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Data hog and Too Little Content
Started at 4 stars but knocked a star off for lack of original content and the time new content is released. Knocked another star off for the totally ridiculous data consumption, both streaming and downloading, on both iPhone and iPad.
I like to download shows and movies in their respective apps so there’s no chance of buffering if I’m in a bad area or Verizon’s and AT&T have decided to throttle traffic in the area I’m in. Apple TV+ uses huge amounts of data, both streaming and downloading. The same movie I can download in Disney+ or Netflix at 500Mb is almost 3Gb with downloads set to fast and SD for the smallest size available. A single episode in a weekly shows comes in at over 1Gb compared to less than 200Mb in other apps.
This is a really ridiculous problem that Apple needs to address sooner than later but even after almost two years of complaints about nothing gets done. Apple doesn’t care about data caps or data hogging.
To top it all off, they have very little original content and when they do it’s few and far in between and shows only run for a short season. Apple does do some good shows and movies when it finally does but it comes at a much steeper cost than the Keep all this in mind before using Apple TV+.Show less4everACityBoy
What a mess
The app presents a chaotic mishmash jumble of viewing suggestions. It’s easier to go to the specific app for your subscription to watch a show.
Shopping for movies to buy on Mac OS is hilarious, because of a bug that suddenly causes most of the category you’re scrolling through online to suddenly and irretrievably disappear. BTW, I’m using an M1 laptop running Big Sur, so it’s not an outdated hardware (MacOrphan) problem.
Movies purchased and downloaded from Apple can’t be Airplayed from a Mac or IOS device to my AppleTV HD during an internet outage. Every time I’ve tried it, I get some error message that the show Apple sold me is in the wrong format and can’t be Airplayed. [Used to get an error message that no internet connection to Apple was available — well, duh.] Not a problem for other shows in my library not purchased with this app. Buying shows from the Apple Store for outage days is a waste of money because you can’t watch them on a nice big TV set.Show lessYrHmblSrvnt
The worst UI Apple has ever approved
I’ll start by saying at least this app works. It’s designed to play videos, and play videos it does! But the interface is just…the absolute worst thing I’ve ever seen? Yeah, I think that’s fair to say. When browsing, there’s no easy was to organize. You have to scroll through endless random collections of things and once you scroll alllllll the way to the bottom, you finally find the option to sort through genres. Then when it comes to watching shows you already actively watch, good luck finding them. The “up next” section is supposed to help with that, but it’s just an endless list riddled with everything you’ve started watching at some point making it hard to find things you want. We NEED the option to add shows and movies that we stream to our libraries. That way, any time I want to catch up on a show, it’s right there waiting for me alongside my old iTunes purchases. A library is the answer. Not a thousand random lists of recommendations. Please stop trying to reinvent the wheel here.Show lessmaxblack113
