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The content is worthwhile, but it's like the creators of this app want to prevent you from reading it. The "navigation" is like blindly jumping through hyperspace. You have no idea where you might end up. I try swiping left and right but, instead of smoothly moving between stories, it's all twitchy and spastic. I can see the edge of a story I want to get to, but I can't make it land on that story. Just moving my finger slightly to the left and right, which should just move me between two stories, flashes glimpses of 4 or 5 different articles. Other news apps give the impression that there's some stationary content that their app provides a window into. You have a sense how the stories are laid out and where you are in that context. Not so with the Politico app. Instead it's chaos. Blank pages, stories with a picture but no content, videos with no play button. It's incredibly frustrating. I am on an iPad Air 2 with iOS 10.3.2.

Politico is a great news outlet, but their app has been a failure for quite a while. Half the time it works, and half the time it will not load new articles for a week+. Additionally, their media implementation for things like the Global Politico articles is poor and hijacks the audio from whatever you've playing in the background. And if you try to resume your music, for instance, it retakes the audio as soon as you reopen the article. This is just poor coding. It's a shame, really, because I've been a huge supporter of Politico for years. But their app has continued to significantly decline over the last year. And if I can't read articles on the subway because the app is so poor, the NYT will continue to have my subscription.

I love Politico and the content from the journalists is top notch and reliable. HOWEVER this app is the literal worst. It logs me out every single time I close the app it seems and will not remember my login info, so each time I go to save a story it makes me log in again. Plus it is so glitchy! There have been several times that I have been in the middle of the story and it switches back to the home screen and i can no longer find what I was reading. Please fix this!! I beg you. Also, has anyone else noticed the “ads” getting shadier and shadier? Each one is now a “corona virus cure” or a “poll” from a Trump PAC. Yikes. Politico is a reputable and important source of journalism with integrity, but for the love of Pelosi please fix the bugs.