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I am paying a weekly subscription but this App shows my profile has no valid subscription. As such, I have no access to premium content. This problem has occurred quite often in the past year, and it was possible to workaround it by logging in and out from the user profile. Unfortunately with last App update the problem is persistent. I opened a support ticket, but the assistance team has only responded with some generic and useless instructions. I asked a refund of the weekly subscription until the problem is solved and their answer was that I should ask Apple a refund…… my recommendation is to stay away from this Italian newspaper and look at alternatives like Corriere

Simple gestures don’t work and you basically have to always return to the home page. Intolerable popup ads for a paid application. Login is frequently forgotten and I have to input in again. You can actually see that the application struggles every time you open “subscribers only” content before realizing that I am logged in. This generates a very poor user experience (videos are the worst). I installed the New York Times two iPads ago and I never had to input twice my credentials in 4 years or so. I opened a ticket with Gedi to complain about the login issues and was told to generically clear my browser cookies..useless I cancelled my PayPal recurring payment to ensure this crap does not get renewed. If you want a better experience you will have to use your pc with antipaywall plug-ins: it’s not legit but that is what you get when you deliver so poorly and charge so much. Repubblica’s developers still think they are in the 90”s: paradigms and UIs /UXs have improved significantly and obviously their vision/skillset are not up to the task. The useless amount of paywalls cause significant lags to the application

You would think that paying for a subscription would exempt you from popup ads, but no, you get them anyway. I don't mind the regular ads, like in the daily newspaper (I actually like them!) but the popups are intolerable. I suspended my subscription. For those who need help, you cancel your subscription on an iPad by pushing the subscription manage button on your iTunes profile (you get to it by scrolling to the bottom of, say, the music page and pushing the button with you apple id). You then flip a switch to suspend the subscription. You still have the option to resubscribe (unless you remove the repubblica app.) I will not subscribe again if the popups don't go away.