The crossword puzzles have been broken in the Apple News app for more than a year. I waited for several months, hoping that ios 26 would fix it, but no luck. I started reporting it last September, and after sending screen recordings, was told this would be passed along to the developers. It remains broken.
I pay for the Apple 1 subscription, and really enjoyed this feature Today, I emailed Apple Accessibility asking for a $1 monthly discount because I can't use a valued feature.
Was I being petty? Oh yeah I was, but sheesh, after several emails and them not fixing part of a paid service, I figured I'd try another approach.
I don't expect this to work, but I think there has been a lot of time where this bug could have been fixed.
Rant over. Thanks for reading.
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Frustrated
I'm kinda shocked that, in general, whatever you take in 2026 is either already broken, or almost broken, or is yet to be broken, etc.... Same goes for lyrics in Apple Music, keyboard switching, and other multiple things in IOS26 that haven't been fixed for years, or were introduced in the latest major update and not going away.... Actually, I believe it's about every operating system, including MacOS, Windows, different Androids, etc.... To me, the best version of IOS was IOS10. Hopefully, someone will prove me wrong. Maybe I'm being too dramatic, but I feel like people generally don't take responsibility nowadays.... LEASE PROVE ME Wrong!!
Puzzle bug fixed in 26.4.
I installed the latest update today, and am happy to say that the bug has been fixed.
I decided to balance my petty emailed, mentioned above, with a thank you email to apple.