So The Week is back on Apple News+, though I can’t access it. And it isn’t in the News+ section, neither under The Week or Week. It does seem to be available, from it’s liked section in News, but I can’t access the issues.
I can’t download any of the available issues though. When I try to I get this message:
So I was excited for Apple’s News+ magazine service and signed up for the free month after doing the math on my current subscriptions, and the $9.95 Apple News Plus. It was released on March 25th, and it is April 25th, and already it seems the service is already losing magazines! AND I DON’T SEE THIS REPORTED ANYWHERE ELSE! My biggest selling point was The Week magazine, which I have read for years, but as of now, The Week is no longer available!
In fact when I look at the lost today it seems there are only 109 magazines, though that is not including the couple of newspapers that show up differently, but is far short of the release list that MacStories put out that shows 251 magazines! In fact the magazines that used to be split into 2 pages are all on one page now in the app!
And the service while cool, does have issues. The Apple news app always opens to the news portion and you have to select news+ which is very slow to load. And after selecting to download the magazines I want to read only a select few show up in the My Magazines section. Shouldn’t all the ones I chose show up? Why should I have to go back to the full list to find the magazines I already chose to download? And what about notifications? I get tons of news notifications, but not a single one for when magazines show up! I just have to keep looking to see. This is not user friendly at all.
And why does my phone have different magazines than my ipad? Why is the xbox magazine on my phone, but not my ipad, honestly WTF!
In one month half the magazines are gone, and the news+ should have it’s own dedicated app with notifications of new issues, or this service just isn’t worth the cost! Especially if it is going to keep losing magazines at this rate!