WIRED Magazine

I am inclined to not only delete the app but also cancel my subscription. Every article should be optimally displayed for the screen in the app. Instead, it now displays like someone photographed the hard copy edition and loaded it for subscribers as a consolation (sorry, you only subscribed to the digital edition). Either change to the previous digital edition rendering, or at least provide a mode in the app to render the editions, well, legible without zoom, scan and scroll through each paragraph and column.

Just canceled subscription. Just too hard to read with dinosaur of an app

Stay away from Wired digital subscription. You aren’t allowed to use the app, you have to use your browser and good luck trying to find the current magazine and accessing it in any form of a competent manner. Wasting over 30 minutes with customer “service “ and if I hadn’t found my verification I’d have been out of luck. Oh yeah they’ll mumble about the small print….

As others have pointed out, all this app does is provide typeset pages from the print magazine which are mostly unreadable. They can only be viewed in portrait mode and the text can’t be resized. By the time the user zooms in enough to read the text it’s generally not possible to see a single column width, so you have to constantly pan back and forth to read each line. Text can’t be selected or highlighted. There is no online content. This reminds me of pdf viewer apps for mobile devices from around 15 years ago.

Have a print subscription but this app suddenly won’t let me access the digital version after years of working.

Something changed recently where the layout of each issue has changed. It used to be an article view where the article was formatted for digital devices and the words were large and able to be highlighted. The contents page also showed every article that you could jump to. Something in the last few weeks changed and now it’s just straight images from the physical magazine which is very hard to read because the text is small. On an iPad I have to constantly zoom in to parts of the page to read. The text is not highlightable and when you zoom in far the text becomes fuzzy. The contents also just says page 1, page 2, etc. 😕

Excellent tech content, but an app that does not have landscape presentation for an iPad. That’s pretty crazy. I think that this must be one of the reasons that I unsubscribed a couple of years ago, and I must have forgotten. Oh well!

The UX is awful and they make it very difficult to turn off the autorenew or cancel your subscription. Just don't.

Like the other reviews I paid for a subscription which due to Wired / Condé Nast’s multiple tech fails I can’t use in the app, News or half the time on the web. Separating the data items for the subscription from the “account” asking users to “link” their own data and then making it impossible to do so in practice. Asking for numbers off the paper edition mailing label when it does not exist, and whatever they did causing a simple name and address match to fail, who does this? Cancelling but feel robbed.

This is a great magazine with a terrible publisher who knows nothing about tech and to which Wired is simply a commodity. The app can’t be used as part of your digital subscription. You have to use a browser instead. This app is only for if you have a paper subscription. How dumb is that for a tech magazine? They need a new publisher.