The Times: UK & World News appears to be a legitimate app. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for The Times is 83 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

The Times User Reviews

Name: The Times: UK & World News
Rating: 1.9 (32 reviews)

The Times: UK & World News

Times Media Limited (Apps)

📡 News

📰 Magazines & Newspapers

Customer Experience

Positive experience6.8% of reviews

Neutral16.7% of reviews

Negative experience76.5% of reviews

~ Based on 324 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Summarized from real user reviews of The Times. Based on 32 reviews and a 1.9/5 average, it highlights the 3 positives and 6 negatives reviewers mention most about this News app.

Positive things

🚀Fast app
📰Good content
🎨Improved typography

Negative things

🐛Buggy and glitchy
🔍Poor navigation and search
🔒Difficult to cancel subscription
💻Unable to use on multiple devices
📥Cannot download for offline reading
💬Comments section not working

Is The Times Safe?

The Times: UK & World News has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for The Times is 50/100.

This assessment is based on 32 user ratings, with an App Store average of 1.9/5.

Safety Analysis

21.9% of ratings point to a safe experience

3.1% of ratings suggest some concerns

75.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 32 App Store ratings for The Times.

Is The Times Legit?

The Times: UK & World News appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for The Times is 83/100.

Based on 83 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Most Recent Highest Rated Lowest Rated

Comments error

Comments don’t load

Team-GBR Fan

6 days ago

Response from developer

Thank you for your feedback. To help us assist you further, please email care@thetimes.com with your full name, CPN, a description of the issue, your device and app details, if possible, please include a screen recording showing what happens before and after going offline. A customer care adviser will respond within 48 hours.

Disappointed

I should’ve read the reviews before subscribing. No access to any articles. No help at all from The Times “support” or Apple. If you enjoy spending money on apps that are functionally useless, I cannot recommend this one highly enough.

Chet Boak

8 days ago

Response from developer

Buggy

Persistently unable to login despite several password resets

Buyer beware (and run!)

13 days ago

Response from developer

Thank you for your feedback. To help us assist you further, please email care@thetimes.com with your full name, CPN, a description of the issue, your device and app details, if possible please include a screen recording showing what happens before and after going offline. A customer care adviser will respond within 48 hours.

Scam

Impossible to unsubscribe without getting through customer service that purposedly takes hours of irrelevant questions prior to unsubscribing you

user insatisfait

14 days ago

Response from developer

Thank you for getting in touch and sharing your frustration regarding cancellation. We understand that having to call to cancel can feel inconvenient. At present, we ask customers to contact us by phone so we can ensure cancellations are handled promptly and correctly, and that any questions are dealt with straight away. We do appreciate your feedback, and it has been shared with the relevant teams, as expanding self‑service options within the app is something we know our customers value.

Won’t let you login

The recent update stopped you from being able to like comments. The latest logs you out the moment you login

skt9999

a month ago

Freezing, log-in issues

Always freezing and crashing between pages, but now I can’t log in, when I try to, the log in box comes up again and again. Please sort it!

Rain.Storm

a month ago

Comments won't load at all

Utter rubbish. For several days, none of the comments are loading. Shows an error

rramki

a month ago

Cancellation Scam

Subscribing is effortless but, you have to call in to cancel. Creating this friction is not user friendly and aimed to squeeze the most out of subscription fees in my opinion. Horrific.

Amin0x410x46

a month ago

Overheating

Ram packed with adverts that slow down your phone and cause it to overheat (even though you’ve paid for a subscription). Have now removed it and just read articles through chrome

Tom Walton Temmy

a month ago

Avoid

They make it as difficult as possible to cancel. Avoid avoid avoid

Seadhna57

a month ago

Mobile site

Every news article on the mobile app says “View online - This article will display on the web”

Mingymoo

a month ago

Glitchy & freezes

The content and layout options are great but this app is so glitchy now and I’ve used to for years! I cannot scroll through an article on my iPhone without it freezing, my phone heating up & then randomly redirecting to adverts I hadn’t clicked on. I’m close to cancelling my subscription.

Mitchambelle

a month ago

Buggy

Using the iphone app. Constantly opens my browser to take me to advertising pages, despite me not tapping on an ad. Buggy and slow, frequently crashing or freezing. When commenting, there’s some sort of predictive text that automatically tries to finish my words for me (not apple’s predictive text). Awful experience. Tech team need to sort this out or they will lose subscribers in droves.

tobyyp

a month ago

Was OK this morning but not this evening

The Times wants me to update using an older version but the process takes me round in circles. What do I do next?

13 squared

a month ago

Buggy app

I can see that I am not the only one who has these issues. I don’t understand why the web developers don’t fix them (I) when writing comments the predictive text adds extra letters and suffixes. I’ve seen dozens of complaints online yet no fix. This started a couple of months ago when there was a big ToL ‘upgrade’ (ii) the app keeps on randomly opening an advertising browser called static.reads.tv. This happens every few minutes. This also started around the same time. App Developers - please fix these issues. They are ruining the experience.

calmac101

a month ago

Adverts

Fix the bloody redirects to adverts.

I no a good app

a month ago

Forced redirection to ads is still happening.

static.reads.tv is the redirection despite updating and deleting the app. Long time Subscriber but very disappointed by this.

22647595

a month ago

Freeze, overheat, crash

Recent updates seem to have caused issues. Navigation between pages is unreliable (you swipe to the next and end up where you started), my iPad runs hot, and interactive features like quizzes frequently cause a crash.

ByAnyMeansPossible

a month ago

Cheap nasty app

Hopeless app I expect way better than this from the Times

Wendy Rikard

a month ago

Worst app on my phone

Something has changed recently, with major consequences. The performance of the app is horrible: my phone overheats, scrolling through articles lags constantly, media is basically not useable. There’s also a new bug which keeps redirecting to browser ads for no reason. It is a really, really poor product considering the price of a digital subscription.

Hughe97