The most recent update, v. 14, removed the convenience of being able to simply swipe to the next article. Now after reading an article you have to go back to the contents page and figure out where you left off. May sound like a petty complaint but it adds an inconvenient extra step compared to the prior version. I wish there was a way to revert to the old version of this app. UPDATE: I have woken up every morning and frantically, with fingers crossed, check for an update for this buggy, crappy app. Nothing. The app is still terrible, terrible, terrible. Another app update, still a failure. The app is buggy, slow and cumbersome to navigate. And I even have to laugh at this: the most recent update says it makes the print edition available for offline viewing. WRONG! Still no offline viewing. Terrible! UPDATE NOVEMBER 16, 2023 Getting better, but still 1 star. When you open the app and go to Print Edition, you see…. yesterday’s paper! You have to exit the app, wait a bit, and restart. Also, articles are inconsistently formatted. Some you can change text size, some you can’t. And when you change text size on one article, your preference doesn’t stick with other articles like the prior app version. Oh, and when you watch a video and swipe to the next article, the video, including ads, keep playing! You have to exit the app restart to make the video stop.

Please, please bring back the old app, or at least give us the option to use it. The old iPad app tracked the print version in an easy-to-use, reader-friendly format. One could go from article to article in a linear fashion, did not have to go back to the main page each time. The day’s edition could be downloaded, so one could read it when offline, which was especially important for those of us who travel on planes frequently for business. The previous day’s edition was always available, so one could go back and catch up with all of the useful content from the previous day if you didn’t read the entire issue on the day of delivery. The new app is terrible, as bad or worse than the New York Times’ very bad app. You can only read the new app when online — no one seemed to consider the many situations when a reader might be offline. Once a new day starts, the old day’s issue just disappears. Reading article after article is cumbersome — you can’t simply go from one to the other. WSJ, you had the best app out there, especially well-optimized for the iPad. Please bring it back. It would make such a difference to so many of us. I pay a large premium today for WSJ content but I’d pay still more to get this content back in the form in which I was getting it until a couple of weeks ago.

I regard the Wall StreetJournal as my favorite source of financial information as well as my favorite university of news, history, and insight into what makes our global economy work. I also like the balanced opinion section. In this day and age leading democrats ask, “What’s wrong with socialism?” as though it’s a rhetorical question. It is necessary and wonderful to see editorials that reflect a realistic historical perspective on this question together with a deep insights into current economics. How did people live without the wsj app in the old days? Keep up the great work. That was then. This is now. With few exceptions WSJ has gone to the dark side. Full throated endorsement of the dishonest Trump movement with a side of entitlement slashing. Two good reasons for readers to rebel and swing blue in 2024. The Republicans have few qualities that would attract a decent human being, and pandering to the extreme trumpians and McCarthyites is not going to help. Shape up you guys! Tell the truth. Gerard Baker’s wimpy article warning about the “consequences” of standing for Ukrainian freedom is just one example of how formerly great journalists are tying themselves into pretzels to say what the Trump base wants to read. I am no longer a Republican. I am non partisan. I read the Washington Post now much more than WSJ. Please, for democracy, for freedom, for truth, and for survival: Get back to decent honest journalism.