National Geographic Reviews – Page 12
5/5 rating based on 243 reviews. Read all reviews for National Geographic for iPhone.
National Geographic is free iOS app published by Disney Electronic Content, Inc.
Doesn’t work
Frusration
What’s with this app? I just paid $19.99 and could open the app the first time I used it, but no more. Thinking it’s a password issue, I tried to reset. But it doesn’t recognize my email address. THANKS, Nat Geo. Another frustration and rip off to deal with in the digital age.
Amazing content deserves better
batsai
National Geographic has stunning photography and great articles- why they would want to present it in a half baked app like this is beyond me. NG won’t even bother to optimize it for iPhone X, which is just plain lazy. Hopefully they will take this app seriously and give it a major facelift.
App Crashing on IOS 11.4
OWowoeowo
The app doesn’t even open! I love the magazine. Please fix this. I refer to this resource constantly. This is cramping my know it all style...just joking. But, please fix this great resource. Thank You
Some technical issues
free-nickname
This app worked find when I initially used it. I was able to view my online issues without any difficulty, pages looked great. Now it no longer has one of the issues I’d paid for and downloaded, with only the Buy option for it, even tho it has issues prior to, and afte it, and also allows me to download the most recent July issue. But this July issue no longer looks as nice as before: the top and bottom of the view window are cropped (I am on an iphone X) so you have less real estate than the screen allows, and the page content no longer appears to fit the page as well as it used to
Disappointing
Moberlyk
Nothing like the magazine. Also, it does not give you the option in settings to cancel subscription. I’m still trying to find out how to do this??
Great way to consume NG
Jshsvshshsvshsydvdjs
Instead of opening Instagram, open this app and marvel at beautiful photos and read great articles. App developers: it would be great if the app would remember how far I scrolled in a long article. It is frustrating that every time I open it I have to start at the top and try to find where I left off. Also when reading articles the sensitivity to move left or right to the next or previous article is too sensitive. While scrolling I often accidentally go to the next article, then when I go back to the article I intended to read I am all the way at the top of it.
No longer works
790jim
I received notification that my subscription was coming due and I had not read my magazines for a while. I tried opening the app and it will not load, on my iPad or iPhone. Bummer. I don’t think that I will be re-subscribing.
Crashes
Ot fun
Needs an update! Won’t open and hasn’t for over 2 months since iOS 11. Crashes instantly and so far, a total waste of money.
I want to love this app
joshpp
Lifelong National Geographic subscriber here. This app has potential, and the content is great, but there are a few glaring holes that make it feel like an afterthought: - when reading an article, if you exit the app for any amount of time (even to quickly respond to a text), you are taken back to the beginning of the article when you return. This makes for a lot of tedious scrolling to pick up where you left off - the text and visuals are completely separated from each other. You read a story and then get caught up on all the visuals it references on the next tile. For a mostly visual company like NatGeo, it’s not a very engaging way to read. - it is completely static. The iPad app is immersive and dynamic and interactive. Why can’t we have a taste of that on mobile? - still no iPhone X support I actually love what NatGeo is doing as a whole, and I’m a big fan of the new, bold, visual approach the just rolled out. But for some reason they are investing in a new paper stock for the magazine instead of a truly immersive mobile experience. Here’s hoping it improves!
Come on Nat Geo, you could do way better
Cury2014
A long time subscriber for Nat Geo magazine, and I just notice this app on iOS. I have to say the user interface is just not anywhere close to the top of the line magazine. Contents and photos are still top of the line, but this app is not.