TIME Mobile

Only 'The Brief' loads on my iphone OS8. This was a problem for years, but was fixed fairly recently, but this Apple Watch update has taken it right back to the doldrums!

Way to absolutely kill your brand.

Doesn't look clean.

This app in its current incarnation offers nothing that can't be accessed through a mobile web browser. I gave it a shot after seeing the audio feature advertised, but it's only for The Brief, not for articles. Time recently made the poor decision to remove the audio feature from their digital version of the weekly, which ultimately prompted me to cancel my print subscription. Simply grabbing headlines from the home page of their website and pushing the top stories into a useless app is evidence that the people behind this magazine are just not understanding what features readers are looking for these days: mobility and versatile accessibility in a single, simple format. There isn't even a way to sign in or search for articles in this version. Try again, please.

App is okay and well laid out, but the app failed an important feature that is critical for a news app, and that is caching for off line reading. Sometimes a story would be readable off line, other times not, it was hit and miss. So I've deleted off phone and rate 2 stars. If the app would quickly load/cache all stories in a minute or less for off line reading as the AP news app does, then I would have rated this no worse than 4 stars. For now my only two news apps are AP and NPR, both of which fully cache their text articles for offline reading.

Love the audio option for The Brief! So awesome that I can sit back and listen to someone read the news to me!

The app crashes all the time, fails to load pictures, and only loads sections of stories; they just cut off in the middle.

As of 5/13/2018, the Brief section is stuck at 4/12/2018. It’s been stuck since that date. I reloaded the app. No difference. I looked for an in-app way to provide the developers feedback. The only way I could find is these reviews. The world is moving to digital and this institution appears slow to embrace that.