Automatically Save Offline

iPadOS 13.3

Hello, dominic23, thank you for your reply and for your reference to the iPadOS manual.

It seems that I have been following the iPad Settings/Safari instructions correctly.  I have the “Automatically Save Offline” setting to On.  It’s just not working with the New York Times.

I have a paid subscription to the NYT; I’m permitted to read any article I wish and as many as I like.  However, when I save NYT articles to my Reading List in Safari, those articles are not available for me to read when I am offline.  When offline, the article menu item has a message that says, “Not available for offline reading.”  I have the same problem with NPR articles.  Even the Apple Support web page you pointed me to is “Not available for offline reading.”

At this point, I don’t of any web pages that actually do work with this iPadOS feature.  I would appreciate knowing that.  Thank you.

iPadOS 13.3

Well, that was interesting.  I did not know that the NYT had a webpage for “Today’s Paper”.  I’ve been using the site “https://www.nytimes.com”, which is a real time presentation of the news—it changes constantly throughout the day—and includes archival articles, as well.  I think I may find Today’s Paper a pleasurable experience, as well.  domnic23, thank you for pointing me to the link!

However, I still wonder, if the NYT and NPR—and even the Apple support pages—are “Not available for offline reading”, then what is?  What is the iPadOS function “Automatically Save Offline” good for?  Does anybody know?