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80 Problems reported in the last 24 hours
🔨🐞 Solved: verified fixes that worked!
[Solved] Videos freeze ,or won’t download
[Solved] Substack not working on iPad ,won’t download just goes back to homepage
[Solved] Substack locks on video from stream and just keep showing videos. Can’t go back to main feed.
[Solved] Listening function disappeared
[Solved] Tried to update the app, but it says it requires a slightly later version of iOS than my iPad has.
[Solved] It opens but as soon as I search a certain name and click on it to see their profile, it closes
Doesn’t match Substack app on my phone
The screen locks up and I cannot do anything to move to the next pape
substack does not play
Home page keeps crashing. Crashes when I try to use search tool
📋 32 Reported Issues:
Unable to read anything. Just crashes
Substack keeps crashing
I receive an email with posts on substack and when i click “Read on app” it does not work
I am having problems playing videos, the message says "There was an error playing this media"
It turns on and immediately shuts down
I am constantly losing the audio upon watching a couple of videos.
I am constantly losing the audio upon watching a couple of videos.
App doesn't have a log in option when you delete and reinstall it
i have never been able to get the substack app to work
The sound does not play on several Substack pages. The video is fine.
i’ve downloaded the substack app, but it does NOT work. it does NOTHING NOT solved at all.
Cannot open videos on my iPhone 16
Cannot access on my computer (but works fine on iPhone). It was working fine until a couple weeks
Crashes after 10 sec. Update wont help.
Substack crashes after about 20 seconds
Substack app crashes after being open for about five seconds on iPhone 8 running iOS 16.7.10
Videos don’t play on app
Video won’t play in app on iPhone 16
iPad app Does not open correctly. I just get static picture. Have tried to delete and reinstall app.
Spotify links don’t show up in app.
Substack Reader has no left sidebar; can’t add non-Substack rss feeds.
Tried to open, message said I need an update. Attempt to update, says I live in an area where it's not available. I live in Indiana
When listening to the app read the article, it starts and then plays to the first paragraph, and then crashes and causes my Samsung S10e to lock up on the blank background (background only/no icons) before shutting the phone down. Every time.
While attemptingto listen to an article, it will crash and close. I'll need to open the app, search for the article begin listening and skip to my last progress. It's been happening since I downloaded the app 3 months ago. Most of the time I get a little over 1 min of listening at a time, when I'm fortunate I'll get 3 or 4 minutes of listening before the next crash. This morning it's anywhere from 5 to 20 seconds before it crashes. I tried about 8 times. I uninstalled and reinstalled, still the same problem.
App seems to work fine for everything except notes. As soon as I begin to scroll the entire app crashes. Hoping this is a temporary bug. Otherwise I love this app.
Audio on my Substack subscriptions stopped working today. I get a message that the audio is on progress. Wait a minute. 6 hours later same message. Thanks for your help.
I keep receiving an Audio Processing message. The message says "This audio for this post is still processing" - unfortunately, it's been days... Using the latest updated iPhone.
I've just signed up to Gareth L. Powell's newsletter. I have received the sign in to Substack app email, which opens a new window with the Open Substack app button, but nothing happens when it is clicked. The app doesn't open on my phone. Please advise next steps. Thanks
When I use substack reader Android app for one of the substacks I am a paid subscriber of, it never finishes reading a post, crashing out of reading a few seconds in and forcing me to restart from the beginning every time. Did I mention I only have this issue with one substack? Reader works fine for others. What could be the reason?
Android app will not allow me to sign up
John Paul Substack. I tried to read the article about Ukraine you copied and pasted and the print turned into long narrow windows with small writing and is only showing the copy and paste section.The app is stuck on that section and won’t move forward or backwards. Not to the start of your article or any of my other followed ones…It is on an up to date iPad.I can read on Substack website,but no voice over ! I will post this from Safari ,please take it up with Substack,
Installed the Substack app on my Duo 2 Android phone. Looks like it clobbered Outlook. At this point both the Outlook icon and the Substack app icon point to my Substack account. How can I bring the Outlook icon to point to my e-mail account again?
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