Washington Post Select Reviews

Nearly useless app

frustratednewsconsumer

WaPo is a great news source. This app, on the other hand, is only useful for major stories. And, the functionality - loads slowly, freezes...surely they can do better

Fake news

Bgallagher88

Hard to find some credible news from this or any news sites/apps. Too eager to just say what you think people want to hear rather than fact checking.

Was not reading as much as I thought I would. No way to easily cancel in the app. Have to call and jump through a lot of hoops to get a person on the phone to cancel the subscription. Then, a month later, they charged me again, so now I have to call and deal with all that again. I will NEVER re-subscribe.

Where’s breaking news?

Dirk Niblick

When I get a notification about breaking news, if I don’t tap it immediately, I can’t find the story anymore. Please fix this.

Although you pay to subscribe you’re still forced to watch ads

Scroffle

Beware! Although you pay a subscription for this app, every time you click a video embedded in a story you are forced to wait through a 30 second ad before you can see the video. Usually it is the same ad over and over. Even though this app works very well, the ads before videos bug the heck out of me.

Kinda Facebook-ish, prefer classic

Skijor AK

I'm glad they still offer the classic app. This one seems more limited. Am glad to be supporting real journalism.

Pretty buggy

Stef Geiger

The release notes say they've fixed the double copying or URLs. They haven't. Don't sign up for "Breaking news notifications" unless you also want notifications for two day old editorial stories too. I guess they don't know what "breaking news" is? The app regularly insists on opening the most recent article in the feed, irrespective of the fact that you've selected a different one. Yes, this means that this app frequently fails at the one thing it's meant to let you do -- read the news.

Like it a lot but...

TL-LAX

The WAPO app is the only news app I read that doesn’t have an embedded dictionary to look up the meaning of unfamiliar words. Why is that? I wrote to them a while back and asked why, I received no answer, just a reply that they would take my suggestion under consideration.

Staying on the last page read

Blapstar Barbara

I consider the Washington Post to be one of the outposts for fact-based news. The only problem with the app it returns to page 1 when closed. If I had the time to read the paper without interruption, it would be no problem. Unfortunately, life intrudes. It would be nice to have the app stay on the page I am on and not have to find it again when I return to the app.

Full screen

187364

This app needs to have a full screen mode. Activate and deactivate by either tap or scroll.

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