New Update Terrible
The latest update has *ruined* the user experience. A menu bar at the top shortening the screen space, and an incredibly irritating second pop-up menu banner which slides onto the screen at the bottom any time you take you finger off the screen for more than a second. Together this greatly reduces the screen space for photos — the actual POINT of Pinterest. And the constant menu movement is horribly irritating. (Plus, have you gotten rid of the shortcut to tap the top to zip up to the beginning? That only seems to work now on the main feed…) Please *please* put these things back the way they were before!! At least have the new menu banners as something you can toggle (hidden/visible) to have options rather than them being forced on you, and/or have a menu icon to click for when you actually WANT to see the options available.
Plus, there is no point giving a link and asking for feedback on updates when it takes you to a highly complex help centre which doesn’t have any clear pathway for straightforwardly giving feedback 😒
Plus, there is no point giving a link and asking for feedback on updates when it takes you to a highly complex help centre which doesn’t have any clear pathway for straightforwardly giving feedback 😒
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“It’s Better On The App!”
No, it most certainly is not. You won’t be able to zoom in on pictures at least on Apple devices of any kind you won’t be able to select an image in a different file or tab you’ll be forced to go down that rabbit hole and there is no easy way to get back to why you were there in the first place. If you delete the app, it will force you, at some point, to come back on even if don’t for a while, eventually you will be forced because every time you use the browser site the question to try the app are relentless. You may evade this for a time to try it out on the app and sometimes they claim a certain function is only available on the app because of some functionality issue with the website. There’s literally no single advantage to the app other than you aren’t harassed to use it. There’s no tab function. There’s no view function you can’t zoom in on pictures. It will force you to look at a certain corner of a photo or something and then it brings you things like “oh it looks like you have a balloon in the corner, here’s 100,000 pictures different balloons and really you’re looking at the picture of IT. That’s what you’re trying to anyway The AI just doesn’t make any sense. I don’t necessarily care about the Clown from It, except for one time when I was trying to buy the right balloons that were eco friendly to put in a storm drain in the parking lot but it was too frustrating to use Pinterest
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Amazing but…
I love Pinterest, like I absolutely adore it. The only problem I have with it is that sometimes while making collages and publishing them, I don’t get any comments on them. Like I get the comments, but they don’t show up in my updates/messages section unlike when someone comments on my pins. Also, i don’t like how sometimes while uploading images from my camera roll into a board as a pin it doesn’t show up in the board so I have to go to my pins and save it into the board which gets really annoying after repeating it. It works most of the time but those times when it goes to my pins is just really annoying.
Edit: The new update now shows comments which I’m very thankful for as my content requires me to see the comments people are leaving! And as far as I’m certain, the pin thing might’ve been fixed as well. However, I agree with one of the other reviewers, have added by and the little icon and name on a Pinterest board kinda ruins the feels otherwise it’s fantastic!
Edit: The new update now shows comments which I’m very thankful for as my content requires me to see the comments people are leaving! And as far as I’m certain, the pin thing might’ve been fixed as well. However, I agree with one of the other reviewers, have added by and the little icon and name on a Pinterest board kinda ruins the feels otherwise it’s fantastic!
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year long pin glitch
I love the pinterest app and have been using it for about 10 years now, but for the last year or two every couple of days it will stop showing pins, just blank coloured squares instead. This is an issue I’m seeing online affect many people, with no responses from pinterest as to how they’re trying to fix this issue. I have tried everything myself and the internet can think of, but the only thing that works is waiting and seeing when the app randomly decides to start showing me pins again. There also doesn’t seem to be a customer helpline for Australians (that I can find, I could be wrong), and their online help page does not provide any references to this issue or suggestions on how to resolve it. I have seen from other people that the most they’ve heard back when they get in contact with pinterest (not in australia) about this issue is that pinterest does know about this issue. If they know about how widespread this issue is why aren’t they providing answers or even referencing the issue on their help sites even saying that they are trying to fix this bug?
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I love this app and I am very disappointed
I have been using Pinterest since the beginning of time and I love everything about it, I add at least 100 pins to each of my boards every day! However, I have noticed a growing epidemic of AI art and products infiltrating Pinterest and I am extremely worried about the implications of this. Pinterest is supposed to be a hub of creatives showcasing their extensive skills and sharing their handmade art together, and allowing AI to take over this website is harming this ideology, as well as the artists that Pinterest relies on to stay relevant. For an app focused on creativity, Pinterest does not seem to value its artists- though they are the backbone of this website- and frequently allow uncredited, copied and AI art onto the site. Yes, I may be biased because I am completely against the use of AI, but I strongly believe that Pinterest is the last place that AI should be. If you have any respect for the artistic integrity that is the foundation of your site, you would at least make it harder for artificial intelligence to infiltrate your website, or add some regulations so artists could be protected. Not every site needs to showcase some sort of AI, just because it is trending, and quite frankly if the amount of AI continues to increase I will be forced to, with a heavy heart, stop using this app. As an artist and a human being, I am begging you to cease the use of AI generated artwork and products on your website.
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great for inspiration but AI and ads are out of control
The app itself works just fine. I enjoy using it for inspiration and to help me visualize things for future plans or projects, so in that way it continues to mostly serve its original purpose. However, it seems every time I’m on there I get served more and more AI generated images. The amount of ads was frustrating enough for a while, but now I will get pages of imagery that isn’t actually showing real places or even real people. If I’m using Pinterest to get ideas for a realistically achievable patio space, or a new hair style or hair color, I don’t want to see computer-generated images of women who all have the same face or a landscaping job that doesn’t actually exist. Pinterest has a lot of value as a tool to help communicate goals and visual wants to professionals working with clients. How is it fair to professional designers if their clients keep bringing them images of things that never existed in reality in the first place? How is it fair to those same artists and designers if the work that is getting pinned and shared is not theirs, but is instead generated by a machine ? It’s frustrating at a basic level and very eerie and disturbing at another. I would love to see Pinterest advocate for the artists, designers, and content creators who use this space by cracking down on AI-generated posts. At least then the amount of ads might be more tolerable.
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Glitchy
This is so glitchy. Sometimes it organizes my boards in a way that I didn't organize and I try to change it, but it doesn't work, and every few days I use it, all of the pins are just blank colors, and it doesn't work for a whole day even on my computer, and when I google it, it's always like “probably needs updating,” but it doesn't, and it glitches if you've blocked someone. If you didn't unfollow them first, it says you will be following an extra person, but only lists the people you're actually following, but the following number will always be one extra.
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Hate the shopping feature
As a mobile user I loved being able to swipe down after opening a pin to continue browsing. Now almost every time I swipe an image I get random objects outlined in the pin to ‘shop’ with the image search feature (if you can call it a feature). Mobile use is one handed. Having users awkwardly reach to the top of the other side of the pin to click a ‘close’ icon button or selectively picking a spot in the image to swipe down from instead of swiping down anywhere is incredibly poor user experience and demonstrates how social media apps and platforms continue to put profit over users. Every. Time. As a long time lover of Pinterest as a concept and having spent much time on the app, I stomached the heavy use of ads when it was introduced but now I can’t spend more than 5 minutes on here without getting so frustrated I close it.
Pinterest, if you want some ideas - you can keep your shopping feature but how about you have to tap and hold an image to get shopping options. I have no doubt many of your employees came up with the same idea but someone higher up preferred that users accidentally tap through to third party shopping platforms when trying to navigate away from a pin because that meant more money in their pocket.
Pinterest, if you want some ideas - you can keep your shopping feature but how about you have to tap and hold an image to get shopping options. I have no doubt many of your employees came up with the same idea but someone higher up preferred that users accidentally tap through to third party shopping platforms when trying to navigate away from a pin because that meant more money in their pocket.
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Won’t work on my phone
I love this app, it’s amazing, definitely the most useful app I own as an artist and writer. There are so many inspirational ideas and tips I’ve found and I have been using it for years to improve on both. You can create private boards if you don’t want the public to see them, you can collaborate, you can make your own pins and comment on them. And there are SO MANY!! Loads and loads of ideas and inspiration. And if you’re not looking for that, there’s content of anything else as well. There’s truly nothing you can’t find on here.
I would give it a five star rating if it weren’t for a huge problem I haven’t been able to fix for an entire year. The app won’t work on my phone, at all! It works perfectly fine on my tablet and computer so I know it’s not just my account bugging out. I’ve searched everywhere for a solution and have tried every advice I have gotten but so far nothing has worked. Whenever I open the app from my phone every pin is an empty grey box. I wouldn’t mind this if it weren’t for the fact I like using it on my phone more than my other devices. The screen is smaller and fits the picture perfectly, I can write notes on pins that I cannot do for some reason on my tablet, or view my favourite ones, and it is overall easier to use. If there is a way to fix this problem that could work I would gladly take it, it’s really an amazing app, I’m just so tired of not being able to use it on my phone.
I would give it a five star rating if it weren’t for a huge problem I haven’t been able to fix for an entire year. The app won’t work on my phone, at all! It works perfectly fine on my tablet and computer so I know it’s not just my account bugging out. I’ve searched everywhere for a solution and have tried every advice I have gotten but so far nothing has worked. Whenever I open the app from my phone every pin is an empty grey box. I wouldn’t mind this if it weren’t for the fact I like using it on my phone more than my other devices. The screen is smaller and fits the picture perfectly, I can write notes on pins that I cannot do for some reason on my tablet, or view my favourite ones, and it is overall easier to use. If there is a way to fix this problem that could work I would gladly take it, it’s really an amazing app, I’m just so tired of not being able to use it on my phone.
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TOO MANY ADS AND AI PHOTOS RUINING PINTEREST
I’ve been using Pinterest for years and I love it but it’s gone completely downhill. The amount of ads now is absolutely insane, my feed is probably more ads now than actual pins! It’s completely ruining the experience of the app when every second square is an ad. Also a lot of the ads are for Shein and Temu which are both terrible!
I have also noticed when I was looking for inspiration for a haircut I wanted, some of the images were of AI women! And when i went to look at pictures of interiors, so many of the pictures were just AI generated! It was actually very hard to tell that a lot of them were AI and only someone who knows how to spot AI would be able to tell. I don’t want to be getting inspiration from images that aren’t even real and I’m sure most people who use Pinterest agree!
It’s so frustrating because I use Pinterest almost every day but I can’t ignore that the app is declining at a rapid rate. FIX YOUR APP
I have also noticed when I was looking for inspiration for a haircut I wanted, some of the images were of AI women! And when i went to look at pictures of interiors, so many of the pictures were just AI generated! It was actually very hard to tell that a lot of them were AI and only someone who knows how to spot AI would be able to tell. I don’t want to be getting inspiration from images that aren’t even real and I’m sure most people who use Pinterest agree!
It’s so frustrating because I use Pinterest almost every day but I can’t ignore that the app is declining at a rapid rate. FIX YOUR APP
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