The New Yorker

Name: The New Yorker
Rating: 4.36198 (5246 reviews)

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User Reviews for The New Yorker

July 2022, forced app upgrade, dumped old saved issues

Longtime print - online subscriber and reader here. Was pleased that with prior “print edition” app i could download AND SAVE issues to view on a large-screen ipad, or a mini for airplane reading. After a forced app upgrade years ago, all my saved full issues deleted, had to redownload each and every one. On a rural connection DSL it takes a minute per issue and mind numbing icon stroking and scrolling. July 2022, again, the app is upgraded, all my saved issues are not ported to the upgraded app. I got to a google-fiber wifi to download issues, all over again. (Edited) at first it looked like i could only download current year issues. Then i went back and noticed a “year” scroll menu (top right, then bottom) to allow prior-year issue download. Back to 2008. So, next app upgrade, will CN continue to refresh archives, or will the old bits just vanish?Twice, issues were not imported in the app upgrade. Remember, readers. Your online media are ephemeral. If you value the content, save the print edition, because CondeNaste may or may not continue to refresh any paid-for archive of digital content. Fortunately, my “saved articles” list, which was initially blank after the upgrade, reappeared after a minute or two- i think it is intact?. So, rating: content quality, 5 stars. Delivery and loss of archives, zero stars. Old issues have been deleted twice, now.

boborojo, Jul 03, 2022

Saved Stories

I received a notification that the App Developer had sent a reply to my review. When I used the link from the notification, I then received message that Apple App Store could not be reached. So, if you answered me, thank you. I am a bit of a target. It just happens sometimes. I decided to play Name Drop from one of my New Yorker email newsletters. The answer to one of the quizzes was John Steinbeck. As I was viewing the available articles from the New Yorker about Steinbeck, one offer was from May 1963, Our Man in Helsinki. I chose the article, and it came up successfully in a safe browser. I wanted to view it in the app, so I did a search in the engine on the app. So many, of course, more recent articles about Helsinki, before the last choice in the list, the actual article. I chose the article 3 times through the search process, and the app crashed every time. Now, it will not even display the article as being available, though it was displaying as if it were, earlier. I will go back and view it on a browser. Just letting you know how it went with the app. The issue I wrote to you about earlier, the emptying of my Saved articles and History, have now been restored without me having to do a reinstall and password change. Thanks.

CellularDoor80, Jun 21, 2022

I’m thinking the developers are not finished…

I cannot see my ‘account’ features via the app. I cannot make changes. I cannot see the credit card being used to pay for my subscription. I cannot find anything about the auto-renewal feature and just hope I receive an email at some point PRIOR to being charged for a subscription I may not want because of this kind of hassle. I cannot do anything on this app but read articles and in 2022, I should be able to everything via the app without having to talk to a human to make changes. I would like more information via the app so I can make informed decisions without having to call and think through things with someone I don’t even know. If I have to call to find out information that even may bank has accessible, I will likely cancel on the ‘hassle principal.’ I love the New Yorker but it is 2022 and as long as the billionaires and Corporate Citizens are going to ‘FAKE INFLATION’ so they can have more money, I may not CHOOSE to afford a billionaire’s publication.

Cool Blue PA, Jun 05, 2022

Crashingly buggy audio

While I appreciate that many stories on this app are accompanied by Audm narrations, I’ve never had more trouble with audio than with this app. Half the time the audio doesn’t even play. When i can manage to coax the audio into playing, it crashes unexpectedly if I do so much as navigate to a different page on the app. Even just pausing the audio is a gamble, since very often paused audio will not start up again. As a big fan of the New Yorker but not someone who likes reading long articles on a phone screen, I am greatly disappointed at the quality of the software. The fact that I cannot easily search for stories with accompanying audio is a frustrating limitation I could live with, but the vexingly awful behavior I experience makes this app mostly useless for me.

frustrated podcast fan, Aug 06, 2020

Should be able to activate via account number even if linked to email

Had subscription label handy, couldn't use it to access the account like I can on the Conde Nast website; it made me enter an email address. So yet another login and password to remember. It is also nagging me to turn on notifications. If it asks too often, I will delete. I am a long time print subscriber.ETA:I cannot believe that the "crosswords," accessible only via search on "crossword," are not listed in chronological order. What possible advertising, data collection, or other benefit to Conde Nast is derived from a random list of puzzles from past dates, making it almost impossible to remember which you've already completed?

iona 6, Dec 01, 2021

Great content; terrible podcast app

I downloaded the app hoping for an easy way to listen to some of the great long-form articles. The audio content is hard to find, and the audio player is buggy and poorly integrated. Siri reads incoming texts and driving directions *over* the podcast audio (instead of pausing it). What’s worse is that the app doesn’t even register itself as an audio player! This means that the usual controls on the lock screen don’t work — there’s no easy way to advance or go back 15 seconds, nor even a play/pause button! Tapping on play (or using my headphones cord’s button) causes my music to come on (as if I had been listening to nothing) and after that I have to go back into the app, find the article I was listening to, and restart the stream.

mark, Jun 26, 2020

It’s a bit hit or miss whether the iPad App works

I only started reading the magazine on my iPad about five months ago, and am underwhelmed by the experience. Sometimes the App works, meaning that I can access all the stories from the magazine, and sometimes it doesn’t. The most recent magazine, for example (November 19, 2018) gives me only three “Goings on About Town” items - nothing else. I have closed and opened the App, I have logged out and back in, and even removed and re-installed the App, all with the same result. It would be OK if this was the only time something went wrong - on at least two occasions in the last three months the magazine completely failed to download, and/or told me I didn’t have a subscription. In contrast, I have never had any issues with the iPhone App, which I have been happily using for several years.

Nubeena, Nov 16, 2018

A disservice to TNY

[Update July 9th, 2022] Now even more broken! I have renewed my subscription to TNY (which I still love, despite the app developers’ best effort to make me stop reading it) but, alas, it seems impossible to regain access to the content, including my already purchased issues. I didn’t think that this app could get any worse, but here we go.This hideous monstrosity of an app is doing a real disservice to the fine writers and editors of TNY. I just spent two weeks in a remote, internet-free location, staring at the screen of my iPad that, rather than allowing me to read my already downloaded issues of the magazine, kept asking me to sign into the TNY account. The old version of the app, while far from perfect, at least allowed for true offline reading. This one, alas, not only removed that ability but also appears to rob subscribers of the issues that they already own, upon the expiration of their subscription. What a shame.

Piotr N, Jul 09, 2022

Great overall - crossword doesn’t save

Love the overall flow and design. I just have one issue with it: normally when I’m reading an article I can close my phone, even quit the app and when I re-open, it will bring me to right where I was on the article (very helpful for longer ones). However, the same is not true for the crosswords, which is the main reason I use the app (I read the hard copy more). I love the collaborative feature and have discovered that if I open the crossword with the link it provides in my browser, my work is saved and all is good. However, if I just use the app to fill in the crossword, the moment I close my phone or take a phone call, I’m sent back to the home page. Often, when I find the same crossword again (which isn’t straightforward because they aren’t listed by date in the search), my work is saved. But occasionally the board is wiped clean! Very frustrating.

rockin movie, Jul 14, 2020

Signs me out constantly

I love New Yorker and when the app works, I enjoy using it for reading, using the interactive features, and listening to audio stories. However, more often than not, it forgets me when I open the app that I am already a subscriber and requires me to sign in again. So I have to use the website popup to re-signin. It hasn’t been a big problem, just annoying, until this week. It completely forgot me and saying my password that worked all this time is invalid, that does not allow me to use the account number on my printed issues to link subscription and no way of getting my contents back, because “the account already linked to another email address”. Mysteriously, just a few days later the app recognizes me again and my subscription is active. This app has been so exhausting so far.

rosieyasmin93, May 28, 2021

Description

The New Yorker app is the best way to stay on top of news and culture every day, and the magazine each week. Features: • Get a daily blend of in-depth reporting, political commentary, cultural criticism, and humor, as seen in the magazine and online-only features from the Web site. • Read each week’s magazine, cover to cover, and browse past issues. • Receive alerts on breaking-news coverage by your favorite New Yorker writers. • Listen to narrated New Yorker stories and podcasts. • Read articles off-line and save stories to finish later, on any device. • Flip through a nearly endless supply of New Yorker humor in the Cartoons tab. • Play The New Yorker Crossword, and save your progress as you solve. • Access The New Yorker Sticker Pack. Download the app, add the extension to iMessage, and liven up your texts with Christoph Niemann’s signature drawings and animations of city life. The app is free to download. Subscribers receive unlimited access. Non-subscribers may access the app by starting a free trial.

Most current New Yorker subscribers have unlimited access to the app as part of their existing subscription. Subscribers with a print-only subscription may not have unlimited access. App subscribers have full access to the Web site, including the archive and most recent issue. Users who have trouble accessing unlimited stories or who wish to upgrade their access level may call Customer Service at 1-800-967-2082. All users have unlimited access to the Sticker Pack, which is free to download and requires iOS 11 or above. A subscription costs $9.99 a month or $99.99 annually, and includes a 30-day free trial, after which it will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period and will state the cost of renewal. Subscriptions may be managed by the user, and auto-renewal may be turned off by updating the user’s App Store Subscription settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Payment will be charged to iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. The New Yorker app requires iOS 11 or above. Information about our Terms of Service & Privacy Policy can be found at http://www.condenast.com/privacy-policy.