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This review is not about NYT journalism. Only the app. There seems to have been a recent update where they implemented a automatically hiding menu bar at the bottom of the screen. This literally ruind the app. It is so incredibly sensitive that the text you are trying to read jumps all over the place if you dare try to scroll to a new section of the article. This is my first review of an app in my life but I just felt compelled to tell somebody that the app is almost completely unusable now.

App is bogged down by feeds that make it difficult to reach full stories. You can't even reach today's edition of the paper through the app (customer support just directs you to go to the website on a browser, which defeats the purpose of having an app). They also removed side-swiping to get to the next article. Designed to be flashy and buzzy at the expense of just being able to just read the paper.

Second rate app, horrible customer service. If you enter the app from one of their emails, there is no way to access a list of other adds. The app says you can download the articles but when offline, there is no access of all the stories. When calling customer service, all you hit is a brick wall. They could care less about receiving any feedback. I suggest getting news from elsewhere.

Good, but could be better. If there was an option to have at silent notifications like the CNN app, I would like it better. I had to turn off all notifications because it was was going on at all hours of the night and morning. I use sleep podcasts at night so "Do not disturb" is not an option. I DO like the the reporting at NYTimes, but not enough to sacrifice sleep.

Yes, it works. However the layout is pretty chaotic. I don't see a real way the difference tabs help the layout either. There's no "recently read function," or if there is I can't find it. And most importantly, there's no dark mode, which is crazy for an app all about reading. You would really think that would be top priority.

Love the app and I gladly pay to support journalism today. Notes: 1) I do feel like I get signed out a lot more than other apps. 2) Please open up the audio features in beta. Accessibility via screen readers is disabled due to subscriber content flags. And if Google can't read it to me, and the NYTimes audio feature is behind a beta-wall... I don't have many options besides toggling over to my Washington Post app. (I happily support both of you.)

Works kind of okay for text portion of items and simple images, although images often are slow to load. But they have trouble with videos, being slow to start and stuttering, sometimes never starting at all. And they like to attempt fancy text/graphic presentations, which fail miserably. I use a browser if I really want to see it. Other apps on my phone don't have these problems.

The quality of the app says nothing about the content and excellent reporting from the Times. Rather, this review is about the app only. Certain quirks in app are becoming more and more annoying. Things like refresh or "Load more post" buttons that won't go away, blocking the middle of an article. Switching apps and coming back can mean losing your place entirely. Swiping back results in a weird, no-man's-land interstitial. Things that just make very little sense and messes with reading.

Love the content but they are putting more and more of it into the "live stories," which I find to have a pretty lousy experience. Everytime I open one, it scrolls up and down like crazy as the page loads. I will start reading and be interupted three times as the sentence I'm reading is shifted off screen. I wish they would just use native experience as they had for so many years. Putting content in web views is a huge step backwards 😕😭

Signed up with a deal through Play that was supposed to include the crossword. Some issue had me being charged even though I paid upfront for a year. After getting it handled through two chats and a phone call, I now don't have access to the crossword. Zero chance I'll resubscribe after dealing with this. I don't even care enough to go through contacting anyone to get it corrected. Couldn't be more disappointed with how all of this was handled

A year later from my last review - STILL NO DARK THEME! Why doesn't this have a dark theme? WHERE IS THE DARK THEME? IT REALLY NEEDS A DARK THEME! It's also hard to find stories mentioned in the notifications. I like the New York Times, I love the content and the opinion pieces, but it's literally the ONLY app in my phone that doesn't have some kind of a night mode / dark theme and as such, it's glaringly hard to read. As a result, I barely use it, preferring the WaPo and news aggregator apps.

Almost perfect. This app is incredibly well put together providing an unlimited amount news and information resources. It has everything from the latest updates from breaking news coverage, to weekly dinner recipes, to entertainment and sports news, to one of a kind podcast. The app is so well done, I'm left wondering, is the New York Times a tech company? The only thing missing at this point is a dark mode. Without it, It makes using this app in low light conditions before bed a non-starter.

This is an edit of an earlier 5* review I did in 12/2020. I have been happpy using the app on an Android 8 mobile since then until recently. I discovered that the app, now version 9.61.0 installed 5/3/22 has been using up far too much of the resources on my mobile. Apparently using 50% of battery even if the app is not in active use, and had accumulated about 850 MB of data. Clearing the data, stopping the app and switching over to a direct interface with Chrome eliminated the problem.

App is harder to navigate than the webpage. I'm deleting the app to make sure the web experience never opens an app instead of a webpage. Hard to go back, hard to find navigation pane, hard to read. Final straw was I once clicked a link in a Google search that opened this app while reading my phone at 11pm at night. I felt like my eyes were cramping and burning with the sudden bright white wall. It hurt.

Articles with text that floats over images as you scroll are impossible to read. They're janky, bounce around and scroll past what I was reading. I skip them now. Also I get a blank screen when I hit back from a live news page.

I think this app is beautifully designed. The app alone was so good that I had to subscribe to NYtimes. This is one of the apps which gives sufficient emphasis on user experience. Really cool visualization and clear layout and division of sections. Cheers to the development team. Cheers guys! It is a pleasure reading NYT through this app.

I cannot believe that such a great app does not have a night mode. I like to read during the night, but the white background is so bright. Also, if I'm paying a subscription, I better not see ads. I expect ads in the other news apps where I don't have a subscription, but it makes me wonder why I even pay a subscription if there's still going to be ads.

Downgrading for usability issues not content. While I read it every day, I do have issues with how the app works. The two major faults I see are how stories are loaded and the lack of dark mode. Many of the articles aren't downloaded until you click on them. Well that doesn't work on MYC subways as there is t any connection while in the tunnels. Why does t the app allow you to decide what content to download. The fact that it doesn't support dark mode is just laziness on their part.

Great content but the app needs work. It's 2022, why is it still impossible to view video in landscape mode in Android? What happened to the Dark Mode option? There needs to be home button, pressing back takes you back through every page you visited, often forcing me to reload the app. Please address

The app freezes, preventing the reader from scrolling through and reading the articles. This is frustrating beyond belief. As much as I enjoy the content when I can actually read an article, I'm cancelling. I cannot find Wordle in the Games Section. I thought it was purchased by The Times and should ne availanbe.

As a paying subscriber, it's outrageous that HALF the front page is advertising. The TOP half. So i open the app and the first thing i see is a big advertisement, not the news or the headline, an ad for shoes. Scrolling through the news provided me with full screen ads every other article. WHY AM I PAYING TO LOOK AT ADS??

WHY IS THERE STILL NO DARK MODE?!?! it's 2022. NYTimes customer service thinks it's still only called "night mode" and won't implement it. Also - there aren't many features to make the app easier for users. There's a "save for later" function that's poorly implemented and it's difficult to browse articles effectively. I'd expand on these in a user survey but pretty sure the team managing this app doesn't know what those are.

Love the games, but several links in games, such as the one to the community comments in Spelling Bee, don't work. I have to go to my browser to get there, which is a pain. Fix the link and I'll edit my review. Also can no longer have game and hints open in separate windows at the same time like I used to be able to do. Hate that change!

Great publication. BUT now (3-27-22) tring to review Covid news while drilling down the page jumps around sending me to the bottom. Even if I quickly tap on (e.g. case map) an item it scrolls all the way down again. I was in portrait orientation on my Samsung Tab S6.

Plus: access to NYTimes articles Minus: The app itself It has not changed in years. It is very slow (compared to DW), uses lots of data when mobile, and is not nearly as polished as the Apple counterpart (trust me if you see the Apple version you will feel very cheated)

I love the Times for the article details & background. Their graphics are unparalleled. But this app keeps resetting to the front page, if I set the phone down a min or I'm 20 min into my sudoku. I hate that. Same on my old phone too.