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The New York Times 12+
Breaking National & World News
The New York Times Company
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
The New York Times app provides in-depth, independent, original reporting. Our breadth of coverage reaches well beyond news and politics, and it’s a deep resource for topics that touch our readers’ daily lives, including opinion, arts and culture, business, tech, wellness and much more. The app is free to download.
The world, reported.
Read, watch and listen to original reporting by 1,700 journalists in over 160 countries. From breaking news and live updates to investigations and cultural commentary, The New York Times app helps you understand the events shaping the world.
Alerts that you select.
Be the first to know with push notifications based on your interests. Get caught up with morning and evening briefings. Go deeper on business, politics and sports. Know what to cook, read and watch. And read the latest by your favorite columnists.
A place to personalize.
Follow your interests in the You tab. Explore customized recommendations, topic alerts and more. Make The Times yours.
No time to read? Listen to the latest.
Listen to articles, read aloud. Or tap the Listen tab for your daily curated playlist of news, ideas and more.
Unwind with the Play tab.
New word, visual and number games arrive every day. Wordle, Connections, Sudoku and The Mini are free to enjoy, while subscribers have unlimited access to Spelling Bee, an archive of more than 10,000 crossword puzzles and more.
Subscriber exclusives.
Share up to 10 gift articles a month, even with nonsubscribers, in the app or online. And sign up for subscriber-only newsletters that go deep on everything from food, culture and climate change to parenting, health and politics.
Today, at a glance.
Add The New York Times widget to your home screen and keep the latest headlines close by. Top stories will automatically refresh, helping you stay in the know throughout your day.
DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTIONS
Enjoy everything we offer with a New York Times All Access subscription, which includes unlimited access to:
— Investigations, culture and analysis from News
— Word, visual and number puzzles from Games
— Recipes, plus advice and inspiration from Cooking
— Independent product reviews from Wirecutter
— In-depth, personalized sports coverage from The Athletic
See our subscription offers for further details.
PAYMENT AND AUTOMATIC RENEWAL TERMS:
IF YOU SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEW YORK TIMES VIA THIS APP, PAYMENT WILL BE CHARGED BY APPLE TO YOUR APPLE ID ACCOUNT AT CONFIRMATION OF PURCHASE. YOUR APPLE ID ACCOUNT WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY CHARGED FOR RENEWAL AT THE APPLICABLE RATE SHOWN TO YOU AT THE TIME OF SUBSCRIPTION EVERY CALENDAR MONTH (FOR MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS) OR EVERY YEAR (FOR ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS) WITHIN 24 HOURS PRIOR TO THE END OF THE CURRENT BILLING PERIOD. YOU WILL BE CHARGED IN ADVANCE. YOUR SUBSCRIPTION WILL AUTOMATICALLY RENEW EACH MONTH OR YEAR UNLESS IT IS CANCELED AT LEAST 24 HOURS BEFORE THE END OF THE CURRENT PERIOD. TO CANCEL, PLEASE TURN OFF AUTO-RENEW AT LEAST 24 HOURS BEFORE THE END OF THE CURRENT PERIOD. YOU CAN TURN OFF AUTO-RENEW AT ANY TIME FROM YOUR ITUNES ACCOUNT SETTINGS. CANCELLATION TAKES EFFECT AT THE END OF THE CURRENT BILLING PERIOD.
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• The automatic renewal terms stated above.
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What’s New
Version 10.72.0
This version has general bug fixes and improvements.
For any questions, feedback or concerns please reach out to ios@nytimes.com.
Ratings and Reviews
Not as intuitive as it once was
The NYT is full of great and varied content, so this review is not about the content, just the app. They’ve made a few updates to the UI in the past few months, each making the app less intuitive. I used to view my history or saved articles a lot when I didn’t have time to finish reading a good story. This used to be easily accessible in a side menu. Now it’s way more hidden, and I have to click a bunch of times to get to it. I can never remember where it is.
Also, the back button is now on the bottom of the screen for most articles, except when you view certain articles like through wire cutter. Everytime I want to click back at the top of the screen (where the back button is located on nearly every UI), it’s not there. Sometimes there is a back button at the top of the screen when you click on a link through the article. I clicked on this to bring me back to the article, but instead it took me to the front page. And then I couldn’t find the article that I was just reading. Frustrating!
These are just examples and sound like small, nit-picky things, but when you are constantly trying to figure out where to click, it adds time and makes the app annoying to use. I wish the UI developers prioritized common sense changes rather than just making the app “prettier.”
Can’t swipe to advance to the next article
As a 30+ year subscriber to the New York Times, I wholeheartedly see it as an excellent newspaper and applaud its commitment to professional journalism. Insofar as the journalistic content delivered through the app, I give it 5-stars. That said, the design of the app needs some fine tuning. It is not as intuitive as other apps. I also subscribe to The Washington Post, the Financial Times, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal. Each of those apps offers a smoother user experience. But the most important difference between the NYT app and each of those other news apps is that the NYT app doesn’t permit swiping from one article to the next. Once I finish an article, I need to hit the app’s back button and manually select the next article. This makes the app cumbersome, particularly when I’m attempting to read the entire paper. What is concerning is why the app is set up this way. I can only assume that swiping from one article to the next doesn’t provide the Times with the click data it is looking for, either about me and my reading preferences or so that it can better track clicks of an article by all readers. Either way, the inability to swipe between articles has me relying on the other news apps as my primary news apps, with the Times as a secondary app.
Dear New York Times, please correct this.
This App Desperately Needs a Night Mode Display Option
I love the NYT, so this mediocre rating is simply due to the usability/customizability of the app. There is no night mode, which just feels a little behind the times in terms of the various display options that have now become standard in most phone & tablet apps.
I also personally wish there was slightly more customizability in terms of being able to block or hide certain categories of articles from appearing. For example, although we can choose what subjects we are interested in, which will then show up in the “For You” section, I would also love the option of telling the app what NOT to show me when scrolling through the main feed. For me specifically, I don’t like reading Opinion pieces and will never open them, so it’d be great for me in terms of usability if I could just have the app “hide” those when I’m scrolling through (or hide the entire Opinion section). Other people may never read the Entertainment section, or the sports section, etc., so perhaps they’d like to be able to scroll through the main “Today” section without seeing those. It would just be a nice, extra option that could continue to help shape the content to what each reader enjoys the most.
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App Privacy
The developer, The New York Times Company, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Location
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Search History
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- The New York Times Company
- Size
- 139.3 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity
- Copyright
- © 2017, The New York Times Company
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- News - Monthly $16.99
- Basic $19.99
- NYTimes.com + Smartphone App $14.99
- All Access - Monthly $24.99
- All Access - Monthly $24.99
- Basic - Monthly $19.99
- News - Monthly $19.99
- News $19.99
- Games - Monthly $4.99
- News - Monthly $16.99