Apple announced last year's deck the launch of Apple News +, service magazine subscription that complemented the free Apple News service, and that at the moment, it seems that has not had the response from the public that Apple had predicted after buy Texture a year before.
However, the service that does work is the free version Apple News (it was presented in 2015), an application that gives access to the main online media of the countries in which it is available: United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. The latest official data on the number of users shows how this service is used by 125 million users monthly.
These data represent an increase of 25 million users of the platform in just one quarter, since the latest official user figures were announced in the results conference corresponding to the first fiscal quarter of 2020 (last quarter of 2019), figure what stood at 100 million.
It is more than likely that part of this increase was due to the special Apple coverage to information related to coronavirus, special coverage thanks to media such as CNN, Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. This section not only offers timely information on the status of the pandemic and a real-time map of the expansion of the coronavirus, but also shows a series of tricks to actively fight the coronavirus within our possibilities.
Regarding the number of users who have trusted Apple News +, Apple's monthly subscription service, being encompassed within the Apple News user data, it is very unlikely that we will be able to know at any time whether Apple's commitment to magazines has been appropriate or not. The rumored service pack that Apple would have planned to launch throughout this year, suggest that it has not been the case.