The "Edit" function does not work. There used to be a "Print" version but it is not available. Poor design. You guys can do better ! Ask Arial for his input. Creativity is needed. Not good. Why not use the Wall Street Journal app as your template? Even The NY Times app. Sorry to be harsh but you asked!

3 years ago, LHarris in Upstate SC

Can not turn off background refresh

Content is good. App is not so good. There is no obvious way to turn off background refresh. Background refresh stays on even when the global setting is turned off! This will drain your battery. If you want to check it out for yourself, go to settings, then battery, and look at the activity report. This app is always in the top 2 or 3 for battery usage. I will probably cancel my subscription when the annual renewal comes up because of this issue.

2 years ago, PHN in SC

Lousy App

This app crashes frequently. The news content is often several days old and no longer accurate, and you are limited in the amount of free content you can read before being asked to purchase a subscription. As a lifelong resident of Columbia, SC, and a former subscriber to The State, I still enjoy reading the publication, but only minimally slow. The State is not the publication it used to be. And here’s a news flash for The State: People don’t have to pay for news anymore.

5 years ago, gg#55@gg

Improve service

It would be nice when I am dealing with your staff that they would be more consumer friendly and respectful. Usually this is the top views that the bottom represent. If not then we will see change however, I have dealt with the state over 30 years and have seen no change. I have not seen an inch or sliver toward consumer friendliness or respectfulness in the past.

4 years ago, Profeng88

Update Causes Crash

Recent update has made app unusable. Crashes every time it opens. Since you are going more and more to online paper, please continue to make the online version more user friendly. Particularly the e-edition.

2 years ago, strb113

Works ok but too many ads

I had a paid subscription to the paper but was still bombarded with advertisements while using the app to include full screen ads. App crashes intermittently and sends tons of data out while using. Would suggest they quit trying to monetize paying subscribers the app, real turn off.

7 months ago, mount an dew

Excellent app

Very grateful for the app though I don’t pay for a subscription. Why you ask? Same articles are free elsewhere.

4 years ago, Ski Tiger on the Divide

Terrible app

This app was tweaked several weeks back for the much, much worse. I have read The State for 70 years, the last 15 on my iPad. I liked the facsimile of the printed newspaper. Since the most recent tweak, it has been a rare day that anything worked well. No online paper again today. Much more of this and you will lose another reader. Get it right and smooth or we are gone.

5 years ago, grouchie303

I love this app!

I have been using it for a very long time. is the best!

2 years ago, 000309

Frustrating

I deleted and re-download the app hoping it would help, but it doesn’t. As a digital subscriber, I opted to first see the updated news, and click on to the e-edition. My Home Screen repeatedly pops up “error fetching feeds”, and “pull to refresh”. What does that even mean?

4 years ago, bo1045

Horrible App

Try reading on iPad. Can’t make newspaper view large enough to read as it runs off page. Previous app worked great. If you can’t fix this one then go back to olive version. It worked well. Why change something that is not broken. If this is not fix3d soon then I will be leav8ng. No since in keeping something that is broken

4 years ago, paper stinks

Horrible App

Please go back to the other app. I cannot read this one as it is on the right hand side of my iPad and is 1/4 size of the screen. I called your office and they told me they could not help me. He said wait a few days and it would get better. That was 5 days ago and it has NOT IMPROVED! I am paying for something I cannot read. Get with it!!!

2 years ago, cocky 54321

Print problems

The right hand sides of the “Jumble”, the daily “Sudoku” and the “Seven Little Words” are cropped. The puzzles should be centered. Also, why can’t the puzzle sizes be controlled? The device for selecting text size has no effect. Please adjust.

4 years ago, Sqfromsc

New app is AWFUL...RUINS my morning

I have been reading the paper digitally since its inception. This is the worst app...when you can see a the entire page, the font is too small and there is the Dignity ad staring you in the face...make the font large enough to read and you lose a portion of the article...not a way to start the day frustrated.

4 years ago, Winemaker223

Useless App

The recent “improvement” of this app is totally useless. Load errors, out of focus pages, crashes, inability to login, lock ups, inability to enlarge pages! Why did you mess up a perfectly good app. Tired of fighting this every morning. Customer service is no help. 0 stars is my rating. I’m done with The State.

5 years ago, 1 sad American

The State paper is biased

This paper was a balanced media source but no more. The very clear bias against the current President is very, very disturbing. Don’t tell me you are just reporting what the “wire” service sends. Check it out before publishing. Lazy. Dishonest. Hopefully going down like other very biased “sources”.

3 years ago, Byars007

Disappointing

I am sick of clicking on news stories that then require a subscription to be able to read the remainder of the article . You have made the paper to expensive to take and provide less that an enjoyable experience online .

6 years ago, Ghjkl56

What were they thinking?

I have been using this app on my IPad for quite a while; that is about to change. The new split screen app is terrible. I guess the editors wanted their IPad edition to be at the same level as their printed edition. I would give it zero if I could.

4 years ago, Discouraged Subscriber

Worthless App

The new e-edition app (10/19) is horrible. Slow to load, crashes frequently, hard to move thru. Worst of all, if it happens after 10 pm, read about it somewhere else, not in this paper. Sad to watch their demise. THE STATE is dead and doesn’t even know it.

4 years ago, CeannD

Bad app upgrade

Recent app changes have made The State unreadable on my iPad. Pages aren’t in focus, it’s impossible to zoom in, it’s jerky and half the time the icons at the top of the screen don’t work. If you don’t fix soon I will drop my subscription.

6 years ago, Slanderous

95% Gamecock sports and 5% news.

They might as well just rename this app to Gamecock News. On any given day you can open this app and the feed is dominated by sports. Not worth keeping it on my phone. It serves no real purpose for me.

4 years ago, M99er222

Frustrating

E edition does not seem to work on an iPad. I want to be able or read the news each morning without having to go through a computer workout.

5 years ago, Hendu68

Good hometown paper.

I moved from Columbia in 1993. I use The State to stay in touch with my hometown.

4 years ago, frenchy0674

Poor compared to previous eEdition

Please allow your digital subscribers to view the print edition layout!! This new, updated app is garbage. Too many ads, poor layout, horrible visual interface.

2 months ago, 60-year reader

Push Alerts?

What is it with this company? They want to charge you more than $70 bucks a month, and they can’t hire someone to help them with their push alerts? This is sick.

2 years ago, Why am I entering a nickname ?

Broke

This app has not been fixed since it came to market. The app simply doesn’t work even after updates.

4 years ago, Truly Yours 2

Terrible app, terrible newspaper

Where’s the newspaper?? No way to see the newspaper as it is published, just a bunch of stories, some old, with disgusting ads. Extremely disappointed. Can not find the comics, Dear Abby, the obituary listing, etc. Just awful.

5 years ago, JaySC52

Review

Best news report in the country.

2 years ago, imjamie1

Frustrating

One thing this app does consistently is crash. And crash. Crash. Crash. And crash... See what I mean? Very annoying way to start my day.

4 years ago, SkipontheLake

THIS NEW APP IS TERRIBLE

As a long time subscriber to The State, I am distressed that this new app is practically unusable on an iPad. Why can’t we just get a replica edition that looks and reads like a newspaper, not the ad bloated user hostile version that the platform has now transitioned to?

9 months ago, used to read the state

the state

this is the worst ap ever. you can’t change the size, too small to read. Don’t bother trying

3 years ago, Photomaxium

Crashes

New app does not work on able to load some storage and then crashes Eedition absolute no longer available on Apple store

4 years ago, Sir Dr.Phil

Simply the Best Resource for Accuracy, Most Unbiased

Reliable, Concise, Balanced and Complete

4 years ago, Get Cocky

Does not work on iPad!

Having the same problems others saying. Not usable on an iPad as it only fills 1/4 of screen and even BLOWING IT UP is not readable? Why has this not been fixed?

4 years ago, The State App Feedback

Forced Notifications

Should be able to choose Breaking News notification alerts only, not “DINNER PLANS? - this vegan cafe is back” (actual “Breaking News” notification)

2 years ago, pity the Paper

Sorry excuse for a newspaper

App is awful. News is two days late in print. Little useful, in-depth content. Last chance.

2 years ago, 🤬🤮🐗🐽

Review

Going to delete this app due to constant subscription requests & teasing me with partial headlines before asking me to pay for this so called news app. Good bye

4 years ago, Captain Hugh Johnson

Too raging liberal.

Just report the news. I see Leonard Pitts enough. Need more local opinions and more balance.

5 years ago, ColaMarshalls

Awful.

Signed in and still says no subscription. Spent 30 minutes try over and over to activate and sign in. Just an endless loop.

5 years ago, lnusc

Update more

Not updated enough.

2 years ago, jrich07

Keeps telling me to update to new version

But there is no new version! Keeps sending me to Island Packet! Unacceptable bug for a paid product. F - - -

4 years ago, iPad news reader

App keeps logging me out

App keeps logging me out and not recognizing my login Evan with resetting the password.

2 years ago, MrsD2712

Do not like

We’ve been subscribers for years this new format is NOT what I want to see when I open the edition.

2 years ago, Itshardtofindanunusednickname

Error Fetching Feeds

I get this error if I turn on the iCloud Private Relay function in IOS 15. Works fine otherwise.

6 years ago, 96MuleSkinner

E Edition

I cannot “view” the paper as a whole. Instead I get articles. I’ve yet to figure out how to get the home page to revert to its original orientation.

4 years ago, Edi622

Absolutely worthless!

This is a terrible app. Don’t even try to read the news here. It is worthless.

4 years ago, lukepruitt10s

Hilinski’s Hope

Your newspaper has once again disregarded the decency required to be a reliable source of news. I am finished.

4 years ago, needs some tweaking

Not really user friendly

This app is not very user friendly.

2 years ago, EMD69

Crash!

Completely unstable crashing at launch consistently since Aug 17.

2 years ago, rodvs08

App keeps crashing on startup.

Please fix.

Description

Connect to The State newspaper app wherever you are. Receive the latest local and breaking news from Columbia, Richland, Lexington and the Midlands of South Carolina. The State reports on the local topics you care about, including local weather, traffic, crime, sports and national news. Features of the app include: • Breaking news alerts and real-time updates. • The local news and sports topics you care about from around the SC Midlands. • View stunning photos and videos of news coverage and events. • The State newspaper opinions, editorials and columns you love. • Ability to share stories and galleries on Facebook, Twitter or by email. • An app-native eEdition of the printed newspaper, including 60 additional pages in the ExtraExtra section. Read our Privacy policy here: https://www.thestate.com/customer-service/privacy-policy/text-only/ Read our Terms of Service here: https://www.thestate.com/customer-service/terms-of-service/text-only/ For California Residents: To learn more about managing your sharing preferences and Do Not Sell My Info rights visit https://www.thestate.com/customer-service/privacy-policy/text-only/#notice_california

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