Bug in newsstand in ios7: unable to pinch to close?

Thanks, Tim! Your solution worked just fine for me!

Thank you bobseufert. I was tapping everything in sight. Pressed home button as you suggested. Hello home screen!

You're welcome.

Everyone is missing the point. This thread is about the fact that Newsstand isn't consistent with the rest of iOS 7. Yes, it acts like the home screen. Yes, you just need to hit the home button to exit. That's not the point. Intentionally so designed or a nun acknowledged bug, Newsstand should pinch to close just like iBooks does. It's unlike Apple to leave something so glaringly inconsistent with their brand for so long without taking steps to fix it.

Newsstand is a folder on your home screen and the magazines are the apps in that folder. You can pinch your magazine to close it and return it to the folder but you can't pinch close the folder, it's already closed. It's by design, it's working properly. Who said it should operate like iBooks ?

Nope, I disagree. Apple has created the appearance that Newsstand is an app. Frankly, if the behavior was more like a folder there would be less frustration. I agree with you that the contents of Newsstand run like apps but Newsstand itself performs like an app with the exception of pinch to close. Apple needs to go one direction or the other with the UI of Newsstand to create a consistent and intuitive interface.

Right. Newsstand has an identity crisis. If it's a folder, it should look like and act like one. I'm sure you've noticed that it's the only "folder" that can be nested inside another. It's a user interface issue. Is it a folder or is it an app? The very fact we're having this discussion is proof that Apple got this one wrong. I'm not a hater. Apple is in my computing DNA... My first Apple was a IIe. That said, they're not infallible. Occasionally, they swing and miss. This iteration of Newsstand is a strike.

It's not a folder in a folder, it is the folder containing all your magazine apps. When in Newsstand and you double click the home button what do you see, the Newsstand sitting on the home screen because it is part of the home screen just like any other folder. Tap a folder, when it opens double click the home button, it's sitting on the home page just like Newsstand does. If the magazines were downloaded to your iPad like iBooks it would behave like iBooks. Magazines need the internet to operate, iBooks doesn't.

The problem is that Newsstand doesn't act like ANYTHING else in iOS 7. If it acted like a folder, you couldn't nest it inside another folder. If it acted like an app, it would pinch to close. I stand by my original statement: Newsstand is inconsistent with the rest of the iOS UI. That's the problem. Out.

It doesn't act like other apps because it isn't like other apps. It is a collection of apps. Each magazine must maintain it's identity as an app to be able to update. The only way you can do that is in a folder and call it Newsstand. It's that or have a separate app icon for each magazine.

Same problem. I don't know of any other app that requires pressing Home to close it. There are more annoying things in 7.0.4 that I'd like fixed, but this annoys me every time I have to do it.

For goodness sakes. Is it a breath mint... It's not intuitive but it is simple. Click Home.

Aloha los_lmao, Thank you. Bob.

For goodness sake, it's NOT a matter of the Newsstand being inuitive or not. It's the glaring INCONSISTENCY of iOS 7 that's being discussed here. And the sooner Apple fixes it, the better for Apple itself.

Ios_lmao wrote:

For goodness sakes. Is it a breath mint... It's not intuitive but it is simple. Click Home.

I had to google that expression. I don't really understand your point. I agree that it's mainly a cosmetic problem with a solution so easy that it barely counts as a workaround, but there's no good side to it. It's annoyed a couple of hundred people enough to search out this thread.