# The Advertiser. — Latest & breaking news from SA

> South Australian news, breaking stories, digital newspaper, and podcasts. (iPhone/iPad app by News Digital Media.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-advertiser/id399165211 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [News Digital Media](https://appshunter.io/developer/369849699)
- Category: News, Magazines & Newspapers
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 1.94/5 from 128 App Store ratings · 94 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 16.0 · 152 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2010-12-14
- Data updated: 2026-08-27
- Monetization: freemium
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-advertiser/id399165211/reviews.md

## What is The Advertiser.?

The Advertiser app delivers the latest news and biggest stories as they happen, from our team of award-winning journalists in South Australia, Australia and the globe. 
Get a read on today with our breadth of content, award-winning journalism and trusted local perspectives. We are proud to tell the incredible stories every hour of every day with The Advertiser app. 

Subscribers of The Advertiser (other than Today's Paper digital replica subscribers) will have access to:

PERSONALISE YOUR NEWS FEED
Set your local news area, follow journalists and topics, plus your favourite sporting codes and teams. All of your customised preferences will appear on the home screen so you can get straight to what matters to you.

CUSTOMISED NOTIFICATIONS
Receive alerts on the stories that matter most as they happen. Tailor your notifications from a range of topics from breaking news, sport and entertainment to business updates and lifestyle.

READ TODAY’S PAPER ON YOUR DEVICE
Read the paper on the go with the digital replica of today’s newspaper. Access to the paper anytime, anywhere with the digital replica of the paper, as it’s printed. 

DISCOVER OUR RANGE OF PODCASTS
Explore and listen to a wide range of podcasts from our team of dedicated journalists across the News+ network.

The Advertiser app for mobile and tablet is free to download, however to gain full access to the app's content and features simply subscribe for Member-only access.
Member-only access gives you full digital access to thousands of subscriber only stories, the digital replica of the paper, puzzles and more of what you love.

How to gain full access to the app's content and features:

1) Existing members of The Advertiser (other than subscribers to Today's Paper digital replica) can log in to the app when prompted using their membership details; or,
2) Become a member by subscribing through the app (via iTunes)
• Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal
• Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period
• Auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase.
• Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase.

For full Terms and Conditions please visit https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/more-information/terms-and-conditions and our Privacy Policy, please visit preferences.news.com.au

Please note: This app features Nielsen’s proprietary measurement software which will allow you to contribute to market research. Please see www.nielsen.com/digitalprivacy for more information.

## Key features

- Breaking news updates
- Personalized news feed
- Customizable notifications
- Digital newspaper replica
- Podcast library
- Subscriber-only content

## What do users think of The Advertiser.?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 👍 Digital paper format
- 👍 Works on iPad/phone

**Cons**

- 🐛 Unstable app
- 🐛 Terrible interface
- 🐛 Biased journalism
- 🐛 Disturbing video previews
- 🐛 Auto-play video nausea
- 🐛 Slow link opening
- 🐛 Difficult to refresh
- 🐛 Regular typos
- 🐛 Cheap journalism
- 🐛 Clickbait headlines
- 🐛 Headlines tease non-existent topics
- 🐛 New banners hide top stories
- 🐛 Few story updates
- 🐛 Latest update horrible
- 🐛 Can't restore purchase on iPhone
- 🐛 Comments approved then removed
- 🐛 Left-wing comment moderation
- 🐛 Never publishes comments
- 🐛 Censorship of opinions
- 🐛 Video ads before news videos
- 🐛 Repeated comments
- 🐛 Ad banners in paragraphs
- 🐛 Video windows open full screen
- 🐛 Frustrating reading experience
- 🐛 Whole screen pop-ups
- 🐛 Jittery scrolling
- 🐛 Main page reloads on exit
- 🐛 Awful new notification sound
- 🐛 Taken back to top article
- 🐛 Photo captions illegible
- 🐛 AI moderators/censors
- 🐛 Customer service sucks
- 🐛 No accountability
- 🐛 Scamming users
- 🐛 Cannot cancel subscription online
- 🐛 Upselling on phone calls
- 🐛 Poorly worded articles
- 🐛 Embedded videos irrelevant
- 🐛 Randomly rearranges stories
- 🐛 Crosswords changed
- 🐛 Getting worse
- 🐛 Controls too small for low vision
- 🐛 Hard to locate controls
- 🐛 Small lettering/symbols missed
- 🐛 Unable to comment/like
- 🐛 What is a 'Premium User'?
- 🐛 Pop-up bar for recipes
- 🐛 Clues unavailable
- 🐛 App freezes on menu access
- 🐛 Broken puzzles UI
- 🐛 Broken dark mode
- 🐛 Intrusive ads
- 🐛 Broken Sodoku number bar
- 🐛 Font adjustment lost
- 🐛 Can't comment as not premium
- 🐛 App freezes, can't use back button
- 🐛 Too much video autoplay
- 🐛 Links to video-only pages
- 🐛 Drains battery
- 🐛 Unauthorised audio background activity
- 🐛 Inconsistent printing
- 🐛 Background activity drains battery
- 🐛 High iPad battery consumption
- 🐛 Crossword clues over puzzle
- 🐛 Needs dark mode option
- 🐛 Interstate stories in SA top stories
- 🐛 Location ambiguity
- 🐛 Poor content quality control
- 🐛 Font size not expandable
- 🐛 Crossword section unreliable
- 🐛 Radio stops when app opens
- 🐛 Notifications for non-breaking news
- 🐛 App crashing
- 🐛 New story presentation format bad
- 🐛 Always logs out
- 🐛 Very left stories
- 🐛 Annoying to scroll one story at a time
- 🐛 Poor layout on top stories
- 🐛 Can't listen to music and read
- 🐛 Slow, clunky
- 🐛 Music stops when app opens
- 🐛 Cannot make/read comments
- 🐛 Subscription not recognized
- 🐛 Hate new format
- 🐛 Crosswords not working
- 🐛 Crashing numerous times
- 🐛 Blank pages
- 🐛 Saturday Crossquiz unavailable
- 🐛 Freezes going back to home page
- 🐛 Covers irrelevant news
- 🐛 Slow and badly constructed
- 🐛 Updated app doesn't work on older iPad
- 🐛 No search function
- 🐛 Too many advertisements
- 🐛 Only 31-day subscription
- 🐛 Small print subscription details
- 🐛 Full screen view button missing
- 🐛 Bright white screen at night
- 🐛 Failure to load comments
- 🐛 Quick crossword is cryptic
- 🐛 Won't download paper
- 🐛 Cannot download for offline reading
- 🐛 Subscription not recognized
- 🐛 Latest update hate new format
- 🐛 Crosswords not working
- 🐛 App constantly crashing
- 🐛 Needs to be fixed asap
- 🐛 Update blocks subscriber
- 🐛 Billing but no access
- 🐛 Pinch to zoom missing
- 🐛 Asks for subscription when subscribed
- 🐛 Members only content unavailable
- 🐛 No online contact
- 🐛 Slow updating latest items
- 🐛 Cannot read stories after update
- 🐛 Takes up too much space
- 🐛 Regularly fails to open/update
- 🐛 Spam emails central
- 🐛 Unsubscribe texts/emails
- 🐛 Takes 3-4 business days to cancel
- 🐛 Dark mode needed
- 🐛 Constantly requires updates
- 🐛 Routine of deleting/reinstalling
- 🐛 Full screen view missing
- 🐛 Needs dark mode
- 🐛 Failure to load comments
- 🐛 Christmas disappointment crossword
- 🐛 Today's paper not refreshing
- 🐛 Won't download
- 🐛 Can't download to read offline
- 🐛 Subscription not working
- 🐛 Hate new format
- 🐛 Crosswords now not working
- 🐛 App constantly crashing
- 🐛 Saturday Crossquiz unavailable
- 🐛 App continues to disappoint
- 🐛 Journalism quality
- 🐛 Slow and badly constructed
- 🐛 Comics not accessible
- 🐛 No search function
- 🐛 So many advertisements
- 🐛 Only 31-day subscription
- 🐛 Small print subscription details

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App unstable
- Terrible interface
- Links take 10 seconds to open
- Difficult to refresh
- Comments approved then removed
- Never publishes comments
- Video windows open over the whole screen
- Whole screen pop-ups appear without warning
- Screen is 'jittery' when scrolling
- Main page reloads when exiting article
- Taken back to the top article when returning from reading
- Photo captions illegible
- AI moderators/censors have ultra-left settings
- Cannot cancel subscription online
- Controls at top screen too small and not contrasting
- Hard to locate small arrow in faint grey
- Unable to make comment or like other people's comments
- App keeps showing a pop up bar across the bottom of the screen
- Clues are unavailable
- App constantly freezes when trying to access the Menu
- Unable to access explore
- UI for puzzles section broken
- App breaks Apple API requirements for display modes
- Links shown in regular mode in dark mode
- Numbers no longer appear in number/pencil select bar
- Font adjustment does not remain in updates
- Tells user they are not a premium user
- Some stories don’t open
- Whole app freezes
- Cannot use the back button
- App has removed ability to comment unless premium user
- Drains battery on iPad through unauthorised audio background activity
- Inconsistent ability to print articles or games
- Background activity drains battery even when turned off
- High iPad battery consumption
- Crossword clues sitting over the puzzle
- Login issues, told not a member
- Cannot read detailed article text, not expandable
- Crossword section unreliable
- Radio stops when app opens
- Notifications for non-breaking news
- App keeps crashing
- New story presentation format bad
- Always logs out
- Annoying to scroll through just one story at a time
- Poor layout on top stories page
- Cannot listen to music and read at the same time
- Music goes off when app opens
- No longer able to make comments nor read others comments
- Subscription not working
- Hate the new format
- Crosswords now not working
- App constantly crashing
- Saturday Crossquiz unavailable
- App continues to freeze when attempting to go back to the home page
- Comics not accessible
- No search function
- So many advertisements
- Only 31-day subscription
- Small print subscription details
- Full screen view option button missing
- Bright white screen when night reading
- Failure to load comments
- Quick crossword is cryptic not quick
- Won't download paper
- Cannot download to read offline
- Subscription not recognized
- Hate the new format
- Crosswords now not working
- App constantly crashing
- Saturday Crossquiz unavailable
- App continues to disappoint
- No search bar
- Too many advertisements
- Only 31-day subscription
- Small print subscription details
- Full screen view missing
- Needs dark mode
- Failure to load comments
- Christmas disappointment crossword
- Today's paper not refreshing
- Won't download
- Can't download to read offline
- Subscription not working
- Hate new format
- Crosswords now not working
- App constantly crashing
- Saturday Crossquiz unavailable
- App continues to disappoint
- Journalism quality
- Slow and badly constructed
- Comics not accessible
- No search function
- So many advertisements
- Only 31-day subscription
- Small print subscription details

**Most requested features**

- Setting to switch off auto-play video
- Button to jump to top
- Improve link opening speed
- Easier refresh functionality
- Stop showing disturbing video previews
- Add setting to turn off auto-play video
- Dark mode option
- Improve comment moderation fairness
- Fix photo caption legibility
- Improve subscription restoration
- Make controls larger and more contrasting
- Add 'Back' word to controls
- Change icon colours for low vision
- Allow comments for all users
- Remove intrusive ads
- Fix pop-up bars
- Improve puzzle UI
- Fix dark mode implementation
- Allow music playback while using app
- Fix app freezing issues
- Add search function
- Enable pinch to zoom
- Improve crossword updating speed
- Allow offline downloads
- Fix subscription recognition issues
- Revert to previous format
- Fix full-screen view option
- Improve battery optimization
- Allow printing of individual games
- Fix background activity issues
- Improve app stability
- Fix subscription login issues
- Improve content quality control
- Expand crossword puzzle range
- Improve font size adjustability
- Fix radio interruption issue
- Fix notification settings
- Improve app performance
- Fix app crashing
- Improve story presentation
- Allow users to choose subscription length
- Fix comment loading errors

## Recent user reviews (10 of 94)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-advertiser/id399165211/reviews.md

### 1/5 — Media content

*2026-08-26, version 9.15.5*

Horrible journalistic skills too much Ai edits, app is just so so..

### 1/5 — Just buy the paper

*2026-08-15, version 9.15.3*

It’s not that smooth to navigate and they make cancelling a subscription next to impossible. You have to physically phone them.

### 1/5 — Save your money

*2026-08-03, version 9.15.3*

This is what you get when you combine an unstable app with a terrible interface, and then add biased gutter journalism. Seriously, don’t bother.

Addendum: Please stop showing previews of disturbing videos as I scroll through the article list. There are certain videos that are distressing to watch. Let me make the choice about whether or not I want to view them, don't shove them in my face.

Further Addendum: I cannot use this app any more. There's so much moving video as I scroll it's giving me nausea. Until you add a setting to switch off the auto-play video, I'm done.

### 1/5 — Freezes

*2026-08-03, version 9.15.3*

Does not update.

### 1/5 — Awful

*2026-07-25, version 9.15.3*

The appalling user experience - no button to jump to the top, 10 (TEN!) seconds for links to open, almost impossible to refresh, is not offset by the regular typos in headlines, cheap journalism and shameless clickbait. Some headlines tease a topic that doesn’t even appeared in the article, you re-read it to see if you missed what you’re looking for and they probably think that’s ’engagement’. It’s not, it’s frustration. Our city deserves better, deserves a competitor to this.

### 1/5 — Shark Quiz and ‘new format’ :(

*2026-07-15, version 9.15.2*

Just awful, will not be renewing my subscription in September.. So many better news apps.

### 1/5 — Where have the top stories gone?

*2026-07-07, version 9.15.2*

With the new banners it has taken a lot of the top stories out. There don’t seem to be many updates to the stories throughout the day

### 2/5 — Latest update is horrible

*2026-07-03, version 9.15.2*

Change it back. Stop updating/changing for the sake of giving IT staff something to do.

### 1/5 — Works on my iPad but not my iphone

*2026-06-26, version 9.14.0*

Can't restore purchase/subscription on my iphone (only on my ipad). 
Most apps work on on all devices with the  same apple id.

### 1/5 — Mr

*2026-05-19, version 9.13.4*

Am subscribed and able to leave comments.
When I leave a comment often they are approved and put up then taken off when I check later.
Please stop getting left woke people to approve the comments.
It’s discusting that they are approved and put up and then taken off because some assessor is too left wing.

## Frequently asked questions about The Advertiser.

### What kind of news does The Advertiser app provide?

The app delivers the latest news and biggest stories as they happen, covering South Australia, Australia, and global events. It features award-winning journalism and trusted local perspectives, with content updated hourly.

### How can I personalize my news experience?

You can personalize your news feed by setting your local news area, following specific journalists and topics, and selecting your favorite sporting codes and teams. These customized preferences will be displayed on your home screen for easy access.

### Is the app free to download and use?

The Advertiser app is free to download. However, to gain full access to all content and features, including subscriber-only stories and the digital replica of the newspaper, a subscription is required.

### What devices is the app compatible with?

The app is available for mobile and tablet devices. Specific compatibility details regarding operating system versions would typically be found in the app store listing.

### What are the benefits of a subscriber-only membership?

Member-only access provides full digital access to thousands of subscriber-only stories, the digital replica of the daily newspaper, puzzles, and other exclusive content. It ensures you don't miss out on in-depth reporting and features.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 9.15.5 — 2026-08-24

Bug fixes and performance improvements

### 9.15.3 — 2026-07-21

Improvements to Puzzles and polish to the refreshed app design. - Bug fixes and performance improvements.

### 9.15.2 — 2026-06-30

"We're giving the app its biggest visual refresh yet!

A cleaner, more modern reading experience across the home and section pages, refreshed navigation and icons, and smooth animations throughout. New touches like a "Good Morning" greeting, weather and your daily horoscope make it easier to start your day with us.

We're also launching an all-new Puzzles experience with a fresh design and a bigger mix of games. Play Crossword, Cryptic Crossword, Sudoku, Shark Quiz, Wordrow and more, build a daily streak, and jump straight back in from the bottom menu."

### 9.15.0 — 2026-06-29

"We're giving the app its biggest visual refresh yet!

A cleaner, more modern reading experience across the home and section pages, refreshed navigation and icons, and smooth animations throughout. New touches like a "Good Morning" greeting, weather and your daily horoscope make it easier to start your day with us.

We're also launching an all-new Puzzles experience with a fresh design and a bigger mix of games. Play Crossword, Cryptic Crossword, Sudoku, Shark Quiz, Wordrow and more, build a daily streak, and jump straight back in from the bottom menu."

### 9.14.0 — 2026-06-10

Introducing Liquid Glass and Commenting in Today’s Paper!

We’ve embraced Apple’s new Liquid Glass design, giving our app a fresh, modern feel on iOS 26. Plus, you can now join the conversation in Today's Paper — leave comments and reply to fellow readers directly in our digital edition.

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