Weak design--no font size control, settings buried, interface needs improving.

Politico itself is pretty good at covering the "inside baseball" of politics, albeit usually from a markedly conservative slant. The app, though, needs improvement, especially in readability.

The default font size is too small and it lacks a built-in way of changing the font size! It relies on the General Settings for iOS, but that then makes everything else too big!

Just try finding the Settings inside the app... They are buried 4 layers deep under Other!

The navigation is convoluted. A scrolling tab bar across the top would work much better than the expand-o, hide-o left-hand design.

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The adverts are intrusive; taking up valuable screen space and appearing at random, full screen! if youre going to have ads, put out an ad-free version for some $, too!

The app needs font size controls. Right now, the app used iOSs Accessibility, Dynamic Type setting, but very poorly. The result is that sub-headlines are HUGE, but article text is smaller than it should be. There needs to be a way of setting font size within the app itself! All other major news apps give users a way to change it! Give us font size controls or double-tap zooming with text reflow.

All this is really too bad as Politico is an excellent source of well-written, well investigated stories (though from a markedly conservative perspective). But if the articles are too small to read comfortably, whats the point of the app?

As several folks have pointed out, the mobile web site works much better! The iPad version of the app is much better.

AstroPaul about POLITICO, v4.0.6