The TV app on macOS Ventura still feels like Apple delegated it to a summer intern. [a list]

[SW3029]

I wish Apple gave as much attention to films as they do to music. The TV app on macOS is still a bare-bone experience after, what, like 4 years now? I've bought hundreds of movies through the iTunes store, but interacting with them on the TV app on a Mac is a frustrating let-down of an experience.

• Movie thumbnails are always broken.
• You can't do basic things like right-clicking on a movie in your library to add it to your 'watch next' list.
• You can't right-click on a movie in your library to be taken to its store listing, which is (bafflingly) where you have to add it to your 'watch next' list.
• Its Genres categories are a joke. I have over 40 "classic" movies, yet only two show up in the Classics genre in the app. Other categories aren't any better.
• You can't search your library by actor. (Well, you can, but the search usually excludes about 80% of the films in your Library that they are in).
• The Library page for each movie looks like a barebones website from 1994 that was created in a text editor.

All around, the TV app – and film experience on a Mac, in general – remains a joke.

 

[GuilleA]

All of the ported SwiftUI apps suck. Home, TV, Weather, Voice Memos, Stocks, Clock. They're just awkward and look like garbage, absolutely unoptimized of the desktop. And they keep adding more, I swear I can't understand why is Apple doing this.

 

[galad]

This has got nothing to do with SwiftUI, neither TV, Clock, Voice Memos, and Stocks uses SwiftUI.
It's just that the main focus is mobile and there is no one around that cares about macOS UI consistency.

 

[StevenRCE0]

As much as the attention they gave to Music? This is what you get then 😂