The New Yorker Magazine App Reviews

Locked out of my subscription and cant access anything. What is wrong with this app??

1) The app signs you out, and you cannot sign back in. Even if you can sign in, you have to subsequently confirm your subscription, another step which rarely works. Something is majorly wrong in the back end, and this app seems unable to communicate with servers to verify sign ins and confirm subscriptions 2) When it works: What is with all the blank space on the page? Do you know how much we spend on our iPads? Its insane. Fill the screen! Better yet, give us columns like the printed page. 3) For traveling without wifi: pack a few issues of the actual magazine. Dont waste tens of minutes fiddling with this app trying to download issues. 4) When you do have wifi, use newyorker.com. It is a BEAUTIFUL, FUNCTIONAL site that looks amazing on mobile devices. It has all magazine content PLUS frequently updated, current content that you may not see in the magazine.

Count me as yet another subscriber whose access was cut off as of a week ago. No communication other than a form letter response over email and a prerecorded message when you call customer care. Just awful...

Its obvious that no one there is paying any attention to these reviews. Perhaps a barrage of phone calls will have some effect. Why wont they take this app away from the kid-developers whose fiddling makes it worse and worse. They dont read books so page numbers mean nothing to them, so poof! page numbers gone (but so is re opening where you left off). Headers and footers take space away from content, but who cares? What web designer cares about content? Dont you have people who read look over the changes?

Im not able to login to verify subscription OR restore purchases.

Something has locked me out of my subscription. Must pay to download current issue? Contact at TNY says "We are currently experiencing technical issues and are unable to access any account information. We are working to resolve the situation and apologize for any inconvenience. We will respond to your inquiry once our technical situation has been resolved. " I love this magazine. For quite a while digital access was useless, then it was fine for a while. Now its entirely fouled up again. The last time this happened they did extend my subscription. Still such an unnecessary hassle

Simply the most infuriating app you could add to your device. The magazine is great, but this app is made for those who do not have enough anger and/or frustration in their lives.

Very disappointed. I really didnt expect the app will be this bad. The content of the New Yorker is great, but the app is very bad.

The content is great, of course, but the app needs serious work. Its exceedingly frustrating to read an article when the screen keeps flashing and hiccuping. This is an experience that prioritizes advertisements over the reader experiment. Very disappointing.

Ok after a week I am ready to cancel the subscription. This is the poorest excuse for an app Ive seen in a long time. Obviously the tech dept is not near as high quality as the editorial staff. What a shame. I dont need to detail the issues - that dead horse has been sufficiently beaten by the 80% of reviews that rate this one star. Does anybody in the main office or tech dept ever look at these reviews or are they all just spending their days drinking 3 martini lunches and congratulating themselves for a job well done.? Well, actually just a job done. Nothing well about it. Would somebody please pay some attention? The NYer needs to step up its technological game to match their editorial excellence.

I love newyorker.com. Its a great-looking website, with interesting news and the right ratio of humor to stories. The app, on the other hand, focuses too much on the magazine, despite the layout not bearing any of the magazines aesthetic or arrangement. I understand the need to experiment that resulted in the design of the reading view, but even an exact copy of the physical magazine would look nicer. Cartoons should be scattered throughout, not in a bank at the end. Podcasts, humor, video, online exclusive articles, photo booth, and Goings On should all be on one interface, and the app misses that opportunity and goes for a confusing version of the magazine instead. All in all, this is not the New Yorker app we all need.

I truly dont understand the low star ratings others have given this amazing app, and most of their comments have something to do with subscription technicalities rather than form and substance. I found it intuitive, easy to use, and of course, its content is nothing short of wonderfully substantial. Whether in my iPad or on iPhone, the New Yorker remains one of those rare gems that brighten my day, edify my mind, and warm my heart. Kudos to the writers as well as the designers of this app magazine!

Once again I cannot access the magazine. I can buy it, but it doesnt recognize my subscriber info. Worst app ever.

Difficult to navigate is an understatement. Get to a page of an article and them should I have press screen areas to intuit the developers "intention" of trying to READ said article? Also, non-navigated process to getting out of dominant advertisers.....? Why?! All together now: Do you need donations for the app named after the esteemed journal? Your journalists should be fuming as the rest of us because the editors (judging from non-response of eds to reasoned complaints is what your app deserves!) are indifferent to complaints. Is this your future? If so, dump the app....die.

Theres something wrong with the app. An iPhone ad opened up and now there is no way to get out of it, so I cant read the magazine anymore. Very frustrating.

If you want to read the New Yorker, read it on paper. This app is so maddening, what with its tendency to stop in the middle of searches and refuse to recognize subscribers, its hard to conclude anything but that the publisher is deliberately driving readers away from the digital edition.

I didnt get very far- clicked on the Apple ad on page 2, and thats all I got. It wont go away unless you delete and reinstall the app.

CAN log in to website on my pc but same pswd not accepted by app. So CHANGED my pswd via website: still cant use the app. Deleting app. Really, is Conde Nast in such dire financial straights that simple tech support for an app waits 5 months for an update to correct the raft of 1-star reviews?? What a joke!

Inconsistent idiosyncratic navigation tools make this a painful app to use. Library panel should be accessible whenever the reader chooses to see it.

Please get rid of that obnoxious little "share" box in the lower left hand corner of every screen (except the ads of course). Not only does it force an awkward display of text on the screen (lopsided with a bunch of white space on the left) its just super annoying and distracting. One of the things I like about the New Yorker is their attention to design and layout, with simplicity ruling the day, but this little "feature" really ruins it.