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Really you guys have to do better
I LOVE NPR. But I really dislike this app. It’s soooo hard to navigate. I can’t find the shows I want or listen to them they way I want. I feel you keep forcing all you other shows down my throat & not giving me the opportunity to dive deeper into the shows I love & want to listen to. I keep deleting the ridiculous app. Then putting it back when you mess up my WONDERFUL, perfectly fine regular NPR app. Now I can’t fully listen to the shows I want there like morning editions a Saturday & Sunday. But I can’t easily find them &’once I do they don’t play the entire show as I would expect. I get sooo frustrated & now you lose a loyal listener to a program. Why are you doing this STOP, please STOP. I could add more to this list. But I’ll stop myself & see I f I can find the full show on regular Apple podcast or them just go to he internet & see if I can fully listen to the show. It really really really shouldn’t be this hard!!! Sorry Lulu another Sunday where I’ll miss the puzzler :(Show lessDcdana
Frustrating Scroll lag
Scrolling through the list of articles can be frustratingly slow. The fraction of a second pause is fairly consistent. Please fix.Pnutbetr
Stick with the iPad format
An....OK app, I guess. But as with NPR one, a downgrade from the very old good iPad app, NPR News.
Here, print articles are jumbled with audio, so one has to scroll through them ALL to just make a playlist😩
I will always support NPR, but their app designers are far more interested in bad “new” technology to predict what you want and pushing that at you than focusing on the quality of a good thing they had.Show lessvest fold
NPR11
Where is the ‘by program’ choice!
Agree that it’s too clutteredNPR11
Used to be good
This is lousy. Nothing works except the donate button.anothernicknameanothernickname
Please add playlist downloading or larger buffering
Thanks for the return of the playlist!
Please improve how the app deals with restarting after losing the internet connection. I almost always have to close and restart the app after losing the connection. Also, it would be great to have the option of downloading the entire playlist to the buffer. My internet connection is very spotty on my commute, and I miss NPR for a good portion of my train ride. Thanks!Show lessa.letton
Why is there “already played” list that can’t be deleted?
This is a pointless feature, totally inconsistent with normal app functionality, and is a privacy concern. Why even have this feature? It’s nice that you guys brought back a somewhat functional app but why do you insist on overthinking everything? The old NPR app worked fine, NPR One was deeply overthought (and overwrought) and barely functional and this new NPR app brings in some some of that limited functionality. It seems like it was designed by someone reviewing the corporate description of NPR - obsessive focus on repetitive news that generates local revenue for national NPR, as if it were the 90s and we weren’t able to get a news summary immediately by swiping on our phone - rather than actually providing access to the rich diversity of content available throughout the NPR network. It just doesn’t seem that hard to give people what they want and have clearly asked for for some time. It honestly seems like there are developers “guessing” at what users might want. Why not just ask them if it is so hard? Why waste all this time, money and waning good will creating limited functionality?Show lessTiff227
Please allow us to favorite and keep track of articles
This is an okay app, the redesign was fine for the most part. I wish that I could share stories more easily though- there is no easy share button at the top of an article. Also, unlike the old app, I can’t click on photos and see them in full screen. This ticks me off since on a mobile it is much harder to see a photo when you can’t make it bigger.
Secondly, PLEASE allow some sort of system for keeping track of interesting stories, even when they’re old. A favorite, starred, or other system would be very helpful. I know you don’t have that on your website either, and in fact it’s very rare on most news sites, but not having it makes it extremely difficult to keep track of anything.
Also, I would love it if I had the option to add on to my home tab with news from topics that I, THE USER, think are important/interesting. For example, there’s a “World” category- why can’t I ask the app to include those stories at the end of my home page? Or perhaps add a tab NEXT TO home that features News tailored to my interests? The current system means its much harder for me to stay up to date on topics I’m interested in, since I don’t want to have to go to each topic with several clicks. I just want ONE PLACE, ONE! where ALL the stories in the topics I’m interested in appear in a line, like on the home tab, or even in the home tab. Please include these changes. Thank you NPR.Show lessJoelJoeJoYo
Developer Response
Hi there, Thanks so much for your feedback. We really appreciate all of these suggestions - we are definitely thinking about how we can help personalize your experience and these are great ideas on that front that we will take under consideration. Lastly, I did want to note that you can share stories from the app. On the story page, on the top right corner, if you tap that box/arrow sharing icon, it will open a menu for sharing. I hope that helps in some way. Thanks again for your support of this app and NPR!terrible update
sooooo sorry i traded in a well designed, concise, uncluttered, version for this newer version. just awful interface. confusing to navigate. shows only a few past episodes for any given show. can’t seem to locate older shows or segments i may not have had a chance to listen to previously. too little info per page means much, much more button pushing than previously. really bad update. suggest you stick with what you’ve got until this developer unclutters and returns to a more streamlined offering. a real drag for me as i love the programs that npr produces. but this app update.... get me out of here! hate when this happens. get it together npr.Show lessLukeParnelle
So glad I’m not alone in loving the NPR News app (text edition)
It was a lesson for me - don’t just blindly trust the ‘update all‘
option in my iPad Air to bring in all the latest and greatest app versions. When I discovered my iPhone no longer had the trusty NPR News app because it was replaced by the newer NPR version, I was quick to save the old app in my iPad Air by skipping the app update always. Hoping to safeguard that app, I couldn’t bring myself to buying a newer iPad Pro that might auto update every app to the latest version. Well here’s good news: I finally bought the iPad Pro last week and at set up time, chose to install apps from the iPad Air backup. Viola! My beloved NPR News app was transferred over as is. Now I’m a happy camper and don’t no body messes with taking away the support of that app!Show lessTrueproIpod
