Idaho Statesman News

App doesn’t recognize subscription so cant access articles. Waste of money until they get app working. Problems same on iPhone and IPad.

I was unable to navigate through your new layout. Are you trying to get people to go back to the paper version? Total mess.

Change is fine, but it’s supposed to make improvements. This latest upgrade sure doesn’t. Doesn’t load, bottom half of page is covered with an ad. Shouldn’t have to be an IT expert to read the paper.

App consumes a large amount of storage and does not seem to release it when clear cache is selected. In fact it was using 28 GB of storage when I happened to look. The only solution is to periodically delete the app. Printing is erratic. Sometimes I get a blank page, sometimes a partial page, sometimes nothing. Organization of the online edition is horrible. Sometimes sections are completely missing, sometimes just out of place.

I originally posted a review that said my app would never open unless I deleted and reinstalled it on a daily basis, but it looks like I just needed to power down my iPad every once in awhile. My fault. Not the app’s. Overall, very happy with my digital subscription!

Something about the most recent version of this app (9.2 at the time of writing) has made it impossible to read articles. About two weeks ago when it was released, I started having issues. I’m on IPhone 14, and everytime I click into an article, I have only a few seconds before it kicks me back to the app’s main news page. It may or may not have something to do when the final elements of the page loads in (aka ads), but it’s basically made the app unusable. Which is a shame because I’m paying for a digital subscription and I find their website utterly unfriendly. I will update this review if they can release a patch or minor version that gets rid of this issue, because otherwise, the app worked rather well.

The app is often unusable. I open articles and they automatically close back to the Home tab, sometimes immediately and sometimes after several seconds. I reopen the article and hope that I’ll be able to read some more, but often the article auto closes before I can even scroll down the where I left off. Also, ad placement is often intrusive, often appear in crazy places like between a section header and the first sentence of the section.

Navigating the app to find news is nearly impossible. Unless it is one of the four stories on the page, you can’t select a subsection like local or sports. The app will temporarily go to the subsection but immediately go back to the home page. If you choose one of the notifications from your phone, all of the remaining news notifications disappear. Being unable to navigate to the other stories from your notifications is impossible, even if you search for the headline.

When I was a kid back in the day everyone had the statesman and it was a great form of news for resource for the state of Idaho. now they are so socialist and have even condemned people who hold religious beliefs. They no longer produce good news and I am very surprised they are still around in a conservative state.

They upgraded app and page of paper floats all over hate the upgrade.