LA Times Reviews – Page 8
5/5 rating based on 99 reviews. Read all reviews for LA Times for iPhone.
LA Times is free iOS app published by Los Angeles Times Communications LLC (US)
New app an improvement
bb1769
EDIT August 2019: The new app (July 2019) is definitely an improvement over the old one. Most quirks in my earlier review have been fixed. One remaining issue is that after reading a story in detail mode, then returning to the main view mode, sometimes you cannot scroll to the bottom of the page.
eNewspaper view is outstanding
Automaguy
The newly overhauled app is excellent and the eNewspaper view is outstanding. Being able to easily flip from cover to cover through the daily newspaper, click on articles that catch my interest, and see all the content is a real pleasure.
The new app is buggy
NickWithAName
This is a review of the app and not of the LA times journalism, which is excellent. Even with a fast internet connection the app fails to load images of articles as you scroll down on the home page. Often when I tap on an article nothing happens. Then, after several seconds when I start scrolling again, the article opens. To go back from an article to the home page is unintuitive. If you just swipe right nothing happens. You have to scroll up for a ‘back’ button to appear. You can press that or swipe, but frequently nothing happens anyway. And if you swipe over the area of an ad, nothing happens. Sometimes when tapping an article the page starts swiping and then freezes half way so now half the screen is black. Often at the top of the home page the LA times logo overlaps the menu bar making it impossible to read or select. If these bugs and unintuitive behavior were fixed you would have a great app with excellent journalism.
eNewspaper Archive fails to connect; Scrolling bug
Al F HB
When I try to open yesterday‘s newspaper from the archive it fails to connect giving me a false “no Internet connection” error message. If you open an article to read it and then close it, when you return to the image of the page you can and scroll down.
Cannot stay signed in
moonlocks
This is the most frustrating app I have. Every month I’m charged for it, and every time I go to it after the first 5 articles per month I hit the pay wall and am asked to subscribe or sign in. At this point I used to go to settings and ‘restore subscription’—almost every time. Now there is no more restore button. LA Times says subscribe, just 7.99 per month. I’m charged 4.99 through the App Store. So, if the Times wants to raise the price, I get that. But are they just going to lock me out until I cancel my 4.99 subscription and sign up again? Because the App Store seems perfectly content to keep charging me. I really hate this app. Love the news. Hate the app.
Great reporting, one request for app feature.
Chazz_
I really enjoy the eNewpaper mode but wish I could save/bookmark some articles somehow in this mode or without having to go to the Home mode and then search for the article to bookmark it.
Ron
Seth1908
You always have to second guess their reporting. They have a strong liberal bias. Their business commentary reporting is mostly democrat talking points. I find little worth with their reporting. I only use it to follow the lakers.
Annoying Hyperlink Behavior
CEHNP
The latest version automatically opens hyperlinks when hyperlink text is touched even when scrolling through an article. This is unlike normal hyperlink behavior that requires a touch and release for activation.