How to find recipes and food stories in Apple News+ on iPhone

If you subscribe to Apple News+, you can find personalized food content, including a large catalog of recipes with features like adjustable recipe yields, nutrition facts, customizable units, and easy-to-start timers.

Your recommendations get more personalized as you read more food content and recipes. You can search by recipe title, ingredient, or keyword, save a recipe, and prepare it. You can also look at other recipes or stories while you’re reading one, and filter recipes.

Note: Apple News, Apple News+, and food features aren’t available in all countries or regions.

Browse stories and recipes

1. Open the News app on your iPhone.
2. From the Today feed, tap Food, then scroll down to see stories and recipes.

Reading more food content and recipes makes your recommendations more personalized.

Quick tip: Swipe left or right to look at other recipes or stories while you’re reading one.

Search for and filter recipes

1. Open the News app on your iPhone.
2. From the Today feed, tap Food.
3. Tap Recipe Catalog at the top of the feed or the Recipe Catalog button. Then do any of the following:
   • Search by recipe title, ingredient, or keyword: Tap the search field, enter a term, and then tap the Search button.
   • Filter by category: Tap a category, such as Vegetarian.
   • Add and combine filters: Tap the Filter button and tap a filter. Then tap the Done button.
   • Remove a filter: Tap the Remove button next to a filter below the search field.

   

Save a recipe

1. Open the News app on your iPhone.
2. From the Today feed, tap Food and then scroll down to browse recipes. Or search for and filter recipes, as above.
3. Do one of the following:
   • While browsing or viewing search results: Tap the Save Recipe button.
   • While a recipe is open: Tap Save.
4. To revisit saved recipes, tap Saved Recipes in the Following list or the Food feed, or tap the Saved Recipes button in the Recipe Catalog.

To remove a recipe from your saved recipes, touch and hold the recipe, then tap Unsave Recipe.

Prepare a recipe

1. Open the News app on your iPhone.
2. From the Today feed, tap Food and then scroll down to browse recipes. Or search for and filter recipes, as above.
3. To open a recipe, do one of the following:
   • Tap a recipe in the search results.
   • While reading a food story that includes a recipe, tap the View Recipes button. If the story has multiple recipes, tap the View Recipes button, then tap the recipe you want to prepare.
4. Scroll to see the recipe’s ingredients, directions, nutrition facts, and ratings, or tap Ingredients, Directions or More to jump between them.

   Tip: You can add a recipe’s ingredients to your grocery list. While viewing the recipe, tap the More button, then tap Add to Grocery List.

5. To focus on the directions, tap Cook.

   Steps appear in a larger font and the display stays on while you’re preparing the recipe.

6. While viewing directions, do any of the following:
   • Use a cooking timer: When a timer appears in a step, tap the Timer button, swipe up or down to adjust the timer duration, then tap Set Timer.
   • View ingredient quantities: When an ingredient in a step appears in bold, tap the ingredient to view how much is used in the recipe without going back to the ingredients list.
   • Keep track of which ingredients you already prepared or used: While viewing the ingredients list, tap an ingredient.

Quick tip: To keep track of recipes you’ve prepared, tap the More button while viewing a recipe, then tap Mark as Cooked.

If you notice that a recipe is miscategorized, has incorrect ingredients or directions, or doesn’t display properly, tap the More button, tap Report a Concern, then follow the onscreen instructions.

Customize the units used in recipes

In all Apple News+ recipes, you can convert the units from US to Metric and from Fahrenheit to Celsius. And for baking recipes, you can show ingredient measurements in weight.

1. Open the News app on your iPhone.
2. Open a recipe, as above.
3. Tap the More button and tap Customize Units.

Adjust a recipe’s yield

1. Open the News app on your iPhone.
2. Open a recipe, as above.
3. Tap the More button, then tap Scale Recipe.
4. To adjust the recipe yield, tap or, or type the scale factor.

To reset the ingredients to their original quantity, tap the Revert button.

Note: Cook times, temperature, equipment, or cookware size aren’t affected by scaling a recipe.

Add notes to a recipe

Notes you add to a recipe can record your results, ingredient or step substitutions, or how long a step took to complete on your stove or oven.

1. Open the News app on your iPhone.
2. Open a recipe, as above.
3. Tap the More button. Then do either of the following:
   • Add a note: Tap Add Notes.
   • Edit a note: Tap Edit Notes.
4. Enter your observations and then tap the Done button.

Rate a recipe

1. Open the News app on your iPhone.
2. From the Today feed, tap Food and then scroll down to browse recipes. Or search for and filter recipes, as above.
3. Open a recipe, scroll down to Ratings, and tap a star to select a rating.

Access food content offline

You can make the Food feed, Recipe Catalog, and Saved Recipes accessible in Offline Mode.

1. While you’re online, open the Settings app on your iPhone.
2. Tap Apps and tap News. Tap Automatic Downloads (below News+ Offline Mode).
3. Turn on Food & Recipes.