Pinterest 12+

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.

The app itself works just fine. I enjoy using it for inspiration and to help me visualize things for future plans or projects, so in that way it continues to mostly serve its original purpose. However, it seems every time I’m on there I get served more and more AI generated images. The amount of ads was frustrating enough for a while, but now I will get pages of imagery that isn’t actually showing real places or even real people. If I’m using Pinterest to get ideas for a realistically achievable patio space, or a new hair style or hair color, I don’t want to see computer-generated images of women who all have the same face or a landscaping job that doesn’t actually exist. Pinterest has a lot of value as a tool to help communicate goals and visual wants to professionals working with clients. How is it fair to professional designers if their clients keep bringing them images of things that never existed in reality in the first place? How is it fair to those same artists and designers if the work that is getting pinned and shared is not theirs, but is instead generated by a machine ? It’s frustrating at a basic level and very eerie and disturbing at another. I would love to see Pinterest advocate for the artists, designers, and content creators who use this space by cracking down on AI-generated posts. At least then the amount of ads might be more tolerable.