Leave a Review Vanity Fair Digital Edition
Try this
After upgrading to iOS 5, the app would go to the red opening screen, hover for a while, then crash. So I deleted the app, then redownloaded it from the Purchased apps section of the Apps Store, and, alas, all is well. Better then well. The issues download in a couple of minutes each -- they are large files, after all -- and they are a pleasure to navigate. Plus, I like the extras, such as book excerpts and videos. Hope this helps for those of you having problems.Show lessSiesta Sam
Great app!
Downloaded the free app today so have no experience with previous versions. It popped right up on my "newstand". Have been a VF subscriber for several years. Signed in with my Epicurious password and had no problem accessing the content. Took about 4 minutes to download the latest issue over home broadband wi fi. The interface is very easy to navigate. Great way to carry my current mag or revisit a previous issue.Show lessdraft63
Crashes, unable to use
Bought a digital subscription, crashes upon opening edition. Despite reinstalls I'm unable to use. Asking for refund.MacProse
Vanity Unfair
Love this app - when it works!!!!!
Bought the magazine, now find it has an add for Sprint (no thanks, I am an overseas subscriber), and it crashes the app.
VF - you need to fix this, now.Angryandy67
VF iPad Edition works – Account Access does not
While the VF edition displays each month's content very well, the user account access is the WORST I've seen for any publication or website. Pretty well impossible to access one's account information or, most importantly, verify what one has paid or will be billed for. Nowhere can one retrieve or view one's subscription information for the iPad edition.Show lessams1245588
Great app, great writing
Love the magazine, so that's a start. Vertical reading is great. Some articles are pages, others scroll like a web page. Slick app. Well-designed. Doesn't crash in my 5 issue experience.
Suggestions: add ability to email/share articles on article pages (maybe an icon next to the page map) - it would drive more web traffic from non-subscribers and it saves me having to go to the web site. Also, compress a bit more - takes a long time to download mag. Don't know anything about the app store, so maybe not possible.
I am a print subscriber and get all issues seamlessly once I got the email and print label # connected. Not sure what others are taking about - works perfectly and you only pay for the print subscription.Show lessRhinoBetsy
Frustration
VF has created a beautiful interface for reading the magazine and it delivers a user experience that can be more enjoyable than reading the hard copy. So it's really unfortunate that they can't make it work. I've now downloaded it twice and both times it simply crashed after using it a few times. The first time I used it for 5 or 6 issues (at around $5 a pop), and lost them all when the first download stopped working. This time, I was only able to download 2 issues before the app crashed, and what's truly annoying is that this time it died after I was able to read only one or two articles from the September issue. Of course there's no obvious place to obtain a refund or any sort of tech support. So I'll just go back to picking up the occasional copy from the newsstand.Show lessTedTuck
June issue - after 24 hours became available
UPDATE: great great app. I now find myself reading every single article and can't wait for the next one to come online. I am even thinking of subscribing to more Conde Nast magazines because of the well designed layout. Well done, VF.
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I finally was able to log with my print account info ( you need to have the information EXACTLY as it is on your address sticker) but when I log in I am only given access to the May edition, and not the June edition which I already have received the printed version. What's up with that?
UPDATE: Access to June came through yesterday afternoon. I love it but am not giving it 5 stars for I got an email (finally) from customer service. But it was wrong saying I hadn't registered properly. I suggest a little work on the support end or test your product before release. And monitor your FB page.
Including digital with print is awesome and even the "just digital" subscription is now within the $$ range I always thought it should be. Will go ahead and subscribe to a couple more of their magazines.Show lesslajimm
Strange
One would think the digital subscription would show up before the magazine has been on newsstands but guess not.SDET
Bad, buggy app with worse customer service
After working for awhile, the app crashed. When I deleted and reloaded it, all I was able to get was the "buy" option even after logging in. Many deletions and reinstalls later I got the same thing. A long series of emails to customer service started out friendly and got progressively worse as the problem wasn't getting fixed. I finally uninstalled the app and reinstalled it as they suggested (and as I had done several times previously) and guess what... it still doesn't work. Horrible app. Bad customer service. Makes me want to cancel my subscription.Show lessRancho3Gatitos
