As reported this morning, Apple officially announced a new News app as part of iOS 9. The app takes the place of Newsstand and allows users to easily view and read the news they care most about. With an interface similar to Flipboard, Apple highlights the rich typography.
Apple also touts how users are prompted to pick specific topics in which they are interested and then the app propagates with content relating to those selected topics. Users can also add specific websites and blogs. Some images are below:
Apple says that it has worked with a handful of notable publications for News. The New York Times, for instance, will provide News readers with 30 free articles per month, designed for the News app. ESPN has also signed on for the service, as has Conde Nast and the suite of sources it publishes, including Vanity Fair, Vogue, GQ, and Wired.
News will be supported in the United Staes, United Kingdom, and Australia when it launches.
Apple Announces News App for iPhone & iPad
SAN FRANCISCO — June 8, 2015 — Apple® today unveiled an all-new News app delivering the best news reading experience on any mobile device. Available with iOS 9 this fall for iPhone® and iPad®, News combines the visually rich layout of a magazine with the immediacy and customization of digital media. News follows over a million topics and pulls relevant stories based on your specific interests that can be easily shared or saved for later — without compromising your privacy. News is powered by the new custom-designed Apple News Format™, a digital publishing format that allows publishers to create beautiful layouts.
“News seamlessly delivers the articles you want to read in a beautiful and uncluttered format, while respecting your privacy, because Apple doesn’t share your personal data,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “We already have nearly 20 publishers representing more than 50 titles joining us, including Condé Nast, ESPN, The New York Times, Hearst, Time Inc., CNN and Bloomberg.”
News conveniently collects all the stories you want to read in one place, in a customized newsfeed called For You. Readers can see the publisher channels and topics they’re following in Favorites, and to discover new content, Explore makes great suggestions based on what you’ve already read. The more you read, the more personalized the News app becomes, refining the selection of stories delivered to your iPhone or iPad.
Apple News Format allows publishers to create stories that look beautiful and take advantage of the full power of iOS. Content can include photos and galleries, audio, video, maps and rich interactions such as parallax and animation. When publishers create their stories for News, content comes alive with custom fonts and intuitive Multi-Touch™ gestures. Apple News Format automatically customizes the layout for each screen size, so News content looks great on both iPhone and iPad.
“Condé Nast’s premium content deserves a premium mobile experience and the News app delivers that,” said Bob Sauerberg, President of Condé Nast. “News offers an environment that combines the rich, immersive design of our photography, artwork and editorial expertise with the interactivity and dynamism of digital media — it’s stunning.”
“ESPN fans are incredibly engaged in the way they consume our content, so the more vibrant experience we can offer, the happier they’ll be,” said John Skipper, President of ESPN Inc. and Co-Chairman of Disney Media Networks. “We’ve seen incredible success with our ESPN apps on iOS, and News is only going to make a richer, more personal experience for our readers so they can stay up-to-date on the sports news that matters to them.”
Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, the Mac and Apple Watch. Apple’s three software platforms — iOS, OS X and watchOS — provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower people with breakthrough services including the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay and iCloud. Apple’s 100,000 employees are dedicated to making the best products on earth, and to leaving the world better than we found it.
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Why isn’t it worldwide from the start? Another bloatware app for people not from supported countries..
UK = English. US = English. Australia = English.
Hello from Germany, I speak this language quite well and I consume all my media in English.
Btw, will 9to5mac be able to release stories in this? That would be sick!
I do as well however not many people do. I’ll be checking out this feature anyway, with my UK iTunes acc.
Or, to be correct, Apple ID.
Flipboard doesn’t translate articles as well and is available everywhere. Most of people would rather have the app working in english than not working and consuming space.
This could be regarded as a competitor to Medium, or a replacement for Flipboard.
But it really isn’t a replacement for Newsstand. (which is a folder for paid subscribed journals)
I keep wondering what then happens to magazines located in Newsstand? Will it get converted into a folder, I wonder, or what? Anyone have any ideas?
NewsStand is converted to a regular folder with the existing apps inside. The apps can be moved around and the folder can be removed like any other folder.
so is this a flipboard app replacement?
What happens to my magazines I read in Newsstand today? This is how I get my Mac Mags!
Won’t update my iPad because i loose my subscriptions i bought, and it won’t be available in the Netherlands.
Is there a release date? I have downloaded iOS9 and it isn’t showing?
I think it will be available in a later beta.
Thanks!
I believe the keynote said that NYT would be providing 30 articles per day, not month.
I downloaded iOS 9 (13A4254v) and I don’t seem to have the News app. Do I have to download it or is it by default? Is it coming out later in July or do you need a certain account to get it, etc…?
This is cool stuff! I recently started listening to this podcast called PubTech Nation and they discuss the latest publishing and technology industry news. This link to the podcast explains stand alone apps and the removal of newsstand in iOS 9. Hope this provides new/fresh insight!
https://overcast.fm/+E1x3wNEvM/20:53
Help please, I cannot find my magazine subscriptions in the news app. Anyone know how to find them?
I attempted NEWS when it first arrived for IOS and liked it at first, but was dismayed because I wasn’t liking the newsfeed. I don’t know why writers don’t get what app this copies… it is evident that it was inspired by Microsoft’s News App which is absolutely gorgeous compared to anything out there. In fact, the main reason for me getting a windows 10 tablet was for their news app which had been around since Windows 8.1. For some reason, I couldn’t understand the logic behind Apple’s NEWS until I went to a computer store and saw NEWS on the new iPad Pro and was totally wowed!! With the iPad pro, I played around in the app until I got the hang of it then when I got home, I opened up the NEWS app on the iPhone 6s and began making the same changes and adjustments and WOW!!! What a huge difference! I wish there was a lot more education. Sure, it may seem simple to some and it is one of those things that as you use it, you begin to learn how to use it. Still, what is intuitive for some may not be intuitive for others. I still don’t know what the heart icon does. I click on it and I am not sure if it is something for Apple to analyze or if it goes back to the publisher? I wish we could pull up a list of “likes” that we performed. Other than that, it is a sweet app and now pretty much the only source now that I know how to set it up.