Apple News + includes a full subscription to all content from The Wall Street Journal, but because Apple restricts the WSJ articles that are shown in Apple News+, it can be hard to access certain paywalled content.
The Apple News+ section of Apple News and the Apple News app will surface some WSJ content independently, but Apple is sharing general interest stories rather than financial or other content, so this browser workaround method will need to be used for those stories as Apple News+ does not include a WSJ web login.
What is Apple News+ and how does it work?
Apple News+ is a news subscription service that gives you access to hundreds of magazines and newspapers, including TIME, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Bon Appetit, People, and Cosmopolitan. While not all these outlets have a paywall, it’s nice to get them in one place.
Apple News+ does have a very large selection of publications with paywalls, but it obviously doesn’t have all of them. It would have been nice to have The New York Times or The Washington Post, which are two paywalls I encounter frequently while perusing the news online.
The next thing we wondered was, is Apple News+ the new subscription-based news app for You?
One source claimed that apple may have an answer. The tech giant released a subscription-based version of its News app that gives you access to hundreds of magazines and newspapers, including many of my most-read publications that enacted a paywall. I decided to try out Apple News+ to see if it would feed my need for news and storytelling.
How do I read the Wall Street Journal on my iPhone?
Once you tap “Open in News,” the full article from The Wall Street Journal is accessible and can be read in its entirety through your included Apple News+ subscription. There’s also the option of searching for the title of an article that you want to read, though that’s a bit more of a hassle than simply tapping on the share sheet.