Easy to navigate, can turn alerts on or off. Has dark mode - which is great, it's less stressful on the eyes. I can bookmark articles on my phone and read them on my Fire, or laptop. It's great to be able to read the paper without getting covered in ink, or have to recycle. Great for those who miss reading a newspaper. Super convenient, much easier to read at breakfast, before bed, and waiting on line.
Reviews for Washington Post: Live News
← Back to Washington Post: Live NewsDeleted my review?! Is fine, I'll just keep putting it back. App keeps telling me I need to log in. WP has to send a one-click login via email, and it works every time. But then 2 clicks later, says I need to log in again - and am prevented from reading articles. No help from support, chat bot is useless, submitting ticket from app failed 3 times. I WANT to support, but whoever is in charge of the app doesn't seem to care about keeping customers. I have canceled my paid subscription.
What the heck happened?? I prefer the print edition. Everytime I try to scroll through the pages by section, something goes wrong: Can't get past page A4, or when I get to "World" it reverts to A1 or kicks totally out of the app. Sometimes comments don't load. This is becoming nonfunctional for me, and the subscription is becoming worthless. Tech support was able to resolve the problem of the app throwing an error when I tried to get past A4, but now it kicks me out when I get to "World".
A WAPO subscriber for decades, surprised at the difficulty to read a story under Sports (online) verifying the game that I'd just seen prior to its end. Allowed to see the headline, click on the link. Then required to supply credentials that were rejected. Entered new data for updated credentials; accepted. Taken back to page where I left off. Clicked to read and was told my credentials were not recognized. Invited to enter a new account. Still haven't been able to read the article. Frustrated.
Truly bad new app, now forced on readers. I discovered that just going to the webpage directly with Chrome by making a shortcut is a much better experience, actually better than even the old app. Go to webpage in your phone browser. Click on the menu lines at the top, and select "Create shortcut" and place it on your phone screen. Enjoy!!
I used this app for breaking news notifications, but a recent update has made them worthless. The notifications used to display as much of the article title as they could fit, and expanding them (by pulling them down) would let you read the whole headline and decide if you wanted to open them and read the article. Now when you expand one, it'll show you the first few words of the article itself instead of the full headline. So you can no longer read the entire headline and have to open each one in the app to see them. Not happening.
People are trying to tell you that your app is seriously glitchy and has been for several days. The search function doesn't work at all. It is impossible to read a full article. My Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra closes the app and is now recommending that I put it in "Deep Sleep". You do get that a subscription is very expensive, right? And you are going to fix this forthwith, right?
This app is difficult to navigate and poorly laid out. This is NOT improvement, but an excuse to include ads in my paid subscription. Stories are repeated in different sections, and has the editor ever heard of spell checking? I have to search to access all the available stories. If I wanted people to choose what articles I read, I would read google news. I rarely post reviews, but this change sucks.
If you are strategic in the subscription you purchase you can get a good deal but if you're like me and only occasionally read an article and mostly got it for the feature "The 7" to catch you up every morning just use Spotify and save your money. It's different wording, but you don't need a subscription. I don't like the podcast compared to the article itself but when my subscription runs out I won't know the difference anymore.
App works great. Love the Post but to use this app you must have a subscription... so if that's the case, why the ads? If I'm paying for something I expect an ad free experience. Hence 3 stars. There's no way I'm renewing my subscription if they will continue to shove ads in my face. I'm not sure if the Times has ads in their app but I will be trying that app next.
Alerts are fine, but instead of taking me directly to the article, I keep getting dragged to a tutorial and then the alert I clicked on doesn't even show up under "alerts," so I can go to the store. It's cumbersome. Heck, I just tried to open the comics and when I zoom in, it takes me away from what I want to read and back to the stinking tutorial.
Content is what you expect and is available in the app same as the paper. But two things. App is fancy and cumbersome - sometimes an article will load 3/4 of the text and the last 1/4 will be white space. This is usually just the ones with lots of pictures. Pictures are great, but I'd rather have just text than that nonsense. Second, even if you pay for Basic Digital you still get ads. Get real.
The only "upgrade" this app brings is large, intrusive ads in the middle of every article. It also plays the same ad before each video clip (no matter how short the video), and there's no way to pause the ad when you realize the video isn't worth seeing the same half-minute ad for the forth time. I already pay a subscription to support the WP, this app is making me reconsider that choice.
How do you turn off the sound for alerts?!?? Using a Galaxy Note 8, when tapping on an alert to go to a story the app hangs. All I see is a spinning circle over a black field. I have to arrow to go to the front page and search for the article which, likely because it is not yet been worked into the main news feed, is sometimes not able to be found.
Horrible app, and it's gotten worse. Now, many pages cannot be bookmarked, at all. Either they have no bookmark icon that can be pressed, or pressing it does nothing. It's a shame, because the Post provides good news. It constantly loses my location and I have to scroll through many articles to figure out where I was. Bookmarks show up in the app, but not online, or vice versa. Some bookmarks cannot be cleared, and the article is left in the reading list forever. It's just become unusable.
Annoying video ads: Even though you've a paid subscription, you have to sit thru 15 seconds of video ads before watching a video. An article may have 12 short videos, and each starts with ads. Sheer madness. disruptive! Unnecessary noise! Waste of my time! I don't watch the ads unless necessary. Long gone the days of a paper newspaper which was supported by ads that didn't move, and a one- or two- second glimpse was all it took for the reader to acknowledge the sales pitch.
Good news source, but too easy to accidentally "tap" an article you don't want to read, which counts towards your 10 free articles a month. They ought to prompt you to verify that you want to read it, or give you a few seconds to back out without penalizing. For all the ads, I think they could do that. Or maybe have you watch ads in exchange for reading.
Imagine paying for a newspaper subscription, but the app won't actually hold an article open for more than 10 seconds before going back to the homepage, eventually leading to the app crashing. It's updated and all. Don't feel like I'm getting my subscription's worth. Plus, with them consistently changing who does the Seven in the morning, and always changing the music is just annoying. I come to you for news. Not different personalities in a podcast or funky transition music. I want the news.
The app itself works great and is fantastic for articles. What's hard unfortunately is being able to afford the subscriptions I have. a free plan that I signed up for as long as I had an account and then a few days later they took it away and started putting stuff behind paywalls. Apparently we only believe in a free press unless we make money off it. Ridiculous.
App opens with Top Stories (I can't say I don't want this). Half(!!!) of the screen is used for those four little "cards" that are useless.Today three (yes three) of them link to games that I can easily find via the games menu at the bottom of the screen. The most annoying, though, is when I get "continue reading" hints. I am well aware of what I've been reading and don't always want to read a whole article that has already repeated itself ad infinitum. I'm about done w/ WaPo altogether.