Hey, looks, a reason to uninstall Apple News+
To be fair, the magazines available on News+ are great. I have Apple One because it covers all the household’s music/storage/fitness solutions for a reasonable price (considering how many people are on my subscription). News+ is included, and the list of magazine subscriptions bundled within it is surprisingly extensive. The app’s not perfect though, as this crappy design shows.
Tip: Your local public library offers the same electronic versions of magazines through an app called Hoopla. For free.
Unequivocally my least used part of apple one.
Apple Arcade for me
That was my case as well, with the exceptions of Slay the Spire and now Balatro. If you haven’t played Balatro yet, do yourself a favor and never play, lest you get pulled past the event horizon of its addictivity like I have.
Well now I’m going to have to try it aren’t I.
Them’s the rules.
Apps like Apple News don’t exist to help you curate news that you want to see. They exist to curate news that they want you to see.
They exist to push ads. Even the premium version of Apple News has ads.
Isn’t it the publications themselves that contain the ads rather than the app itself?
Some yes. Some no. And if I’m paying for news, there’d better not be any ads at all.
Fair enough. Although I would say that the magazine aspect (which I use it for primarily) couldn’t really adhere to that. The printed publications that you’d buy in a newsagent contain printed ads. I’m not saying it’s good, but it’s not different. Paper copy or digital, you’re getting ads with whichever one you pay for.
Not sure I’d agree, as the sources are configurable, but this sort of shit is far from a great user experience.
Use an rss feed!
Apple News is one of the most poorly managed of all the Apple products. Whomever is in charge of it should be fired.
Yes this truly is the weakest bullshit I’ve ever seen. Obviously, it’s just in-client blocking with zero support from the back end. Pathetic.
I blocked ESPN news articles just because I don’t want to see sports content. Does the same thing. They need to fix this stupid shit.
On the other hand, I’m willing to pay for aggregated news to gain access to articles from the likes of The Atlantic, etc. Anyone have alternatives to Apple News+ in this regard?
If you wanna put the work into an rss feed, netnewswire is great.
oh no, linekar is leaving motd? first wrighty, now him?
i don’t think shearer and micah can pull it off themselves going forward. they’re both good but, let’s face it, neither has the gravitas needed to anchor the show.
My money’s on Chappers filling in.
Google News does the right thing here. I presume it’s cross platform but haven’t tried on an iDevice.
Settings -> News -> Restrict Stories in Today
This will fix it so that only news services you follow will appear.
Cheers - this would work, but first requires whitelisting all the sources you’re happy to see news from, rather than simply not showing you news from sources you’ve blocked.
