PSA: Make Sure to Cancel Apple News+ If You Signed Up for a Free Trial After Apple's March 25 Event and Don't Want to be Charged

[Krayzkat]

I can read unlimited magazines and newspapers from around the world, including backdated issues, for free, on my iPad, iPhone and Mac, courtesy of my local library. All issues can be downloaded for off-line reading. As this is the case for all UK residents, it is hard to see Apple News+ as being competitive.

Can you post a link?

 

[anthogag]

I like News+. Access to so many popular magazines for only $10/month is worth it. I will continue my subscription.

Currently 2 things are annoying when I use News+.
1) When I exit a magazine it doesn't stay at the exact spot where I stopped reading. When I continue reading the magazine I want to continue from the same location.
2) In WiFi, pages can take too long to load

I like the magazine pages/articles that have some video or animated content that flows with the reading experience. Perhaps AR could be used here. E.g. An animated picture or video that's playing can have a AR mode.

I am reading magazines in News+ I would otherwise never read.

In today's world there are so many other distractions for a person's time. Using News+ needs to be worthwhile.

 

[lparsons21]

I just cancelled my trial, not because I didn’t like it, I just didn’t like it enough to pay $10 a month. I have subbed to WAPO and NYT for heavily discounted prices though. I would like WSJ and quite a few magazines would be nice for some occasions. I’ll keep watching to see where this goes to see if it gets cheaper or good enough to support the price point.

 

[walstib]

I canceled the other day.

If the Wall Street Journal content had been easier to access to see everything, I might have kept subscribing.

I found Apple News Plus had way too many magazines I wasn’t interested in, and nowhere enough newspapers.

 

[ipedro]

I’m keeping it. The Toronto Star, PopSci and GQ alone make it worth it. All the other magazines that I’ve started reading and not having to worry about choosing which to subscribe to, make AppleNews+ a steal. Needs some UI tweaks but otherwise it’s great.

 

[calzon65]

It's going to fail.

 

[now i see it]

I never was interested enough to even try the free trial

 

[2010mini]

Thanks for the reminder, however I already canceled. The service sucks.
(most libraries have a similar service for free btw)

Yup. I can vouch for some libraries having this service for free.

 

[Drogba11]

I cancelled after an hour

 

[GDF]

Interesting, that when you cancel, you lose your downloaded magazines too? Although, I like the service, will just stick with the local libraries digital magazine library.

 

[ipedro]

Apple created news+ as a solution in search of problems.

I really dislike this expression because so many people apply it without it actually being valid.

Of course there’s a problem. Multiple actually.

1. News isn’t free. There are people researching, writing, laying out, designing. There are people creating that content and they have to get paid.

2. There are too many subscriptions for one person to support and choosing is frustrating so people end up not subscribing to anything.

Apple News solves both of those problems. A single subscription gets you access to everything so that you don’t have to choose and Apple pays the content creators according to what you read.

This was in fact a problem in search of a solution, and it found it.

 

[Defthand]

Cook acknowledged, in his Time magazine interview, that we're spending too much time with our screens. He says Apple doesn't want to maximize our habit. Show him that you agree and read printed magazines and newspapers instead.

 

[dontwalkhand]

My free trial never worked. It gave it to me for a week, and then said it expired, and then said I had to pay. Color me unimpressed.

 

[tallscot]

I never signed up for the trial because as I stated when they announced the service, why would someone want to pay for "news" in this current climate in our society? You can get plenty of "news" for free these days. I'm not gonna PAY for "news" that only gives me the agenda that the "news" source wants me to believe. I suspect the TV service will be the same sort of "entertainment".

I would pay for this if they got the user interface down right and I could easily adjust the font, and it was all self-contained versus just giving me a link to go read the article in a browser after a paragraph of the story.

 

[bradleymason]

I wanted to like it, but in the end I cancelled about a week ago.

 

[yaxomoxay]

Cook acknowledged, in his Time magazine interview, that we're spending too much time with our screens. He says Apple doesn't want to maximize our habit. Show him that you agree and read printed magazines and newspapers instead.

I actually do. It's amazing. With the exception of MR, no fast-news. Slow news is the best!

 

[macfacts]

Does apple have the courage to cancel apple news plus until it is better or will they just have their customers be beta testers?

 

[nazaar]

I'm sure Apple execs appreciate this Macrumors post.

 

[Rogifan]

I really dislike this expression because so many people apply it without it actually being valid.

Of course there’s a problem. Multiple actually.

1. News isn’t free. There are people researching, writing, laying out, designing. There are people creating that content and they have to get paid.

2. There are too many subscriptions for one person to support and choosing is frustrating so people end up not subscribing to anything.

Apple News solves both of those problems. A single subscription gets you access to everything so that you don’t have to choose and Apple pays the content creators according to what you read.

This was in fact a problem in search of a solution, and it found it.

Apple News+ is way to new to declare the problem has been solved. Especially when major publishes like the Washington Post and New York Times said no thanks.

Anyway if I was Apple I wouldn’t be too happy seeing articles like this out there (I saw one over at The Verge too). If this service was so great would people be publishing articles telling you how to cancel it?

 

[Naraxus]

Aren’t beta software & services usually free?

The fact that Apple is charging for this at this point is laughable

 

[Malarkey]

I'm keeping the service, for sure. It needs a few interface tweaks, but access to the brilliant publications of Future Publishing make it a STEAL. Total nerd heaven. The amount of detail they cram into every issue is astonishing. It must take a small army to put out every issue of their magazines (Retro Gamer, Classic Rock, Future Music, PC Gamer, 3D World etc.). I was subscribing separately to many of them through iTunes... Plus the New Yorker, National Geographic, etc.

 

[Gilligan's last elephant]

My policy is to cancel next day. If you are then removed from the subscription then then you know what the company were up to/hoping for.

 

[Defthand]

I actually do. It's amazing. With the exception of MR, no fast-news. Slow news is the best!

Slow news. Love that description and agree wholeheartedly. I rather wait for the dust to settle and watch a Frontline retrospective rather than hear the daily gossip. Yet here I am.

 

[Flojomojo]

Thing is, Apple changed this. The moment you cancel the subscription, the trial ends. I realised this last week when a friend was telling me he set up a reminder to cancel Apple Music. I told him what you just wrote but he showed me the new policy Apple implemented. Now, we all need to cancel the day before the trial ends instead of doing it immediately after subscribing.

The way Apple implemented the subscription trial was needlessly confusing. Why did they make it different from EVERY OTHER subscription in the store? With those, you could cancel immediately but use the service until your trial or paid period ended, and it would automatically close itself. With Apple News+, if you cancel, they remove your access, WTF? Are they TRYING to make it fail?

I like magazines, kinda ... but the PDF viewer is unusable on the iPhone and the organization is wonky, as discussed. I might re-up for it later, especially if they consider offering it on other platforms (ha!) but it would be very very interesting to see some stats about this service.

 

[DevNull0]

As a former Texture customer, it's just sad Apple killed that wonderful service and gave us this abomination. I hope they well some day have a service where you can just read the damn magazines in peace like you could with Texture, but I'm doubtful.