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Downloads Don’t Work
What is the deal with downloads? It took me three days to download a show because they kept getting stuck so I had to download each episode separately, and the downloads took a long time per episode (my internet speed is not the issue here). THEN when they were finally done and I tried watching the downloaded shows, it says I can’t because I have no Internet connection. Isn’t that the entire point of downloading a show/movie? On top of that when I do watch with a connection, it stops every five minutes and I either need to fast forward 10 seconds or exit out of the episode and restart.Show lessCpan0920
Typical Google Train Wreck
There are so many things wrong with this app
(and Google products in general) that it boggles the mind. There are too many bizarre malfunctions to cover in a review, but I’ll name a few of my favorites. (1)You can’t scrub forward or back without encountering an endless spinning wheel in the middle of the screen that remains in place until you exit and reload. This has persisted for years. (2) Movies now default to audio voiceover mode for the visually impaired, and there’s no apparent way to disable this feature in the settings. So you just want to watch a movie like everyone else, and there’s suddenly a weird voice talking over the action. There’s a potential workaround to disable it, but it involves some strange nonsense about selecting the second duplicate “English” setting on the menu before exiting and reloading. (Makes zero sense, and just trying to explain what’s happening sounds bananas and is exhausting). (3) You can’t go back to the beginning of the movie. You just can’t. It freezes. You try again, and it freezes again. Finally, randomly, it works. You get the point, and this is just the tip of the iceberg.Show lessTodd729
Awful app, product manager asleep at wheel, does development team even care?
Tried to use this on a flight without having to pay for internet. Downloaded two movies with seemingly no issues but once airborne tried to play them and it tried to connect to the internet? What's the point of downloading then? Had to spend $40 for in flight Wifi to try to get through my paid movies. And even then it hung up every five minutes for seemingly no reason. Had to force close and jump through hoops to try to get it to restart, not to mention having to spend the $40.
Is any testing done on this app?
Honestly I get why people pirate. It's a way better user experience.Show lessStephen L, NYC
Corrupt Agency Abuse
This showed great detail in how abuse was perpetrated dialysis elected President Trump, Michael Flynn, Kesh Patel and others. It shows how rogue agencies mislead the American people in an attempt to overthrow our government. It showed the clear ties to media outlets and how information was and still is skewed to portray a proposed narrative over facts and truth. For many people, this documentary will fracture their belief of our government. It’s extremely difficult to hear how evil others are when their public image says otherwise. I thank God and the brave patriots for bringing this into light. We need them both as this world wakes up and learns the whole truth that caused America to fall from the inside out.Show lessCr8zyCatLadyT
Lose downloads
I got this app to download tv series for areas that don’t have WiFi. I started using it and had a few issues with downloading but finally got a full season to download. About a week later it tells me I have to connect to internet to renew my subscription. So, I did. Then a few days later I have lost the entire season downloaded.
Last night I went to watch a season of another show and it had lost the entire season I had downloaded of it also.
It takes a lot of time to download 20+ episodes for each season and I don’t want to have to keep downloading the same ones over and over again. Very frustrating.Show lessmarks327
Just Got it...already over it!!!😡
I received a gift card for Google play and was excited to finally use it to purchase a movie! I am very disappointed however that I have been unable to watch the movie that I purchased. I have tried to watch it several ways, through the app, on my Apple TV, through my headphones, and not a single way works! On the screen sometimes I can hear the sound but I cannot see the picture and other times I see the picture with no sound. I can’t believe that I can’t even plug-in Bluetooth earphones because if you do it will not play. I have tried several times to play the movie but to no avail. I am really frustrated! I am very surprised at a product like this from Google. I sure hope that this app gets fixed. Google has such good products it doesn’t make sense to have a product like this if it is not good and brings down your brand. It’s sad to say but one negative can cancel out so many positives. That just seems the nature of the human condition. With that being said I like your other products...but not this one. Please fix it. I’d like to watch my movie and I am nervous to purchase any more movies with my gift card!Show lessmrsaol
User experience is awful
We have almost 300 movies, including sets we have purchased as a package. Google doesn’t organize these sets together, nor do they have a search feature in your library. It is alphabetical, but you can imagine how annoying that is when you must scroll through hundreds of movies to find one the one you want, especially when some are or organized by a “the” or “Disney’s ___”. You can’t save lists or favorite frequently watched movies to make them easily accessible.
If you stop a movie mid way, and resume it on another device or cast to a different tv, it doesn’t save your place.
There are no parent control features allowing you to separate or block adult content from kids, so if they have the app they can access anything purchased. Nothing about this is customizable. Why is this app so far behind all the other steaming services?!
After investing so much into a major platform I assumed would perform competitively, this is extremely disappointing. Do better, Google. This app is a joke.Show lessBreezymeeks
Google Play
I don’t know if they made a new update or what but this app isn’t that useful. All it has is the movies that you have rented or bought, you can’t select the movies or scroll to see them but instead you have to go onto the google play website and buy it there, but even when I did that it still wouldn’t show me any movies for me to rent/buy. I wouldn’t recommend this app, it’s not useful at all.Show lessLTLTAB
Latest update ruined it
When I updated the app recently, I got a notification when I opened it that the latest update deleted all my downloads. Fine, not a problem, I can download them again. Except now it will download to 99% and get stuck. When I check back hours later, it will eventually tell me I do not have permission to download the movies I purchased. This is incredibly frustrating.
Another suggestion I have come up with over the years is to add a way for movies to be hidden from My Library. I understand not wanting to let people delete movies so it doesn’t happen by accident, but when digital movies first became a thing, you got free movies all the time. Some of them are terrible, were unwanted in the first place, and don’t need to be in my library.Show lessAwkwardMoose1
Garbage app
It’s Father’s Day. All I wanted to do was eat a steak, have a glass of scotch, and watch Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Steak. Check. Scotch. Check. Now I have a one year old which means seeing a movie in the theater is not an option. Upon looking this movie up, I found it to be available only on this app. Alright, I’ll give it a shot and pay the required $15 for the movie. First hour was fine. Streaming clearly. Then, glitch after glitch after glitch. I discovered, if I stopped the movie then restarted, it would fix itself. But towards the end of the movie, I had to stop and restart about every 5 minutes. This app is absolute garbage. I’ll be deleting this from my device immediately and never using again. Good thing my steak and scotch were good otherwise this app may have ruined Father’s Day.Show lessEddie Eddie 1234
