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SEARCH is a major FAILURE The search feature is absolutely useless - essentially nonfunctional for the longest time ever - and this fact, and its repair, goes on being ignored (willfully?).
The app stopped updating stories since July 24Th Not sure what’s going on, but for some reason, the app no longer refreshes the newsfeed as the stories are still from July 24th. The website, however, still displays up-to-date stories. I confirmed that my son has the exact same issue. It makes the app completely useless right now.
AppleInsider Love the show and its wide range of topics. Mike ought to get with the program and buy gas with his Apple Watch. I guess Mobil/Exon doesn’t use NFC technology and so Mike has a lot more steps than us Apple Insiders.
My Goto #2 All this talk about too much politics is just shorthand for “I don’t like YOUR politics.” By segregating coverage of the Apple/Politics interface to one segment you’ve done more than enough to meet these snowflakes (as they are fond of calling me) halfway. Keep up the good work. When you mentioned the blowback you’d been getting I subscribed for the first time after listening for many many years. My first listen is always MacBreak Weekly, but that is finished, you’re next. Just love the chemistry between you two. Perfect!
Content Loading Issues Once this app was amazing and always up to date and now the app fails to load article content. I am always met with the message, “problem loading articles, please check your connection and try again.” This persistent issue makes the app unless for staying updated with the latest news and so I have to fall back on Mac rumors or another outlet not that I don’t like the content from Apple insider but I want the notifications of new updates.
New price to much for me Love this app. Been using for years under subscription. The upcoming price hike is way too much.
Price I’ve been happy to support the writers/team. However to go from $9.99/yr to $29.99/yr without adding significant value? I just don’t understand the economics. (Economics BA’87). Anyways when Apple iOS just notified me of the increase I chose not to renew. I raised my hourly fee by 20% since 2019 which is less than the inflation my household has experienced. Really 3x price increase. I just don’t get it. Maybe if 2/3rds cancel they will back down on their price increase.
App Needs Some Attention Perhaps Appleinsider app developers are monitoring some of the feedback. Most recent app version (released nearly 6 months ago), is buggy and continues to have issues opening. “Latest News” screen is blank with an “oops” error that content is not available. With the rollout of recent Apple products/software at the June WWDC, one would think that that an update would have been released to ensure things run smooth. Plenty of feedback offered earlier from other users, and it seems like there has been a pause from developers in supporting the app. Hoping this changes as Appleinsider has been a good source for news. From content coverage and speed of posting/publish, 9TO5Mac is another option worth checking out.
This app was great, not anymore. I enjoyed reading Apple News on this app. However it became worse than previous updates.
Subscription price increase is insane Been reading AI for years and it has been my “go to” source for Apple news. But a couple of things - * redesigned app - not great. The new “featured stories section hides new News. * the price increase on the subscription - are you guys insane? $9.99/year to $29.99/year as a year over year increase?!? You’re good, but not a 3x increase in annual price good. Buh-bye AI Pro, welcome back to regular AI. 🤯
From 186 saved reviews since 14 Dec 2012, all countries.
Share of the 108 negative reviews that mention it
“$9.99 Subscription for news propagation This is an absolute joke.”
“The app now looks like those annoying ads that are all over the internet showing obviously fake photos and making claims that you know are ridiculous without…”
“Charging users of your app to view reader paginated versions of your website and pasting extra ads on there in such an annoying fashion that the user is left…”
“App crashes upon opening Since the latest update the app crashes immediately on my iPad upon trying to open it.”
“Looks awful The new interface is awful...”
“Content Loading Issues Once this app was amazing and always up to date and now the app fails to load article content.”
Share of the 57 positive reviews that mention it
“Love this update, finally have a universal app!”
“Great, Clean Redesign 👍👍 I love the stability and design of the new version!”
“The articles are well written, concise, to the point and when they are biased, they are very accurate and fair.”
“Navigation within the app is simple allowing you to access from the left menu pane the latest news, reviews, favorites which contain saved articles, price gu…”
“I would think that a flat fee for the upgrade (something along $2.00 one time fee seems more reasonable.”
A drop after an update usually means the update broke something.