Pinterest 12+

Okay, so don’t get me wrong, it is an amazing app. It’s (mostly) incredibly kid-friendly, and, well, there are other great things about it that I could put in this review, but that would make it too long. You may be wondering: “Well, if it’s such a great app, why didn’t you put in five stars?” I didn’t put in five stars because of the AI. All the AI pins are just absolutely cluttering up Pinterest, and it’s making it impossible to find real stories that happened, real images that people photographed, real things, real drawings that people put their time and effort into making. In the words of this one person who also addressed this problem (I forgot her name): “So see, if I search up garden, and I scroll around, all of it is AI; there’s this AI cat here, and then there’s this ‘garden’ here that is absolutely AI;…” and this is becoming a bit of a long review, but please. Somehow remove the AI pins, or at least put in a filter button in the settings that people can turn on to filter out AI pins somehow. Or like really, any type of pins they /absolutely/ do not want on their feed. Pinterest was used for finding inspiration— real things that real people did that inspired other people, that were put so much time and effort into, not just something ‘inspiring’ generated with the tap of a button. People get inspired from real, true things. Not AI.

I love this app, it’s amazing, definitely the most useful app I own as an artist and writer. There are so many inspirational ideas and tips I’ve found and I have been using it for years to improve on both. You can create private boards if you don’t want the public to see them, you can collaborate, you can make your own pins and comment on them. And there are SO MANY!! Loads and loads of ideas and inspiration. And if you’re not looking for that, there’s content of anything else as well. There’s truly nothing you can’t find on here.

I would give it a five star rating if it weren’t for a huge problem I haven’t been able to fix for an entire year. The app won’t work on my phone, at all! It works perfectly fine on my tablet and computer so I know it’s not just my account bugging out. I’ve searched everywhere for a solution and have tried every advice I have gotten but so far nothing has worked. Whenever I open the app from my phone every pin is an empty grey box. I wouldn’t mind this if it weren’t for the fact I like using it on my phone more than my other devices. The screen is smaller and fits the picture perfectly, I can write notes on pins that I cannot do for some reason on my tablet, or view my favourite ones, and it is overall easier to use. If there is a way to fix this problem that could work I would gladly take it, it’s really an amazing app, I’m just so tired of not being able to use it on my phone.