Newsstand Syncing

In the HELP section we're supposed to be able to hit the "restore purchases" button to sync/transfer the purchases to each device, but when I try to do it, I get a "There were no purchases to restore" pop-up. So I'm at a loss on this as well.

Interesting. There better be an update for that SOON! haha

-Steve

I am here too sadly. I purchased a six month sub to a magazine then couldn't actually get to a single copy. Went back and bought this months copy but can't get it to appear on my iPad. I must be missing something terribly obvious as this really can't simply NOT work, can't it?

Me too, yesterday i took out a 6 mnth subscription to a magazine via newsstand,(ipad2,ios5).. billing me was flawless, alas no sign of the 1st issue..yet

I thought you were supposed to be able to start reading a magazine on your iPad and pick up where you left off on your phone?? , or is that with iBooks?

Yeah, I thought I could just pick up my iPhone and read MacFormat from where I left it on my iPad but I can't get it to work. All I seem to get is the MacFormat app in newsstand, showing the issue purchased as a new issue issue awaiting purchase!

I had thought I'd try and repurchase it in the hope that it would say 'you already own this' and then have it added to the newsstand library — but I've chickened out so far.

I'm having this same problem. I have purchased two issues of the same magazine, one on my iPad 2 and the other on my iPhone 4. I am not able to restore either of the issues on either device. When I try to do so on either device I get the no content to restore message.

I've been able to fond out what to do — on the device that you want to add the purchased magazine onto, select it and purchase it. During the purchase, iTunes will say you've already bought this and do you wish to download it for free. Select yes and that the mag ready to go on that device. The only problem is that neither will be synced and when opened up to read from the place last read will not sync either. But at least you will not be billed twice, just don't do what I did — I bought this months issue of MacFormat then discovered I'd bought the dead tree edition before! Twit!

Thank you for being the guinea pig in testing your theory. I thought about doing what you did, but did not feel I should have to risk buying the same thing twice just to achieve something that iOS is supposed to be doing for me already.

So for the record, it appears - as morayshire's experiment demonstrates, if you purchase an item on the newsstand store you may have to manually download it to each of your devices on the same account, but you should not have to pay for it more than once.

Taking the NY Times as an example, the iPhone and iPad versions are two quite different animals and I have downloaded them separately. Form the little I know of app creation, it wouldn't be particualrly straightforward to sync between the two. Reading an article on one device might not necessarily register in the same way as reading on the other and therefore the put-down-pick-up feature, though desirable, is probably a future development.

Can anyone tell why it's cheaper to subscribe to the print version and then use the iPad with provide id rather just get the iPad only version?