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Newsstand
Developer(s)Apple Inc.
Initial releaseOctober 12, 2011 (2011-10-12) (iPhone 4S)
Stable release
17.5.1[1][2] (21F90)[3] (May 20, 2024; 35 days ago (2024-05-20)) [±]
Preview release
18.0 beta 2[4] (June 24, 2024; 0 days ago (2024-06-24)) [±]

17.6 beta[5] (21G5052e)[6] (June 17, 2024; 7 days ago (2024-06-17)) [±]

Operating systemiOS 5 and later
Available inEnglish, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
TypeDigital distribution
LicenseProprietary
Websiteitunes.apple.com

Newsstand is a built-in application on Apple iOS devices the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. It is dedicated to downloading and displaying digital versions of newspapers and magazines.

Features

The application is selected by touchscreen and when opened is a visual shelf, directly on the home screen, similar in style to iBooks. It emulates a newsagent's shop with virtual shelves that hold and present each newspaper and magazine that has been downloaded to view and read, in one place. The app icon updates with the latest front covers with a notification indicator of new editions.[7][8]

There is a Store button in the top right corner, to go directly to the Newsstand category in the App Store, where after a newspaper and magazine is downloaded for free, in-app subscriptions or individual periodicals can be purchased with an iTunes account, to download and deliver in the background the most recent edition of news automatically.[7][8]

The most popular and largest printed newspaper and magazine names now publish digital content specifically designed for mobile devices and tablet computers, often including interactive content that is unavailable in printed form.[8]

Newspaper and magazine brands have the option to move their current iOS apps to be inside the Newsstand app. Previously, before the release of Newsstand, many brands had released their own separate iOS apps, and this gives them an option to nest these apps within Newsstand instead of remaining outside it (although brands can optionally release new versions of their iOS app to achieve this instead), in order to be part of the official Newsstand category within the iOS App Store and to take advantage of various features of Newsstand.[9][10] One of the first apps to do this was The New York Times, who moved their previously external iOS app to be inside Newsstand, on initial release of the Newsstand app.[9]

It is currently available on iOS devices since it was introduced on iOS 5.0 and works with iCloud, both for syncing and for re-downloading magazines and newspapers.[8]

App vs. Folder

Whilst Apple refers to Newsstand as an app, it is actually a unique kind of folder, with individual apps of newspapers and magazines inside. This means that it cannot be placed inside another folder on any iOS devices, as iOS currently does not support the nesting of folders (i.e. subfolders). Apple has expressed the intention to replace the file system with easier forms of knowing where documents are, iCloud is one example. In the iOS file system all documents remain within applications.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).

There has been some confusion about this from users who did not know it was already a folder, and thus found they could not easily add Newsstand into other folders they created on their devices, until many subsequently found a very specific folder creation method to bypass this deliberate limitation. However, as the operating system disallows this, doing so could cause possible minor technical failures on the devices concerned.[11]

Apple addressed this with the release of iOS 5.1, which removes this bypass method, so Newsstand is now completely unable to be nested inside other folders.[8]

Many comments on Apple's own forums and many other technology websites show that users of iOS devices wish that the newsstand icon could be hidden or removed completely if they never intend to use it.

See also

References

  1. ^ "About iOS 17 Updates". Apple Support. May 21, 2024. Retrieved 2024-05-21.
  2. ^ Clover, Juli (May 20, 2024). "Apple Releases iOS 17.5.1 With Fix for Reappearing Photos Bug". MacRumors. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
  3. ^ "iOS 17.5.1 (21F90) - Releases - Apple Developer". Apple Developer. Apple Inc. May 20, 2024. Retrieved May 21, 2024.
  4. ^ Clover, Juli (June 24, 2024). "Apple Seeds Second Betas of iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 to Developers". MacRumors. Retrieved June 24, 2024.
  5. ^ Clover, Juli (June 17, 2024). "Apple Seeds First Betas of iOS 17.6 and iPadOS 17.6 to Developers". MacRumors. Retrieved June 18, 2024.
  6. ^ "iOS 17.6 beta (21G5052e)". Apple Developer. June 17, 2024. Retrieved June 18, 2024.
  7. ^ a b "Inside iTunes - Newsstand provides a home for your magazine and newspaper subscriptions". Apple. Retrieved 2012-03-08.
  8. ^ a b c d e Covert, Adrian (October 12, 2011). "iOS 5's Newsstand Is More Awesome than it Seems". Gizmodo. Gawker Media. Retrieved May 04, 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  9. ^ a b Darrell Etherington (October 12, 2011, 12:11pm PT). "iOS 5: Newsstand". Gigaom. Retrieved 2012-05-24. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ Jeff Sonderman (October 4, 2011 07:08 / updated: October 4, 2011 16:54). "Apple introduces Newsstand today at iPhone event, available Oct. 12 with iOS 5". Poynter. Retrieved 2012-05-24. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. ^ Gordon, Whitson (October 21, 2011). "Hide iOS 5's Newsstand App in a Folder With This Trick". Lifehacker. Gawker Media. Retrieved May 04 , 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

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