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Great app, but the battery?
I love this app. It allows me to read C/D issues from all the way back to 2010. But I have an odd issue with it.
It eats my battery like crazy. I don’t understand why. I’m not sure if all magazine apps are like this, but for me, it uses about 0.5-1% of my battery per minute. I have an iPhone 14, and it’s less than a year old. It shouldn’t drain this fast.
The Car and Driver app is really cool, but if you could sort out the battery-life issue, that would be great.
Thank you for your time.Show lessFordstangsvtcobrar4ever
Unusable
Just subscribed digitally but unfortunately did not read recent reviews of the app. The app in iPad format fails miserably at the most basic level – displaying content. There's not much more to elaborate on, but when you see a blank screen rather than the content you're paying for, the app is basically unusable.Show lessJakeRoux
Dumpster fire
I chose to subscribe to the digital version of C&D to be environmentally friendly but the app is horrible. Half the time, the content is displayed without any images or CSS formatting, so it's just walls of bizarrely formatted text in Times New Roman. Then there's the problem that the app burns through battery power (and makes my phone uncomfortably hot) even when it's doing basically nothing. And there was a problem a few months ago where the links in the table of contents didn't work, making the app almost completely useless.
I'm going back to the paper version of the magazine the instant my subscription expires. The app is horrible.Show lessTonNekat
App will not let you access your purchase. Support will not respond.
App stopped working for the Jan 2024 issue. Still works for back issues. App support refuses to reply or fix the issue. Have been trying to reach them for a week. You will only get a form response with a solution that doesn’t work. Shameful.Jeff Gerth
So close to unsubscribing
I’ve had this app for years and the inconsistency with the release of digital issues on this has gotten ridiculous. Why am I seeing issues available on 3rd party apps like the news app weeks before the official app!!?? Not to mention the physical copies.
GET IT TOGETHER HAERST!!RuRu_Junior
Where’s my January 2024 electronic issue???
It’s January 10, 2024 and I still haven’t received the January 2024 electronic issue of Car and Driver. Usually it arrives by the end of the previous month. Phone calls and emails have accomplished nothing. No customer service at all. If I could I would cancel the remaining 6 months of my subscription.Show lessCustomer That’s Dissatisfied.
Sucky app
Sometimes I can download and sometimes I can’t.
When reading a magazine, it takes about 5 minutes and my iPhone is almost too hot to touch. For some reason this app takes a lot of processor power and this is a battery pig.
I can’t wait to go back to the paper version of the magazine.Mathme2
Broken in iOS 17
After I updated to the newer operating system on my iPad, the app is broken. Text still shows up, but there are no pictures on subsequent viewing of an article or the TOC.MTKA Dave
Not usable anymore
This app was never that great.
Then, for a while, you had to download issues offline or they would render all wrong. No graphics or formatting, all text was in 12 point Times New Roman. Okay, fine, at least there's a workaround.
Now for the last 2 months, the links in the table of contents don't work. So there's no way to get to the articles you want to read other than tediously scrolling page by page from the start of the magazine. This is frankly unusable.
I have emailed the apps support email. No response. I don't know what to do. I would love a refund but don't know how to go about getting one.Show lessBurns up battery, won’t remember place in article; content great though
This chews up my new iPhone’s battery at a rate of 25% per hour, heating up the entire phone. This happens even when not interacting with the app! This is in “text” mode on downloaded issues. I rarely use “PDF” mode on the phone because of all the scrolling and zooming required. Terrible quality control in power usage. I can read an ebook for hours without denting the battery.
When you swipe left or right from an article, all to easy to do by accident, the app always scrolls back to the top. This is inconvenient.
Otherwise I always enjoy the content. Please fix these problems with the app.Show lessPostfixated
