In the past, the TV app was the first app I’d open when launching my Apple TV. Now I typically avoid it because it’s very cluttered with content I’m not interested in. The personalized Up Next section is now a minor aspect of the TV app when it was the main focus in earlier versions.

I installed the 17.2 beta and I hate the TV app even more. It doesn’t necessarily make sense from a design perspective with the side bar list of apps and individualized app sections. Since this is going to be the new direction for the TV app, at least create a section that is nothing but your personalized Up Next list with the full screen artwork. The new store section doesn’t provide the context/details that the two iTunes movies and tv apps do. Overall it just feels like a step back in functionality and simplicity.

I can see how Apple wants the TV app to be a fully unified experience but the way they’re doing it now isn’t as elegant and intuitive as one would expect from Apple.

  • mau47@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Everytime they tweak it to put Apple TV+ content more in your face I use it less. I subscribe and quite enjoy a lot of the content on TV+ but I miss the old days where it integrated nicely and didn’t have the prominent promos everywhere. Now with the continued minimization of the continue watching I find myself using it even less and most of my interaction is via the carousel on the home screen and select stuff to continue from there.

  • Beneficial_Simple_4@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    For me it’s almost the only app I use. In fact I definitely use Netflix way less because it doesn’t work with the tv app. I add everything to my queue and I pretty much only go there and never to 3rd party apps directly

  • _PrincessOats@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve never really used it anyway, I know what apps the stuff I watch is in so I just go right to them.

    I agree, though, the TV app is becoming a mess, which is a bummer.

  • Great_Strain1414@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yes, the new tv app is crap. I like my content nicely organized, but apple wants the opposite. Everything is now completely disorganized. Even the store is a mess now, even TV shows and movies are no longer separated. The only function I really wanted is still missing. I can’t sort my purchased movies the way I want to. Some of the films are incorrectly named and film series are not sorted, films often have the wrong genre.

  • YourStupidInnit@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    My wife and I were talking about this just yesterday. It’s so shit. For a company that does amazing UI, this is a steaming dog turd.