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Aesthetically, it’s good. Technically, it needs work.
The app has a slew of issues. I did like some of the upgrades, for instance, the app looks much cleaner. But with that change, most links won’t appear on the app, making the “daily deals” a useless article through the app. There is also no way to currently search for articles, videos, or reviews. All in all, as it stands, it’s easier and functions better to just open the site through the internet and avoid the app.
Update: they have added a way to bookmark and search items. But some previous features are still missing such as turning off video auto-play, hiding review scores, and quality of life settings.Show lessDoug#1
New app update fixed the lag but battery and data problems still remain.
Hey, I really enjoy looking through the ign content and it has been my go to for game info for probably a decade. With that being said I have had to revert to using the website version (which I feel is serviceable at best) because the newer iOS app is a disaster. *Edit: originally the app was a disaster because it crashed and wouldn’t scroll correctly. Now those problems are corrected. However worse and more insidious problems came with it. I’ve had to turn off cellular data for the app because it will blow through all of my data while running in the background. All in one night. I just wake up to a flood of texts saying I’m at 25% of my data, 10% data, 0% data, etc. Very worrisome. Turning off cell data helps this but at home when I’m connected to wifi it still runs through data and I wake up with a low battery. What gives? They said this was fixed on the last update but I assure you it remains an issue.Show lessjmar2212
Developer Response
Hey there! If you get a chance, check out our new 6.1 update that includes search, as well as bug fixes for videos causing background data and battery usage.Lazy app that doesn’t work
Things the IGN app doesn’t do
-allow you to comment without bugging out
-allow you to stay signed in between uses
-allow you to see replies to comments
-show you the most recent posts
Things it does do
-constantly tells you “sign up to post” even though you’re signed I
-log you out randomly while using the app
-shows you random articles and reposts of articles instead of recent news
-shoves ads down your throat at every second, in the main menu, the articles, even before ads for videos they were paid to post
This app does nothing well and never really has worked well. Though it’s more recent updates make the app look empty and unappealing. Not that it matters because I’m kinda tired of IGN articles anyway, who wants to read an article titled “is there an end credit scene to …” and get 6 paragraphs on the success of the movie, 4 on the history of end credit scenes and then a one sentence at the end that’s actually relevant to the point of the article. My sister is an English teacher and she actually has me send her articles from IGN because they’re so poorly written they make great examples of how not to write articles.Show lessBrandoncomandon
Broken
I’ve never reviewed an app before, but I want some way to just maybe let ign see how broken this app is. The in-app video player is a mess. It takes forever to load no matter where I am, and if you’re watching more than one video a day prepare for the same ad before every video. They’ve completely removed the search option so finding past content is nearly impossible. And worst of all, nearly every time I scroll down a ways it suddenly reloads the screen to load in ads and the articles I was looking at have disappeared. This app used to be great, but when they did their redesign it broke so much. IGN itself usually has great articles (minus the never ending “top 10” lists…just stop that). I wish it were easier to get to them though.Show lessBradW1987
Ad Simulator
If you want to click and look through ads, search no further! More ad than text, the ign app does away with pesky nerd culture and replaces it instead with ad culture! Trying to scroll through a review? Oops you clicked an ad! Find an interesting comment from a user? Oops, that’s an ad! Thinking of learning a bit about the latest piece of hardware? Just kidding! It’s more ads!
In all seriousness, the website outside the app works fine, but the app itself is unusable with an iPhone. Clicking and dragging to scroll auto opens any videos. This means… you guessed it! Clicking on every single ad in every single article.
If this is fixed maybe I’ll change review, until then… don’t download the app.Show lessBlda576
Good for news updates but has tech issues
IGN’s app is great for keeping up on all the latest gaming and movie news, but recent updates have provided more technical issues than ever before. Video playback is finicky and sometimes it takes several refreshes to get updates to pop up. I’ve also been using this app across at least 3 different iPhones over the past, and every time I’ve had a problem where this app is the biggest battery killer over any other app I use. I’ll have it open for maybe 5 minutes and my phone will be extremely hot. No other app does this. Other than that, great gaming news and they are always on top of that in a timely manner.Show lessKem1cal_Warfare
So So Content, Laughably Bad App
Even if the quality of IGN's content had not fallen off so much over the years (which I don't blame on the staff, who I know are trying their best to balance what can often be a toxic audience in gaming with an owner in Ziff-Davis that has largely been the driving force behind the site's decline), I still would not recommend this app.
When stories or features do actually load without a need to close and restart the app, you still have to put up with ridiculous things like the lack of any option to keep videos from auto playing (there is an option to keep *the next* video from auto playing, but you are not able to prevent *all* videos from auto playing). If I wanted to watch the videos, I'll click play on them.Show less_Vices_
New App is bad
**APP CAUSING OVERHEATING
I have an iPhone 12 pro. The IGN app is buggy, freezes, and eats battery like mobile games do. I had been wondering why my phone kept getting hot and I looked and the IGN app is about 13% my battery over the last 10 days with 2 hours of screen time. The next app was clash of clans with 12% over 10 days and almost 8 1/2 hours of screen time. So the IGN app ate 13% of my battery in significantly less time than clash of clans did and CoC had way more screen time. Next is their video player is so buggy. Also takes multiple steps now to put it in landscape mode when my phone is normally locked in portrait orientation. The video player will play adds every single time, but the actual video I want to see won’t start or freezes after it does. Finally is the app is nice looking but features have been removed and adds auto pop-up now at random times even when I didnt tap to see the add. Im sure this is go drive more traffic to their add partners. Im sorry IGN i really used it daily but now I can’t because the new app is worse.Show lessCwolf14235
New update is unusable
Update…. App has just got worse in the months since I posted the review. Now on the rare occasion I do see a relevant article that I’m interested in the app just crashes every time I try to open the article. Finally just deleted the app. So disappointed as IGN has been my only source for movie, tv, and video game news for almost a decade. This is absolute garbage and it seems the developers have no intentions of backtracking on whatever this disastrous new format is. Would downgrade to negative 5,000 stars if possible.
Original: I have been using the IGN app for several years as my go to place for all media news, but this new update to the interface has rendered the entire app basically unusable. Nothing seems to be in any particular order, I’ll see 3 articles from various times throughout the current day and then the next 7 articles are from 2-3 months ago, and review posts are so broken they don’t even display the number out of 10 for the review when the same review on the website is displayed completely and correctly. Would give zero stars if possible.Show lessCoder Potts
Nice Design, But No Search???
The redesign is slick and appealing. However, the lack of search functionality is reminiscent of the dawn of web design. For a site that publishes endless content on games, movies, tv and tech not have the ability to search for content within the app is crazy (and the content is great, I’ve consumed IGN content for years).
Should I scroll endlessly to find a review of a show that came out last year…sounds good I have nothing else to do today. It’s a hilariously poor decision.
Don’t bother downloading this app until they fix it. Visit the site instead, where they have a search icon in the top right corner like any website built in the last 20 years. Smh…it’s just ridiculous.Show lessgwj519
