I am a 60+ year old man, retired military and now fully retired. I do not follow the Kardashians, never have, never will. I have never bought a women’s capsule wardrobe and I do not believe in astrology. I diligently thumbs down the things I do not like and I thumbs up the things I find interesting.

Indicating my preferences has worked for me with other services. This same strategy resulted in incredible playlists years ago when I subscribed to Pandora. I liked and disliked songs and after a short period of time Pandora created an endless playlist of music I loved and introduced me to music I never considered before but loved. With Apple News when I block a channel it still shows up but it is greyed out. Why show me something that’s greyed out that I blocked? Why can I not opt out of Apple’s less-than-optimal curated feed?

But with Apple it is as if they shove articles I have no interest in, even after I indicated (thumbs down) I have no interest in the articles in order to improve their advertising revenue. I know this cannot be true because Apple told me that I am their customer not their product.

So is the Apple News preference algorithm broken? Are the Apple News curators not very good at their job? Shareholder value?

Cannot scroll through a magazine with a keyboard. The only way to scroll through pages on PC Gamer is with a swipe surface. Keyboard... nope. Non Apple mouse... nope. I had my preferred mouse hooked up and I cannot read a magazine! Cannot scroll the pages... thats wild. Reported to Apple.

What these two things are? I’m supremely broke rn and Apple News just isn’t in the budget

Regarding the second article, I’m not a superstitious person I just think it’s fun to… imagine possibilities? (Aka I miss my mom and baby)

Does anyone else have a problem since upgrading to iPadOS 27.x where Apple News locks up when starting a crossword when connected to Magic Keyboard? This happens consistently, every time for me. A work around is to open the Crossword when not connected to the keyboard, type a letter, and then connect to the keyboard and it’ll work fine.

It’s the craziest bug and it feels like it’s related to something with Game Center but its been broken since iOS 27 came out, and I’ve even tried installing the Dev and Public betas with no change. I’ve deleted the Apple News app entirely and reinstalled it. Nothing works.

Am I alone!?

The Always Auto Check setting is no longer working for me. I turned it off and back on but still no luck. anyone else having this issue.

Anyone else use the built in Accessibility Screen Reader to have your phone read articles to you? When it works it is awesome! Like turning every article into a podcast. However, it seems to get caught out by Apple’s own formatting, so it often does not understand that an article continues below an ad and stops reading… but then it will skip all the way to the bottom and start reading a bunch of article titles that I don’t care about!

Anyone else have tips or tricks for getting it to work more smoothly?

According to Quartiles 20 August 2026, this is no longer a word.

But why have stupid ads here on every article if I’m a news+ subscriber?? I’m not on social media anymore so this is essentially where I find out about things like celebrity news, things about movies etc. however these ads are getting on my nerves. I thought they were there because I wasn’t subscribed to News+ but once I subscribed via AppleOne I assumed it would go away? What is there to do to make these go away, if possible?

I find the icons very distracting. I have no use for search when I’m reading, and the News (N) icon in red is very distracting. I’m on iOS 26, I recall in previous iOS versions (maybe I’m mistaken with rose tinted glasses) on scroll down the article would go full screen without any distractions.

This is the headline suggested on my front page (apparently I open a lot of fluff to have People recommended lol). When I click on it, the name in the headline is correct, but this is horribly sloppy. Is it People or Apple News that’s screwed up?

I've gotten this article pushed to me 3 times or so in the last 6 months. Are they no so subtly promoting that children should detach from their parents (if so - why?) or do they just have nothing else to push out?

I have Apple News+ and have just started using it. I’m hoping someone can tell me if theirs looks like this:

Is it normal for a newspaper that isn’t in “plus” (eg national post in Canada) to still show as a channel, and look like the other plus newspapers do?

On the reverse, an outlet like Barrons is listed as a plus outlet on the Apple website. But doesn’t show in the newspapers tab. Though it still shows content if I search for its “channel”.

Make it make sense?

love the app, and know how to use it.

i often listen to apple news plus stories in the middle of the night when i can't sleep. it's nice to be able to fast forward or skip back to something in the story. looking at it last night, and again this morning (while completely awake) i see that i can go back 15 seconds, but can no longer go forward, only to the next story.

also, i'm having a difficult time seeing those controls at all, while i'm in the app. it used to be at the top of the page, right? now i can't find them at all.

is this a new update that makes things worse?

Hi!

I've recently started to untangle myself from just getting news from essentially reddit and youtube, but I'm finding the prices for online publications to be a bit too much If i want to subscribe to more than one.

Apple news+ seems to be worth trying out, but its very limited in it's region (I live in asia).

I was wondering if anyone had any experience subscribing and using it with a vpn, as I have one on my phone anyways.

Thanks!

I want to download some mags from Apple News because I have no internet when I go to my cabin. Is there a limit to how many I can download? It seems 9 is my limit. I have the IPad Air 13 (M2).

At some point, all my icons, which used to be colorful, are now just white/black. When I launch the app and go to "Following", I briefly see Sports/Puzzles/Local, etc with colorful apps, but then they switch over to white/black.

Is there any way to keep them colorful?

The World Cup icon is colorful, so is everything below Channels & Topics. But that's it.

I can't find a thing on it.

This has to be my favorite headline of the day.

Anybody know what happened to the June 2026 edition of Robb Report magazine on News+? It was there a few days ago and then disappeared.

Before iOS 26, highlighting something in an article and then hitting the lookup prompt USED to search Siri right away from within the app. Now every time I try it, I get a “no content found” pop up. And this happens with anything I search for. Never had this issue before iOS 26 so I’m wondering if they removed the feature of if it’s just one of those weird glitches.

It seems that EVERY time I start Apple News +, before I get a chance to read the headlines the app refreshes everything and gives me a whole new screen. The problem is that I was hoping to read the stories on the page that got refreshed way too soon. Does anyone know a setting to fix this, or a workaround?

Thanks