# Prevention

> Health & Fitness

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id470598964](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id470598964)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id470598964`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Hearst Communications, Inc.
- **Category:** Health & Fitness
- **Rating:** 4.60 / 5 (1,356 ratings)
- **Version:** 28.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-05-30
- **First published:** 2011-10-13
- **Size:** 60 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-17
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/prevention/id470598964)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://subscribe.hearstmags.com/circulation/shared/privacy.html](http://subscribe.hearstmags.com/circulation/shared/privacy.html)

## Description

Prevention is a live-better handbook that brings trusted health research, expert advice, and practical ideas to help you feel your best from head to toe.

Subscribers can access issues, share content via social networks, clip material for easy sharing, and learn simple ways to stay healthier, fitter, and stronger through credible health insights.

## Rankings

- #48,392 — Overall
- #81 — prevent

## Review summary

The Prevention iOS app is lauded for high-quality content and a long back-issue archive, with convenient mobile access. However, users repeatedly report crashes, login/subscription access failures, missing/delayed issue delivery, unresponsive support, and restore-purchase problems. These recurring issues far outweigh the positives, indicating a need for more reliable access, better account handling, issue delivery, and responsive customer service.

### Pros

- High-quality magazine content with practical ideas for living better.
- Access to a long back-issue archive (issues dating back to 2012).
- Convenient reading on mobile devices and the ability to read anywhere.
- Digital editions complement the print magazine by expanding access.

### Cons

- App crashes or freezes and slow loading prevent reading.
- Subscription/login issues prevent unlocking content even when paid (accounts not recognized, errors).
- Missing or delayed issues and downloads (months not available, download failures).
- Customer support is often unresponsive or slow to respond.
- Problems restoring purchases or being prompted to pay again / inability to link subscriptions to Apple News.

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