I’ve been a long-time user of this app and loved it, except... The ads have increased to a point where I can’t get articles to load — at all. Or, the font is so small, that I need to expand the view, and then an ad pops up on the same stinkin article and blocks the entire view panel, I have to reduce the size, close the NEWLY added ad to the page, readjust the page view so I can go back to read it. This happens on nearly EVERY article opened anymore. It’s such a PITA, I’m out here on the app store looking for an alternative to Flipboard and leaving this review. I bet I’ve been an almost daily Flipboard user for almost a decade. IOS user here. I work in tech, work from home, this is not an issue with my home internet/ecosystem or my own hardware, but a Flipboard problem for the ads and page not loading for articles. I’d say this is around 25% of the time currently (article doesn’t load at all). The ads making it so frustrating to read a single article because they move around the text on the page, pop up in the middle of what you’re reading and then have to be closed to re-find where it was you were in the middle of a long article, or sometimes even shoving you back up to the top of the page after the new ad loads — occurs approximately 95% of the time anymore. Even for free, this platform isn’t worth my time anymore.

Crash, Crash, Crash! Always crashing! Every few minutes the app is now crashing (Jan 2024) First, If you want to see what users think about this app, sort the reviews by "most recent" I like to read news while listening to music on my iphone . That is impossible to do now. Most Flipboard pages steal the audio output from Apple Music ... so the music stops ... and is replaced by silence. As far as I can tell most if these pages have no audio or video but still "stop the music". If I restart the music, returning to the flipboard app again stops the music Ads, ads and hundreds of sponsored pages that you see over and over again. And then there are all the articles impossible to mute because the mute options do not provide the option to mute the content I do not want to see or care about. And then there is all the attempts at data collection ... Why am I asked so many times who I am going to vote for? So Flipboards response to my review and is "Please contact us within the app". That is it. Nothing else provided. They could say "We can help you resolve your issues or maybe your experience should not be happening" Anyway, Lets see if they do anything after I contact them. I will post here their reply!

This is a great app in theory, and 80% of the time it works the way it should. That other 20% is what’s so frustrating though. It’ll just freeze up for no apparent reason. It will just shut down for no apparent reason. You’ll be flipping though articles, and then it’ll just refresh and go back to the start of the 80 articles you just flipped through. There’s also issues like being able to do some function at one point, and then one day it just doesn’t exist anymore (such as sorting magazines a specific way and other minor things that just go poof for no apparent reason). And before I get a response from someone about updating the app or download the most recent iOS, I’m using a phone that’s less than six months old with the most recent iOS, and I search for a Flipboard update once a week in hopes of an update fixing the minor issues, so it’s not anything on my end. And I know others are experiencing the same thing. They wonder out loud why I’m such an ardent Flipboard shill. It’s because I see the potential, and quite frankly, I feel like I have invested at lot into my Flipboard over the years I’ve been using it. So frustrating.