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.
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.
I use it more now because prime released some months ago its integration where I live.
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.
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.
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
Only ever use it for ATV+
Up Next (in the TV) app is still my main hub for streaming.
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.