Not as good as the old app, many issues – San Diego Union Tribune Review

Rollout of the new app was not well done. I sat down to read the newspaper on my iPad as I usually do to find that it no longer works and I had to call the newspaper to find out there was a new app and the old one doesn’t work anymore. 1 the good news At first first I didn’t care for the listing of headline articles when I first bring up the app. However, I tried it for a few days and now find it helpful ie another option to access the articles 2 article continuity In the middle of an article when it finishes on another page eg continues on A8, I can no longer touch A8 and go to that page. I like to do that because many times there are related articles on the page. Instead it takes me to a full text page which is helpful but I used to get that by simply touching the article if I wanted full text 3 where are previous editions I can’t find where I can see the covers of all editions and pick previous ones 4Navigation Navigation: I can’t pinch smaller on one page view; and if I go to the two page view it won’t let me decide which two adjacent pages I want; sometimes when I get to the end of a section it has a “previous” and “next” indicators, sometimes it doesn’t. When it does, it isn’t selectable but I can swipe. The indicators should be consistent and more informative like ‘swipe left’ for previous. 5 returning to where I left off When I go away from the app - go to another app - and then return, I want to be right back where I left off, like it used to do. You can go to Safari and it will be the first one providing you have not gone to another Safari page, but selecting the app seems to reload the paper 6 selecting ads to print or forward There was an ad that I wanted to email to my wife, when I pressed/touched it like I used to, it did not respond/highlight; I could not print or email it. I’m sure the UT’s advertisers would be very interested in this change in functionality
Review by Mark B in San Diego on San Diego Union Tribune.