Apple's TV App Currently Has Misleading Pricing for Movies [Updated]

[DeepIn2U]

The TV app available on the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV has an issue with inaccurate price listings for some titles, a MacRumors reader discovered this morning.

The "Movies" section of the TV app has a "Browse by Price" section that lists movies for $4.99, $6.99, $7.99, and $9.99, but many of the movies available in those sections are more expensive.

In the $4.99 section, for example, there are movies that include "10 Things I Hate About You," "Mean Girls," "Napoleon Dynamite," "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," "Crazy Stupid Love," "The Witch," and many more that are far more expensive than $4.99.

Most of the titles, in fact, are $14.99, with the exception of "10 Things I Hate About You," which is $17.99. There are fewer errors in the $6.99 and up sections, but there are still some issues. "Now You See Me," for example, is listed in the $12.99 section, but is priced at $4.99.

Apple also has pricing errors in other parts of the TV app. In the section "Family Movie Night" that's advertising movies under $10 for a limited time, "Mulan" is listed, but when you click on it, it's priced at $19.99. The same is true of "Onward," "The New Mutants," and several other movies that are shown in the section.

Clicking on the "Family Movie Night" section sometimes displays a different set of movies than are shown on the main page and sometimes it displays the movies with inaccurate pricing, so it's not quite clear what's going on with the TV app, but Apple definitely has some serious errors to address.

These errors are persistent across the TV app on multiple platforms, including Mac, iPhone, and Apple TV.

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ROFLMAO the iron of the next newest article than this IS Eddy Cue advising Tom Brady’s NXT! This is classic not doing your job before taking on other responsibilities

 

[SidricTheViking]

To make matters stranger, Now You See Me is in both the $4.99 and $12.99 section, and has the correct price in both sections depending on which one you choose.


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More interesting is the fact that the 4K version is the cheaper of the two!

 

[V.K.]

This happens sometimes when they change which movies are on sale. Usually the issue fixes itself in 1-2 hours once they update all the pricing. Not really a big deal.

 

[josebus]

Incredibly misleading. Mean Girls is a $0.99 to $1.99 movie at best.

 

[MBAir2010]

Whew!
i thought apple was charging $4.99 to view the movie link and info.
i am relieved and will now plug in the apple tv!

 

[deputy_doofy]

I remember when they accidentally put the whole Harry Potter franchise on sale for $9.99, but it was supposed to be $59.99.

That was a much better "mistake"

I successfully purchased that mistake!

 

[javanate]

Never understood why anyone would pay to watch movies on Apple TV. I always compare their rates with Amazon Prime and in most cases Amazon is cheaper for the same movie.

I didn't used to either, but now I have almost 100 movies lol. They are all my favorites I watch all the time, and I almost exclusively hunt the 4.99 sales. I really dont want anything to do with Amazon, I don't have Prime, and I don't use any Amazon devices. I have lots of Apple devices, icloud, Apple TV, etc., so the question is why would I want anything on Amazon?

 

[trip1ex]

i don't see browse by price. they musta taken it down?

 

[rorydaredking]

I was about to say one is 4K and one HD, then realised the 4K is cheaper!

 

[SirAnthonyHopkins]

Is this how expensive movies are on the US store? In the UK you don’t get much that’s more than £7.99.

 

[Bornee35]

That’s not how those sections work.

says you. The workflow is watch now > movies > movies for 4.99. There is nothing suggesting that it has to be the buy price.

 

[OldeTechGuy]

It’s not an error, it’s a feature . . .

 

[KrispE00]

I remember when they accidentally put the whole Harry Potter franchise on sale for $9.99, but it was supposed to be $59.99.

That was a much better "mistake"

I successfully purchased that mistake!

I also purchased that mistake. I was awake at 3AM browsing iTunes, saw it and bought it. When I woke up, the prices were fixed. Not bad for $1.25 per movie, now upgraded to 4K.

 

[Bornee35]

To make matters stranger, Now You See Me is in both the $4.99 and $12.99 section, and has the correct price in both sections depending on which one you choose.


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The bigger question is the runtime. For an extra 7 dollars your get a whopping 9 extra minutes.

 

[lederermc]

The Amazon website is even worst. It called up-selling.

 

[themikedshaffer]

I think the bigger issues is: IMO the Apple TV app is 💩 when trying to find stuff. I just dug through mine, and I don’t have the carousel that has the different price groups to pick on. I do have some carousels that show different price tiers and movies in those tiers. IMO when Apple broke iTunes up, the shopping experience became way worse - hence the reason when I go to search and buy something I still use the iTunes Store. I am a big anime fan: Apple TV app has an Animation section under the TV section, but it only list the “top animation”, while in iTunes Store I can go into the TV section > genre Animation > Anime.

I like Apple products, but I swear their shopping software/apps get worse and worse with every change. Just give us better filters so we can see what we want to see.

Couldn't agree more. iOS Apple TV app is actually one of the worst apps on my phone, iPad isn't much better. For reasons, I purchased the entire US series of the Office. There are no season breaks, just one giant list of 200 episodes. The cache/scrolling is terrible, and the layout of the episodes in the list view is so bad that you have no idea what episode you're scrolling past. Use the thumbnail you say? It's been a couple of years and I've never seen a thumbnail in this thing. Almost always have to look on IMDB for the episode we're wanting to watch, and scroll to it. Shouldn't it keep track of your last viewed episode, like virtually every other similar app? You'd think so.... My "reason" is that the location where I watch these with my father has no cell or wifi coverage. It's a piece of junk really...

 

[contacos]

Crazy how much these ancient movies still are when you could probably get those in the BluRay trash bin for like 2 bucks

 

[Michael Scrip]

Crazy how much these ancient movies still are when you could probably get those in the BluRay trash bin for like 2 bucks

I still see DVD bins at Walmart... I'm amazed they're still around.

I don't even watch 480p videos on Youtube. So there's no way in hell I'd watch a DVD, or pay for a DVD today.

 

[alexhardaker]

They need to sort out the iTunes Store and the Apple TV app. As in, get rid of the iTunes Store app because they might as well have everything in the Apple TV app now.

Searching can be confusing. If you search for the same thing in both apps, they can present slightly different options sometimes. Like being able to buy all seasons of 1 show together in one and having to buy them separately in the other.

 

[aaronhead14]

Yeah, this happens all the time.

 

[SFjohn]

Nice to see Apple correcting this error ASAP.

 

[DigitalRGorilla]

Never understood why anyone would pay to watch movies on Apple TV. I always compare their rates with Amazon Prime and in most cases Amazon is cheaper for the same movie.

Higher Bitrate with Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision make all the difference.

 

[macsareveryinteresting]

I remember when they accidentally put the whole Harry Potter franchise on sale for $9.99, but it was supposed to be $59.99.

That was a much better "mistake"

Sweat. A $50.00 discount!!!!!!

 

[macsareveryinteresting]

None of those films are worth more than $1 ...

The prices charged are just insane.

Yep. And that's why I use Hulu or HBO Max.

 

[macsareveryinteresting]

From what I have seen on the Thumbnail image, the prices are outrageously expensive. I could go out to a movie theater and watch 3 movies probably for those insane prices.