Apple News
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- Independent Review
- AllSides has high confidence in this bias rating.
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Apple News is a news aggregator source with an AllSides Media Bias Rating™ of Lean Left.
What a "Lean Left" Rating Means
Sources with an AllSides Media Bias Rating of Lean Left display media bias in ways that moderately align with liberal, progressive, or left-wing thought and/or policy agendas. A Lean Left bias is a moderately liberal rating on the political spectrum.
Learn more about Lean Left ratingsBias Reviews
We use multiple methods to analyze sources. Learn how we rate media bias.- Apple News Maintains Lean Left Bias Rating: 2025 AllSides Analysis
- Apple News Rated Lean Left: July 2023 AllSides Analysis
Apple News Maintains Lean Left Bias Rating: 2025 AllSides Analysis
A 2025 AllSides bias analysis found Apple News continued its trend of publishing primarily from left-wing media outlets, displaying 2% of news articles from outlets on the right, and 50% from outlets on the left. View the full PDF report here.
This was consistent with data from our 2023 analysis, when Apple News curated 1% from outlets on the right and 53% from the left.
The analysis resulted in AllSides moving Apple News' overall rating on the AllSides Media Bias Meter from -1.63 to -1.57, both in the Lean Left category. AllSides calculated a weighted average of the bias ratings of curated outlets, excluding outlets not rated.
Note: Sums do not add up to 100% due to rounding. Lean Right outlets represent 0.6% and Right 1.8%. The Total therefore is 2.4%, which rounds down to 2%.
Apple’s “Top Stories” section displayed 54% outlets on the left and 0% on the right.
Apple News’ “Trending Stories” section displayed 46% from the left, 12% from the Center, and 5% from the right.
While users can personalize which outlets appear on their Apple News app, for the purposes of this analysis, AllSides looked explicitly at Apple News’ “Top Stories” and “Trending Stories” sections, which are not personalized for individual users and are curated by Apple’s editors. Apple News states that its editors curate some sections of the app, such as the “Top Stories” and “Trending Stories” sections. Apple explains that because the stories that appear in these sections are hand-selected by editors themselves, they are not affected by users blocking publications.
Note that this analysis does not investigate whether the political leanings or biases displayed by Apple News and other news aggregators are intentional.
The top 5 news sources appearing on Apple News during the 2025 analysis period were Wall Street Journal (Center), BuzzFeed (Not Rated), Washington Post (Lean Left), HuffPost (Left), and NBC News (Lean Left).
AllSides collected the top stories displayed on Apple News over the course of a two-week period from October 6–19, 2025, at 10:00am ET each day. This consisted of pulling from the “Top Stories” and “Trending Stories” of the application.
Because the “Top Stories” and “Trending Stories” sections are unaffected by algorithms or personalization, these were the two sections AllSides chose to analyze for this report. The “Top Stories” section appears at the top of the application, and “Trending Stories” often appears under a personalized “For You” section.
AllSides only took the bias of the overall media outlet into account – not the content of the article itself. For example, any article curated from The New York Times (Lean Left) was considered Lean Left, reflecting the outlet’s overall AllSides Media Bias Rating at the time of the analysis.
Apple News Rated Lean Left: July 2023 AllSides Analysis
In July 2023, AllSides conducted a bias analysis of Apple News and determined it has a Lean Left bias. The analysis found 53% of news articles displayed on Apple News were from news sources with an AllSides Media Bias Rating™ on the left, and just 1% from sources on the right.
Overall, 44% of the curated news sources were Lean Left-rated, 9% were Left-rated, 25% were Center-rated, 1% were Right-rated, and 0% were Lean Right-rated. Twenty-one percent were not rated by AllSides.
Out of 252 total articles analyzed from Apple’s “Top Stories” and “Trending Stories” sections, the five news sources that appeared most often were The Wall Street Journal, CNN, The Washington Post, NBC News, and The Guardian. No sources on the right were among the top 10 outlets displayed on Apple News’ “Top Stories” and “Trending Stories” sections.
In the “Top Stories” section, 56% of outlets were Lean Left-rated, 10% were Left-rated, 21% were Center-rated, 1% were Right-rated, and 0% were Lean Right-rated. Thirteen percent were not rated.
In Apple News’ “Trending Stories” section, 31% were Lean Left-rated outlets, 8% were Left-rated outlets, 29% were Center-rated outlets, 2% were Right-rated outlets, 0% were Lean Right-rated,and 29% were unrated outlets.
Learn more about the AllSides Apple News Bias Analysis™ and get full results here.
AllSides has found the majority of news aggregators analyzed Lean Left, including Google News, Apple News, and Bing News.
Confidence Level
Confidence is determined by how many reviews have been applied and consistency of data.As of June 2026, AllSides has high confidence in our Lean Left rating for Apple News. Two or more bias reviews have affirmed this rating or the source is transparent about bias.