Illawarra Mercury 4+
ACM
Rural Press Pty Ltd
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
The Illawarra Mercury app brings together the best of your daily newspaper and its website to take your local news experience to another level.
As the Illawarra’s trusted voice, we keep you up to date seven days a week with news that’s important to our community.
Whether it's the breaking news you need to know from around the region or across the nation, the latest Dragons, local NRL and Soccer sporting results, in-depth analysis explaining the decisions and events affecting our lives, or incisive commentary, you will be the first to know using the Illawarra Mercury app.
The app is free to download, but you need to be a Illawarra Mercury digital subscriber to read articles. Features include:
- Access to breaking news updates 24 hours-a-day
- Browse the latest articles in the topics that interest you most
- Save articles to read later
- Alerts for breaking news and big stories
- Read a digital replica of the day's newspaper
- Play our daily interactive puzzles
Please note: This app features Nielsen's proprietary measurement software which will allow you to contribute to market research or audience ratings services. Please see http://www.nielsen.com/digitalprivacy for more information.
What’s New
Version 3.3
Dark mode is now supported. Go to Settings>General to toggle it on or off.
Performance improvements and minor bug fixes.
Ratings and Reviews
New app has a downside
The new Illawarra Mercury app opens the newspaper as a double page spread in my device. This is unreadable on my device, as the print is too small. When I try to zoom in to increase the page size, I often find I’m directed to one particular story - when I want the whole page. After I am funnelled to one story, I cannot find my place back to the page I was on. All in all the new app is annoying ..
Developer Response ,
Hi Subscriber,
The new App is more refined for viewing and content access.
To zoom in, using your thumb and index finger you can stretch out to zoom on the article and pinch motion to minimize again.
The single tap is a new layout option and you can revert back to the paper view with a tap on the icon on the bottom right.
Please contact the support team on 1300 131 095 Option 2 if you are still have concerns with the new App
Hard to manage
Hello. I have just had to spend an hour working out why my app has not been working. It is not an easy process. There needs to be a helpline on phone to and a person on other end to guide seniors through the updates ect. This needs to happen and be a tech expert . Please set this up.
Thanks Tom. Ps my daughter has helped me.
Developer Response ,
Hi Tom, Glad your daughter was able to assist you. The digital subscription support team can be contacted Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm on 1300 131 095, option 2 for customer service assistance. Alternatively you can go to settings on the app, then contact us to send the team an inquiry for them to contact you for assistance
Poor performance and major inconvenience!
Reading stories through the app, no issue at all, it’s perfect!
But try to read a story posted on Facebook, nothing! It prompts me to subscribe (I already do), so I login only to be booted out back to Facebook and told I need a subscription again and am no longer able to open the story at all! Prior to this happening, it was just the annoying inconvenience of having to login everytime I wanted to read a story on Facebook, now I can’t even login. I don’t use the app to read the paper, I read the ones that peak my interest in my Facebook feed, if I can’t do that, there’s no need for me to pay for a subscription when I can get the same stories for free from ABC News Illawarra
App Privacy
The developer, Rural Press Pty Ltd, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Rural Press Pty Ltd
- Size
- 46.4 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Rural Press Pty Ltd
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Monthly Subscription $19.99
- Annual Subscription $199.99