Reviews for NYTimes: US and Global News

Paper itself is great. Notifications used to be great, but now only seem to pop up when I open the app (which turns into a barage of the last 24hrs worth of news). Also, most of the time I have to open the app twice before any articles load. This is especially annoying when trying to get to an article from a notification, which takes me to the "this article can not be found" page 99% of the time (and now the notification is gone so I've lost the direct link and have to hunt for the article).

Content good. App very bad. No way to stop the app from refreshing after every action. So you stop reading an article and come back later, and it refreshes and sends you to the top of current news, which forces you to locate the article again and find where you left off. If I really care enough about the content, I go through a browser search and read the article outside the app. Pop up ads frequently displace content making it impossible to read. Wirecutter log on simply does not work in app.

Still no scroll bar on the right side of articles, leaving no way to quickly assess article length or reading progress. This has been the case in the Android app, across many devices, for years. They fixed it for a month or two. Then it disappeared again. Additionally, they put out audio content available only through an iOS-only app.

update: this has gone from bad to worse. i can't even open articles anymore. at least it used to just hang, crash and kill my battery. without question, the worst application I've ever seen. With most recent updates this is horrible. It uses a ton of battery, hangs for seconds at a time and will periodically start playing media at high volume. We will likely cancel our subscription if it doesn't get fixed fast as it's close to impossible to really read with this.

Edit: Since the widgets disappeared several months ago, and the app has gotten buggy, I will be cancelling my subscription. After more than two months, the developers clearly have not listened to our requests and concerns, so I feel no need to keep paying for a product that I don't use, and is not user-friendly. The widget disappeared after my most recent update. That's what I largely use to review headlines and decide what I want to read. Beside that, the app is fine.

I once subscribed to the Washington Post after them constantly begging for a subscription and only allowing me to read partial articles. Then they basically made it impossible for me to read them anyway. This app isn't that. Super easy to use. I've had it a week and I love it. You choose what interests you, they give you the headlines on your phone, you simply tap the headline, it takes you to a page where there's more in-depth headlines, another tap, and you're reading a well-written article.

Somebody broke the app! Was there just an update? I've noticed over the past few days that not all articles will load, and the site is constantly refreshing. Lately it's been hit or miss whether an article would load, but the number of articles I can actually read had been diminishing every day, until today, when no articles will open. I've already deleted and reinstalled the app, to no avail.

Top Stories don't load. Wrote to support and they said do a force stop, which works. But who wants to do that everytime they open an app? Out of the 56 apps I have on my phone this is the one that works the worst. Ironically, it's the one I pay the most for (via a digital NYT subscription). I'm giving it another week or two and then will cancel my subscription if no fix is released.

When clicking on notifications, between 30-50% of the time, the article I want to see fails to load and I get the front page of the app. Then, when I go to hunt for the article I wanted to read, I cannot find it in my tabs. Other than that though, great app. Please make Night Mode a standard feature and make it AMOLED black, not grey.

Saw a good deal on a subscription so I subscribed. Didn't want automatic renewal at 9x the price, so I followed the instructions to cancel. Throughout the process, it was clearly stated that I would keep access until the end of the first year. My purchase history shows that I still have access for another year. But nope, I lost access the next day and a rep confirmed this. Huge waste of time.

good interface, easy to read. App doesn't crash. But I wish they would do a better job separating NYT Cooking from the regular food category. It is not included in the regular subscription, so why link cooking articles inside a regular food and dining article? I read an article to the end and I was interested in the content, but it ended abruptly with a link to a NYT Cooking recipe (recipe wasn't disclosed in regular article)

I don't like the changes they made to the app. I thought the old version was more than fine. My least favorite change is I can no longer read articles in the horizontal position. Another major issue is with push notifications. Half of them don't lead to the article. A tip for users is to save the article and a lot of times it will actually save it. I do like that the app includes recently viewed.

11/2/24 Now, there is another failure. The tab default tab is always Games, not Top Stories. Home always goes to Games, not the last destination, which is the one I want. There is no way to refresh or jump to the reliably to Top Stories. Terrible. I am missing the ability to navigate and am spending too much effort to access what I want find.

This app is really wonky. I tap on an article, and it takes me to a totally different one, often one I read earlier in the day. This happens about 3 out of 5 times. Usually I can find the one I want again, but not always. So crazy. Two weeks in a row I try to read articles from The Weekender and the links don't work. This week there is a brief error message saying it couldn't be opened for each article I tried.

Doesn't work anymore. Sometime around late October this app basically stopped working for me. It loads slowly, always freezes, articles do not open. It has become useless to me. I'm none too happy about it either, as I used to read it all day, whenever I needed a break. I use the inferior mobile site now. I run one version behind the current version of Android. Pixel 2XL. Tried deleting the app, and sending feedback to the devs. My phone has several free GB available. Please fix the app!

I keep trying the app every year or so. It's just not as good as a browser. Scrolling is still glitchy. Getting back to the home page is sometimes multiple clicks. There are sections that are missing (eg, in the browser I can go to Sports, then go to "Tennis", or in the Well section I can go to "Mind" or "Family"). I'll stick with chrome for now.

I like the NYT, but I do not like this app. 3 GB of background data in one month (and this must be almost entirely during my commute, because I am always on WiFi at home and work, and have no reception in either) - needless and wasteful. Other news apps manage the same functionality without even a quarter of that data with both foreground and background combined.

Almost unusable with the Pop Up Ads. There seems to be an onslaught of McDonald's Pop ads lately. They appear every 30 seconds to 1 minute. The ads are full page and interrupt whatever you may be reading. In order to close the ad, you have to click on a tiny X in the top corner. It is almost impossible to hit the X and you wind up opening the McDonald's site. I have tried everything I know to do, clearing cache, deleting browsing data, even removing and reinstalling the app. Nothing helps.

Long time digital subscriber, and usually happy with the app - til now. Latest update made the homepage "Today" news section take 30 seconds to a solid minute to load/refresh, and since much of the time I'm in a hurry and just trying to catch latest headlines this is very annoying. The absolute slowest news app I use, which shouldn't be the case with a paying digital subscription.

The news and app are good except for the ridiculous 2.1GB of background data used by the app for no reason. Even with settings turned to data saving in the app this app continues to burn through data more than any other app on my phone. Utterly ridiculous and I have no idea what they're doing. It's a HUGE detractor for me as when I travel I don't always have unlimited data.