third party apps. The same is true for all the Apple packaged apps including eg Pages, Numbers, Photos etc. and these never appear in updates. It is vaguely suggested elsewhere that the OS packaged apps are updated with each OS update. That being the case how do I know that the “version” I am re-installing from the Store is the latest - and not an earlier version including any associated operational issues?

It is rumoured that OS16.2 may be released next week and hopefully will have a fix in place for the widely reported News App crashing issue. That being the case may it be advisable, before updating, to once again delete the News App, not to reinstall from the store, but let re-installation take place through the OS installation process. Hopefully this may rectify the News crashing problem alongside updating to the latest OS.

PS: I am copying this into the original posts related to the News App crashes.

iPad Pro 9.7-inch WiFi

Posted on Dec 10, 2022 7:07 AM

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Finchale Author

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Dec 14, 2022 2:53 AM in response to Finchale

No answers received so have put my theory to the test:

On Tuesday 13/12/22 Apple released iOS and iPad OS16.2. Still suffering from the Apple News persistent crashes on my 9.7” iPad Pro (no issues with iPhone) I had nothing to loose so decided to update.

** Working on my theory that as Apple News is supposedly packaged with the OS I first of all uninstalled the News app but did not reinstall.**

**I then installed iPad OS 16.2. The process was faultless but Apple News did not install as part of the process so I accessed and it via the App Store.**

Again there is no indication of the version number as with other Apple packaged Apps. I dually reinstalled the News app which was also faultless and on completion opened it. It was slightly slow to load up but then worked without crashing. This was without having my topics set up. Having copied a list of my topics I then populated the app with these half expecting the crashing problem to recur due to my extensive list but am pleased to report it is now working as before OS16.1xx

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Dec 11, 2022 6:43 AM in response to Finchale

Correction to the above (oh for a historic edit function!).

As stated Apple News does not have a version number in the App Store along with Photos, Books, Calendar, Camera, Weather etc.

However the iSuite programs including Pages and numbers do!

It is the Apple News that is the focus of the comment especially with respect to no update record.

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