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Menu buttons intrusive
I love Pinterest and use it all the time to scroll images and screenshot text based content.
However the new update has really large and intrusive navigation when viewing a pin. The fade and the white controls at the top blocks content and dulls the colour. The View/Save solid bar at the bottom on long pics makes the viewing window way too small. Please make these controls less intrusive so we can properly see and enjoy the pins.
Really enjoying the sorting feature to sort older large boards into sub boards. Much easier to reorganise.Show lessSanana.B.
True Review ✨
I love Pinterest 🤗! I started using it when my friend would always send me funny videos and cute animal videos, but I wouldn’t be able to watch them, so I decided to get it and make an account. I didn’t know what to do at first and I asked my friend lots of questions but soon- I got it (remember this was on my IPad). After a few weeks, I downloaded it on my phone 📱, but it wouldn’t work. It would stay on the loading screen, no matter how many times I reset my phone, deleted then reinstalled.. it wouldn’t work.
I think this is probably just my Wifi as it does work on different internet connections, but this has really frustrated me in the past. I’m sure it is just my wifi, so please don’t reconsider getting this app because I have been glued to this before for hours!
This is a great app! 😊 Save yourself the thought 💭!!!Show lessCUPCAKES.... WHERE?!?
Nice app with frustrating bugs/features
Content is lovely, Pinterest is good at recommending stuff I like. I also enjoy that images can have any dimensions. But there’s a few issues that drive me crazy.
1. The comments. Sometimes there’s ones missing, sometimes it says there’s comments but none show up, sometimes you can’t click on replies. I’m not sure how but it never works completely. Just spent 20 minutes trying to post 4 replies and failed, so I’m a bit frustrated.
2. Zooming in on an image is very difficult, since it opens “more like this” which covers about a third of the screen. You can’t even scroll down to the bottom of the image without having to keep your finger on the screen so it doesn’t get covered by More Like This again.
3. The visual search button on the bottom right that sometimes covers content there the bottom, you can zoom in to read text underneath the white magnifying glass, but then you gotta deal with the More Like This pop up.
4. Personal preference, but I don’t like the story format that automatically switches image, I can never read/look at everything in the image before it already moves on to the next, so I have to click to go back constantly. As far as I know there’s no way to block that form of content.Show lessNewAmsterdamInBrooklyn
is there a reason why y’all decided to become tiktok
i miss having the sections to browse my other boards. having a main page and a watch page is not fun! also bring back photo comments weirdos !
not everyone needs to b tik tok! stay in ur lane!swaggy for life
Disappointed with moves away from original product
Pinterest continues to make more changes that move the app further and further away from why I use it: to find, save, and share ideas. I finally decided to write this review because the primary “+” button now isn’t for pins but for Instragram-like “stories”. Now you have to hunt to find the right “+” button under profile to add a pin from a website.
Additionally, users no longer have control to edit the title and description of pins. Just notes to self or comments. I used to use this heavily for describing my modifications to recipes or notes on what I’d like to do on a particular project with my wife. The loss of control is frustrating.
Lastly, Instagram’s approach to advertisements is anti-customer. I understand the need to monetize, but PLEASE don’t make the interaction so challenging that it “traps” your users in the ad. Two examples of this: 1) you can’t swipe down to dismiss an ad like you do any other pin - you have to reach up to the top-left of your screen and tap on the small back arrow, and 2) swiping up opens the ad instead of showing similar content - so then you have to tap “done” and the back arrow to get back to normal content. Instead, you should make the interaction/navigation similar to all other content. Your ads are “landmines” and I get so frustrated when I tap on one. Doesn’t have to be that way.Show lessjtysonwilliams
Ads are getting worse
Video ads with sound make the app slower and interrupts/pauses if you’re listening to something while browsingEmileine
Used to be great
This app used to be my absolute favourite, spent a ton of time on there. It’s been destroyed by its developers, I have no idea why, but they have taken away every useful feature it had. My feed is now full of irrelevant pins and when I try to search I get the same links over and over, usually to stuff they want me to buy. When someone comes up with an app that does what Pinterest used to do, I’ll download it in a heartbeat.Show lessUnabashedVixen
I Hate Idea Pins.
I have loved pinterest for years and use it almost every day. I enjoy that it is more simple and unique and doesn't have updated features every few weeks trying to compete with all the other social apps. However, I absolutely hate the new idea pins. If I wanted to group pins together I would put them in a board or a section of a board - I don't see the need for idea pins. They are pretty much all I am seeing in my 'more ideas' and 'posts like this' sections and it's really turning me off the app. I wish you could filter searches to just show photos/idea pins/video etc and turn off idea pins coming up in your suggestions. I often see a single photo that I would like to save in amongst an idea pin but i dont want to save all the photos so I have to just scroll away and hope I see that photo again one day to save it layer...I just dont get it and it clogs up my feed. Also please bring back the ability to search for boards by name on the app, it is still a feature for desktops and I wish they kept it on apps too.Show lesskejks
Noisy Ads!
UPDATE - why do you continue to update with more annoying things. It’s like you saw my review below and thought ‘let’s annoy her more’. Now it’s noisy video ads. I’m scrolling through and suddenly there is this blast of just NOISE from a pointless ad!!! Why?????
My friend and I used to joke (with a huge element of truth), that Pinterest was our salvation...our meditation room. When we were stressed, or needed to unwind, we'd go to Pinterest. I've given up lots of my favourite relaxation channels lately; magazines, TV, radio, Facebook....all for the same reason....TOO MANY ADS!!!! I am SO fed up with ads...I can't stand their overuse and I've made it my mission to not purchase things that over advertise. So I am livid now with the amount of ads on Pinterest now. It used to be the odd one or two, but I am now finding roughly every 6th image is an ad. I am constantly selecting the 'I just don't like ads' option, but this seems to prompt more. I really hate this and Pinterest is no longer a pleasure. If there is an option to pay to get rid of them, please let me know...I will consider paying so I can enjoy the service again. But please....enough!!!! You really do cheapen yourself by resorting to the amount of ads you show!Show lessSpockney
No videos please
I love Pinterest, it’s my absolute favorite way to kill time and I’m almost constantly on the app on my phone.
I don’t like the new GUI That came with the recent update, however. To me, Pinterest will always be a picture site and I don’t like how all social media seems to be shifting to focus on videos more. I don’t like the new “watch” tab that I’m constantly accidentally swiping into while trying to scroll in bed. I probably wouldn’t have as much of an issue if it the watch tab could be underneath search, or somewhere else.
Another thing that’s bugging me is the menu bar. I think the previous design was much less intrusive and unique to Pinterest, but the solid white bar is jarring and boring.
(Also if you do move the watch tab, please don’t add a button to the menu, It would mess with the tried and true and beloved system users are Used to and enjoy)Show lessRegal Nuisance
