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Apple News User Guide

  • Welcome
    • Explore channels, topics, and stories
    • Search for channels, topics, or stories
    • Sync News on all your Apple devices
    • Sign up for or cancel Apple News newsletters
    • Follow and unfollow channels and topics
    • Follow your favorite teams with My Sports
    • Block and unblock channels and topics
    • Subscribe to individual channels
    • Watch videos
    • See more or fewer stories like the current one
    • Share stories with others
    • Read stories shared with you
    • Save stories
    • Report a concern about a story
    • Subscribe
    • Read Apple News+
    • Download issues
    • Remove downloaded issues
      • Find puzzles
      • Solve crossword and crossword mini puzzles
      • Solve Quartiles puzzles
      • Solve sudoku puzzles
      • Play Emoji Game
    • Change settings
    • View or clear your reading history
    • Change the window or text size
    • Use windows and tabs
    • Manage notifications
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Copyright and trademarks

Watch videos in News on Mac

Many stories in Apple News include videos that you can play.

Note: Apple News isn’t available in all countries or regions. See the Apple Support article Availability of Apple Media Services.

Open News for me

  1. Go to the News app on your Mac.

  2. Click the Play button, then do any of the following.

    Note: To show the video controls, move the pointer over the video.

    • Pause the video: Click the Pause button.

    • Mute the volume: Click