![](/assets/artwork/1x1-42817eea7ade52607a760cbee00d1495.gif)
Foreign Affairs Magazine 4+
World News and Analysis
Council on Foreign Relations
Designed for iPad
-
- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
Screenshots
Description
Get award-winning commentary on global news daily with the Foreign Affairs app.
Download the Foreign Affairs app to stay up-to-date on the latest international news, commentary, and policy analysis from influential thinkers and world leaders. Foreign Affairs offers insightful articles, digital issues, podcast episodes, videos, and audio content on critical topics related to geopolitics, security, economics, science and technology, climate change, and more. Foreign Affairs has published globally renowned thinkers and world leaders over the past 100 years from around the world and across the political spectrum, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Eleanor Roosevelt, George Kennan, Madeleine Albright, Henry Kissinger, Nelson Mandela, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, Jill Lepore, Eric Schmidt, Samantha Power, Fareed Zakaria, and more. Get new, relevant articles on international topics of interest daily. Subscribers get additional access to digital magazine issues. Podcasts and event videos are free for all users.
Quality Content
-New articles every weekday on pertinent international news topics
-Subscriber-only access to Foreign Affairs magazine issues on a bi-monthly basis
-Podcasts and videos featuring insightful conversations with leading scholars, historians, editors, and authors
Anytime, Anywhere
-Audio for select articles—perfect for listening on-the-go
-Download options for offline reading and listening at all times
-Bookmark for saving and sharing articles
-Accessibility tools for a better reading experience for everyone, including light or dark display and text resizing
What’s New
Version 4.3
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Ratings and Reviews
Questionable Update
It looks like this update was intended to allow dynamic content and consequently the ability to use with an iPhone. What I appreciated about the old app was that it was simply digital/ePub versions of the print magazine, and therefore replicated the experience of flipping through the pages but with the added portability of having your entire collection available on the plane or a train.
One (presumably unintended) consequence of the change in the display engine is that all the subscriber special editions are no longer available, at least as far as I could find. One has to now go to the FA website and download them from there.
Many people are having trouble with validating subscriptions. This has also been a problem with previous versions of this app. I did not personally experience it this time, but understand how frustrating it is having experienced it before.
I, for one, would appreciate the ability to retain the option to read ePub versions of the issues (and keep the subscriber specials), even as a separate option within the app.
Bottom line, Foreign Affairs is a world-class publication and ought to have a world class app. It’s not quite there yet.
Developer Response ,
Thank you for your review. We have now added all of the past subscriber special editions as a PDF/ePub versions.
Great content, good features, OK app
The Foreign Affairs Magazine name for this app is an understatement. The content includes everything in the magazine plus a variety of additional articles plus audio (read) versions of many of the articles. New content shows up daily. Most people will likely pick and choose what to read.
The app is OK when it works. The organization of the articles is great. It's servicable. You can save articles and read them offline (great for travel). The formatting is pretty easy to read on iPhones and iPads.
When it doesn't work... Well I don't know. I had a problem that compleatly disabled everything on my iPad. No articles. No content. Just a blank framework of the app. Though I reached out to support and they were helpful, and though we tried many things, we could not get it to work. Then I broke my iPad, replaced it with a newer model, loaded that up from my backup and everything worked fine. Lesson, if you can't get it to work, get a new iPad.
Good but can be better
Update 2: The “The Latest” section started working again. Also, I appreciate customer support getting back to me.
Update: app’s been pretty buggy lately. The “The latest” section doesn’t load. Overall, the app is pretty good and the content is great. It would be really nice if saved articles don’t just save locally. I constantly switch between my devices (iPhone, ipad) and none of my saved articles appear on the other devices. Also, it would be nice if the app had the ability to download articles in the background so it starts up faster and does not do the updating when I launch the app. If I’m mistaken in any of this and the app does, indeed, do those things, then please let me know.
Developer Response ,
Thank you for your feedback! We are always looking for ways to improve the app, and the Saved articles functionality is something we'd like to be better at. There should not however be any updating needed when opening the app. Please contact us at support@ForeignAffairs.com if this is still something you are experiencing. Thank you again for taking the time to share your review, and for your readership.
App Privacy
The developer, Council on Foreign Relations, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Usage Data
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Council on Foreign Relations (Applications)
- Size
- 24.7 MB
- Category
- Magazines & Newspapers
- Compatibility
-
- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
-
English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Foreign Affairs Magazine
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
-
- Foreign Affairs $39.99
- JAN/FEB 2013 $9.99
- November/December 2016 $9.99
- September/October 2014 $9.99
- Foreign Affairs Best of 2013 $8.99
- Iran and the Bomb $8.99
- July $9.99
- Foreign Affairs Summer Reading $8.99
- March/April 2016 $9.99
- Masters of International Relations $8.99