Find puzzles in Apple News+ on iPad

Apple News+ subscribers can access daily and archived crossword, crossword mini, and Quartiles puzzles. Some puzzles may be available without a subscription.

Note: Apple News, Apple News+, and puzzles aren’t available in all countries or regions. See the iOS and iPadOS Feature Availability website.

View the Puzzles feed

Go to the News app on your iPad.
Do one of the following:
- Tap Puzzles in the sidebar.
  (If you don’t see the sidebar, tap in the top-left corner or in the tab bar.)
- Tap Today in the sidebar or tab bar, scroll down, then tap the Puzzles group.

Follow the feed for a puzzle type

Go to the News app on your iPad.
Open the Puzzles feed.
Tap Crossword, Mini, or Quartiles.
Tap , then tap Follow.

A Puzzles category appears in the sidebar with the puzzle types appearing below. To make them favorites, tap Edit, tap next to a puzzle type, then tap Done.

Choose a puzzle

Go to the News app on your iPad.
Go to one of the following areas to find a puzzle:
- The Puzzles group in the Today feed or Best of News+ feed
- The Puzzles feed
- The feed for a puzzle type (crossword, crossword mini, or Quartiles)
Tap a puzzle to open it.

Crossword puzzles have a difficulty rating—easy, moderate, or challenging.

You can also solve puzzles from the archive. See View past puzzles, below.

View puzzle stats and streaks

In each puzzle feed you can find the Scoreboard. It includes:

Statistics for each puzzle type—the number of puzzles solved, for example
Your current streak—the number of consecutive days you’ve solved the daily puzzle
Your longest streak

Go to the News app on your iPad.
Choose the feed for a puzzle type, then swipe up.

Conditions that affect stats include the following:

If you use the Reveal command to show all or a portion of a puzzle, the puzzle won’t count toward your stats, and completing the puzzle won’t start or continue a streak.
Puzzles you complete on a device with iOS 17.5, iPadOS 17.5, macOS 14.5, or later, count toward your stats. Any puzzles you played on older OS versions don’t count toward your stats.
After you open the News app on a device with iOS 17.5, iPadOS 17.5, macOS 14.5, or later, any daily puzzles you complete on a device with an earlier version of the OS are added to your streak. For example, if you complete Monday’s crossword and Tuesday’s crossword on your iPhone with iOS 17.5, and then solve Wednesday’s crossword on your iPad with iPadOS 17.4, your streak is extended.
Users in the continental U.S. and Canada must complete a puzzle within 24 hours of its publication for it to count toward a streak. Users in Alaska and Hawaii get an extra hour or two; they must complete the day’s puzzle before midnight local time.

Compete with others in Game Center

You can compete against friends and other puzzle solvers in Game Center.

Go to Settings > Game Center.
Turn on Game Center, then sign in to your Apple Account.
Go to Settings > Apps > News.
Turn on Game Center.

Your score for the daily puzzle is submitted to the leaderboard for that puzzle type in Game Center. Your score for crossword and crossword mini puzzles is the time it took you to solve the puzzle. For Quartiles, your score is the number of points you’ve earned.

View past puzzles

Go to the News app on your iPad.
Do any of the following:
- View puzzles from the archive: Open a puzzle feed, then swipe up to view the most recent puzzles in the archive.
- View the complete crossword and crossword mini puzzle archive: Open a crossword or crossword mini puzzle feed, swipe up, then tap next to Archive. You can also tap , then choose Crossword Archive or Crossword Mini Archive.
  To show sorting and filtering options for the archive, tap . You can sort all archives from newest to oldest or oldest to newest. You can filter the crossword archive by completeness and difficulty level. You can filter the crossword mini archive by completeness only.

Get Puzzles notifications

Go to the News app on your iPad.
Swipe to the bottom of the sidebar, then tap Notifications & Email.
(If you don’t see the sidebar, tap in the top-left corner or in the tab bar.)
Turn on notifications for Puzzles.

Remove the Puzzles group from Today

Go to the News app on your iPad.
In the Today feed, swipe up to Puzzles, then tap .
Tap Block from Today.

When you block Latest Puzzles, the group no longer appears in your Today feed.

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