Just save an Apple News story into the fantastic Pocket app, click the headphones icon at the bottom, and then press play. In terms of updates coming to the app, meanwhile, Apple is apparently moving toward adding audio versions of stories within the app so that you can listen to them instead of just reading them - but you can kind of already do this now, if you want. And the Apple News+ monthly cost is a fraction of the regular monthly subscription price for the WSJ alone, not to mention Apple also throws in other solid news products like The Los Angeles Times into this offering. For example, that price gets you access to hundreds of magazines and a few newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal.
Is it worth the price? I’m definitely a news junkie, and my answer to that question is that it definitely could be for many people. It’s a free app, but there’s also a subscription tier branded as Apple News+ that costs $9.99/month. Scroll through Apple News, or page through Flipboard, and the news is just … there, ready and waiting.įast Facts: Apple News comes preinstalled on all new iPhones and iPads, and it’s also available as a desktop app for Macs. Where Twitter has increasingly descended into a dumpster fire of idiocy, racism, misogyny, and, overall, an efficient clearinghouse for peoples’ opinions and witticisms that aren’t that useful to me at the end of the day, news aggregator apps (like Apple News, as well as Flipboard) fulfill a need for a news junkie like me, in that I don’t have to wade through people’s comments and posts to find the news I care about.
Scrolling through the Apple News app on my iPhone XR the other day - one of the many different drivers of traffic for this site outside of the usual suspects like Google and social networks - it struck me how much I’d come to rely on apps other than Twitter in the age of the coronavirus to keep up with news, as well as pop culture and other things I care about.
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