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Well Timmy Apple, that's like a website before there were websites. Nobody uses them anymore.
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Texture to Shut Down May 28 Following Launch of Apple News+
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Addendum: Okay. So it looks like News+ CAN do what Texture does to a point. It’s just that you have to figure out how to do it...which I suppose is my frustration with News +. It’s not all that intuitive and it ought to be.
My three wants:
(1) Back issues: as said, you can access SOME back issues, but not nearly as many as Texture offers (going back almost seven years in some cases). You do this by opening the magazine and tapping on it’s title at the top. Not something I’d ever think of doing if it hadn’t been mentioned here (THANK YOU Scuba!). Not intuitive at all.
(2) My Magazines...all of them: At first, I thought they were limiting the magazines you could view in “My Magazines” to five, showing only what I was currently reading and three or four others. Turns out you have tap on that title again and pick the “heart”—make it a favorite. Then you can see all the magazines you want to read in “My Magazines.”
(3) Save Articles?: I *still* can’t figure out if there’s any way to save articles. You can do that in the regular News, but not, so far as I can tell, in News + magazines. If anyone works that out, let me know.
And I’ll add another thing I’d like to see...there’s a little picture of the magazine that hovers in the left-hand corner in case you want to check on the contents. I don’t know about anyone else, but I find it annoying.
Any other tricks discovered?
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Not intuitive, and not nearly as nice as Texture which asked each time you clicked on a mag if you wanted to keep it as a favorite. I don’t understand Apple’s decision not to do the same...seems like a no-brainer.
My three wants:
(1) Back issues: as said, you can access SOME back issues, but not nearly as many as Texture offers (going back almost seven years in some cases). You do this by opening the magazine and tapping on it’s title at the top. Not something I’d ever think of doing if it hadn’t been mentioned here (THANK YOU Scuba!). Not intuitive at all.
(2) My Magazines...all of them: At first, I thought they were limiting the magazines you could view in “My Magazines” to five, showing only what I was currently reading and three or four others. Turns out you have tap on that title again and pick the “heart”—make it a favorite. Then you can see all the magazines you want to read in “My Magazines.”
(3) Save Articles?: I *still* can’t figure out if there’s any way to save articles. You can do that in the regular News, but not, so far as I can tell, in News + magazines. If anyone works that out, let me know.
And I’ll add another thing I’d like to see...there’s a little picture of the magazine that hovers in the left-hand corner in case you want to check on the contents. I don’t know about anyone else, but I find it annoying.
Any other tricks discovered?
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When you tap the title, you’ll see not only back issues but a “heart” and slash-heart. It’s a pain, but if you heart all the magazines you want, they’ll all show up in “My Magazines.”
Not intuitive, and not nearly as nice as Texture which asked each time you clicked on a mag if you wanted to keep it as a favorite. I don’t understand Apple’s decision not to do the same...seems like a no-brainer.
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I've already cancelled my subscription and deleted the app... but it was there last Thursday before I deleted the app.
Well, Apple is far from perfect, but they didn't become the most valuable, most profitable company on the planet because they weren't smart. Apple has the number of Windows/Android users for Texture. It would have to be a big enough market to justify the expense of developing AND maintaining it on the mess of those of other platforms. Keep in mind that surveys show that iOS and Apple users, as a group, are more educated and successful and thus, are much more likely to want to, and be able to, pay for things like Apple News +
Apple News+ is a joke compared to Texture. Here’s what’s missing:
- No ability to Favorite Magazines and have them show up in their own Favorite Magazines areas
- No way to designate which magazines have been downloaded locally so when you’re in a plane with no or slow WiFi you can go straight to your fav locally downloaded magazines
- No way to delete magazines you’re done reading to free up space
- Most importantly, no access to back issues of your favorite magazines that had articles you were saving for recipes or travel tips or whatever
I’m not really surprised, everything apple has been doing lately had been a constant stream of disappointments.
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You could do this on the very well designed Texture app that Apple has replaced with the very mediocre News+ app.
Yes, you can favorite a magazine. Open the magazine, hit the title. You’ll see back issues and a choice of heart/slash-heart. Pick the heart. From then on your favorite magazines will appear in “My Magazines.” That’s your new “favorites” section.
And I completely sympathize with thinking you couldn’t do that and being mad about it. I thought the same and was really put out till it was pointed out to me. Apple didn’t make it easy for us to figure that out. Who would have thought of tapping on the title for a heart? Texture had it right: whenever I tried a new magazine, it asked if I wanted to make it my favorite—and the heart was right there beside each magazine for me to turn on or off. Apple needs to make favorite-ing as easy and user friendly in this app.
I agree that I don’t like the idea of losing those issues with saved articles. The only option is to go through them all, snap photos and file them away. More work!
That said, *I’ve finally figured out how to save articles!* in News +
I don’t remember this option appearing when I first got the app, but if you go to an article, click on the upload icon, you’ll see an option to “Save” with a bookmark icon. And that article will then be saved to your “saved stories” in News located down at the very bottom of the main sidebar.Here’s the question: I pick a magazine that has back issues only up to, say, March 2018. I go through that March 2018 issue and save an article. Next March (2020), will the back issues still go back to March 2018, or will they only go back to March 2019? And if they now only go back to March 2019, have I lost the article from that March 2018 article?
[doublepost=1554079073][/doublepost]ONE thing I *do* like about News + compared to Texture: Better photos. For example, in Allrecipes magazine in Texture, recipes are often listed across the picture of the dish as they are in the paper edition. But when I look at Allrecipes in News +, the recipe is located below the picture, leaving the picture free an clear. It may not matter much compared to the drawbacks, but I prefer it and it is a rare “plus” to Apple’s app over Texture.
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See few posts back about favorites
To download, tap on the cloud icon under the magazine. Not sure how to delete them.
Please tell me that the current News/News+ interface for browsing/reading/subscribing to magazines is a carry-over from Texture and not what we will be left with; how hard would it have been to bring over some of the Podcast app UI logic to managing content?
I had a Next Issue-Texture subscription a couple of years back and Apple News + remembered all my magazines.
Quite the opposite. Texture’s interface was great, and one that I have very little to kvetch about. The News+ interface, on the other hand, is bordering on abominable.
[doublepost=1554503720][/doublepost]One of the things I really like was the ability to save favorite magazines so as to not have to go through them all. I hadn't even noticed that there are no back issues. C'mon Apple, if you're gonna take something away from us Android users, please step your game up!!
They delete themselves after 30 days.
Which I think is a mistake. You should be able to delete them whenever you like—or set a time to delete like “after 30 days.” I *suspect* that option will appear in an update. It’s obvious enough that it should be there, but in this version (which, lets face it, seems rushed), they clearly didn’t get around to it. Or haven’t yet found the best way to do it. Texture required a whole other section of “downloaded” magazines to do it, and it looks like Apple news+, combined as it is with Apple News, didn’t want to crowd the app with sections.
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There are back issues. Tap on the magazine’s title after you’ve opened it and you’ll see them. *BUT* not all mags offer them, and those that do seem to go back only a year (Texture allowed readers to go back almost seven years in some cases). This may not be Apple’s fault. Magazines may offer infinite back issues only to subscribers to their magazines (not this app), and/or may want to bring out back-issues in some kind of special deal. Like “Ten years of....” It’s a way of getting extra revenue. If they offer ten years of back issues free to every app subscriber they lose that option.
ANOTHER complaint I have and this might seem minor, but while I can edit/organize my magazines as I’d like in the side bar, I can’t in the “All My Magazines” main area. I get that the one I’m reading (last read) is first in line and they all go down from there, but all I see is a confusing muddle. If there’s a magazine I read and I want to find it to re-read it, then the order makes no sense. I’d like to be able to have them alphabetical, or to have new issues at the top, that sort of thing.
If apple wants to be serious on the services, either go cross platform or will never be really relevant. Not everyone is apple only user or want to have services with a restriction on devices that can use, that will only happen of the services from Apple are of no match.I suppose the roughly 75% of the market that Android still holds is no reason for the Android version to exist now.
Maybe they'll realize like they did with Apple Music that ignoring the majority market is honestly just a bad business decision?
Which somehow they notice with the apple TV app that is going to be cross platform.