Cannot load Apple News on iPad after IOS18 update

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• Hey Dave, Did they update to 18.2? I didn’t think that old of an iPad would take 18.2. I would be interested if anyone with 8 gen or later was having problems, up to the new AI iPads. Support is still trying to work with me, but they are focused on my iPad when the problem is pointing to the 18.2 code or 7 gen chip (A10 Fusion chip with 64-bit architecture). I’m sure they have some old iPads laying around somewhere they can play with. Tried my books app. It seems to be working ok. Here’s a thought I might try. I’m an old beta tester. If 18.2 broke news, will 18.3 fix it? I see 18.3 beta is suppose to come out soon. I stopped beta testing because it was causing problems like this. Anyway, all we can do is hope they get it fixed.

Exactly the same problem. Reinstalled it. Nothing helps.

Hold your breath David. Mine loads up too and I think it’s fixed then in an hour or so it’s back. Hope yours is fixed

Updates must be in tje hands of neurotic geeks

I seem to have fixed this by deleting Apple News and reinstalling it. It's working now. I did have to wait a while though. After relaunching it following reinstall it sat on the "Welcome to Apple News" logo for 2-3 minutes before finally allowing me to proceed and set up. But once that happened it's been fine. 🤷‍♂️

same. interesting bug. which iPad are you on? I have 7 gen. which seems to be most of problem. is working on iMac and phone, just 7 gen iPad not. been in contact with support too. I had it start to load a couple of times. the region setting was an interesting solve. it tried to load after resetting that, but stopped. then I noticed it had tried to load at the same time, 10 pm? this morning tried it and it loaded fine, a little slow, but loaded all the way. so set back up, because I wiped it clean from history and saved. went to a different app, came back to news. everything is gone. not loading, in fact crashing completely, so deleted, reinstall. not loading. noticed some bugs on other things not just on iPad. iMac crashing? is it not working with AI? Apple might be busy. of course my equipment is a few years old, so maybe that is it. anyone with newer equip having problems?

I checked with a friend who has an iPad Air (4th gen I think) and is running 18.2. They have no problem with Apple News, it's working fine. It does seem like this is specific to the iPad 7th generation (and later?) Is anyone having this problem with an 8th, 9th or 10th gen iPad?

Followed advice from a user who suggested going to Setting/General/language and regions. Region showed “US”. Opened drop-down menu and selected “US” again.

A short time later the Apple News loaded and now seems to work.

Sadly this did not work for me. I even tried changing my region to a different one and then changing it back to mine (Australia) but that didn't help either.

For whatever reason with this problem I've found News will sometimes start and then stop working apparently at random. Sometimes it'll work fine a for a day or so before failing again for a day or more. Currently mine's not working and hasn't been for a couple of days.

I'm starting to think this is actually an issue at the News server end rather than on the client side.

So, does anyone have any good suggestions for a replacement? I decided to try the three months of News plus free, but now the app won’t load. I’ve wasted too much time on all of the suggestions. It’s time to try something else.

I can access Apple News on my iPhone and Mac, only my iPad is affected by this bug so I'm able to wait until Apple sort it out (in iPadOS 18.2.x presumably). Hopefully this will be fixed sometime in January 🤞 If I was paying for News+ I'd be cancelling my subscription until it's fixed though.

I used to use Flipboard but I haven't used that in some time so I'm not sure what it's like today.

And just like that it suddenly starts working again ... I give up. 🤷‍♂️