Vanity Fair Digital Edition Reviews

Back to Better

texcelt

So glad you've gone back to the library format by which we can see at a glance what we have and have not downloaded.

Sometimes things are best left alone. Thanks for going back! I'm glad I didn't take my iPad with me on my trip. While it would have been nice to read VF on the plane, I would have been frustrated by the revised app. So I only recently saw the new version of the app. Instantly hated it. I couldn't remember which issue I was reading. Tapping on a section at a time was ridiculous. The download speed was slow. It takes some time to download the entire magazine, but the revised app was not an improvement. That was my very brief experience with the revised app.

Credit where credit is due

SueAnnah

I was one of those who squawked when the last update came out so its only right to amend the rating and say "Thanks for listening!" I'll change it to a five star rating when you stop whining about the president. You're starting to sound like a petulant toddler.

'Reformat' of prior review

LBakula

Thank you, thank you, thank you, VF, for returning the app to the original format. My one-star review (below) is now a five-star review. Annie Leibovitz's photos are gorgeous again! ------------------ I was so sad to discover that the update to this app took away the gorgeous full-screen clarity that I loved so much. I used to show off my iPad Pro by pulling up a Vanity Fair digital cover to ooh and ahh over (and sold a couple subscriptions to the magazine in the process). No more. I lost all my downloaded magazines, and the new downloads are fuzzy and cropped. Truly the worst upgrade to an app I've ever experienced. What a shame for such a great mag. I hope this isn't indicative of financial problems at VF!

Phew!

::V::

Thank you for bringing back the older, better app and making Vanity Fair Digital great again. I can once again enjoy my monthly routine of reading VF cover-to-cover, as I have been for the past 15 years. --------------------------------------------- The new version is awful. It downloads at the speed of sloths and only displays on about 2/3 the available screen width. Did Trump design this or pay Russia to hack you? Bring back our old, reliable Vanity Fair App, please!

"Improved" upgrade is total failure

Nini_Journey

Thank you for listening to us and returning the app to the way it use to be! Whoever came up with this new version should look for a new career. Please bring back the last version. Lost all my previously save editions, when going back to article, have to scrolled back from front. Update is total failure. After all the bad reviews, Vanity Fair, go fix it!

Terrible version has been updated. Thank you for the prompt response.

anorbeck

No improvement here. Basically it's DOA.

No Zoom function on articles

Travelguy11

Terrible. Used to be able to zoom in on the text in the previous version of the app. Now can only zoom in on the images/ads. Please please fix the app to enable zooming again on the text!

new version is terrible - now updated to 'better'

Katie4164

Kudos to vanity fair for fixing the download and library issues. The readability is still compromised by the lack of an article-ordered table of contents (organizing by length of article is both silly and detracts from the experience). Editors and designers invest a lot of energy in creating the right balance and flow of articles in a magazine and this totally dishonors that. And in an attempt to share content with phone sized screens, the large fonts and limited white space on an iPad make it the reading experience unpleasant. So while I appreciate the responsiveness to all of the feedback on downloading, they still have a way to go to re-earn the 5 stars I gave them a year ago. ------------previous feedback associated with a '1'------------ I have waited over 40 mins for the current issue to download, and it's still not done. I lost 3 yrs of downloaded copies with the 'upgrade'. I will never be able to restore them all at this rate. If the downloaded version looks anything like the web version that I can (sort of) browse while trying to download, I won't want to read it on my iPad anyway. It's totally lost the magazine feel, as well as the ability to leave and come back to the same place and it now has ridiculous 'adds' like clustering articles by how long they think it takes me to read them vs following the flow of the magazine. The font is too large and there's no white space at the margins. I switched to the iPad version a couple of years ago and have been donating my paper copies, but if this isn't addressed, I'll delete the app and go back to the paper version. It's that bad. Please don't ruin the New Yorker reading experience by making similar changes to that app as well. Having to abandon the iPad version of that weekly will be even more painful.

Photos within articles

Njeanne

I still find it irritating that I have to click on photo to read caption and see other photos. I am not sure why it cannot be imbedded in article.

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