You can easily check the day’s top and trending stories from the News app, as well as stories about a topic of your choosing, with the Today or Topic widget. A story headline in the widget opens the story in News. You can also add, edit, and remove widgets.
In the Today or Topic widget, tap a story headline to open the story in News.
To add a News widget, see our article, Add, edit, and remove widgets.
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Apple News+ subscribers get access to a new Quartiles puzzle every day. Players select tiles containing two to four letters from a four-by-five grid to form words, and you can use up to four tiles per word. The more tiles you use, the more points you score.
A word formed from four tiles is called a Quartile and is worth 8 points, and when you find all five Quartiles, you get an additional 40 points. The object of the game is to earn the 100 points necessary to reach the Expert rank, though you can keep forming words and accumulating points after that. Not all possible words qualify, either, like proper nouns and profanity.
Note: Apple News, Apple News+, and puzzles aren’t available in all countries or regions.
For example, to score a single point, tap “pear,” then tap the Enter button. To score 2 points, tap “ap,” then “pear” to form the word, “appear.” Go for 4 points by tapping “ap,” “pear,” then “ance.” Complete the Quartile and score 8 points by spelling “disappearance.”
Completed words appear in the Words Found box, and any Quartiles you find appear in groups of four tiles.
Not all possible words qualify in Quartiles puzzles. For example, obscure and technical terms, proper nouns, and profanity never appear in the word list.
Quick tip: For a quick Quartiles tutorial, tap the More button, then tap How to Play. To open the Quartiles puzzle feed instead, tap More Puzzles.
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In sudoku puzzles, you place the numbers 1 to 9 into squares in a grid of nine blocks with nine squares each, so that every number appears exactly once in each block, row, and column. Each grid comes with a few givens, squares already filled in.
Apple News+ subscribers get new sudoku puzzles every day in three difficulties: easy, moderate, and challenging. Easy puzzles include more givens, while challenging puzzles require more complex strategies to narrow down options for each empty square. You can also keep track of which numbers might work in each square with notes.
Note: Apple News, Apple News+, and puzzles aren’t available in all countries or regions.
Tip: Turn on Autocheck to indicate when you successfully complete a block, row, or column.
Using notes within the puzzle is a way to keep track of which numbers might work in each square.
When you enter an answer, any matching notes in that square’s block, row, or column are removed. To turn this feature off, tap the More button, tap Settings, then turn off Automatically Remove Notes.
You commit a number in your notes that you think is the right answer by touching and holding it on the onscreen keypad.
If you’re unsure of an answer, you can get a little help.
When you turn on Autocheck inside a puzzle, it stays on for that puzzle only. To turn Autocheck on for all sudoku puzzles, tap the More button, tap Settings, turn on Always Autocheck, tap the Done button, tap the Puzzles Options button, then tap Autocheck (if it’s not already on).
Note: When you reveal all or a portion of a puzzle, the puzzle isn’t counted toward stats in your Scoreboard or as part of a streak. To maintain a sudoku streak, solve at least one of the current day’s sudoku puzzles of any difficulty level without revealing answers. Revealing also prevents you from undoing previous actions.
Clearing a puzzle’s answers and resetting the timer gives you a fresh start.
You can show or hide the timer that appears above your puzzle.
You don’t have to finish puzzles all at once, since the timer pauses while you’re away.
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The Today feed in the News app presents top stories selected by Apple News editors, the best stories from the channels and topics you follow, and stories and issues from Apple News+.
It also includes stories suggested by Siri, trending stories, My Sports, and more. Depending on your location, you may see Apple News Today audio briefings, puzzles, and local news with your weather, too. You can refresh the feed for the latest stories anytime, and influence what appears in it by following and blocking channels and topics.
Note: Local news and puzzles aren’t available in all countries or regions.
By following and blocking channels and topics, you can influence what appears in the Today feed.
Note: Top Stories look the same for everyone, so if a story from a channel you blocked is in Top Stories, you’ll see the headline, but the channel stays blocked in the rest of your feed.
Favorites holds the channels and topics from your Following list that you like most, though you can have only a limited number of them. Adding them to Favorites makes them easier to access.
Note: You can add only channels and topics you currently follow to your Favorites.
Favorites appear in the sidebar.
If you don’t see the sidebar, tap the Sidebar button.
Note: When you restrict stories, the variety of stories in the Today feed is significantly limited, and Top Stories and Trending Stories don’t appear.
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You can read and share News stories on iPad.
While you read a story, you can read the next story or the previous story, return to the list of stories, and tell News what stories you prefer. You can also change the text size, share a story, and read the stories friends shared with you. Sharing works with options such as Messages or Mail.
Here’s how to read and share stories in News on iPad.
Note: Apple News and Apple News+ aren’t available in all countries or regions.
Suggest More, Suggest Less, Save Story, and Report a Concern aren’t options in Apple News+ issues in PDF format. Read our article, Browse and read Apple News+ stories and issues.
When a friend shares stories with you using the Messages app, you can easily find them in the Shared with You section in Apple News. (Your friend must be in your contacts list in Contacts.)
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With My Sports, you can follow your favorite sports, teams, leagues, and athletes; receive stories from top sports publications, local newspapers, and more; access scores, schedules, and standings for the top professional and college leagues; and watch highlights.
You can browse all available sports, too. Before you can use it, you sign in to your Apple Account and the App Store on your iPad.
Here’s how to follow your favorite teams with My Sports on iPad.
You must do the following before you can use My Sports:
To use My Sports, you first need to turn on syncing among Apple News, the Apple TV app, and the Apple Sports app (on iPhone). Once syncing is on, you automatically follow the same teams in all three apps.
Sports topics you previously expressed interest in appear below Suggested. To search (by team name or location and more), tap the search field.
Sports and leagues you follow appear in the sidebar.
If you don’t see the sidebar, tap the Sidebar button.
You can follow and unfollow sports topics after you set up My Sports.
For your favorite teams, My Sports offers scores and schedules, video highlights, and stories related to your favorite teams, plus stats and stories for individual games and events.
Note: Supported sports apps may require a separate subscription. Not all games are available in all areas.
Note: Highlights are available only for select leagues.
You can stop syncing between Apple News, the Apple TV app, and the Apple Sports app (on iPhone).
Note: Once you turn off Sync My Sports, you can’t use My Sports anymore.
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If you don’t want to miss important stories, you can use notifications and newsletters to stay on top of the latest news. Some channels you follow may send notifications, and you can also choose to receive newsletters from Apple News editors by email.
If you subscribe to Apple News+, you can also get notified when new issues of publications you follow are available.
Here’s how to get News notifications and newsletters on iPad.
Note: Apple News and Apple News+ aren’t available in all countries or regions.
Some channels you follow may send notifications about important stories.
If you don’t see the sidebar, tap the Sidebar button.
Apple News+ subscribers can also get notifications when new issues of publications they follow are available, along with New Features & Tips notifications.
Newsletters from Apple News editors can come to your email inbox if you’d like. They feature top stories, personalized based on your interests, and if you subscribe to Apple News+, they can also include new issues of your favorite magazines.
If you don’t see the sidebar, tap the Sidebar button.
To stop receiving newsletters, return to the Notifications & Email screen, then turn off Apple News Newsletters. In the U.S., tap Manage Newsletters, then unsubscribe from each newsletter you no longer want to receive.
Note: Personalized newsletters aren’t available in all countries or regions. To get the Sports newsletter, you need to first sync My Sports and follow a sports topic.
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You can save news stories to read later, and Apple News+ subscribers can even read saved stories in Offline Mode.
You can read a saved story anytime from Saved Stories in the sidebar, and delete a saved story when you’re done with it. You can also remove all saved stories at once, and search for channels, topics, stories, or recipes in News.
Here’s how to save stories in News on iPad.
If you don’t see the sidebar, tap the Sidebar button.
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The News app keeps track of a wide variety of channels, topics, stories, and recipes, which makes it easy to find content that interests you. You can search for the name of a channel, a topic like fashion or politics, an event like an upcoming meteor shower, or a recipe title, ingredient, or keyword.
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Apple News+ subscribers can solve daily Emoji Game puzzles by completing words and phrases with emoji. The object is to complete several phrases with as few moves as possible, and each emoji can be read directly, through association, or in combination with others. Trying an answer or expanding a clue counts as a move.
Letters relating to an emoji may appear nonconsecutively in an answer, and a group of emoji is interpreted as a whole. If you reveal the answers you didn’t find, the puzzle doesn’t count in your Scoreboard stats and streaks.
Note: Apple News, Apple News+, and puzzles aren’t available in all countries or regions.
For example, a “pear” emoji 🍐 could complete “DISAP_ _ _ _,” but interpreted as “fruit” it could complete “_ _ _ _ _ FUL.”
Letters relating to emoji may appear nonconsecutively in an answer. For example, dragging an “earth” emoji 🌍 to “L_ _ _N _ _E ROPES” completes the phrase “learn the ropes.”
Interpret grouped emoji as a whole. For example, a single 🐠 could mean “fish,” while 🐠🐠🐠 might mean “school.”
Quick tip: If you’d like a quick Emoji Game tutorial, tap the More button and then tap How to Play. Or, to open the Emoji Game feed, choose More Puzzles.
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