The Irish Times News

App is good when you’re reading stories and scrolling, however the issue arises when you hit the back button, thinking it will take to the previous page. However it jumps ahead or forward, effectively losing where you left off, forcing you to scroll up or down to get you back to where you want to be. Reading the other reviews, this is an ongoing common problem.

Navigation is non-standard , and just a dreadful design. And the app is constantly logging me out. The login screen just freezes one time in three or so. Just a really bad, amateur piece of work.

Lost all respect for IT, was an avid reader in previous years, but it’s blatant bias is becoming more apparent

This paper is simply a pro genocide propaganda machine. Expect to read about the antisemitism of Irish people while the Israeli regime slaughters women and children in their thousands

I’ve been locked out of my account several times this year. Currently I’ve been locked out since July (two months ago) Despite numerous emails back and forth to customer support the issue hadn’t been resolved. This, despite having set up Face ID (which is accepted) and saving my password. Unbelievably frustrating!

This app has always been poor and buggy, but today I can’t access anything on it, despite rebooting my iPad, deleting the app and data and downloading and logging in again. How can a publication that considers itself Ireland’s premium newspaper stand over such a garbage app for so many years? Is the developer a friend of somebody senior at the IT? This app seems to also reflect the decline in the quality of the paper itself, which now seems to be more a collection of articles by the same journalists repeating their known views over and over again. The Irish Independent, a paper I once loathed, has far more actual news.

2 stars because it works. Kind of. - if you lose internet connectivity the story you are reading will abruptly disappear with a black “lost connection” screen. When connectivity is restored you are punted back to the homepage. There is zero reason for either of these infuriating behaviours. - when you click another story from the story you are reading (and so on) there is no shortcut to return to the homepage. You must press back repeatedly depending on how many stories you read Considering a large number of users are paying subscribers you would think they would invest a small amount in having an app that works properly.

My mother has a slightly older iPad which she only used for the Irish times. The new update has essentially bricked the app. Which now does not open at all and there is no way to go backward. It says in the app description that it is still compatible with her iOS. She has a paid subscription and no way of accessing it

This app just keeps asking you to accept user preferences every time you open a page. I have an account and have the settings saved but it keeps popping up

I’m a longtime user and this has been my goto news app, and has been perfectly okay up until they decided to “upgrade” it! And even then it can have teething issues to be resolved through updates. For me it has become a clunky, unreliable, unfriendly user app, and this weekend it won’t even open. Everything else on my phone works perfectly. And they increased the subscription charges for this! Time to call it a day….