Washington Post

The Washington Post

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About this app

The app is free to download and keeps you informed with expert coverage from Post journalists.

PRODUCT FEATURES
• Stay informed with the 24/7 feed of today’s news.
• Wake up with The 7, a better morning briefing on the day’s most important and interesting stories.
• Customize your alerts to be the first to know when news is breaking.
• Catch up with today’s stories by listening to original podcasts and audio articles.
• Discover something new in My Post, a curated feed with recommendations just for you.
• Dive deeper into Post journalism with innovative graphics, video, and augmented reality exclusives.

Ratings and reviews

The latest update ruined what has until now been a stellar app. Now, unfortunately, whenever you hit the back button after reading an article, the app brings you back to the top of the feed, losing your place every time as you are perusing articles if interest. It's every bit as annoying as a constantly updating Facebook feed. Very disappointing!

When you swipe to a side, even slightly, the app will navigate to a different page. This is doubly frustrating because it will return to the start of whatever you were reading if you hit back, not where you left off. The games section needs an overhaul too. The side swipe issue mentioned above is a problem here. But so are the enormous banners and paragraphs of explanatory text on every game. You constantly have to scroll up and down to keep your crossword or whatever in view.

I had an online subscription to the Post for years - it's still active, but will expire in November. However, the content is interrupted by continuous ads that I must scroll past - despite the fact I'm personally paying for the content. I thought the case might be different if I got the app, but it's not. The app offers no advantage over the WP website - still bombarded by ads. A sad situation for one of the US's two newspapers of record.

What's new

This release contains performance improvements and bug fixes.