WIRED Magazine Reviews

by DyreLogan

Wired deals with technology, at least it used to when I subscribed to the physical magazine years ago. I guess you won’t be surprised that wired has thrown their “political” hat in the ring and makes us read through their tortuous rants on what THEY think is news while forgetting all the fact checks out there against the media of the left. They attack right wing news as non factual (of course not showing any evidence of this) yet they say nothing about left wing news. Sound familiar? Wired might as well be called CNN Tech Edition. I wasted 5 dollars on a 12 month subscription of this liberal rag and even though it was a meager 5 dollars, I feel like I’ve lost way more than that. I do not support or promote lying, MSM, agenda-feeding media yet here I spent 5 dollars supporting trash like this. Before you get to the tech part of the magazine, they force-feed you their political, left leaning agenda, praising and pandering to all the political groups before showing us on tech article. Oh well, at least I don’t have to be subjected to their propaganda. I can choose NOT to download such tripe. I’ll just chalk up the overpriced purchase as an overpriced, bitter, displeasing latte at Starbucks.

by UrAngle'sStardust

My paid subscription is completely dysfunctional. I cannot access any stories after having download the Wired App

I followed through with the email instructions of attempting to open your portal and to begin reading important stories Yet have failed every time.

C’est la vie

Unfortunately from this perspective,

I am letting you know

Dear Subscriber:

Thank you for contacting Conde Nast Direct.

We understand you are attempting to read the current December/January issue and when you tap on an article it takes you back to the home page. We need you to try the following, and at any point it does not do what the next step says, send us back an email where the experience changed for you.

1. From the home screen, make sure you are under the All issue tab.
2. Tap on "Open" from the December/January issue
3. Tap the menu icon- top left corner.
4. Tap Table of Contents
5. Scroll down and tap on any article

If you are not taken to the article of your choice at step 5, please let us know.

by Cyxon1

Although I enjoy the content of Wired magazine, I would NOT recommend subscribing digitally through WIREDMagazine. Once you subscribe, you will receive an incessant stream of spam from Condé Nast that will continue despite all your attempts to unsubscribe and mark as junk mail. It’s been such a pain that I’ve canceled my subscription.

by Charlie Munger420

When I first saw a documentary by wire. I was greatly excited to subscribe to them & find out so many more amazing tech & business things but I just found there magazines full of ads & pictures small articles & not many articles to begin with so it was a very disappointing experience. My least favorite part is try to get cancel my subscription is proving more difficult than I expected.

by Capriboi

I understand if you think your app works best as a vertical app or even designing it with this in mind, but forcing users to only use vertical is unacceptable. I don’t like apps that force me to turn my iPad in a vertical direction. I don’t mind if they prefer or give benefits for doing so, but not being able to use WIREDMagazine in the horizontal orientation is the worst.

by Poetnerd

I made a detailed review years ago on how great the Wired app was — how to it enabled easy navigation from a variety of approaches. How easy it was to bookmark articles and come back to them later. The newer app is GARBAGE that lacks features present in the basic Kindle and iBooks apps when viewing PDF files. Whoever approved this change should be fired for the damage done to Wired’s reputation as a technology leader.

by AgitatedSloth

I have a subscription to Wired. I have successfully logged into Wired on my browser and have been able to access all content. I downloaded WIREDMagazine and logged in. However, even though WIREDMagazine recognized that I was signed in, it still prompted me to pay when I tried to download an issue. I tried it a couple of times. Just didn’t work.

by Wanderingscientist

In terms of ease of use of ability to search for past articles, this is one of the clunkiest apps out there and is behind not only the ones used by large newspapers, but also many niche magazines.

by NYCsheep

For a magazine that covers science, tech and culture, and does it well, WIREDMagazine is awful. Compare it to the FT or WSJ which are real news apps, each with different format and qualities, some better than others. The Wired app is very disappointing - clunky, lacking features like save articles, easy log in, stay logged in, portrait vs landscape orientation choices. It’s a hot mess. Wired - please do better. Your content deserves it.

by Epetermann1

Completely idiotic that WIRED, a magazine that prides itself on all-things-technology, doesn’t support landscape mode on the iPad. I subscribed to the magazine 15 months ago (it’s June 2020) and anticipated that at some point Conde Nas would get it together and update WIREDMagazine to support a horizontal presentation. Looks like I won’t be renewing my subscription, What an embarrassment.

by Kellyl1972

It feels like nothing much major has been done to WIREDMagazine since its release. I use my iPad in a keyboard case, and really wish WIREDMagazine would let me read in landscape mode. As a result of the current configuration, I almost never use the thing on my iPad.

by OstinatoFreak

Feature request: please give your fellow subscribers a way to listen to articles in audio form without having to subscribe to a third party service. Maybe even charge a little ($1 or $2 per month above normal magazine subscription cost) which would more than pay for the cost of hiring professional speakers. (Or do it in-house and make it free for subscribers! I don’t care if the speaker is a professional or not.)

Reason for 3 stars: Got WIREDMagazine to read cover article “The Hardest Reset.” Downloaded the issue successfully, but that article malfunctioned. Other articles I could read fine, but all I got was a cover page for the article I wanted to read, and no matter where I tapped or which direction I swiped, the cover was all there was.

by Miz G

So many formerly cool magazine apps (New Yorker, O Magazine) have switched to this boring, static version. The contents page used to let you jump to the story you anted read first. Now you have to scroll past pages. The covers used be fun and dynamic. I guess it all cost too much

by Xegyn

In the most recent version, long pressing a word and looking it up causes WIREDMagazine to freeze and there is no way to regain control so you have to force kill WIREDMagazine . Pretty annoying bug because I like to look up difficult words while reading articles.

by Cnjsmom2

I’m a subscribed for the print edition. I find it strange that print subscriptions don’t automatically include an online subscription - especially for a magazine titled “Wired.” The print edition costs you more. The online version gives you opportunities to give subscribers a second look at your ads. It just doesn’t make sense.

by Adsadsadsinfinityads

Opening monthly magazine issues on iPhone contains some formatting issues between text & visuals. I highly doubt Wired does this on purpose or else people with OCD will get annoyed due to the misplacement of text. Swiping through the magazine is also difficult as I have to repeatedly swipe left/right to change pages. Good content but WIREDMagazine needs work.

by Zebadee2

The iPad version of WIREDMagazine doesn’t support landscape mode. also doesn’t appear to support dynamic text resizing. This makes it kind of hard to read and also makes it easier to lose your place while reading

by Robmcbell

Thank you, this feature was missing for a LONG time and we are so glad it is here.

by Ljm126

This magazine is the smartest, wittiest, in-depth reporting of technology and science and its social impacts that can be found.
Current and no-holds-barred, writing by some of the best reporters in their respective fields makes this mag a front to back, non-stop read.

by JimFeet

In addition to the best STEM articles Wired provides what I find to to be some of the most well reasoned political insights that are either overlooked or ignored by other sources.

by Iron-gate

The text is unreadable. The font is too small. I need a magnifying glass to read an article, which is most unsatisfying. I usually delete most apps that do not have adjustable fonts and/or an ability to zoom or enlarge images with two fingers. Additionally, the orientation cannot be rotated, another major deficiency.

by Tryingtobeopenminded

I have read wired off and on since they started. Mostly like the magazine. So offered discount subscription decided to try again. Glad it includes paper. They must have contracted website and app development to remedial or incarcerated contractors. Neither were done by anyone with any current understanding of the tools.

by Buzz, Farmer

Since moving to the iPad several years ago as my primary reading device, there are certain standards that I have come to expect with my digital publications. The number one requirement is that the content supports both portrait and landscape modes, not just portrait mode, as WIRED still only does. I and most people I encounter who use an iPad use some form of case and/or keyboard cover that puts the device into landscape mode for TIME magazine used to offer both modes, but then they went portrait-only and I found it totally frustrating and dropped the subscription.

There are several other digital publications that don’t suffer from this problem (I’ve used the ZINIO reader for a few things), so this is not a difficult problem to solve.

Other reviewers have commented on the lack of zoom and other viewing controls and I agree with their concerns.

Finally, the new “Swipe down” control isn’t as easy as the prior control. If you’re not careful, you’ll swipe down from the top and reveal an iPad control, not the WIRED app control to get back to the menu and settings. This is not as intuitive and it doesn’t work as well. I’d just assume see the older control where you tapped on the content to reveal the menu bar at the top.

Please listen to your customers while you have them and make these changes. These are much more fundamental things and make more of a difference than animated cover pages and other bells and whistles.

by EV-traveler

And they make it really hard to read by using an old-fashioned page by page online approach to presenting the material. It’s like reading a PDF and set up a website.

by Cybersnyder

I click on the option in WIREDMagazine and it prompts for an email address, however there is no way to enter an email address.

by SlazL

The latest iteration of the Wired app has proven to be buggy, with poor navigation and constant freezing. I use a recent generation iPad with the latest OS. Perhaps WIREDMagazine hasn’t caught up, but it is frustrating to use.

by Underdog114

Links to other articles take you to safari instead of opening in WIREDMagazine . Makes it hard to read old articles since you need a membership.

by The Navigator

There’s no Library (Home) button in the swipe-down menu. Can’t get out of the current issue. Yes, Wired, this is a problem.

by JHirschi

Great articles, very hard to read typography and design, and with no text zoom function.

by Alonobis

Beautiful reading experience. Why is it so hard to share?

by HeidiWF

Me love you long time