{"id":27691,"date":"2019-12-26T17:02:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T22:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27691"},"modified":"2020-01-30T16:05:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T21:05:12","slug":"apple-news-no-longer-supports-rss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/26\/apple-news-no-longer-supports-rss\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple News No Longer Supports RSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/osxdaily.com\/2016\/02\/08\/add-rss-feeds-sites-news-app-ios\/\">OSXDaily<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/osxdaily.com\/2016\/02\/08\/add-rss-feeds-sites-news-app-ios\/\">\n<p>Want to add an RSS feed of a site to News app? Can&rsquo;t find a site you like in the Apple approved list on News app? No problem, here&rsquo;s how you can add them yourself from Safari in iOS and subscribe directly[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/18\/switching-from-rss-to-apple-news-format\/#comment-3138416\">David A. Desrosiers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/18\/switching-from-rss-to-apple-news-format\/#comment-3138416\">\n<p>Apple News on iOS and macOS no longer supports adding RSS or ATOM feeds from anywhere. Full-stop, period. It will immediately fetch, then reject those feeds and fail to display them, silently without any message or error. I can see in my own server's log that they make the request using the correct app on iOS and macOS, but then ignore the feed completely; a validated, clean feed.<\/p>\n<p>They ONLY support their own, hand-picked, curated feeds now. You can visit a feed in Safari, and it will prompt you to open the feed in Apple News, then silently ignore that request, after fetching the full feed content from the remote site.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/25\/apple-news-2\/\">Apple News+<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/18\/switching-from-rss-to-apple-news-format\/\">Switching From RSS to Apple News Format<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/07\/apple-news\/\">Apple News<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"apple-news-no-longer-supports-rss-update-2019-12-27\">Update (2019-12-27): <a href=\"https:\/\/birchtree.me\/blog\/apple-news-drops-support-for-rss\/\">Matt Birchler<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/birchtree.me\/blog\/apple-news-drops-support-for-rss\/\">\n<p>I wish I could remember who it was, but there were some folks who thought I was crazy to use Apple News and an RSS reader since Apple News could aggregate my RSS feeds too. I didn&rsquo;t use it at the time because I thought it was a bad RSS reader and didn&rsquo;t do what I wanted. Now I&rsquo;m happy that I didn&rsquo;t put my eggs (of feeds) in one basket; a basket that doesn&rsquo;t have an export option.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=21889414\">Hacker News<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/daveverwer\/status\/1210517673496449024\">Dave Verwer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/daveverwer\/status\/1210517673496449024\">\n<p>I was all ready to celebrate this change until I realised that the News app still captures the click when you visit an RSS feed, but then just refuses to do anything with it.<\/p>\n<p>Apple News isn&rsquo;t (what I consider) an RSS reader, yet insisted on capturing every RSS feed I clicked on. Now it&rsquo;s even worse. Just let it open in Safari like it used to so I can get the RSS URL myself and add it to my <em>actual<\/em> feed reader. I really hope this gets fixed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/simonw\/status\/1210622665607860224\">Simon Willison<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/simonw\/status\/1210622665607860224\">\n<p>What bothers me is that in Mobile Safari the Apple News app still hijacks clicks on Atom\/RSS feeds - so if you click a feed icon you&rsquo;ll be bounced to the News app, which will then display an error message.<\/p>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t think there&rsquo;s a workaround for this. Atom links just look broken.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/satefan\/status\/1210624991085125632\">Stefan Arentz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/satefan\/status\/1210624991085125632\">\n<p>This is fine, there are plenty great RSS readers for iOS. What is not fine is that Apple News is still claiming the <code>rss:\/\/<\/code> scheme. What Apple needs to do is implement a proper system wide setting that lets you pick the applications that <em>you<\/em> want for http, rss, mail, etc.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/23\/apple-dont-default-on-default-apps\/\">Apple: Don&rsquo;t Default on Default Apps<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/satefan\/status\/1210626021566877696\">Stefan Arentz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/satefan\/status\/1210626021566877696\">\n<p>On iOS 13.3, tapping on an RSS link in Safari ..<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"apple-news-no-longer-supports-rss-update-2019-12-28\">Update (2019-12-28): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=21892714\">Hacker News<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/news.slashdot.org\/story\/19\/12\/27\/2122211\/apple-news-no-longer-supports-rss\">Slashdot<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p id=\"apple-news-no-longer-supports-rss-update-2020-01-30\">Update (2020-01-30): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brentsimmons\/status\/1222290681068167170\">Brent Simmons<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brentsimmons\/status\/1222290681068167170\">\n<p>Is there no way, on iOS, to specify the default RSS reader &mdash; that is, specify the app that handles the feed and feeds URL schemes?<\/p>\n<p>It looks like Apple News always handles it, no matter what, and then doesn&rsquo;t actually do anything with it. Which cuts out every RSS reader.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dfjdejulio\/status\/1222295071585918977\">Doug DeJulio<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dfjdejulio\/status\/1222295071585918977\">\n<p>This is even true if you remove the News app.  I did, and when I hit a &ldquo;feed:&rdquo; URL, it asks for permission to reinstall it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OSXDaily: Want to add an RSS feed of a site to News app? Can&rsquo;t find a site you like in the Apple approved list on News app? No problem, here&rsquo;s how you can add them yourself from Safari in iOS and subscribe directly[&#8230;] David A. 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