I see. Bloomberg seems to be different from Bloomberg Business Week, which is included.
I’ve been testing AppleNews + this month with a trial subscription. Generally it’s interesting. And I have full access to some magazines I haven’t read lately which I always liked. But the UI itself leaves some things to be desired. For example, I’m on “Today” right now and while it’s correctly showing April 8th, the news is from a day ago. And I can’t seem to refresh it.
And the News+ on the left seems to be stuck on a picture of Tiger Woods and Vanessa Trump all month.
Sharing from Apple News+ to social media like FaceBook is cumbersome. You can copy a link to the article, but there is no share to FaceBook (for example) icon. So you have to copy the link, go to FB, paste the link, go back to the article, copy an excerpt you wanted to share, go back to FaceBook and paste it.
Awkward.
When I hit the Share icon, it gives me the standard iOS share sheet. I don’t use Facebook all that much anymore, so it’s not in my primary set of share sheet icons, but if I horizontally scroll the icons to “more” then Facebook is there.
I didn’t actually try sharing something, but tapping the Facebook icon looks like it will work fine.
Discovered this morning that one thing that is NOT included in Apple News/ News+ seems to be the ability to print. Put the kid into the News app to find a news story for a school assignment, he found one, and neither the iPad nor the Mac News app offered the ability to print it. On the Mac I was able to copy a link that pointed to the regular web version of the story, and as that was not paywalled I was able to print it from Safari.
I assume it’s because of some kind of contractual arrangement between Apple and the publishers, but in this particular use case – the teacher needs a printed copy of the article he’s looking at – the limitation is pretty annoying.
Dave
That reminds me of one of my favorite utilities, Jeff Johnson’s StopTheNews (see link below). When someone shares an Apple News link with me via Messages or another source, I almost always prefer opening the original content source in Safari, rather than in Apple News:
StopTheNews is an app for macOS (10.14 Mojave or later) that automatically handles Apple News URLs instead of News app. If you allow Safari to open an Apple News URL in StopTheNews, the original article will then open in Safari instead of News app.
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In my opinion totally worth it! News+ has 432 newspapers and magazines (that count includes some non-print titles like the excellent Vox Media). The magazines are cover-to cover scans - some with News-native table of contents, others with thumbnail views. Example: Like to tinker with a Raspberry Pi? Favorite the UK’s excellent Linux Format and get all the news and tips, or learn how to set up a Linux media server, etc.
When there’s important news happening somewhere in the U.S., I find the nearest newspaper in News+ and see what local journalists are reporting. Plus the wide variety of voices (some of whom I read with greater skepticism) ensures I’m not living in a news bubble.
I have not noticed any news article being abridged (you can choose File > View in Safari to jump to the original), although sidebars and some graphics may not show up. I just saw a Verge article with an iFrame to a Bluesky post, which in News shows up as a small “View on the original site” link. Although there are ads in the News version of articles, they are not animated, and I find the layout to be much less distracting that many original sites (no popup videos of course!).
Top news articles are selected by editors at Apple who are doing a good job - don’t forget the More Top News stories link, where 30 selected articles from 17 sources have appeared in the last 24 hours.
App-wide search is particularly useful (and no search ads!). Search for all reviews everywhere for some product, or search some topic of interest: “smoot-hawley” has 56 hits going back 16 years!
Yes, newspapers don’t put all their articles in News. Some give you more when you have their subscription. On the plus side (pun intended), I often find paywalled articles that are available in News+ without a newspaper subscription (I search News for the title). Or, is there a site you’d rather not hear from? Block it!
I hope you give it a try and see for yourself.
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Oh, I’m definitely trying it. For the most part I like it. But there are some annoyances in addition to the sharing.
I think the general layout of articles is harder to read than on the web. It’s narrow in the frame rather than mostly full width like articles you read by going to a newspaper directly. It might look better on an iPad. In fact, it might be good use of a tablet.
The News+ item is annoying.
For the entire month it’s been stuck on a People article about Tiger Woods & Vanessa Trump. I see no way of refreshing that.
The first “Today” section is sometimes hard to refresh.
Generally I’m still finding it interesting. Before my trial expires at the end of the month I’ll decide whether to renew or not.
Hi Doug!
Great. I think the Best of News+ feed should be more diverse the more you use the app. But I would have expected there to be more by now, so something could be wrong. Or do you have the Downloaded tab selected? You could leave it set to My Magazines.
Enjoy,
-Paul
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It’s set to “Best of News+”. I haven’t actually downloaded anything yet.
Until your reply I didn’t even notice there were tabs there. 
I just looked at the different tabs. And when I went back to “Best of News+” it changes (thankfully) to new items. So something must have been stuck.
Thanks.
It seems like “Today” is growing over time. Before the scroll down through stories was pretty short. Now it goes on for a long time. And I’m seeing stories and publications I wasn’t seeing elsewhere.
It’s growing on me. My sister, with whom I’m sharing it, seems like like it as well.
I’ve become a fan over time, but it’s as part of my Apple One family subscription. I value the magazines and the ability to jump onto news sites I don’t subscribe to. I’ve enough news subscribed, NYT, the Guardian, Irish Times, The Currency (another Irish site), enough already.
The biggest issue is sharing links from it but StopTheNews might just be the ticket!
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Just an aside on the iOS interface for Apple News that I noticed only in its application. If you have one finger touching the screen and then place another finger on the other side of the screen and move it up or down, the article will rotate on the screen, but the newsfeed below it remains in place. Just a fun thing to try over your weekend.
Interesting. I don’t see that though. Plus if you hold your finger down on an article you get a popup with options:
How do I share a video on the board?
You go to one article and it works (click on it to read it). Does not do it from the overview/main area.
I see. I can duplicate it. But to what purpose?
Just for fun. It was just something I came across that obviously has something to do with how they code it, but I have never seen something like that before.
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Have you encountered an affirmative statement by Apple regarding addition articles for concurrent subscribers? If so, does it also explain whether it is universally applied or determined by the publication? A link would be welcomed.
Not that I recall. When we had a subscription to the Washington Post, it could be linked with Apple News and display a “Subscribed” badge there. I don’t really know what that did in terms of article availability inside Apple News.
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