Lately I get pop up ads every time I change pages. Also I’m getting page verifications constantly and takes a long time even never before cloudfare is happy and opens the app. Very frustrating. I’m very pro-Israel but not so much on this app in it’s current state. As I write this review the app is stuck alternating between the ad and cloud fare but never opening up the news. Please fix.
The live updates are a key feature of my day but lately every few minutes it automatically takes me out of the app to load an ad in safari and I haven't even tapped anything. It is beyond frustrating. Then of course when I go back the entire page reloads and I have to scroll all the way back down only to do the same thing again in a few minutes. PLEASE FIX! I finally just deleted the app entirely and now just use the website bookmarked on my home screen. It works a million times better.
I really like TOI and go to it first for my news. It often glitches with the “wheel” circling while it tries to load or reload and I have to shut my phone or delete and reinstall the app. Also, there are often noxious, and possibly harmful, pop-ups associated with this app. I often get a “you have won...” that doesn’t let me enter the app. I also suspect that a few “call immediately, your phone is infected, don’t shut this or else,” have come through this app. Use the desk top website
There is great content on here, but there are many glitches in the app. For example, continuously there are issues where a video pops up or an advertisement as if you clicked on it, but you have not done so within an article. This is a relatively recent issue which I hope can be corrected.
Very useful app for getting news from Israel. I don't know about this version of the app, but in the past, every few months I have to delete the app and download it again, because it becomes unresponsive. If I didn't have to do that, I would give the app 5 stars. ======================= My 4 stars has become 1 star. An app that used to work extremely well, and to which I wrote a note being willing to buy a subscription, now presents ads in the most obnoxious way possible: totally and repeatedly disrupting reading and difficult to get back to the reading.
The news material is very interesting and informative. But the app itself has become impossible to use. You read an article for a ew seconds and then a blank gray screen appears and you can no longer read any articles. It’s extremely frustrating because the material itself is great. Before this issue videos would just pop up and start playing without you clicking on them. The developers really need to get their act together on this.
The “hijacking” of the TOI site by advertisers forcing you into their sites has gotten so bad and so frequent that ai have greatly reduced my readership. Too bad, because I really did like to read Times of Israel. With multiple complaints, I would have thought they would fix the problem. Sadly, it seems they are just letting these hijackings run wild.
What’s with all the ads forcing me out of the app to try and get me to buy flag pins?? I do not come to an Israeli news app yo be spammed with ads, meanwhile every ad refreshes the whole article, consuming my data. This app isn’t worth it until The Times of Israel respects the viewers enough to stop the ads, and put out articles longer than 3-4 sentences when they have little to nothing to say. This news company is good, the app is garbage.
Really good and informative app. BUT…Whoever decided to pepper it with pop up apps whose motion cannot be stopped, needs to be replaced. Also, these videos, as mentioned here previously, are completely irrelevant to the article being read. Very annoying!
The app has become unusable now. It constantly requires me to verify whether I am human with a cloudflare captcha check box that repeates over and over again. There are many pop up adds, and the very worst issue is that the app automatically opens safari to view double click adverts forcing you to leave the app, this happens over and over again. The app is totally unusable now.
Not well behaved at all. App updates in the middle of reading a page and returns to the Home page which is often completely different. Also, of late, will jump out of the page I am reading into a web Ad - my fingers are nowhere near the screen. Please hire some teenage wiz kids - you have made it impossible to use your App.
As the title says. Good perspectives on Israel, but the app is terrible. Full screen ad every time you open an article, and often the close button is finicky and will follow the ads link instead of take you to the article. The app constantly refreshes, so you have to scroll down the feed again trying to find where you were last. Just a miserable experience to use.
I now use TOI as first source of information. However the app itself is almost unusable. Just as you start reading an article pop ups get on the way and you can't get rid of them without closing the app. Pages go blank after few seconds etc. it really needs some serious technical developer work! I switched to web version.
I’m baffled by some of the negative reviews. I’ve used TOI app for awhile now and find it easier to navigate than most news apps. Excellent reporting and content.
Content aside, this is a frustrating app to use. I have to login every time I use it, which as a paid subscriber is a pain, and I find when browsing the “front page”, and scroll down, it scrolls back to the top and I lose my place.
I love the content, but this has to be the most annoying app I’ve ever had, with constant pop up ads you have to click to make them disappear. I’m repeatedly interrupted when I try to read any article. Annoying!
I’m reading text and not even touching the screen and the app just switches me to safari to show ads repeatedly. When I close the safari app and switch back to TOI, I have to scroll all the way back to where I was in the article, only to be tossed backed into safari for an ad to open up.
I thought this would configure on my iPad the way it does on my desktop, but it shows up in a small window on the screen. Even if I maximize it, it is still a partial window. Someone needs to recode this app. In the meantime, I am deleting it.
Within the last few weeks the app has become particularly unstable. It freezes & goes white so often it doesn’t pay to read more than the headlines. Useless app until these issues are fixed & app is well maintained.
Constantly being sent to ads without having clicked anything is extremely annoying. You cannot even get through a single page without being redirected. Terrible.
App was fine before. Now it opens nonstop popup ads in the browser, even if you don’t click on anything. It’s truly nonstop: as soon as you return to TOI, it opens another. Makes the app literally unusable. Popup ads are also a security risk, proven by cybersecurity researchers, so this is unacceptable.
Suddenly out of nowhere getting an “access denied” error message barring access via app or web address Doesn’t allow sign in, provide contact email or phone # …????? Completely blocked after years of use. What happened?
I love the site itself — it’s the best source for up-to-date, comprehensive news and analysis of Israel, but the app is plagued with constant pop-up ads and freezes, to the point where I’ve deleted it four times in the last few weeks.
Love ToI, but this app is a disaster needing immediate attention. Ads, some with sound, pop up when changing pages, and it’s sometimes impossible to get back to any content. Help!
The times of Israel is more interested in pop-up ads than they are in the news. From the moment you open the app the ads take over. What is the point of this news company? Deleting the app.
The new pop up ads cover the content completely and the itty bitty x that should close them is too close to the button to comment or click on the ad. So I can’t get rid of the ads. And I can’t see the content.
Constantly glitchy. Often freezes or fails to load. I’ve tried deleting and reinstalling but it doesn’t fix the issue. Good when it works (maybe 10% of the time).
There are crazy pop up viruses I’ve never seen before plaguing the app. You can’t click in and out of articles. Nervous for the security of my phone and need to uninstall now.
The content in the TOI is very good but the app often doesn’t load properly for several tries and then when it does, it’ll almost inevitably crash. Please fix!
I became a monthly “community member” to remove ads, but: 1) The latest app update doesn’t save your PW when logged in, and 2) DOESN’T REMOVE ADS — the only reason why I paid to be a community member was to remove the ads!
It’s impossible to use this app because of a persistent pop-up ad about a christian - Jewish fellowship pin. Cannot proceed further. No choice but to delete the app. Sad! Don’t download this app.
Had to delete app due to pop ups “you have won” which prevent you from going any further. Too bad, as content of stories are good. One day maybe, they will fix the app.
Unusable. TOI has apparently decided their reporting in the current crisis is so valuable that they’ve rendered their app useless for anyone not having a subscription. Deleted.
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