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FOOD & WINE App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ Unable to access appI have a subscription through Apple until June 2023. However, the app does not allow me to see issues and never moves beyond the restoring purchases message. Please let me know how to fix this. Thank you.Version: 104.7.3
✓ Jk111111This app on the ipad did not work. Tried to install free holiday mag and it failed. Got new app version today. App has popup Saying this app tracks your usage and then says do you agree to the license. I declined as im not interested in tracking and i didn't see/ read any license. Does that mean i can only use the app if I accept trscking?. Also i have yet to get the app to work. Now the buttons in app don't function probably due to my declining. I will delete for now, maybe they will sort themselbes out in the next version.Version: 1.3
✓ App problemsGood publication, but terrible support for the app. Each year when you pay/ renew your subscription I unable to get the new magazines. Had the same problem last year. Good luck with Support!!!! If you like this publication, save yourself a lot of time and frustration and just get the printed version. F&W is no help, nor is Apple!.Version: 104.8.2
✓ Subscription thru iTunes is a MessI like this magazine and when I can actually get into my subscription. But there are clearly issues dealing thru iTunes. When you go to support the have a special subject for these issues. I’ve had this problems on and off for years. FIX IT..Version: 36.3.0
✓ Access not availableNot sure what I am doing incorrectly, but the app will not let me sign in nor will it allow me to read any magazines even after I subscribed. Seems like a waste of money to me..Version: 104.8.2
✓ Subscribe but can’t access accountI subscribe through Apple. But cannot log in, even though it lets me Log in fine in my computer. Even though I’m a subscriber it tells me I have to buy every issue. What’s the point ?.Version: 104.8.1
✓ Terrible appConstantly locked out of my iTunes subscription. Restore function does not work..Version: 104.8.2
✓ Not as good as most other cooking appsTerrible app. I subscribe to the magazine yet can not open the digital issues. Instead I am asked to subscribe and I already do. I’m signed in so should be no problem. Also if you search for a recipe from a recent edition it rarely is available so I must resort to keeping hard copies. This app really needs an update and made more user friendly. Almost worthless although the magazine is enjoyable..Version: 36.3.0
✓ Not easy to useWe have a subscription so easy to flip thru digital mag. But, hard to find recipes. No easy way finding on page..Version: 32.2.8
✓ App is good, just hope you don't have a problemOf the magazine apps, Food & Wine is one of the better designed ones. It's still a bit tedious to get content out and into a recipe organizer but it's far better than most (like Saveur). The quality of the content is great. I think F&W is what Bon Appetit used to be before BA decided to go after the quick and easy food enthusiast. However, if you have a problem of any kind with the F&W app you'll find their "help" is frustratingly inadequate. The F&W help section on their website is nothing more than a how-to for basic setup of subscriptions. It offers no help or guidance in solving error messages. Buried within their FAQ page is an email address to send help requests but it's easy to miss which tells me they aren't really interested in providing support. I'm having trouble getting the F&W app to recognize my subscription credentials. I can't believe this is an unusual problem but the F&W help section doesn't address the problem at all. Even if the problem I'm having is an Apple issue and there's nothing F&W can do to help, it would be helpful if the F&W help section would tell me that and point me in the right direction..Version: 2.2
✓ Difficult to useI.Version: 36.2.7
✓ Food and wineHorrible! I am a print subscriber for 3years and cannot get the issues on the I pad. Always shows up as an error. I can't even change the password to retry..Version: 2.2
✓ Great storiesTook a long time( very long time) to load, but once loaded works great..Version: 0
✓ Won't download ???Stalls on download.. Bizarre.Version: 0
✓ Food &WineWhat do I know? I'm still using a iPad 1!.Version: 3.0.1
✓ Access to digital magazinesTerrible app. I have both digital and delivery subscription and can not get digital magazines on my iPhone 13..Version: 104.7.6
✓ APP ISN’T WORKING PROPERLYThe magazine is awesome. The APP continues to need work. I have both print and digital subscription but I cannons open the digital version without being asked to subscribe. Yet, on the account page, it clearly list my account number and an active subscription..Version: 104.7.3
✓ Not free at allIt does only pretend to give you a free issue.Version: 2.0
✓ LameLibrary is limited AND even if you aready pay for the regular subs you still have to pay for the online issues. PLAN TO DELETE! Deleted!!M.Version: 1.9.1
✓ Noooo recipes!!I just paid and downloaded the Food and Wine app. I searched for ‘chocolate cake’ and a few options came up. When I selected one it just shows me a picture of a cake with some text… no recipe, no way to access a recipe. What is this app for again? Pictures? I would like my money back please!.Version: 104.8.1
✓ Good magazine; book wing takes money w/out permission.I subscribed to the magazine and the iPad version, and if you don't mind books being ordered for you, your money being taken for books not ordered or wanted, and dealing with a company who will do nothing when it happens, please subscribe. I ended my subscription because the book company wouldn't refund my money when it took out bogus charges, and they still came after my money a month after I ended all ties with the magazine just in order to have nothing to do with them. They refused to remove the charges so I had to fill out a form and sign it at my bank, cut up my card, and get a new one to HOPEFULLY keep them from trying to take my money- they may still be able to take it without me even ordering anything. The magazine wing seems not to care at all that this is going on. It is a tragedy that such a wonderful magazine is associated with American Express Publishing (who handles the books) and lets its name go down the drain with such sleazy business practices..Version: 2.5
✓ Totally rip offWhy make a free app but with only paid content. So annoying that we can't even access some content. Take another app if you want food&wine information..Version: 1.6
✓ No recipe search and organizationThe food and wine website allows for direct access to recipes. Please add that to the app. I don’t need the full magazines..Version: 104.8.0
✓ PAID BUT NO ACCESSI have no access to the magazines I paid for. No one has contacted me; I just receive notifications that a new issue is ready. I need to hear from somebody..Version: 104.8.0
✓ I have continued problems trying to access new magazine issuesPlease help. I am billed every month but can’t accès the new issues. This has happened before and was resolved for a short time..Version: 104.8.0
✓ App doesn’t always recognise subscriptionI’ve been subscribing to F&W via this app for 5 years or so. The magazine is great but often the app won’t recognise I have a subscription and will suggest I pay 5.99 per issue. I try most things to mitigate this, restore purchases etc, but nothing but a support call to apple seems to work.Version: 104.8.0
✓ Digital subscriptionI pay for a digital subscription but when I open the app you offer me a free trial or a price to purchase an issue but no way to sign in .. I don’t want to purchase an issue or a free trial I want to be able to log in to my account and see the content I’ve purchased..Version: 104.7.2
✓ Free...Wow..it's free.......wrong...another not so free app Is it me, maybe I expect things to be labeled well....but nothing worth looking at here....Version: 0
✓ Food & Wine issueNothing free here. It appears to put an issue in the Newsstand however when you go to read it, you must buy the issue. If the goal is to attract new subscribers, this does not do it for me..Version: 2.0
✓ Love the magazineI’ve had this digital magazine for over 10 years. Recently it has be some very glitchy. Currently, I can’t access the new issue or several recent ones without getting a prompt to subscribe or buy. My subscription is good through January..Version: 104.7.3
✓ Doesn't workQuite simply it doesn't download the first free issue, it doesn't work.Version: 0
✓ Have fixed my accessHave fixed my access, at least for now. I’ll wait and see. I have both the print and digital subscription but the app only recognizes my print subscription and so limits my access to the digital content. Have contacted support but it was useless. Probably an automated system which just kept telling me how to log on..Version: 104.6.5
✓ IssueI'm a Canadian subscriber to both Food & Wine as well as Travel & Leisure. I cannot find another area to voice my concerns so I chose this. Since your latest update I cannot access the Buy area at all all I get is an error. To this point I have never had an issue. I love the magazine & I sincerely hope that you can resolve the issue. Joan.Version: 1.9
✓ Great content .. But awful setupFirst impressions are everything .. Hopefully, people hang tough through the setup process..Version: 0
✓ Impossible to search for saved itemsHorrible search function.Version: 36.3.0
✓ Lost all my favorites....yet againEvery time there is an update, I lose the recipes that I marked under favorites. Wasting too much time; redoing selections. Hard copy is more reliable.Version: 33.0.0
✓ Loved then hated itI originally had this app on my iPad 2. I purchased the digital subscription through iTunes directly from the app and I was able to download and read the digital Food and Wine monthly issues. However, when I purchased the newest iPad (iPad 3) and restored my applications I wasn't able to download past or current issues without having to pay again for the issues. I contacted Food and Wine and they suggested I call iTunes because my account wasn't with Food and Wine. The iTunes support was able to credit me my subscription but explained to me that since Food and Wine was the app developer that they should've been able to correct the issue. So, watch out for this serious issue with this app and the iPad 3 and poor Food and Wine customer support!.Version: 2.2
✓ Pure Garbage AppPlease look at how other cooking magazines make content available digitally. Food and Wine app is simply a clunky and unfriendly way to view the magazine digitally. Worst app ever. Love the magazine but better options out there to subscribe to..Version: 104.7.6
✓ Hard to manage accountBig improvements in the latest update but I still find it very hard to manage my account or understand my subscription.Version: 104.8.0
✓ Can’t downloadI have strong Wi-Fi and it says no connection try again later. I’ve reloaded the app, restarted iPad and nothing. Had print subscription for years and love the content NOT the app. Super glitchy and buggy..Version: 104.8.2
✓ Do not like the new formatThe new format of the app is absolutely horrible, all my favorite recipes went away, and I have 6 years worth of them stored! I am not sure whose idea it was , web news is annoying too , I would rather have the magazine with all its previous bells and whistles , favorites, page review, back button...also can’t make an issue purchase ...Version: 104.8.2
✓ CrappyGarbage.Version: 0
✓ Love the content, not the appI love Food and Wine. Subscribed to the print version for years and a couple years ago added the digital version. The app is unusable though. It constantly logs me out, so I have to log back/restore purchases to access my magazines. It is also unbearably slow. Trying to read a new issue on the fly ends up with me waiting up to a minute for each page to load. I decided to just download each issue in advance. It’s taking over 2 hours to download a single magazine? How is that possible? I thought I would just queue a bunch of downloads and leave it plugged in over night, but queuing multiple just results in the app timing out and giving an error message for all the issues that queued. Figure this out and I’ll give you 5 stars because I LOVE the content..Version: 104.7.2
✓ Good content, terrible navigation.This has all the great content from print issues of Food & Wine but the navigation through the content is horrible and cumbersome..Version: 3.0.1
✓ Unable to access my subscriptionI have a subscription, but I am unable to access the magazine, and I don’t see anyway to correct it. You keep asking me to purchase magazines that I already have a subscription for…..Version: 104.7.3
✓ Does not meet my needsNot what I need in a recipe magazine.Version: 2.3
✓ CheatsIf you decide to download this app and subsequent magazines be advised that any so called free magazines may now cost you money. How will you know? You won't because none of my purchases indicated I purchased them ( even at 0.00) until i hit the buy button. If you are lucky, you'll get a brief pop up that indicates you have already purchased it and if not you will wind up paying. I had no problems with the Martha Stewart app. In Martha's app all my purchases were clearly indicated and I had no unwanted charges. Very poor programming on the Food crew. I guess those "free" downloads weren't free after all. I did go to the Food and Wine web page before posting but could not find any obvious way to contact the app folks. Though they did have this in your face big pop up soon after I got to their website. Disgusting..Version: 1.6
✓ Great magazineDownloaded easily although take awhile. Good articles, great recipes and like the video content as well. All in all one of the better digital magazines I've seen so far..Version: 0
✓ Fantastic...until you want to cook!This app is visually stunning. The graphics and navigation are top notch. You'll get hungry every time you open up the issue. But when you want to try to actually make something from the issue, you'll find there is no way to get a recipe out, much less get a shopping list. I could not find a way to even email a recipe to myself. Are we supposed to take our expensive ipads into the kitchen next to the hot pans and flowing liquids? Take a page from the new Mario Batali app. It's quirky, and some of the features are unnecessarily difficult to find, but they're there..Version: 0
✓ Crashes constantlyLatest version crashes constantly when flipping pages of the digital magazine..Version: 36.2.6
✓ Terrible ipad appThere is a bug for the ipad app where the magazine just closes repeatedly- very annoying..Version: 36.2.7
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