The New Yorker

The app is pleasant to use, provides me with access to everything cleanly. Remembers where I was in articles, and allows me to save articles for later reading. But it is a battery killer. Using the app, I can feel the case of my iPhone 8 warming up significantly, and terminating the app, I feel the case cools. For that reason alone I limit my use of the app to just dipping in.

The New Yorker is great. What’s not great is paying a large annual subscription and then finding the app keeps adding more and more ads. Now they are turning up in the middle of the text, covering the article and I can’t read the article. What’s going on?? Why do I have to pay for ads?

An ios widget showing the latest news would be nice

I am a long-standing subscriber. I used to regularly read the New Yorker on my iPhone now I can’t. I have to Link it- whatever that is. Yesterday it worked, today it does not. Why do I have to keep putting in my subscriber #? Why does nobody reply to several requests for help on the help desk? Surely paying a subscription gives me access? Why not? I actually rate the current service zero out of ten.

App does not work well on iPhone.

Subscribed but doesn't give access to read.

What a great App for both condensed and detailed news stories covering everything that is relevant in todays news stream with additional interesting stories about - well just about anything from Politics to Business to Tech to Humanity. I have had this App for 2 years and l subscribed for 2 years in advance. Do yourself a favor and get onboard.👍🤘👍

Great app, but the smallest text-size setting is still too big! It would be good if the line spacing was set lower too. Also, there should be a ‘Home’ button on the disappearing nav menu (in addition to “Back”, bookmark and share).

The last time I subscribed to the New Yorker was about six years ago. As with public library borrows, you could download issues of the magazine as PDFs to be opened in the reader of your choice. Additionally, you could keep your progress within a particularly long article within the app. Fast-forward to the new and improved version of the app. Downloaded magazines seem only accessible within the app, which destroys the effect of the magazine layout. Worse still, the app refreshes even if you haven’t closed it and are only checking another app for a moment. This means you not only lose your place in the story; you’re also pulled back to the landing content of the app, which might never have interested you in the first place. Additionally, you cannot bookmark your progress in an article or a downloaded magazine; you can only bookmark an individual article without progress. You can’t even highlight a passage to give you a clue where you left off, which is why I spend more time searching for my place in Aviv’s long piece on Alice Munro than I do reading the article itself. I only just subscribed a week ago and am thinking of cancelling my subscription.

I really liked to listen to New Yorker articles on the go, but I am not going to listen to a robot voice. Really disappointing. At least provide the option to filter.