USA TODAY: US & Breaking News App Reviews

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Good, Solid App. For my purposes, the USA Today app is just fine. It provides the news and some amplifying coverage. That's all I expect. USA Today has long been known as the fast food outlet for news so one should calibrate expectations to match reality. If one seeks in-depth analysis and penetrating Op Ed pieces then one should look elsewhere as as the major papers (e.g., The Washington Post, The New York Times, LA Times, et al) or periodicals. This is not to denigrate USA Today but rather to properly align user expectations. I read USA Today every single day but augment that with other sources if I'm interested in more coverage of a news story. I like USA Today and the app and enjoy it, every single day. Well, designed, easy to navigate and informative at a certain level. I offer my compliments for doing precisely what I expect. Update: all the above remains true. One irritating bug in most recent release re: crossword puzzle. The puzzle has a frequent behavior of “freezing” when only one letter remains for completion. No matter the location of the square, the board prohibits finishing by freezing before the last letter is entered. This behavior will not damage modern civilization but it is irritating. Otherwise, life is good.

Good Content, But Text Shifts Too Quickly. Overall, I’ve enjoyed and appreciated the USA Today app on my iPhone and iPad for several years. Good content, reasonable balance. I do perceive a bit of a liberal/left bias, but in their defense, they do post opinion pieces from a conservative viewpoint, and they do a good job of identifying and labeling opinions that may be biased when they are posted. My only criticism with the current app is that the text shifts forward in the article as the ads load, and causes sections of articles to be skipped ahead. This happens sometimes 2-3 times while reading an article—definitely frustrating when trying to read through the article. (I’m trusting this problem will be addressed.) Overall, a good source of information that I’ll continue to use.

I read most of my news from USA’s platform. I like USA Today’s general news application on the Apple iPhone. USA Today has started to charge a monthly subscription fee for certain articles but not all, not yet at least. The thing is I wouldn’t mind paying a premium for their content as I’ve stated in previous reviews that I’ve read them for years and they have proven to me well worth it. However there s a negative, chiefly some of the articles which only subscribed paying members can obtain access to can be viewed for free on their very own platform through googling the articles headline. Secondly the monthly subscription price is simply to high. I would be willing to pay a couple dollars at most per month on a permanent basis. One more thing of note would be is perhaps you can view the article for free on google as opposed to the app is perhaps their intending on capitalizing on the convenience of going though the app. If this is the case even though their customers once realized you can obtain the article for free through Google will perhaps still feel like their getting cheated. Hope my review helps in some contributing factor.

Bye bye. USA TODAY used to be my go to app for news. Fast and good and usually no VPN necessary. Slowly we have drifted away from each other. They need to make money, which is cool, me too, I understand. However now like 80% of the content is for subscribers only and so I have to scroll and scroll to find something readable. Problem is that the quality with USA TODAY was never that high anyway unlike Time and Forbes etc., who themselves constantly make spell check errors and language usage errors. Hey me too, I feel for you guys but nobody’s paying me not to do that. They’re not worth paying for either, because well, nobody reports news anymore either, they just editorialize. I don’t want to give money to have my head molded when I can get that anywhere else for free. Are there even editors anymore? Ah well. I imagine they get some money from all those ads pretending to be news articles. And the ads. Off the soap-box. I have no need for finger exercises so bye bye USA TODAY, I wish you the best. Delete.

Pretty, but no longer useful. I've had this app for many years. While it's gotten prettier to look at, it's gotten less useful as time goes on. Absolutely every time I use it, the app shuts down on me no less than three times before I've scrolled all the way through the Top Stories. Also, there are now paid advertisements that look like stories, right within the midst of the real news. If you're not careful, you're actually reading advertisements from sources like The Motley Fool and others. This is deceptive, and rather cheap of USA Today to fund their app this way. Other news apps do not take this approach. On the whole, USA Today app doesn't always have the latest news. I'll read a story from another news source on Twitter that was posted several hours ago, and I'll head to the USA Today app for more information, only to see they haven't even written about it yet. It's usually there by the end of the day, but it's half a day behind other news outlets. On the whole, USA Today is a pretty app that doesn't always work, has paid advertising peppered throughout their real stories and is usually behind other apps in posting the latest news.

You’re liberally bias, I have no issue with bias if you state it. Stop acting objective. I’m independent and like objective news sources. That’s increasingly hard to find these days, other outlets I appreciate because they state their leanings. I wish the news didn’t lean a certain way, but at least they put the proper disclaimer on it. Like a movie properly rating itself so you understand what you are about to view. You and other news outlets should strongly consider this course of action. It’s disingenuous and misleading to act objective while simultaneously pushing an obviously liberal/progressive agenda. Your editorial board and contributors are liberal leaning at the very least. I’ve seen you post opposing opinions, but overwhelmingly the opinions expressed here are liberal and it doesn’t take a conservative or trump supporter to see that, of which I am neither. I personally feel we all have a bias of some sort, but some are more willing to address and correct it than others. I personally actively try to dismantle my own arguments regularly to see if they can withstand basic scrutiny. Perhaps your network should consider doing the same, or simply state your bias. That would be a good first step toward better serving the people who consume your content.

Went from my go to, to my never use. I have been patiently waiting for USA Today to fix the horrible ad execution they released but it now seems it is intentional. The ads now dominate the content. It feels a bit like reading ads, with annoying snippets of news between them. Additionally they set the ads to load when scrolling so that they force people to accidentally click an ad they don’t even know is there yet. I realize that ads are paying them per click but this seems like a dishonest way of getting clicks. Lastly in regards to the content. It seems the content has become more tabloid paper in nature. I see so many politically enriched self serving articles that in makes me a little sick to my stomach. I would do anything to find a news source that simply reported on relevant news and did not put any opinions in. Simply give people the facts and let them form there own opinions.

USA TODAY learned what Educated America Wants. I knew there had to be a reason behind the sustainability that USA Today has had since it's fragile Nationwide beginning in the 80's through 2000. . and So I recently gave it a re-try. The Newspaper has gotten much much better, it has real in-depth Journalism today. Whereas originally, this Newspaper used to be an AP headline redundant (repetitive) Paper. I have no clue as to when USA TODAY became less mediocre and got better staffed. Glad though that I started reading this Newspaper's articles occasionally when they popup in my news reel online. Respect and Thanks to their Editor(s) , Proofreaders, Photojournalists, Journalists and Web Designers. Great Work in refreshing and Reinventing USA TODAY.

Thanks for staying upbeat. I'm tired of news outlets focusing on people who are outraged and throwing gasoline on every fiery controversy just so they can get more eyeballs on their news. Thank you for not doing that. I know I can check in the news on this app every morning and not have my day ruined by being pulled in to some news outlet's drama of the day. As a global traveler, I can tell you that it's not a scary world out there, as the general American public now believes. It's a beautiful world. Thank you for keeping a balance in focus, not just on the left and the right but on good news as well as bad.

Great News. Great Company. Great App.. I actually work for Gannett (USA Today’s parent company)- but as unbiased as I can be - this app is awesome. They are a solid company & provide a well designed app to the everyday person even to the news junkies. As a company - They don’t look to invade your privacy, they have great leadership, they have incredible people working for them and dedicated & award winning reporters who look to bring real news to the people. They are a company who looks to help humanity, further all beings & bring legitimate unbiased news and services in the best of ways. Get the app, select your news preferences, allow the notifications. It’s a lot (as far as notifications go) if you want it to be, but it’s worth it to be updated on the things you want to know. Well done as an app for an employee, or for anyone, and for everyone. Especially during these times. Thanks all.

eNewspaper TTS reader Issues. I listen to the USA Today eNewspaper. I love the Contant of the paper but have some issues with the reader. First, the voice is dated and not up to today’s standards. Second, voice reading soeed reverts to The default setting wth each new article. Third, when listening to an article, if you navigate away from the app or apply the screen lock, reading stops. And finally, the reader sometimes cannot start, displaying an hour glass. You are prompted to hit the play button again and again. It would be efficient if you could select all text, copy it and place it into a separate reading application such as a speechify or voice dream. I am looking forward to improvements in TTS to enhance my enjoyment of USA today.

Great paper; erratic app. USA Today has long had poorly written apps and yesterday’s update reinforces that reputation. I’m trying to support their journalism by paying for a subscription, but having a glitzy app that no longer allows selecting font size or recognizes landscape orientation makes it a pain to read compared to Kindle and hundreds of other online apps. Before subscribing, I did contact their Chat support and was assured that paid subscribers would be able to forward Subscriber Only articles to family members. Turns out they can’t open them unless they too become paid subscribers. Poorly trained Chat reps? Marketing ploy? It’s been years since reading USA Today online was a simple, reliable experience and I’m about to give up in frustration…

Goodbye USA Today. Once again USA Today updated their app to "enhance my experience. Once again all it does is lead to more and more app crashes. Additionally as time has gone on the app has become less and less usedul. News isn't posted in a timely fashion. Stories stag up for too long. You often find out day occurrences the day after they happen and in reality these items are news stories but are essentially the very paid ads tjat I pay a subscription for to avoid. They recently split Life and Entertainment into two sections but the stories are essentially the same. Bottom line all this app is is one big ad to try and get you to subscribe to their daily news updates which wouldn't be needed if theyd just post stories in a timely fashion. I can get crosswords elsewhere. Time to finally stop throwinf good money after bad and do away with this app. Please learn from my experience. Find somewhere else if you're after a quality news outlet.

This app has lost its way. Years ago the USA Today App was a solid news delivery platform that incorporated national, international, and local news into a UI that functioned flawlessly. Today, after many updates to the UI it is now one of the most dysfunctional apps with a user experience that delivers the maximum amount of annoyance. While its AP and broad network content remains, that content is buried beneath a confused, glitchy interface that prioritizes junk trending articles and video advertisements that take over the screen and audio. Moving through the platform, trying to uncover the quality content, and reading articles is a joyless and even torturous run through an obstacle course of “features” that fight for attention and keep the words of the news articles jumping around the screen out of view. The very idea of reading - which is the central activity of news readers is insulted by a UI that has the design markers of a member of the zero attention span Snapchat Generation. No participation trophy for you, this app is a failure. A failure which gets worse and less content prioritized with each quarterly update.

What happened to USA Today?. The USA Today used to pride itself on being centrist, objective news media that gives both or multiple perspectives to a story. Opinions were always clearly labeled as such and at least 2 were offered. In the last couple years, the paper has taken a hard left and now uses the same twisted words, skewed perspectives, and outright omission of inconvenient facts the far left wing “news” outlets use to push an agenda, not inform the reader so that they can formulate their own opinion. It is sad that the USA Today has retreated from journalism and ventured into the agenda pushing and social engineering that has caused so much division in our country today by way of manufactured outrage. Outright insulting to any of its readers with an ounce of intelligence who remember when the paper possessed journalistic integrity. It’s time to toss it aside as it’s now become as informationally worthless as any other piece of rubbish.

Crossword Puzzle Issues. I have been an avid USA Today crossword user for ages. They’ve been my entertainment on SO many flights thanks to their easy interface and ability to open multiple puzzles at once so that I can do the puzzles offline. I understand the shift of subscription fees. I mean, YES, I’d like to do the puzzles for free, but I can pay the subscription before I travel and cancel when I’m not. What’s going to keep me from doing the puzzles at all is how buggy the new interface is. It doesn’t connect to my iPad’s case keyboard at all. Having to watch another add every time I switch my screen and come back is exhausting. The puzzle glitches and shuts down. The older system would do that sometimes but the current interface seems to do it all the time, even after I’ve updated the app. Such a shame. RIP Crosswords!

What happened?. USA Today used to be one of the pillars of fair and unbiased news outlets. They were always my go to source for all news. Unfortunately USA Today has become extremely biased towards the left (I am, and will continue to be a registered Democrat). Leanings, left or right, should only be published in opinion pieces. Leave the biased “news reporting” to Fox News and the Huffington Post. Also USA Today, your incessant coverage of “celebrities” and publishing of articles about “celebrities” should be left to your Life section. I should not be inundated with articles about a bunch of people I don’t care about. I understand that there are many who relish in the life of others, but let them relish in the section they belong not your Top Stories. In light of these two I have currently deleted your app, but I will download occasionally to see if you have rediscovered your journalistic integrity. PS Your sports coverage is still top notch, but not enough to keep me.

This app deserves its own circle in hell. This app has gotten out of control with ads. This is the first time I've ever seen ads that pop up with absolutely no input from the user. All of a sudden your phone is full of web sites and App Store offerings for stuff completely unrelated to what one happens to be browsing in the USA today app. This crap has increased in frequency to the point where it is no longer the main source of news for me. To avoid the hassle get yourself a copy of Feedly and ditch this app. These people don't seem to have any sense on limiting the distraction of their advertising. I'm not gonna enable that kind of behavior any more.

Whats wrong with SIMPLICITY??. Maybe I have to many fond memories of USA today the news paper and the original App. I raised my star from 1 to 3 but im tired of being sent to another online source to read some articles.. either they are in the paper or they are not. Im begging you PLEASE restore the beautiful categories you used to have on the main page.. now i have to click all over the place to get to the sections... LESS clutter... MORE reading and smooth content... that I would gladly pay a small fee for! AS OF NOW THE App feels more CLUNKY and CLUTTERY. The Original (voted the number one app of the year when it came out) was great for a reason. Headlines and content were easy to find because the app felt like a newspaper. Try and remember that original and extremely intuitive experience when you do your next upadte!

They killed a great app. It used to be my first stop, my number one app for literally years. Then they started charging a subscription to give you access to some articles, that was fine, I understand why. Some of the articles seemed great and I did consider subscribing, but it was just way too expensive especially when compared to other premium news apps. Still, I generally kept it as my first stop. Then, over the past year or so they have become increasingly aggressive about pushing the subscription service. Pop up’s and push overs on almost every article, every time. It’s like playing one of those annoying freemium games where it’s interrupted with an ad every 5 seconds. And here’s the funny thing: I actually didn’t mind the actual advertisements on the site ever, like the real ads. They had an ok mix. But It’s the constant house ads that are relentlessly pushing the subscription service that has made this app unusable. I have several news apps on my phone and I pay for two, but after the way this app has evolved I would never shell out for it. Sentimental perhaps, because I used to enjoy the print edition when I traveled more, and I read the app every day for literally years. But I was sad to delete it today.

Itunes subscription doesn’t work. Update May 22– why in the world can’t they fix the bugs in this app? We are paying for premium ad-free, yet frequently I,m blocked from reading a story because “the content is for subscribers”. I then check my account- yes the subscription is acknowledged— so why is the display not working correctly? I’ve been using this app for years and generally satisfied. Less satisfied this year with stale content that lingers for days, weeks, month. Then came the implementation of paid subscriptions. I don’t have a problem with that decision— gotta pay the bills and the newspaper business in general is suffering as the public migrates away from wanting to read newspapers. (Very sad) I did sign up for a premium subscription earlier this summer when it was introduced - despite the annoying video ads smack in the middle of articled. Now my subscription doesn’t work thru itunes —Apple shows it as still being valid on monthly renewal, but even though I go to settings and click on restore purchase, the app will not acknowledge it and I have no premium content. Folks, this is incompetence. Get it together! I’m not going to pay you to not function.

Won’t recognize my subscription. UPDATE: Increasing rating to 5 stars. The developers responded to my review to offer solutions to my issues listed below, and how to get more assistance if I needed it. I appreciate their professional and quick response. Original review: Every time I use the app it doesn’t remember that I’m already an active subscriber. I have tried many workarounds, but I can’t continue to pay for an app that doesn’t let me utilize it. Lastly, I like your content and adding the local digital options is great, but it’s really difficult to navigate and manage specific content that I want to see.

Super improvement. Usatoday rolled out a much better update. I love how news is divided into section at the bottom of the tabs. Much cleaner feel. I will change my old review from 1 star to 5 star. Below is reference to my old review: USA today DID NOT perform any update what so ever that was satisfactory to the user community. There is still no way to change to a dark background. The ads are still as big and a nuisance. Their top story section is a mess, unlike previous versions which was a great viewing experience but this version makes me skip it. I use to use USA TODAY exclusively but I might have to move to cnn or other competitors, I give them 2 more updates before I am completely turned off.

Over all it's good, video implementation is bad. I use it every day multiple times a day. I like it except for the way they have implemented the videos where they play an advertisement before the video. The problem is they play the same advertisement segments over and over! After a while you get so sick of hearing them that you would never by what they are advertising! The current most annoying thing is that they are slow to show the ads they have in static text articles. So you are reading along and then the text suddenly scrolls down so that you are in a different part of the article! It’s simply maddening! So now you have to scroll back up a screen or two to find your place! It’s kind of like a while back when the ads would hang and you couldn’t watch the video! I am not sure if the problem is my slow internet it their bad programming skills! When they are adding the ad content that is off the screen they SHOULD NOT CHANGE THE SCROLL! I am guessing that the guys programming this do not use it on their iPhone otherwise they would not make such an obvious mistake.

Would’ve Been A 5 Star But.... I open this app up daily for my news updates, and have been for years now. But, it seems that whomever is in the app update Support department has glanced over my glitch suggestion of not being able to see the topics that mean the most to me under the tabs of the topics I wanted to be alerted on. I get the alerts, but the app won’t let me see the topics and keeps referring me to try again later. After weeks of seeing this and getting the alerts to open the app to see some of those topics and then seeing the “try again later,” I figured that a review was in order since I haven’t seen a reply to my concern. Maybe one day I’ll actually be able to see the topics that mean the most to me since it has been offered to be provided.

Shifting text..... I have read USA today for years, in both subscribed paper form and now digitally on my iPad. I still love USA Today, but the shifting text is maddening. Frequently, while reading an article, the article shifts quickly to another part of the same article as though some new material has been added somewhere. Then, I’m forced to search for my previous spot to return to my reading. Also, often when hitting the back arrow at the top left of the app, the app jumps to the very beginning of the newspaper section, causing me to have to scroll, scroll, and scroll some more to get back to the location of the last article I was reading. A real pain. I sure hope a future bug fix will take care of these hiccups. I am reluctant to move to a paid subscription until these bugs are resolved.

Frustrating interface. Number one most frustrating issue: every time you set the phone down or switch apps and come back the story you were reading scrolls back to the top of the article. Super annoying and serves absolutely no purpose. Can’t imagine this would be hard to correct, so please make this stop. I beg you. Second, and this is a compound issue: the main news feed refreshes too often. In the past, the top stories section was just that. Just the most newsworthy stories of the moment. Now, you have packed seemingly every story on the platform all into the top stories section. Well, I could live with that except as I work my way through the never ending list of articles, the app refreshes the feed every so often making me lose my place. To add to the nuisance, all the stories are now in a different order so I can’t really ever get back to where I was. Please pick one or the other: 1) go back to the perfectly logical way you had it before where the top stories were indeed the top stories and I will go into the individual sections for more depth on what I want more of, or 2) turn off the occasional refresh and let me do that whenever I feel the need. It’s fine if it refreshes when you open the app, just not during an active session.

Overall and latest update critique. 1. If you want consumers to look at multiple items why do you force them to see the same ad over and over. Can't you get more than one advertiser. Does the advertiser think seeing the same ad 6 times an hour helps? 2. Why such big pictures for the stories, it is news not advertising, you should not be promoting the item so much, give a clear item title and I'll pick the ones I'll read. You can list many items more concisely that way. 3. Too many items are in multiple sections. 95% of the stories should be in their section; sports, tech, money, etc. only. Or else do not have sections at all. 4. The new revision makes it harder to quickly update the stock market report. 5. Please restrain your self on videos. I'd like this to be much more like a newspaper. Write clear accurate items I can read. Yes I know videos are neat but I can get them a thousand other places. 6. If you can not restrain yourself on videos, make a video only section

Convenient but also annoying. I like the app because it is easy to get news fast. I like that it is fairly neutral, though you can read bias. It’s not NPR however. Two things I don’t like is articles that take you to a video. Why don’t you just let me read. If I want a video, I’ll turn on the TV. Let me decide by providing an article to read, then let me have an option to watch a video if I want. Another thing I wish they’d stop is putting links to twitter and other articles in the middle of the article. When I’m scrolling too often my thumb will inadvertently touches the hyperlink and it jumps to the another article. Please make it so it requires a long press before moving to that link.

Need more current news topics. I used to love this app. Best place for today’s headline news. Unfortunately now the top articles listed are paid subscription items. And at $50 a year (5 bucks a month) this is a bit much for content. So I have tried a subscription and for the articles that are featured there, I do appreciate the detail and journalism that goes into the subscription articles, but it’s not enough to warrant that high of a subscription price. Other newspapers with online subscriptions cost much less for their content and often with the same level of journalism. I don’t remember getting a break on ads when you have a subscription either so there’s no benefit of getting a subscription besides just to read more articles you don’t have access to.

User privacy is ignored, links are misleading. The privacy option in settings refers users to a page that has no working links. The page lists to click on the headings to adjust various privacy settings, and the headings aren’t actually links (nothing happens when you select them). So, I couldn’t actually edit anything if I wanted to use the app. I emailed My feedback weeks ago and got more or less a “thanks for your feedback!” Then after speaking today to my husband about our thermometer being cheap, an ad pops up as I’m scrolling through USA Today within hours of a $70 thermometer. Unbelievable. Deleting this app bc our privacy is important and I’ve not received a personalized response to my original complain about the false page to edit privacy. If I can’t remove targeted ads or my information being shared, I can still get my news elsewhere from sources that are less shady.

Come to the party. First of all, if you want to be a great nation, there are moments that should be cherished for a lifetime. If I were in charge of education, I would declare this Wednesday “a no school day for all of New England”. Businesses would make out. The kids would always remember it. Everyone would have a legal chance to attend instead of skipping work or school, and most of all the attitudes of the people would be jolly for a change instead of hearing the gloomy problems of our country with hate crimes and bad mouthing our politician’s decisions every time they make a vote. Stand up America and enjoy the fruits of this great nation. I’ll see you in Boston this Wednesday, and I guarantee you there be many people with smiles on their faces!

Goodbye. USA Today has been a staple of my day for years. It has been the first news I read in the morning, and the last I read before I went to sleep. Today, I clicked on an article that was at the top of my USA Today “News Feed” and it said Subscription Required. I then read an article from the editor about this new policy and an attempt at justifying it. I immediately removed the app from my phone. I completely understand that advertising is necessary to support your efforts, however EVEN ONE ARTICLE that requires a subscription to read is too many. I am sorry to see you go. Hopefully you decide that this was a mistake and change your plans. Hopefully if and when you do, I will find out about it. If not and until, I will be getting my news somewhere else, and some other source will be getting the advertising dollars from my views.

A step backwards. I liked the previous versions of the app. This one doesn’t even open up. Crashes rvery time. I even deleted the app and re-downloaded it. Opened one time. Crashes every time now. The newer version keeps pestering me bout getting the paid version. No way I will pay for it when the editing is terrible, news stories that are “new” only have one or a couple of words changed. Wastes my time rereading the same article I did yesterday or the day before. How about being like Reuters and saying at the beginning “This article updates the third sentence in the second paragraph with …”. That is something useful to me. If you want someone to pay for an app, make it grammatically correct and up to date. Don’t get me started on news outside the US. Went from an average app to a terrible app.

First to Last. This used to be my favorite app. I would spend every morning over coffee reading many of the articles, which were well written, with just about the best political position. Certainly not conservative, but also not too liberal. Awhile back they offered the opportunity to pay a monthly charge not to be bothered by advertisements. I didn’t do that, mainly because with internet, television, and all the other related charges I felt there was already more money goring out then good coming in. I could, and did deal with the ads. Now, the next step is not letting me open the articles I want. More and more I get a banner that says I must be a member, and pay money, to read that article. That doesn’t set right with me. I’m sure the response is going to be that they need money to operate. I’m sure there is some truth to that, the same truth that all CEO’s of large corporations, like Facebook, Amazon’s, Microsoft, need enough money to buy half a dozen huge houses around the country. Not a good path we are going down. Besides, the pure magic of the internet has a lot to do with it originally being developed by the common nerd, for common people, and the good of civilization. True news is one of the most important aspects of the net. It shouldn’t be limited for profit.

Used to be my source. As the title states, this used to be my main source of information in regards to applications covering news. I’ve been a loyal subscriber to USA today for approximately 10 years now. I should mention that I’m in my late 20s, but have always had a passion for reading the news rather than watching. USA Today has gone downhill with the overwhelming amount of ads and pop-ups aggressively trying to get you to subscribe. This is ultimately pushed me away from using USA TODAY as my daily source of information. While a subscriber, I still ran into tons of issues with a Videos and getting locked out of four subscriber content although I was paying. The only reason I gave it two stars rather than one was because I felt one would be doing it a disservice.

I wish I could rate 4 or 5 stars. I have enjoyed reading the news on the USA Today app for years. Recently the experience changed when some content was blocked and available only to subscribers. I’m sympathetic to the challenges faced by the print media and decided to go with a digital subscription especially since I like USA Today so much. That’s where the frustration started. Once I paid for my subscription naturally I expected to no longer have access blocked as only being available to subscribers but sure enough that is exactly what happened no matter what I did. Even after signing in. Since it was the weekend I only had the chat option for customer support and their suggestion was to call customer support on Monday. So I called customer support on Monday and they told me the same thing - can’t find my account, despite me having a receipt from Apple proving I paid for my digital subscription 48 hours. Their suggestion? Call back in 24 hours! Not sure how that’s going to help. The lack of helpful customer service (precipitated by the lack of a seamless process in 2021 to recognize when a reader has converted to a paid subscriber) holds me back from being able to rate higher than average. Please help!

New subscriber option is garbage. I have used the USA Today News app for quite awhile now(many years). I typically don’t write reviews but my once favorite news app is going down hill. The new subscriber option is quite annoying, and gates information behind a subscription. I have also noticed the article titles to be very “click baity” which is a sad turn for this app. It’s fine to have exclusive articles but the annoying part is there currently is not a way to filter subscriber options so all the articles are thrown together on one feed (public and subscriber only reads). If you don’t sub, you will have a lot more limited reading. Again a simple filter option for non-subscribers would fix this. I know many others have the same complaint and I hope USA Today realizes their recent faults in updates and changes direction of their app.

Could be great but needs work!. Love the writing. The selection of articles gives an excellent cross section of the morning news. BUT, the app itself seems to have been forgotten. I start to read the articles and leave 1 or 2 to come back to while read on. I might be half way through the top stories and suddenly the app refreshes and I’m back at the top with 1 or 2 new articles but the ones I planned to come back to may be gone. And I have to read though the whole top stories page again to hopefully find what I missed. Some (more often than I would expect, the stories I planned to revisit are gone) of stories I never find again. You have been my go to morning read but, I you’ve just about broken me. There are just too many alternatives to go too. Simple fix is put an update button at the top to give control over the timing of updates. Oh, and this nickname thing is very frustrating!!!!

Don’t waste your time - Tabloid News. If you are thinking about giving USA Today a try for the first time, forget about it unless you like to bully others and love hate speech. Neutral news today is almost impossible to find. For a moment in time I gave USA Today an opportunity to be one of my sources of news as I am tried of constant President Trump bashing regardless if I am against or for him. USA Today is no different. They line and love to report negative news reports about Trump as well as his relationship with his wife. It’s interesting how we want to stop bullying in schools and across society yet the media, including USA Today and celebrities seem to get a pass on bullying, which isn’t right. It is hate speech and USA Today is similar to reading the National Enquirer. Perhaps feedback from readers such as me should be taken seriously as representing only one view point all the time amongst the masses isn’t wise as we live in a world where people have differences of options and expect the news to present all news all the time in a fair and non-bias way. I am disappointed in you USA Today and it’s not too late to change the way you report news as you are in a position to be that neutral source of news I and others want so badly.

Absolutely Ridiculous. Really trying hard to push their paywall on users. Seems like over half of its content is for “subscribers only” these days. Never used to be like that. If you’re going to create content exclusively for subscribers it should only be that that is not relevant news to the average consumer. I find it ridiculous that there is even one piece of news blocked pertaining to COVID-19. Crazy but USA Today has put COVID articles behind its paywall. You would think regardless of the contents, COVID articles, should be available to EVERYONE. American corporate greed shining through hard. I do not use any social media because I believe it has been the stagnant slow death of the world. Literally useless. People who don’t receive their “news” from social media should have FREE access to whatever is considered news these days. I would hardly pay a dollar for the subscribers only content per year let alone 50 dollars plus for a year. Absolutely insane. Who knew in 2021 you would have to “struggle” to obtain relevant news without paying. Do better USA Today. I used to love this app. Now I despise every time I have to scroll through multiple subscribers only articles to reach access to free ones. Get a clue and separate the subscribers content elsewhere. Don’t waste non-subscribers time.

Good, but used to be better. The Huge ads are annoying because it is sometimes hard to scroll past them without selecting them. I also find it annoying that several of the Top Stories are all on the same subject - the latest shooting, earthquake or award show. Maybe develop sub-categories. For example under award shows have multiple subcategories the user can select: fashion, winners, entertainment numbers, joke winners & bombs, etc. Then if I don't care about the award show I could skip it altogether. Another annoying feature is how the app will periodically return you to the top while you are in the middle of reviewing other stories. Please stop that!

I’m looking for news not opinions. This used to be a great newspaper with reporters that gave unbiased opinions. Now it seems that they view the world through jaded lenses. I just read an article titled Canadians boycott American product. Let’s start with the title, “Canadians” a plural! Yet only one Canadian was named in the article outside of “other Canadians” what f@&$”);! Other Canadians?! How many of said Canadians?! What impact is this having on the U S economy?! How bout some f,?!&$@ facts instead of a one sentence quote from a small business woman in rural Canada? If it’s national news give me a national story with definitive facts that have numbers and dates and not words like greatly or negatively! Tell me how negative, tell me what it’s going to do! I like the news because I like to stay informed. I don’t give two s$&@! About one reporters opinion. If you have an experts opinion I want to know why their an expert and why their the ones I should listen too. And I swear I don’t care about a neighbor from down the streets opinion when it comes to national news unless there some documented expert on the situation that may be unfolding!!!!

Your system for signing in is archaic and useless. You’ve lost a potential customer b/c no matter what I do, your system keeps doubling back to the sign in page for your c/w puzzle. Once, I looked forward to reading the news and doing the puzzle. That’s all crap now. When will you guys ever understand the chance for you to harvest more info or subscribers is seen as the scam it is, in a large majority of folks. The more things evolve, the worse you manage to make them. I just spent (wasted) 15” trying to create a p/w, sign I or o/w address the requirements of your site. Forget it, I’ve been a USA Today subscriber for 20 years….that ended today.

USA Today Price Gauging. Your paper makes huge profits selling ads for the online readers. Now you are forcing people to pay $4.99 more per month to read the best stories. Disgusting for you to go into this direction. Many people need the news everyday and on fixed incomes and can’t afford to pay for news. I have to travel a lot for my job . For the past 12 years I get up, and start my day by reading your newspaper so I can stay current on what is happening in the world. I have purchased dozens of products from the ads. Now I am retired on a budget. Going forward I will stop reading your paper and read Google News and another paper daily. Thanks for being loyal to your customers! Joe Reuber Enon, Ohio

Bye, after many years.... I used to open USA Today FIRST on my phone, to see the news. Then it became MORE than obvious that this was no longer a ‘news reporting’ service, but one heavily loaded with propaganda. Not just the slanted, biased news being reported, also in the selective way ‘news’ was being un-reported, or under-reported if it didn’t align to certain narratives the ‘newspaper’ was CLEARLY advocating. I say SHAME ON YOU for advocacy instead of news reporting. I could (and did) overlook the annoying ad content and jerking screens as ads loaded, but when I got a ‘notification’ on my phone for a ‘news’ article I clicked on to follow up and read, but was met instead with a requirement to subscribe - that was the final straw. I will NOT pay for such obvious bias, hoping to eke out some actual factual content along the way. Buh-bye (spelling error intentional) instead of bye bye $.

Use to be great, then the poorly implemented paywall started.. This use to be my favorite news app. But ever since they added a paywall it’s gone down hill. It’s always had an ad component to it, and you could subscribe to go without ads for a reasonable fee. This use to work very well, but with the new changes, even if you’re paying for ad free the app “conveniently” forgets your subscription status so that your frequently inundated with ads anyways. On top of that, since they introduced the subscription model for content, more and more content is becoming “subscribers only”. Meaning even if you’re paying for ad-free, you’re still not able to view a lot of content. I finally figured “hey, if I just cancel my ad-free and subscribe to the premium plus ad-free, maybe I won’t see ads anymore and I’ll have all the content available.” No dice. I’ve now paid for a more expensive subscription that the app doesn’t want to recognize at all. I’ve rebooted, re-downloaded, and restored purchases. None of those seems to work. So unless they fix their poorly implemented subscription service, it’s really only a 2 star app at best.

No longer content with journalism. There was a time in my life when I got to read real journalism. Even the USA Today has now completely bitten on the apple of journalistic activism. I feel bad for the generations that are coming up. I hope this is a phase but a representative democracy is helped so much by strongly neutral journalism. Your organization’s choices in recent years have disappointed me and so many other citizens in ways you don’t appear to understand. I hope you do some soul searching over the incredibly noble purpose true journalism serves. It is a much higher calling than being a self righteous activist rag with one readership in mind. I hope some of your staff will fight persuasively for presenting news without the unprecedented spin. Please. But if getting clicks from like minded activists is what you want, know you have settled for something FAR less noble than what you could be.

NYTimes Subscriber LOVES USA TODAY. I was born in NYC and still live here, age 72. I have a Master’s Degree, a bit of journalism background, and have subscribed for home delivery of the NYTimes my entire adult life until the pandemic made me use online services. So I have been reading a wide variety of papers from around the world. I realize that the Times dispatches its own reporters, whereas USA Today relies mostly on wire services, but the variety of serious headline stories you cover and present to my iphone via your app, is far superior to what comes in from the Times. Also, you seem more level-headed, as I have been detecting a shocking series of biases at the Times, as compared to, for example, you, the Manchester Guardian and the Washington Post. Keep it up!

Reporting is not what it used to be. I can remember seeing my first USA Today newspaper back in the early 80’s when I was a young guy in the Air Force. It was so innovative. We always had a copy in our break room. It was always nice seeing som info from my home state. USA Today has changed. I’m at the point now that I’m thinking I need to part ways. For one, I’m really frustrated with the app. It plays video ads that I can’t stop. It pushes subscriber only articles which I don’t want to see since I’m not a subscriber. It nags me to subscribe. It repeats articles in the grid which wastes my time. The app lose my context and completely reloads when I switch to answer a text message and come back. Secondly, the article editing is pretty bad. I see grammar and punctuation errors frequently. It looks like the writers do their own editing. Thirdly, USA Today has lost its focus on news and has become more of an editorial dispenser. This is not a problem unique to USA Today in 2021. The news media in general has lost its ability to inform and has instead tried to become an influencer, bordering on just straight propaganda. Ironically, I have to work harder at getting to facts in 2021 than I did in 1982. Sorry USA Today, you just aren’t excellent at anything these days. Why should you get my eyeballs?

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Useful information. The reporting is succinct and no biased

Gradi. Articles easy to read, with access to many other news services.

Unbiased, facts-based. Not the deepest reporting, but the best way to get an idea of what’s going on in the US. No investigative reporting or social or financial commentary, but maybe that’s a necessary price for unbiased facts-based straightforward reportage of daily issues in the US.

Great update. Great update from the original version!

Just like I live there !. Always read USA today when I worked overseas and now that I'm back, I can keep on doing it. Been 10 years. It's on time, fast and always relevant.

USA Today. Very good and informative news

Graham. A really great app and all the news especially with the time difference here in Australia it keeps me well informed ( keep it up )

Keeping me in the loop. I love USA Today; it keeps me informed as to what's happen in the US. As a frequent visitor from Australia, the reporting also helps me understand how Americans are looking at the world and interpreting world events. Checking the site is a morning ritual. Cherokee Bob.

Paid subscription and annoying ads, goodbye USA Today. Sorry this app was marginal before, but sadly paid subscription with annoying ads to view content makes it a no go for me. USA Today, good luck, I hope the new changes work out for you.

Good Job at improving the app. The new app is faster in loading in and is much better designed for speed and appeal. Thanks a lot for this improvement. Bill Watson Australia

Fantastic apps. Love the apps. Helps me to keep up to date with world news. First place to go to for online news keep in the morning as it is easy to read with regular updates. Clarity and indept. My day is nippy complete without USA.

Love it. This is a great app, wherever I am in the world still able to keep up to date on everything.

Thanks. Many thanks for keeping us up to date from afar

More Than Just A Read. Far more than just a read but a true insight as to what’s happening

Very good. I find USA Today so easy to read and navigate.

Worlds best news source. I'm a sucker for stats - USA today is the worlds best when it comes to news and stats!

News as it should be.. Always up to date news so you know you’re not missing out.

One of the better ones. A clean interface; well organised; interesting sections; priority section

Great app for business markets. I find it a GREAT APP for viewing market business information. It would be very interesting to read if they had major lines of the story highlighted so we go directly to them instead of having to read the whole 1000s of words. All in all I find it very handy and keeps me up to date on the current business deals and news. Like the one so have done above.

Barra Mad. Only way to keep on top of news when living down under!!

Mr. Cool site

One sided. It’s very clear that USA today is pure democratic and only reports the news that makes President Trump look like an idiot. I am more into the facts so I won’t be using this pathetic news app any longer. If I could give it a zero stars I would.

Great app. A lot of companies could learn from this app. It doesn't nag you about a subscription instead occasional adverts and that's it well worth downloading.

I have had this app for years and years.. It allows me to stay in touch with USA news from Australia. Simple to use and readably quick. I have found no other news app that is this easy and convenient. I access it almost as much as my email on my phone. PS no more news than papers to hold on trains to work.

A good news service. I like USA Today as it is well set out, succinct and easy to read. As an Aussie, I like to keep abreast of news in other places and this service does that very well.

USA today. Best source news from USA Graham

Information. Great to get USA today on my phone and keeping up to date with news

News. Love being able to gather the US news in Australia. Also do the crosswords to stay in touch with American knowledge.

Ad free subscription isn’t. Paid for an ad free subscription. They have never delivered anything like that. In Australia such behaviour is punishable due to false & misleading advertising. Guess you folks don’t know about truth in advertising.

Fine app. News is always available and current....loads quickly

Great app. Easy to use app format and up the date news makes this my number one news app!

Review. Biased one sided sensationalism for most stories. The epitome of fake news.

Good coverage & easy to use. Since the latest US elections I've wanted to keep updated with that crazy circus & USA today seems to provide a middle of the road view.

I read several international news services - this one's very good!. Good articles from US and world.

Seeing USA from Australia. Enjoying seeing the news on USA Today from Australia - very good

Great app!. Easy to use and great updates!

Great app. Perfect to get a quick update on world and US news -easy to use and no dramas like a lot of other news apps -thank you

Great publication now more readily available. Used to look forward to picking up USA Today when I lived in, or visited the US. Great that I now have an even more convenient way of accessing US news (and the daily crosswords!) even though I'm now living back in Australia.

Great app, easy to use. Very easy to use, and gives a good overview of the national news in the USA. Been using it for years, rarely had any technical issues, very reliable.

Improving all the time. The content has gone from an Reuters news feed vanilla app to an interesting opinion based news with deeper reporting. Better and deeper news reporting especially on sports. Must have.

David Gold. REAL News as it happens ( on iPhone ) down here in the Southern Hemisphere ( Australia ). Appreciated.

Great news. USA Today keeps me up to date with news and sports from home while I live in Australia. Great Ap

Excellent online news. Great way to keep across the days events and issues. Well presented.

GI Joe. The latest update is an excellent improvement over the old format. Here in Australia it's the "go to" app to get the latest concise but comprehensive news from the United States.

Love this !. Great app, easy to run thru.

Awesome. Easy to navigate , nmkppo issueslk with it

An Outstanding News Service. I wish more news services were as good as USA Today with its balance and inclusion of good news as well as the often bleak and sad sensationalist stories that seems to be the staple of news media around the world. Perhaps we could have an Aussie sister pub - AUS Today. Now that would be superb. Thank you for providing such an outstanding news service.

Great news app. I like to catch up with USA news regularly, although I live overseas. This app is concise and reliable.

Clear & Visually Interesting & frequently updated stories. Enjoying the clarity of layout. Simple, with good links to other relevant stories. Stories are updated more often than in the past and it is my 'go to first' online news. Advertising is not overly intrusive and the reading experience smooth.

Pretty Good News Service. I read USA Today, everyday. I like the broad coverage, broken up by categories. There are good links to more in depth reporting and detail. I find the opinions relatively fair minded and moderate. I also like the crosswords.

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Slow. I have five news apps and this one is by far the slowest. It almost seems like ads are prioritized before news.

Excellent source for US news. I've enjoyed USA Today for years in print format, which I would grab on the in for breakfast when I travelled in the US. I was thrilled when I found I could get it online. Read it daily. As a non-resident, it keeps me up to date.

Presentation style. I enjoy the quick scan style new headers which allow me to decide which items interest me most but return to others without missing a beat!

Crossword Pizzle. I used to do the puzzle every day, but since the new IOS it is soooo small I can’t see it!!!! And now!! you are restricting how many Crosswords puzzles I can do!,! I’m NOT impressed!!! But otherwise, I like the paper.

USA today. It’s ok

Great news. Great app keeps me up to date

News. I used to read USA today every morning and do the crossword puzzles. Now I just do the puzzles as most stories require a subscription.

Very good. Enjoy it

Good App. The App allows a quick look at the days topics. Most articles read are quality and are clearly ‘vetted by the papers editors, unlike some papers who tend to write contradictory columns.

USA. I find it easy reading and informative. I particularly enjoy the sports section

Relevant. Balanced relevant coverage.

Excellent.. Excellent app. Great for the headlines. Well laid out.

Terrific to. Keep up with the news. A bit slanted with respect to their bias into buying into the climate change fear monger, but otherwise fairly even coverage.

Love it. Use it everyday. V2 now includes canadian cites for weather

Good app for news. And the daily puzzles are super! Gets my day started well, and no trees are harmed by using paper.

Restrictions. Unfortunately subscriptions have restricted content.

EXCELLENT SOURCE of NEWS. I love reading and knowing what is happening in America (even though I AM Canadian) Variety of news sources and options to customize reading material based on preferences... I really enjoy this APP. Peace and Love to y’all ! :-)

Used to be good. Need to subscribe now as more and more articles are subscriber only. Probably going to replace the app with something comparable soon.

Too much sports news. The app itself is very good, but very short on actual news content and too heavy on sports.

USA Today. Easy to read easy to get information

Useful and Informative. Not a big fan of the new format - namely Top Stories; however I read it daily for the informative insightful articles. I would ask they NOT ALWAYS duplicate stories.

Great Content. Nice to see an ap that has value .

USA today. Find the articles informative. Like the challenge of the crossword puzzles.

Great Overview of the news!. Love checking out the articles especially Sports

Great App. Great

USA TODAY. Love this paper! Read the news first and then the Photo Gallery and the Crossword are a welcome relief. Thank you. BRxx

Intellligent writing. Enjoy it every day. Well written, intelligent. Variety of topics. Constantly updated.

Usa. Today. Provides a look at many us topics

Punchy Layout. Easy to read, clear type. Puzzles good, Sudoku not always working.

Great!. As a Canadian, love it!

Too many annoying features. As the app has turned to a partial paywall, more ads, and less articles make it not worth the effort for the limited news

crossword puzzle glitch. So I accessed today's update to the app and now the crossword puzzle feature is not working. Neither today's crossword puzzle nor any of the past week(s) will appear on the crossword puzzle list. One year later -- and the latest update has, unfortunately, not been successful for me. Can't open the app at all -- and yes, I have uninstalled and reinstalled it. Any and all suggestions/help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you and thanks to the IT techies/programmers--all is working wonderfully. January 23, 2020 With apologies -- once again an update to the app has caused major problems for me. I can no longer access any news items in any category. And yes, I did uninstall and reinstall the app. Thanks in advance for any suggestions/help. Your newspaper is my go-to resource for American news -- I am Canadian and I appreciate your no nonsense, unbiased approach to reporting. February 28, 2020 Thank you! Thank you to the IT techs who work so diligently. I am very grateful for all the hard work that has resulted in the app working and allowing access to the news.

Disruptive sound from an ad. App opens. Sound starts. STOP IT!

Review. I wish it were easier to find the news from the 50 states. I love reading the news from 50 states but can’t easily navigate to it via mobile.

USA Today. Everyday I must read this paper , to know what’s going on in the world . Nothing must come between me and this ritual of breakfast and the excellent USA Today ... love it !!! My day starts with my local paper , then USA Today , gives me many topics of discussion with family and friends , keep up the good job everyone .....Laurie 😁

Unbalanced news. This rag just reeks with destain for Trump

Great newspaper! Good coverage!. Excellent news coverage!

Bye USA today crossword. For a long time I used to do this crossword daily in a web browser on my computer, then USA today made that impossible and I had to download the app and create an account. I don’t own an iPad so this had to be on my phone. I didn’t mind watching an ad each day before starting my crossword or being harassed with ads asking me to subscribe. I was disappointed when all crosswords were locked except for that same days and I couldn’t go back if I had forgotten to do one the previous day. The latest app update made the crossword format on my iPhone really unpleasant to complete. I have to zoom in on the puzzle all the time whenever I click on a longer clue it zooms out. The limited part of the puzzle I can see on my screen makes it really frustrating to do. Now this week I don’t even get to do one puzzle a day I only get 3 per week. As if I would pay 3.99$ a month for this terrible phone app puzzle formatting. It’s a shame because having Erik Agard as editor made these puzzles a lot of fun and really interesting. It’s too bad but I’ll get my puzzles elsewhere.

Good. Good app but some of the pop up adds annoying.

New app and crossword. I’ve used this app for a number of years. However with your push to subscribe I will be gone. I can get my news from a large number of sites and don’t need to pay for yours. With all the ads you have this subscription move a just pure greed. Good bye I’m gone.

Need more info. I need few info day rest week

USA Today. I’m a Canadian who is interested, as most of the world is, at the turmoil roiling the US. The articles in this newspaper cut right to the chase and spell out who’s doing what and what the likely consequences will be. It also succeeds in covering a swath of other less serious topics often with a wry sense of humour (Canadian spelling). For my longer fix of news and opinion I turn to other outlets; this does not disparage USA Today, simply points again to the important niche it has created for itself. I will definitely continue to read this with pleasure. Thank you from a neighbour (sic) to the North🇨🇦🇺🇸

Positive review. I find the content very balanced.

Tiny Home Screen font. Good news articles. But the home screen font for the articles info is so tiny it’s hard to read. Unless I’m missing something, I cannot find a way to increase the font for the home screen. However an article I can change the font. But the home screen writing is so small that it’s uncomfortable.

Stop asking me daily to subscribe when I already have!. Almost everytime I open the app it ask me to subscribe and I click it. I go to my subscription and I’m paying annually just annoying

Good for subscribers only. Looks as good as it was but most content is for subscribers only.

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My go to news app.... My go to news app... for factual news..

Works great usually.. This is a good app and USA today is fantastic

USA. a well-written newspaper but I do not wish to pay for it daily when other things get involved.

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Unwelcome Changes. This app has been part of my morning read for years. Unfortunately, that may change. I've noted a significant increase in "subscription only" articles. I understand that ads are a necessary part of doing business, and I don't mind them, but a pay subscription is an unnecessary expense for me. I'll just access the news elsewhere. I'm particularly curious as to why the crossword format has changed. I've enjoyed it every morning for years. It's more difficult to access now, the format/appearance is less user friendly, and it "kicks you out", returning you to your home page, repeatedly. USA Today should have left a good thing alone!

Clean and Professional. Personally, USA Today has satisfied my longing for news that I can use, I’m talking numbers and polls with charts and graphs, some awesome detailed illustration explaining visually certain stories or events. I find it to be a top grade publication with a ton of extras in the ‘store’ including ‘special’ articles and multiple page reports on notable peoples and historical events. For many seasons USA Today has provided me with all the news I can use! (I have been a subscriber to the print edition of the daily paper for many years, now I have the digital edition only and enjoy the access to it on my iPhone 24/7. Excellent!

Today I say Goodbye to USA Today. I’ve been a user of USA Today’s app since it first debuted on the App Store many years ago. Other (admittedly better designed) apps have also come and gone. But what kept me coming back to USA Today was their middle of the road, non-spin delivery of the news. In recent years they did many things with advertising that detracted so much from the news reading experience that I banished the app to a folder, but still kept it around for those occasional times I wanted to browse news in spare time. Today I’m deleting USA Today app after coming across one “article” by Motley Fool. It is nothing short of an advertisement for a subscription to Motley Fool, there is literally zero value to it, yet it’s put in with the rest of the articles as if it’s a story, not an ad. Enough is enough. Goodbye USA Today, sorry to your journalists and editors who do their best to honor their education and past experience as newspeople. Your revenue folks have won. I will miss those first several years- you all were as much a part of my life as anything else in my daily routine. Sad to see you go but there are no qualms about it and this reader is no “Fool”.

Too many interruptions and adds. Great app bringing a wonderful variety of news and categories. This is the only news app on my phone. I am considering dropping it though because of all the irritating pop-ups and flashing ads. I can’t see a single page of news anymore without some colorful add flashing to get my attention including those asking me to subscribe to USA Today. I have to put my hand over the adds or close them just to concentrate on the news article. I would consider subscribing but I feel like I’m being pressured to do so with all the interruptions. I don’t really mind adds but it’s getting ridiculous.

I love the comics section. For someone who has travelled extensively, world-wide, for the past 30 years, USA Today was always an easy grab as I raced through airports. It provided an update on national events. It has morphed into an echo chamber for liberal talking points. Regurgitating Wash Post and NYTimes articles, in lieu of any true journalistic and reporting skills. We are well aware of your declared C-suite pivot a year ago to a more “diversified” staff. Also aware that virtually every article you replicate or cobble together is highly partisan and biased. This bias neuters all credibility. Your paper is a joke. I would never buy the rag. When I glimpse it online, I ignore most articles, and I’m reminded daily it’s such a terrible operation. I view it as a comics section.

Trouble loading .... I have been using this ap for several years. It has been my first go to for news. However, it seems with every update the load times get longer and longer. Sometimes pushing 30 seconds. And then often it shows the date, time and headlines of my last login. If I wait some more (with a few down swipes) it will usually update to current time with the current headlines. This is unacceptable. Today I received the error message “Loading Error. There was a problem connecting. Please check your connection and try again.” My connection is fine. I can load every other news ap, instantaneously. I felt obligated to finally write a review. If developers can get their ap to be as responsive as their competition, I will update my review to 4 stars.

Crossword Puzzle Mess. The latest update has made the crossword puzzle incompatible with external keyboards. I have a 2021 iPad Pro 11-inch with Logitech Folio external keyboard. Before the update, everything worked fine. After the update, I can no longer type clue answers using he external keyboard. I must remove the iPad from the keyboard/case and activate the onscreen keyboard to solve the puzzle. Please fix this. This is my second request. Since posting my first review about the crossword puzzle, I have written a Ms. Carroll about the issues. She wrote a glowing article about the puzzle redesign on October 8, 2021. I asked her to forward the issue to the appropriate person, because I knew she could not address the problem. It is now one month later and I hve heard nothing.

My fav new "paper" app. I have tried a bunch of different news apps over the years, I always return to USA Today. I feel the same way about the paper version, I always purchase the good old fashion "paper" it I have access. App updates have continually changed the format over the years, I haven't loved every single version. In my opinion, too many updates and too many drastic changes are made when a new version is a released. But, I suppose it doesn't matter because I like the content and the next update will be better. 👍

Not the same as it used to be. This is one of the few sources of news that I enjoy. The app is even much better than the actual website cause of so many pop ups when just trying to read an article there. The recent change in pay articles is making the app less useful unfortunately. There are so many sources of news that are not pay to read it’s just not really worth it. Their are plenty of revenue streams that other apps use for ads and such that don’t charge you directly. Maybe separate out the paid content into its own section vs intertwining it within the rest. I just know personally I am finding myself using one of better news app less and less.

Daily Read. I depend on my USA Today app on my iPhone 11 and my iPad to keep up with all things US oriented including news, sports and culture. I am an American citizen who is living and working in Denmark. As I integrate into my home country, I can't afford to spend too much time on-line keeping up with a place where I no longer live. I find the USA notifications helpful and the way the sections make it easy for me to access what I want to read. I have noticed that the paper is drifting toward tabloid news which reflects what's happening in the US anyway. All in all the paper is an important source of information for me.

Major downgrade. I used to love this app, but since the last update, it won’t even open on my iPad unless I restart it. Then, I can’t open any stories. I have to act like I’m sending them to myself and then copy the link and open it in Safari. My iPad is new and up to date. Additionally, the crossword puzzle, which was a daily highlight, now has a new format and a paywall if I want to do anything except for the current day. The new format is awful, and, while I would have paid for the old one, I will probably stop playing the new one it’s so awkward. I understand that USA Today wants to have a pay component, but with these changes, I’m more inclined to delete it than spend any money on it. And it used to be on my home page and one of my favorite apps!

Good but. USA Today is the one app I use that provides balanced, non hysterical news coverage. Their editorials even have two sides of an issue. I started using this app because sudoku and the crossword puzzle are part of my morning mental calisthenics. I get frustrated when either of those won’t update. It isn’t a frequent occurrence, and has been less in the last few months, but is something that may require the app developers attention. I am also a fan of the fact checking

Extremely biased. I’m in the middle on politics. I see both parties have good qualities and both having bad qualities. I didn’t like Trump’s arrogant attitude. However, Biden is every bit as arrogant. If people would read information from BOTH sides of the political spectrum they would probably be more informed. Fox is obviously conservatively biased. USA Today is not biased, it’s completely one sided. How come I continually get stories about Jan 6th but NOTHING on the House striking down any inquiry into the Biden’s proven political shenanigans with Hunter and The President using political influence to get extremely rich?? Both parties have numerous corrupt members. As a so called news source, you should expose both! Otherwise your stories (and any partisan news source) rank among the fake B.S. as tabloids. DO BETTER!

Sudoku Issue. I believe this was an issue for me before with USA Today and my iPad 2. Here it is 3-APR and the latest Sudoku that will download is 20-MAR. I don't see a way to download more games, but if there is, I'd really like to know what that process/function is. I honestly don't read their fake news tripe...pretty much have the app for their daily crossword and Sudoku. Just limited to the crossword for now, I guess... **UPDATE**...gotta hand it to the app developers. I got an email letting me know how to fix this issue and that a permanent fix would be implemented in a future update. Have to admit...that's dang good customer service and I appreciate that!!

Biased. Liberal. Intolerant.. I've given them a dozen chances. I was giving them mercy. I've complained to USA Today about their one sided liberal articles. I'd say 30% are politically neutral and 70% are far left liberal. I'd further say that 0% represent conservative viewpoints and 0% represent Christian viewpoints. Further, they're 100% INTOLERANT of Christian viewpoints and of anything that contradicts their left liberal policy. I'm officially deleting the app. Might come back if their editors determine that they once again care to be journalists rather than simply advance their liberal propaganda. Bye bye USATODAY. Oh, and I pray that they will invite Jesus to rid them of the anger that riddles their hearts, and which is so reflective and evident in their articles. And before you judge me for being an "uneducated Christian, please note that I hold 4 college and post graduate degrees. In Christ. Mike.

sudoku gone bad and then good but not quite good. In January 2022 they changed the sudoku to make it fancier, but it is was much less pleasant to play: slower, numbers were obscured when rows are completed, and it was no longer a square grid. But within a day they responded to user comments and reverted back to the excellent old sudoku. Well done! Oops, but now I need to delete and reacquire the app each time I want to play — somehow it needs that kick, and even then, the list of dated games doesn’t properly show the star rating. Still need to delete and reload app to play one session of sudoku. Seems likely that the game’s history or cookie mechanism got pooched when the new sudoku was introduced, but hasn’t been reset to the old history or cookie scheme?

“For Subscribers”. After years of providing news to app users, USA Today rolled up their app and hit us across the nose, restricting access to content. The phrase “bait-and-switch” comes to mind as USAT decides that annoying customers with ads is not enough, app users must now pay for the privilege. Is USAT unaware that news services across the Internet offer the articles they now restrict? Is USAT unaware that most of those same news services do so without the typos and incomplete/unfinished articles we have endured on their app? This reviewer cannot fathom why USAT would take away what was a genuinely helpful tool by making articles “for subscribers,” like a five-year-old taking his toys to go home. Then again, this reviewer knows what the love of money is the root of.

9.99 a month is ridiculous. I get that people need to get paid to write articles but you also have a LOT of annoying ad content (I can’t STAND moving ads in the middle of an article) but I was willing to accept it because everyone needs to get paid. I’ve always liked USA Today for being impartial - enough that I might have paid a couple bucks a month to support it but 10 bucks a month for DIGITAL content is way too much. Not to mention I’ve see articles poorly written with missing proofreading. Sorry, I’ll probably pursue your free articles but you will definitely not be my go to source any more and I won’t recommend it like I have in the past.

Hate to tell you this way, but.... I couldn’t find a way to tell the web developer that the app on my iPad keeps suddenly leaving the app and returning me to my iPad desktop. This has been happening for over a week. I have confirmed I have all the updates. And I even refreshed the app from the settings menu. This usually happens after I’ve finished reading an article and get returned to the previous page. Suddenly, the app shuts down. It also happens when I follow a link inside of an article. My iPad seems to be functioning well for all my other apps. Help! My day starts with a cup of coffee, my dog nestling in my lap... and reading USA Today. Hope this can be fixed. Oops! I also listen to music, which of course gets shut off because of video marketing. I realize that’s very important to you, but it’s irritating to me as a reader. Thanks for listening. Oops again. I thought I had signed up for ad free a long time ago. I was wrong, so I apologize. It’s interesting that now that I’ve signed up for ad free, the app seems to be operating just fine. ???

No Longer Objective Journalism. As someone who likes to get the news objectively and straight down the middle, I used to love reading USA Today and have been using the app for over a decade. Now, the journalistic and editorial bias has drifted so far to the left, aside from a very infrequent counter-opinion editorial, that the headlines read largely the same as many openly left leaning publications. The preformed biases are so blatantly clear that the notion that this papers’ major headlines are truly objective is, at this point, laughable. This was a classic case of a frog boiled in water. After years of reading this paper, I finally realized how much the editorial standards of this paper have changed. I love a good Op-Ed, but give me my facts straight, hard, and down the middle. Americans are capable of making their own opinions. I’ll look elsewhere for objective journalism. Sad to say after 10 years: next, please.

I am a fan. I used to buy a USA Today newspaper every day on the way to work and work the crossword at lunch. When I retired I started printing out the puzzles on the home computer to work at my leisure. When I got I pods and I pads and finally an I phone, USA Today was the first app I downloaded. I guess you could say I am a fan! I especially enjoy the Life section and Sports for NBA and Tennis. I check out the golf for my son. I will be 78 in December and like to keep abreast of the news as it affects my well being. The reporting is not hysterical or overly biased. Keep up the good work. Elaine M Hayes

Latest version hows fewer articles!. The latest update of this app WASTES SCREEN SPACE at the top with useless headers!!! Get rid of them!!! I’m trying to read the articles and don’t need to always see “Subscribe”, “Sign In”, the settings gear, search, and space stealing USA logo!!! USA Today used to do a decent job of covering news. Now it’s filled up with ads and biased opinion pieces marked as real news! There are far too many sports articles compared to current event news. Worse, there’s an overload of space filling articles with a headline and one picture BUT NO TEXT!!! It appears they have reduced their staff so much there’s no one left to cover news or proofread submissions. There are many better news apps. Don’t waste your time or money on this empty shell!

Hate the new format even more. 2nd update: And yes, you’ve managed to make your app even worse. It truly is unreadable now. I DO NOT want to watch videos in a news app. And your ads cause the app to jump around. Just so you know, on the few occasions I do look at your app now, any ad that interrupts the story I’m reading goes on my list of products I WILL NEVER BUY. Vendors who purchase these ads should know that they are wasting their money. Update: I didn't think this news app could get any worse, & yet, it has. The pop up ads are the last straw. I just deleted this app. The only decent piece of writing they've done recently is pointing out in an editorial that Trump is incompetent as a presidential candidate. I've found other sources for my national news. USA Today has lost credibility for me. It's just another click bait site.

Problems with Crossword. Recently USA made changes to the app intended to entice readers to pay a monthly subscription. I’ve enjoyed the daily crossword puzzle. Now, unless subscribed you only have access to that day’s puzzle. You can’t access a previous puzzle that you happen to miss, as under the previous version. Also, I used to be able to use my iPad keyboard (accessory) to complete the puzzle, now the keyboard no longer works. Recently (last few days) I’ve noticed that when I enter the last letter of the clue the app freezes up. I hope the people paying for the app are having a better experience. I certainly would not consider subscribing with these inferior problems. Looking for a better alternative.

Video ads don’t play. I usually look at the top news stories, then scroll down through endless sports news, which I don’t care about. Then I try to do the crossword and sudoku. Both of these too often have video ads which appear on screen, but don’t play. For the past 2 months I have deleted this app. then reinstalled it. Sometimes this works. Frankly, I’m losing interest and have begun viewing my news elsewhere, have downloaded a sudoku app. haven’t yet looked into crossword apps. I will give USA Today another week before deleting it all together.

For Your Consideration. Thoroughly enjoy the APP. I start my day with USA Today. Below are a few “gnat bites” that pester me: 1) Articles need to be fair and balanced. Political bias can be covered in the OpEd....but don’t let it influence the news stories...journalism should be pure. 2) Entertainment Section and Life Section overlap way too much. The same article is placed in both sections - keep celebrity out of the Life Section. 3) Editor should be review pages more frequently....their are stale stories/articles that have been repeated daily for weeks and weeks...there are too many new stories that could be run in those spaces. 4) Daily Comics Section should be added. Everyone enjoys the comics...even if you just ran them on Sunday. 5) Ad Free Subscriptions....you should have a seniors (65+) rate. So many of us are on fixed incomes....recommend $2 per month. If the Comic Section isn’t feasible for the non-ad version...maybe include it as a perk with the subscription version.

Heading in the wrong direction.. I know it is deliberate since links on the main sections are not as sensitive as embedded links in stories, so please, please adjust the sensitivity of embedded links in stories so that we are constantly taken to stories we don’t want to read when we are just trying to scroll on a page. It is an extremely deceptive tactic and one that is completely in your control to dial back the sensitivity settings. I’ve tested over and over and even hard-presses on embedded links still are treated like a quick light tap on a link. One should let you scroll on a page and the other should activate the link, but all presses are treated the same. Fix it USA Today!

Ads obscure content. I have been reading USA Today since I was in college and I have always appreciated the content. This app, which used to be a good way to augment my news reading has become untenable with pop up ads opening in safari and video ads taking over with no way to exit. I would happily pay for the content- when I was in college I gladly bought the paper every day. If fixing the ads is not possible, please offer a description option to remove them. The Weather Channel app allows this and I love it. ***Update: USA Today delivers! Ad free is the way to go! ***

Good News. Overall I really like the app and the way it is organized. Sometimes it gives a good balanced view of the news. I do wish the celebrity news would stay in the entertainment area where I could ignore it not in top stories. There are too many “news” articles that are what so and so celeb said or did - it seems very juvenile sometimes. There is so much really important news right now and USA Today is not hitting it consistently. Would like more news on what is happening in the world news, especially the Middle East or non-opinion pieces concerning the state of our nation.

Exceptional. I have used this app for a long time alongside other news apps and it finally occurred to me... I use and enjoy USA Today more than any other news app. I appreciate that columnists, news writers, etc., write stories that are relevant, informative, comprehensive, and, more importantly, trustworthy. There has always been something special about thumbing through the paper version of the USA Today but the app is the ‘paper’ that I never have to put down and is always there providing me with the latest events and stories that I can take anywhere. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

Great news source, great app!!!. This is my favorite app and my favorite way to get the news! It has ad of course since it needs to generate revenue. Some users say they are annoyed by that but they don't realize that everyone has to make a living and you just can't get everything for free. If you get your news from Facebook then you are not getting real news. USA Today is a real news agency with journalists with integrity. Let's click on some of the ads and keep them running! Thank you for the REAL news.

Could be better. Video news is extremely frustrating. Forced to watch an ad before the news real, I never watch the videos, but there’s no readable Contant as an option. If you don’t have full cell service, the entire app may not load and download the articles at all. Sometimes it takes 15 minutes of opening the app, to download the articles because of all of the pictures and advertisements. I get the ads, I just want to read the freaking news. I don’t want the ability to. I have an option of no pictures or videos if I don’t have full cell service.

Stop asking to subscribe. On top of all of the ads, this app continually asks you to subscribe to their paid subscription. I get it, you offer for subscriber only articles, all for you finding a way to get money for the value you create. However, the number times you ask me to subscribe is completely obnoxious. If I say no once, you can assume that I won’t change my mind, at least for a month, or maybe even a week, but I won’t change my mind 10 seconds from now multiple times a day. At this point, the only purpose the continuing requests serve is to remind me that I’m not a subscriber. If that’s your objective, then you achieved it, while making me look elsewhere for a less obnoxious app.

Too biased and too Woke. I bought the very first printed edition in the early 80’s so I’ve been a fan for a long time. It’s sad to see that journalism only feels they can be successful if they are biased one way or the other. I’m moderately conservative but any article on this platform that is center, or heaven forbid slightly right, is tagged as an opinion piece every time. All the while unfounded accusations leaning left are presented as actual news. It’s disgusting! USA Today is much farther left than Fox News is to the right. I also find it sad that there skewed view of the world has even affected their crossword puzzles. Almost everyday there is some obvious woke agenda that is being pushed down our throats. I paid $1 for a 6 month subscription and that is all this garbage is worth.

Good content but interface has gotten worse.. I like the articles. I can’t stand the interface. With today’s gigantic phones, why put the “back” button way out of reach on top corner?! I can’t easily use the app with just one hand. Another thing, the hyperlinks that are spread throughout all the articles are super sensitive. While scrolling through an article, if you just happen to touch a link accidentally, it switches pages immediately. And when that happens, I have to reach way up top to the badly placed back button to return to the original article, a double whammy. Get rid of the hyper links already.

Latest update even more unfriendly. After answering a crossword clue, cursor advances to the 2ND LETTER OF THE NEXT CLUE, so you must manually move the cursor back one box before you can begin entering the answer - why?? The last update we lost the ability to tab through to skip clues, and now we not only can’t skip clues with any sort of arrow, but must backup to begin each response. Really probably deserves one star, but I’m keeping an open mind that editors resolved the persistent problem with the newspaper ‘closing’ as you’re reading through it. I’ve never had to try so hard to read news in an app that purports to be a newspaper!

Review. I’m not even a big fan of Donald Trump, but support the policies he has implemented (for the most part), but the incredible anti-Trump slant of about ten articles every single day in the USAToday is unprecedented in “journalism” in America. Bias of this nature was never around for problems associated with the Clintons or Obama....half the people in America think Trump is boldly correcting the mess created by the career politicians but this point is somehow barely portrayed in this paper. If I could find an alternative to an early morning national read I’d forego reading the USAToday. Trump is not my cup of tea personally, but he’s getting the job done. I compare it to having a medical problem and needing a doctor.....of course I’d like to find one with great bedside manner, but if the one that can cure me is a bit of a butthead sometimes, I’m good with that...

No pics or videos in article that go with the actual article. The one thing that needs to change is... The story/article will be about a certain image or video but the specific photo or video is not inside of the story/article. Now this doesn’t happen all the time but it is happening a LOT more and it’s a little annoying. If the headline is about a photo or video, I would like to see what I’m reading about. Instead, they’ll put in a video or picture associated to the topic but not the one they’re reporting on. Please do better on the reporting, if you can’t get the full story (and associated pictures or videos) don’t put it out yet.

Better than the other anti Trump no news papers but not much.. This publication is so obvious on it’s slanted bias against Trump and the deplorable republicans. These Walmart people who are unfortunate not to be rich enough to live on the East or West coasts. Once in a while USA Today is forced to report pro Trump opinions , not facts. I only read it because I have canceled my subscriptions to CNN, MSNBC, and would never take The NY Times or WAPO. One needs to read several opinions to make an intelligent decisions. If FOX isn’t one of them then you are being brainwashed by the liberal media. Try reading FOX and the others papers for a few week and make your own decisions. See what news they don’t report. They all report the same opinion, except FOX. Of course you can remain a puppet of the press and live in a propaganda socialist aimed world. Think of FOX as radio free America during the Japanese and German occupations.

You are out of free crosswords for the week???. Just got this message yesterday (Jan 30). It said I wouldn’t get anymore free puzzles until Feb 4th unless I created an account for two weeks of free puzzles. Exactly how many free puzzles do non-subscribers get? Every morning I look forward to reading the news, having my coffee and doing my crossword. The crosswords had finally started to function well with no hiccups. Now this. Since I no longer have regular access to crosswords, subscriber versions, too many ads and with the poor editing of grammar and spelling, I think I am finally done with USA Today. This is after 20 years of being a faithful reader of paper and app versions. I am switching to the AP app. Easier to read quickly and fewer ads.

Why are they asking us to pay for news now?!. I pay for things that at times I don’t agree with, like my PG &E bill or the copay on my colonoscopy. This was a great app. Until they changed it so we are only able to read certain articles unless we subscribe. They basically choose what we get to read which to me is a sad example of news media. The news shouldn’t be in control of what things are viewed since it should all be available. So either charge for all the articles or don’t charge at all. Picking and choosing what we can see doesn’t look good and is frustrating!!! Until then I will be using a more reliable source for my news so I can actually read what I want, which is the whole idea right?!

Used to be a great app. This app, which for years was my go-to for quick news updates, is now torturous to use. Clicking on an article was once a very straightforward exercise but has turned into a screen filled with clutter and auto-play ads. Attempting to close the ads doesn’t always work and at times I’m taken to the very ad I’ve tried to eliminate. Whereas I could formerly READ an article, now I’m spending more time trying to navigate through all the junk. It’s not worth the aggravation and I’d rather get my news elsewhere.

Crossword puzzle?. Another update and the crossword puzzle is unloadable again. Does someone do this on purpose. I mean, c’mon, is this a plan to wreck it every update? The update below is from a year or more ago. I love this app and read it daily. Only complaint is that the crossword will not load. I play the crossword every day first thing. Now it will not load. This follows the problem that it had for a few days at the start of the new year. This is such a common occurrence. Every update you have to worry if it will kill the crossword puzzle. At least four times in the last couple of years updates killed it. Isn't there someone working on the updates that has a good track record in not creating new problems when trying to fix others. I mean c'mon, how hard can it be?

Agree w/ others. Great content but glitchy app. I used to love this app but lately there has been too much going wrong. Example 1: USA Today has these stories that are actually a series of photos, something like "10 destinations for your holiday" or whatever. Only you click on them and the story doesn't load. It's just the headline and bunch of related stories beneath it, but not the actual article you thought you were going to read. Example 2: Their video stories don't load. All you get when you click on a video headline is an advertisement. Then the player closes it send to back to the news listing page. Get it together, developers! Or train your content managers on how to load and publish correctly.

Engages in character assasination. For many years, news media has selectively engaged in character assasination a of companies and people without evidence or with little evidence. On the contrary, many of the allegations made during the pandemic have proven to be false. This, along with allegations made towards the leading presidential candidate have shown that the quality of media has declined significantly to the point where, the party contributing the most dollars to media has the most prominent opinions. And that’s not how news organizations should operate. I’d implore them to get back to honest reporting, apologize to political candidates whom they were wrong about and apologize to the people who have been hurt due to their fallacious at times reporting. Lastly, opinions are not news. Thank you.

The Paper that Give’s. I’ve enjoyed USA Today for over three decades, when traveling I could count on there being a paper most every where I went. The paper set many standards, starting with the color graphics. Everything was fresh and eye catching, the weather was always important. Though all content was well thought out. The articles hit home and with writers from all parts of the country. Having fresh minds and obvious eye’s and ear’s for news. Topics across all genre’s, this is the paper for me. R.L.Sullivan

Too many repeats. It’s an easy app to navigate, but the amount of times that an article is repeated borders on ridiculous. News is supposed to be just that. Imagine if you got a newspaper and on the fron page, they repeated the same article 57 days in a row. Multiply that times 5-10 articles. I really don’t need to read that Kentucky lost to Evansville for a week. A solution would be to have a filter that you can set to only Show new stories. Lastly, all of these opinion articles should be relegated to a separate section. It’s too easy to mistake them for news. They should also look more carefully at articles that are not labeled as “Opinion”, that actually are. There are too many and most lean to the “left” point of view.

Fixing what wasn't broken. Restructuring the appearance is more "make work" than necessity. That said, I enjoy being able to get world and local news each morning. I learned to read with the L A Times and have been a newspaper addict ever since. I like getting a nationwide perspective along with added local articles. Like the crosswords and the ability to open the editorial section to read different opinions on our dynamic country and its issues. Lately if I get an ad and turn it off, and it does not come right back, I am less annoyed. When reading a print paper I can choose to skip. Letting me skip the ad after seeing it is much less intrusive.

Good improvements, but crosswords need work. The news page opens and refreshes more accurately and quickly with this update. The puzzles are a great addition, but very clunky. My settings are set to skip filled spaces, but it does not skip. Therefore, I overwrite a lot of letters. Also, don't turn the puzzle on in the middle of that boring work meeting, an ad will start singing at you and the crowd. Can you please silence the ad? Or no ad at all? Also, encourage your advertisers that 5 sec ads are more effective. I will tune them out if longer. Especially, since I am forced to listen for every video.

Better but.... The below comment (17 November 2019) was made after a period where that problem persisted and there was no response from the app provider nor was there a straight forward and reliable way to communicate bugs. A day later, it was fixed. The app has improved, aside from this particular issue, but it still has advertising and general loading issues in addition to content problems such as stale stories and bias. I would go elsewhere for news but, honestly, outside of paywall players, USA Today actually has one of the more user friendly apps despite those issues. I appreciate efforts to improve but hope they don’t feel compelled to undermine the user experience again when making future “enhancements.” Keep the core functionality and interface options available even if necessary to opt in/out of new stuff. 17 November 2019: All of a sudden, the top stories in the news section won’t load due to a “problem connecting.” No network issues and all other sections (as well as other subsections under news) load just fine. Deleted and reinstalled the app plus sent feedback but no change.