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.
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.
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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.
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.
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Makes phone run VERY hot
Using an iPhone 12 Pro Max, the app makes my phone run extremely hot. Usually I have to close the app and put my phone down to let it cool off.
This is the only app that does this, except for some games, and I have tried it with other devices like my iPhone 11 Pro Max and my partner’s iPhone; all do the same thing.
I suspect it’s because the app is loading a lot of content in the background and therefore using the antenna a lot, but really it should not make your phone run as hot as it does!
This is the only app that does this, except for some games, and I have tried it with other devices like my iPhone 11 Pro Max and my partner’s iPhone; all do the same thing.
I suspect it’s because the app is loading a lot of content in the background and therefore using the antenna a lot, but really it should not make your phone run as hot as it does!
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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.
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.
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Could be so much better
After a minute with the app open my iPhone 12 Pro is hotter than the sun. This is without watching any videos, just reading content. It’s vexing and makes the app basically unusable.
Transitions to videos are awful. It’s very difficult to “trust” how you expect content to react to a click for fear of adverts / browser app launch. Horrible user experience for the above two reasons.
Transitions to videos are awful. It’s very difficult to “trust” how you expect content to react to a click for fear of adverts / browser app launch. Horrible user experience for the above two reasons.
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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.
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.
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Just, no
The app is going downhill fast. When scrolling thru the latest articles, the list seems to randomly update and add in new articles thrown in the middle and also changes the order of some of them. To make sure I didn’t miss anything, I have to go back to the top and start over. Today the app also starts playing an ad a couple seconds after being opened that can’t be turned off or skipped. Worse, it replays if you try to refresh the list by dragging down at the top of the list. Any links in an article can not be used, they aren’t even highlighted like a link should be. The article on the best ps5 ssd upgrades doesn’t even show their picks at all. Sometimes their new to Netflix and similar articles only have a video with no written list.
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Annoying auto playing sound!
IGN….if my phone is muted, I don’t want your app auto playing sound from videos. You are literally the only app on my phone that has a difficult time respecting my desires for my phone to be silenced! This latest app refresh has overall been filled with issues and frustrations; like basic things that are inexcusable to miss. But on the positive side, I’m glad you finally fixed the “back” button to work as it always SHOULD have worked on DAY ONE. For those that aren’t aware of these past atrocities, hitting the back button would take you back to the top of the article thread…and you’d lose your spot from scrolling. It took them a few months to fix this issue.
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Ridiculous power drain
This app is one of the few apps that within a couple of minute makes my iPhone 12 hot to touch. Why is it so badly optimised compared to the same content in any browser? It is like you are playing a high end game to just read a little text and watch a video. Within a short while a noticeable percentage of the battery is gone.
In addition to this the way the content is laid out is not intuitive. If you want to read anything from a couple of days earlier the scrolling is painful, then when you exit the article it takes you right back to the top again.
So much good content that I rarely look at due to the awful app.
In addition to this the way the content is laid out is not intuitive. If you want to read anything from a couple of days earlier the scrolling is painful, then when you exit the article it takes you right back to the top again.
So much good content that I rarely look at due to the awful app.
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New Update...New Problems
Once again a new update rolls around and all of my prior bookmarked content gets deleted...Try to add new bookmarked contact then go back to continue scrolling, but instead you restart back at the very top of content then have to scroll through all over again. They attempted to make this slightly better with a quick save by long pressing outside of the article. This worked initially, but it now hasn’t worked in a few weeks. Haven’t rechecked yet, but initial app update when max scrolling content on any tab would cause the app to crash. I love IGN for what they provide like no place else, and have for as long as I can remember, but this is classic problems with a fresh coat of paint.
Edit: save feature finally working again
Edit: save feature finally working again
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