The Sydney Morning Herald

I really like the smh app and currently have the free version, using on my ipad, using ios 13.3.1. I was wondering why, though, some of the photos in the app appear not to be formatted properly, eg sometimes only showing the top of someone’s head, or oriented sideways! I realise I’m only using the free version, however this seems a really basic bit of quality control that seems to be being bypassed

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Take care with the SMH apps. Did you know there are not one but two SMH apps for the iPad? But only one for the iPhone? Look closely … the app with a black S logo on white background runs on the iPad, and you subscribe through iTunes. The white S logo on a black background runs on both iPad & iPhone, and you subscribe through what used to be Fairfax. Both apps function relatively well, for what they are, but the iPhone app pesters you to subscribe even if you’ve already subscribed via iTunes. End result … for several years I’ve had dual subscriptions unnecessarily resulting in some excess $1700 spend. The confusion about subscriptions may be deliberately caused by Fairfax and in my opinion amounts to unconscionable conduct. Caveat emptor.

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This app lets me sit in a bubble of seeing only what I have set in advance that I want to see. If I want to be surprised by an interesting article that is outside my “box” this app doesn’t give me the opportunity to. It stops my browsing when I have run out of articles in my chosen categories. I read several different news sites. “Read” is a significant word. I want real news with skilled editing. I feel that this app forces me to eat popcorn when I really want to browse the smorgasbord. I hate it and I’m going back to the website version. Oh and my subscription is with the Herald itself, not with iTunes. Trust Apple to want its slice of the cake! Is that why it’s the app of the day?

I have gone back to the web version of the SMH. It is more news oriented and up to date. The app itself is easy to use and at first has a pleasant look and feel but the use of “clickbait” style half sentences under images is very irritating. It means I have to actuall click an image to see if I want to read the story. Half the tme I do not. With the web version I can scan the page see what interests me and go back and forth in a more natural way.

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The app seems well developed for what it is but I can’t even browse articles in a specific category. All I can do is add some to My News but that just creates a feed of what I might want to read. The web app is far easier to find what I want. I was hoping the crosswords would be available but this is only for iPad unfortunately. Until crosswords are available on iPhone I probably won’t use this app.