iOS 12 Apple News app iPad Pro landscape issue

Not currently in the new iOS 12.

Also, the channel bar feature of the Apple News app may not be a bug, but similar how the Apple Mail panels work with two panels always visible when using iOS/Apple Mail in landscape orientation.

So, this may not be an Apple News design flaw, per se, but an Apple News feature design change.

The News channels used to be a second option in the lower screen menu that you had to tap and then tap to choose your news feeds, then return to the main page in the older version of the Apple News app.

Apple made the news channel bar always on and available in landscape viewing mode to more easily access and update those news feed channels on the fly, now.

So, this may not be a bug in the Apple News app, at all, but a feature enhancement.

If you do not like this feature the way it is, you can complain/send feedback to Apple.

The only way to get Apple to listen to you, DIRECTLY, is to use their feedback portion of their website.

iPad Feedback

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

Good Luck!

Apple is not here.

Cognizant or responsible Apple teams, designers and engineers do not read, nor participate in these Apple technical support communities.

These are user to user Apple product support communities.

I and others, in these Apple product support communities, are all simply Apple product users here, just like you!

Apple supplies these forums for users to work out their product issues with other users, but these community forums ARE monitored/moderated by Apple Staff assigned to these community forums, but I do not think any info is ever passed on to who/mever the cognizant parties are who would need to know if there are any mounting issues with a product or software.

These ASC ONLY moderators and staffers, due to Apple privacy policies, do not forward any info contained/obtained from ANY postings within these communities to any cognizant Apple staff, teams or individuals.

If you do not like the current way the new Apple News app works in landscape orientation, in iOS 12, on your iPad, then

the only way to get Apple to listen to you is to use their feedback portion of their website.

iPad Feedback

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

Cognizant Apple employees read ALL feedback generated from all of the various feedback pages and transfers the data to the proper and responsible Apple teams and personnel , but NO Apple employees will ever respond with any type of direct, individual replies from the feedback you post.

Good Luck to You!

My take is that IO 12 is very inconsistent. The News App on the iPad works differently in landscape mode vs portrait mode which is infuriating. As far as portrait mode is concerned there is an icon to bring on the history/side panel. However in landscape mode the history/side panel is always present and basically uses 1/3 of the screen which loses valuable reading real-estate.

Apple needs to get their act together if they are to keep their customers. I for one, are not happy with the massive inconsistencies throughout the new iOS 12 release. Please do perform a consistency GUI/interface validation with your QA departments. There needs to be someone at the top level sorting this out. If you can’t do this say goodbye to your customers.