Seattle Times Print Replica

I signed up for Seattle Times using my Google login. The Print Replica app is “unsupported” when attempting to ‘Sign in with Google’. Exact message copy and pasted below Couldn’t sign you in This browser or app may not be secure. Learn more Try using a different browser. If you’re already using a supported browser, you can try again to sign in.

I love this app for use on my ipad. It makes it easier for me to scan the pages as they would be laid out in the daily paper, read all those that interest me and not find myself down the rabbit hole that happens with the email digest or website. But my biggest problem with both Print Replica and now the ST website is that no matter what I do, every time I try to give a thumbs up or post a comment to an article, I end up in an endless loop telling me I have to sign in to comment. I sign in and try again, and again it fails. There seems to be no way to “stay signed in”. Obviously many others are able to comment, but I can only do so from my laptop, which I only use at work, not at home. It’s a super frustrating bug that has existed for quite some time. I really hope it can be fixed.

Will work for a week or so then won’t load a new days paper without deleting and reinstalling the app. Has been this way for years ….

The current version of the app (3.2.0) does not work with IOS 17.x. I do not get an error but only the splash screen comes up and the app/content never loads.

Not what I expect from such a stellar news source. Maybe hire some of the highly talented tech people in our region to create a site that actually works consistently? I am disappointed daily in the spotty performance of this site. You can surely do better. *

I am a subscriber of print and digital and thought this would be a nice app to have on the iPhone. I have the other, ST are on my iPhone as well. I use my Google login for my Seattle Times account. This app wants to force you into a Seattle Times specific username and password so I have no real way of using this. This app needs to be integrated to make use of Google and Apple logins. Time to update, that is pretty much the standard quote of all apps. I have given it one star because I cannot even login and I am an already paying customer.

I like the app for the main purpose—reading news reports—especially tapping on a story to get a larger print version with continuous flow (no navigating to another page in the paper to read the entire story). But I have to take photos of the puzzles and get to edit mode to use my Apple Pencil to complete them. It works for KenKen, but is cumbersome for the NYT crossword. Please add this functionality to your app!

I can’t even get to first base by logging into this app without it crashing. Maybe The Seattle Times developers should take a long look at the excellent virtual newspaper app used by the Spokesman-Review in Spokane. You folks at The Seattle Times should be ashamed to have such a crappy app representing your brand.

Latest edition downloaded at home, but will not open when onboard airline flight a few hours later.

I like the app. But when if you want to download the paper and read it on the plane or someplace without wifi, you can’t. Doesn’t make sense and defeats the purpose.