Apple TV 12+

I’m disappointed in the 16.2 version of the TV app. When I go to the TV app, my primary intention is to watch something I’ve queued up or to search for something I want to watch. My secondary intention is to browse.

With the previous app, its design matched my intentions perfectly. First, I started with my Up Next content prominently at top and then when I felt like browsing or couldn’t find anything interesting in my Up Next I could simply swipe down and explore promoted and suggested content. That design made great sense to me and felt like Apple design.

The new design feels like Google/Amazon/Roku design which is less focused on the user experience and more focused on advertising and promotion. By putting promotional content at the top, it changes the focus of the TV app to be on promoting content that may or may not be relevant to the user. Additionally, it now takes two swipes to get to your Up Next selections which adds friction and mitigates one of the TV app’s best features which was that it brought together your shows from (almost) all streaming apps.

I hope Apple will either revert/change/improve this design or give us the ability to customize it. I’ve found myself returning to my old behavior which is to just launch the streaming app that I know has the content I want to watch at that moment which is sad because the previous TV app was so great at being a one-stop-shop.

Crashes constantly just had to restart a 20 minute episode 3 times on a brand new i pad and purchases refusing to download and when watching downloaded episodes when they do happen to work i have to restart the app each and every episode or they don’t load too these problems are on multiple devices and on the download page especially and thats just to name a few issues and I have used apple tv for like 10 years and it’s horrible now when I never had issues even on much older less powerful devices Been waiting for a fix a long time. IOS 18 messed everything up it seems. I want the apple tv that used to be so smooth even on much less powerful devices not this nightmare I remember when apple Tv never had issues even on devices half as powerful as i use this is the longest I have ever waited for a fix but instead every system update makes it worse. Update Hello apple!!! are you going to fix this or what been over 4 months as of April 13th i'm starting to lose faith that this is ever gonna get resolved. The whole reason I bought my iPad was to watch my movies and shows PLEASE AT LEAST FIX THE CONSTANT CRASHES!!! PLEASE! Even after a full rest of a week old new I pad it did nothing to fix the unbearable crashing the other problems are manageable at least but can't watch a 20 minute episode without restarting at three times

Wow…Talk about taking an amazing app and completely destroying one of the main purposes for using an Apple TV, Up Next. Now, you are bombarded with Apple TV+ shows trying to get you to buy or watch them. The Up Next feature (which was the best part of having an Apple TV) is now a shell of what it once was and is no longer a focus for the user. Instead, you are now offered a small thumbnail of your Up Next carousel in the top 1/3 of the screen, with the lower 2/3 being advertisements for Apple TV+ shows. You no longer get any previews or artwork for Up Next, just that little square box. This terrible change by whomever approved this disaster actually has me questioning if it’s now even worth to have the Apple TV since features are being taken away. Almost all TV’s today are smart and have the Apple TV+ app, so the worth of the Apple TV is pretty moot if they remove or no longe care about one of the main reasons for having it. Instead of continuing to provide an amazing customer experience, Apple has opted to force you to see what they want you to see, and when, for their own personal gain. I’m not sure who this redesign is for, but Apple TV owners don’t buy an Apple TV for the TV+ app, they buy an Apple TV because it is the only product that provides you a unified experience and watch list that is continuously updated. Apple called it Up Next, and it was amazing before greed took over.