Vanity Fair Digital Edition Hack 6.2 + Redeem Codes

This "upgrade" of the magazine app is a travesty for readers. Obviously not designed by someone who reads the actual magazine. Cropping the pages to partial page size, taking away the keeping of your place while mid-read of an article or edition are just a few of the ridiculous "upgrades". I can't always finish an article, now I have to remember which months edition I'm on and then search for the article and then finally find my page. Seriously??? Bring back the previous version of this app. You are making me completely regret my "paperless" subscription to this magazine that I've loved for 30 years.

That is a deal breaker, so I deleted the app without even looking further. Every other magazine app seems to be able to handle a rotating landscape option, so I urge Vanity Fair to seriously reconsider the employment of their app design team.

They’ve wedged a magazine into an app with no improvements to account for digital formatting.

One of the reasons I bought my iPad was so that I could eventually cut down on the amount of paper I consumed, particularly for magazines that I read once and then discard. I've got to admit that Vanity Fair is one of those. So imagine my disappointment to find that even though I already am a Vanity Fair subscriber, I would have to pay extra to read an issue on my iPad. Time magazine doesn't make me do that. I can download every issue to my iPad. All I had to do was set up an account and enter my current subscription information. But not Vanity Fair. To read that on my iPad, I would have to buy each issue, at $4.99. I don't think so. Come on Conde Nast. How about some respect for your subscribers. I already paid you once. Now give me the option of how I consume your product. Eventually, I might decide to convert to a digital-only subscription and do away with all that paper. If enough subscribers did that, imagine the impact on your bottom line. No more printing costs. No more mailing costs. The free preview content looked great. I could easily become a convert to a digital edition on my iPad. But I'm not going to pay your twice.

I am so frustrated with this app. I already have a subscription, yet I cannot create a log-in. It seems that no matter what I click, I get error message -1004 (cannot connect to server) or url error, or something else. I already contacted Customer Service, and was assured this bug was fixed. I uninstalled, reinstalled...and SAME message. As an extra added bonus, do not bother writing a whole comment when contacting Customer Service. They don't read it. You get an auto-response e-mail with FAQ, and a request to hit the reply button, re-writing your inquiry. Not only does this cause you to waste time writing your problem out twice, it presupposes that their subscribers are idiots who cannot read English or have never seen a FAQ! Not to mention the warm, fuzzy feeling you get from hearing that your concerns are important to them...they just don't want to waste their time addressing them unless you really, Really mean it. Yikes!!!

Having the previous version 2.0.44 for so long and being a solid app that worked well on my iPad Pro 9.7, this ver 5 is horrid. First, it won't let me download any issues, keeps telling me "No Interner Connection" which is not true, as it lets me login to authenticate my subscription status. Plus, every other app connects to the internet without issue, even after 2 restsarts and testing on both wifi and LTE.

All of my downloaded Vanity Fair issues were deleted with the update. The layout and UI is useless. Good thing I had a backup of the ver 2.0 of the app. I installed that and am back and happy reading VF issues again. Revert to the previous version.

Love the magazine, so that's a start. Vertical reading is great. Some articles are pages, others scroll like a web page. Slick app. Well-designed. Doesn't crash in my 5 issue experience.

Suggestions: add ability to email/share articles on article pages (maybe an icon next to the page map) - it would drive more web traffic from non-subscribers and it saves me having to go to the web site. Also, compress a bit more - takes a long time to download mag. Don't know anything about the app store, so maybe not possible.

I am a print subscriber and get all issues seamlessly once I got the email and print label # connected. Not sure what others are taking about - works perfectly and you only pay for the print subscription.

UPDATE: great great app. I now find myself reading every single article and can't wait for the next one to come online. I am even thinking of subscribing to more Conde Nast magazines because of the well designed layout. Well done, VF.

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I finally was able to log with my print account info ( you need to have the information EXACTLY as it is on your address sticker) but when I log in I am only given access to the May edition, and not the June edition which I already have received the printed version. What's up with that?

UPDATE: Access to June came through yesterday afternoon. I love it but am not giving it 5 stars for I got an email (finally) from customer service. But it was wrong saying I hadn't registered properly. I suggest a little work on the support end or test your product before release. And monitor your FB page.

Including digital with print is awesome and even the "just digital" subscription is now within the $$ range I always thought it should be. Will go ahead and subscribe to a couple more of their magazines.

I love this ap. Felt I had to write to counter some of the low reviews that are about the subscription issues if you like the mag you will love the ap!! Tons of interactive ap only extra features, you can pass through the ads with a flick of your finger, and it is intuituvely easy to use. There are quick links to other similar articles when you like one you can read other archived content-free! My only complaint-you can't see your battery life when you are in the ap. I still did not reduce a star though cause the only reason that is a complaint is because I spend hours at a time in this fabulous ap.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, VF, for returning the app to the original format. My one-star review (below) is now a five-star review. Annie Leibovitz's photos are gorgeous again!
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I was so sad to discover that the update to this app took away the gorgeous full-screen clarity that I loved so much. I used to show off my iPad Pro by pulling up a Vanity Fair digital cover to ooh and ahh over (and sold a couple subscriptions to the magazine in the process). No more. I lost all my downloaded magazines, and the new downloads are fuzzy and cropped. Truly the worst upgrade to an app I've ever experienced. What a shame for such a great mag. I hope this isn't indicative of financial problems at VF!