Hate back arrow at bottom + other stuff – The New York Times Review

The “back” arrow is shown in the article view, and gets you back to your “home” view. I HATE, I HATE the recent change which moved the back arrow to the bottom of the screen. Please move it back! Or make it a setting that I can change. I hate reading the paper now! I agree with the other reviewers who dislike the recent changes to the UI. The app team desperately needs a usability expert, because it obviously doesn’t have one now. I have resorted to following the Times on Facebook and reading the articles from there. Less content, different ads. But I can understand how it works, so I am not fighting an app to read the paper. While we are here, your update mechanism in the Apple App Store seems partly misconfigured or broken. I am running iOS 13 on my phone. With other apps, when I try to update that app by pressing the “Update” button, I get a popup message that the new version requires a later version of iOS, and that I already have the latest version supported on my platform. The App Store obviously knows what version of iOS I have, and what iOS the app needs. For the Times app, I press “Update” like above. But your install mechanism apparently doesn’t look for compatibility problems, and blindly tries to download the actual latest version (which requires a later iOS), and pops up a window with two buttons. One asks “download latest version for your iOS” and the other is “cancel”. I choose the download option, which repeats the cycle of trying with the latest version, and I get the same popup. This will go on forever. Your app install should act like those other apps and only try to update to the latest version once, get notified from App Store that there is an incompatibility, and exit gracefully.
Review by Deborah-B on The New York Times.