tedstoutpa59
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Yep. Same here.
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Yep. Same here.
lazyrighteye
Contributor
Which now appears fixed. Cool.
Mcmac51
macrumors newbie
That’s actually not true. For one, the “following“ button is only on the iPhone. Second, that refers to channels which is a part of the old Apple news. So when you select wall street journal or any of the others it just means that you’re going to get access to articles In old apple news. Then when you go over the number of articles that you can read in a month you can’t read anymore.
In order to read articles from the Wall Street Journal or Los Angeles times in Apple News+, you need to scroll down on the home screen (at least on the iPad version) and you will see a section for each with a few articles from each. Once you click on one of the articles you can then swipe to the left and see the other articles. But it is not like the magazines where you get to peruse through the newspaper in a traditional style. It’s actually Pretty lame. On top of that, the article is displayed on the home screen for Wall Street Journal haven’t changed since I first updated my software and opened Apple News+ the first time.
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“My magazines” are supposed to download automatically. Almost all of mine are downloaded but for some reason one or two of them still show the download icon. They are supposed to continue to download every time there’s a new issue if you have enough storage space.
Half the magazines I'm interested in are just digital copies of the pages and very difficult to read without lots of zooming and scrolling to see the full content. Along with the horrible and difficult to use UI this makes many of the provided magazines almost impossible to read.
Older magazine issues are just PDF's that you do have to zoom and scroll around on. Future issues should start to be formatted properly for phone and tablet.
njn007
macrumors regular
I hope this is the case... I might also contact support and see. I have no interest in sharing purchases other than my Music and News+ subscriptions. I’d hate to have to do all purchase sharing to get News+ to share
Glowzinski85
macrumors newbie
I think it is cool. I mean, so many magazines.
I want to make a motorcycle, so I found it cool to get the cycle mag. Also, National Geographic and a bunch of cooking magazines.
But, I would rather be able to get a 12 month card to pay. Month to month is fine, but I hate paying month to month.
Also, I think someone said you can not go to one specific magazine. That is not true. I went to National Geographic, clicked on the last issue that was released, after my sub. ended and I was on the magazine.
I want to make a motorcycle, so I found it cool to get the cycle mag. Also, National Geographic and a bunch of cooking magazines.
But, I would rather be able to get a 12 month card to pay. Month to month is fine, but I hate paying month to month.
Also, I think someone said you can not go to one specific magazine. That is not true. I went to National Geographic, clicked on the last issue that was released, after my sub. ended and I was on the magazine.
The article has a link to the complete list of magazines. There's a section of the article titled "Subscribing to a Magazine". The link for the complete magazine list can be found in the sentence above this title.
Monopolized by the majors, so the same narrow news coverage you can find anywhere. Lousy UI. Never “learns” your preferences. I’ve been using the Apple News app since day one. I still have to suffer through countless Cosmo, Hollywood, etc articles even though I blocked all content from those rags ages ago. For all the buzz about “AI”, I'm not impressed.
This is what happens when a behemoth with a widely diversified customer base tries to satisfy everyone on one page. It’s like iTunes and Photos, does nothing more than annoy people. We need some competition. Google doesn’t cut it, no one else exists.
This is what happens when a behemoth with a widely diversified customer base tries to satisfy everyone on one page. It’s like iTunes and Photos, does nothing more than annoy people. We need some competition. Google doesn’t cut it, no one else exists.
ProTruckDriver
macrumors 6502
My Wife has an iPad Pro. She subscribed to the magazines under Texture many months ago. With Apple taking over the magazines we got the 1 month free trial and then started the paid subscription with Apple. Just a few days ago my wife noticed that she could not view any magazine. They were all labeled "Start Free Trial". Is this a major screw up for Apple since she never had any problems when Texture had the magazines.
Anyone know how to fix this since I am paying for a subscription of magazines that I can't see?
Anyone know how to fix this since I am paying for a subscription of magazines that I can't see?
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I’ve been waiting for the “future” for at least 10 years. Please let me know when it’s here.
Magazines available on the web are nothing new. Magazines simply scanned into pdf's are, unfortunately, not unusual. I gave up years ago and it appears nothing has changed. And I doubt Apple's marketing folks will be the change agent.
This is an area where the content providers don’t understand and the platform beanies don’t care.
ProTruckDriver
macrumors 6502
I found the answer to my question. I hit the button "Start Free Trial" and it sent me to my Apple Log In. I was already logged in but I logged in again with Email and Password. The screen popped up and stated that I was already subscribed. Now we can see and read the magazines. I thought that Starting the free trial would double subscribe me and pay double. It didn't do that. All is working well now.
ProTruckDriver
macrumors 6502
We unsubscribed from the Magazine for $9.99 a month after getting it working again. Apple needs to get it together like Texture was. We found that magazines are not updated until late, hard to load sometimes, sometimes it doesn't load. We already checked internet connections and no problem there, using Verizon Fios. Looked at reviews and people are complaining about the same problems we are having.
widestload
macrumors 6502a
Wish apple news+ hadn’t come along. It’s not as good as Readly in the UK that I already pay for and Readly is cheaper too. I like Apple news as the free version, but now it’s full of adds and articles trying to get me to sign up for news+. I’m guessing the answer is no, but is there a way to tick some sort of “look I just don’t care about news+, so don’t ever ask me again” option?
KevinX3
macrumors newbie
I liked the Apple News app, gives me about enough articles etc etc and been using on iPhone, MPB and iPad from a while now. Then along comes Apple News+. It's everywhere, it's like a virus in the news app. I am searching, but, and even though it has its own tab, there is no way to turn it off. Talk about pushy grifting from Apple. If anyone knows how to get rid of this Apple News+ from my news feed, please let me know, or post on the Apple forum. That's not just terminate the subscription, it's GET RID of the virus like Apple News+ posts from my ness feed.
Apple blogger
macrumors 6502a
For those not subscribing to the Apple news+, but having a subscriptions from their website, if you try to read an article in the Apple news App which requires an Apple news plus subscription, there’s an option to sign in to your existing subscription in the news app. This option is given just below the “Try one Month Free” Apple news + subscription as seen in the screenshot.
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khurtwilliams
macrumors newbie
Apple News has no facility to add any of the state-level or county-level or municipal-level news media for New Jersey. The local news section is essentially useless to people outside those markets.