Is "News" app laggy on your mac with Catalina?

[nbnbxdnb]

News is normally very laggy on my macbook pro with Catalina.
When I read news earlier, I scrolled down and had to wait for about 3 secs before seeing any animation, while beachball spinning all the time. I checked resource monitor. CPU/ram was not occupied with high load. Safari was silky smooth...
So I wonder if it is also the case for other people?

 

[SoN1NjA]

Yep, I noticed that too the other day, pretty weird since I can run a bunch of intense apps all at once without a problem, yet the news app scrolls with lag

Didn't have a problem to the degree you're having, but it was still weirdly slow

2019 MBP 15" with i9, clearly not my Mac's specs

 

[BigMcGuire]

It's a little laggy on my 2017 MBP 13' TB. What got me was, I was reading a very nice article and noticed my CPU fans were spinning up even though Activity Monitor showed no usage whatsoever. I guess the moving graphics on the article made something warm up so that the CPU fans started getting fairly audible.

I HATE lag... Absolutely hate it - that's why I got a high end MBP... Apple News works a lot better on my iPad Air 3 (understatement).

But definitely not as bad as you're reporting - I don't have any beach-balling. Just sometimes long load times, jagged scrolling, and CPU fans turning on.

 

[nbnbxdnb]

I also use News on iOS devices, which have no performance problem at all. My mbp is getting old. But no where close to a point that it can not load News. It also has something to do with certain channels, I suspect. I was reading an article from Popular Mechanics, when I noticed the beachball spinning. After that, I read some reports on WSJ, which did not have problem. Anyway, it is ridiculous for us to do these bug testing job.
It seems there is a performance issue with News on mac. I am astonished by the quality of software sometimes. It has been two years since this news reader app first came out.

It's a little laggy on my 2017 MBP 13' TB. What got me was, I was reading a very nice article and noticed my CPU fans were spinning up even though Activity Monitor showed no usage whatsoever. I guess the moving graphics on the article made something warm up so that the CPU fans started getting fairly audible.

I HATE lag... Absolutely hate it - that's why I got a high end MBP... Apple News works a lot better on my iPad Air 3 (understatement).

But definitely not as bad as you're reporting - I don't have any beach-balling. Just sometimes long load times, jagged scrolling, and CPU fans turning on.

 

[Nealzip]

News is laggy on my MBP 2017. Since this is PAID app you would hope Apple would resolve this issue quickly. If News app is not enjoyable subscriptions levels will fall.

 

[StellarVixen]

“Write once, run anywhere” failing over and over again.

 

[Ritsuka]

News app is laggy because the way Catalyst work on Catalina is to render at iOS size and scale down to 0.7x, and the poor Intel GPU doesn't seems to be to happy with that.
On Big Sur it's possible to avoid this 0.7x scaling in Catalyst apps, but the News app doesn't take advantages of this feature yet.

 

[nbnbxdnb]

News app is laggy because the way Catalyst work on Catalina is to render at iOS size and scale down to 0.7x, and the poor Intel GPU doesn't seems to be to happy with that.
On Big Sur it's possible to avoid this 0.7x scaling in Catalyst apps, but the News app doesn't take advantages of this feature yet.

Thanks a lot for a very technical answer. Do you know if it is still the case on big sur latest update 11.6? I still have the laggy problem. Strange thing is I always see "windows server" CPU consumption goes up together with news app.