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YouTube's Apple TV App is Crashing and Causing Issues For Users After Latest Update

dugbug said:
A lot of weird things got into the youtube updates recently.

For one if you do a youtube search and watch a video from the search list, you can never edit or get back to the search criteria bar... you have to go all the way out to the main youtube menu and re-select search.
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If you press back once (without leaving search results) and activate Siri, then cancel Siri, it lets you select text again.
 
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Probably not a popular opinion here, but I dropped my Apple TV a while ago and switched to a Roku TV, which has the Apple Apps and AirPlay. It’s fast and I’ve never had an issue with the YouTube app. Excellent remote as well.
 
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DougieS said:
Actually chrome doesn’t and has no feature for it at all.
Only if the webpage has some forms filled out will it ask.
I have to use a script on a page to stop accidentally closing Chrome.
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Yes by default Chrome treats ⌘-Q differently than everything else. Hit ⌘-Q and it will pop up a little window that asks you to hold ⌘-Q if you really want to quit. It is a setting you can toggle off if you would like Chrome to behave like every other application.

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Saw the same thing yesterday. Asked if I wanted to Exit the app when I clicked the go home button. Didn't think you were allowed to interrupt that process. Clicked Exit and screen went blank.

Also, can confirm weird behavior with search bar - can't go back and edit search any more. YouTube app for Apple TV has always been a bit buggy. Last summer when using Dictate to search in the search bar it would interrupt the dictation between each work and attempt to search. Seems like it's low on priority list for QA
 
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eliog said:
I could have sworn that one of the things your app "can't do" is stop you from exiting the app with a "Are you sure you want to exit?" prompt. Apple wouldn't approve your app if you did that.

Maybe the rules changed and/or I'm wrong, but I can't think of another app that stops me from exiting with a question like that.
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This is how their Roku app works, some Jr. Dev probably said “Oh, these are different, let me make them work the same!” and didn’t think about it.
 
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eliog said:
I could have sworn that one of the things your app "can't do" is stop you from exiting the app with a "Are you sure you want to exit?" prompt. Apple wouldn't approve your app if you did that.

Maybe the rules changed and/or I'm wrong, but I can't think of another app that stops me from exiting with a question like that.
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I thought the same. And thank God, if so. Windows/Android are FULL of user-hostile exit confirmation dialogs.

PS: Do they even work to increase engagement? I really question who these dialogs/click-shaming work on.
 
eliog said:
I could have sworn that one of the things your app "can't do" is stop you from exiting the app with a "Are you sure you want to exit?" prompt. Apple wouldn't approve your app if you did that.

Maybe the rules changed and/or I'm wrong, but I can't think of another app that stops me from exiting with a question like that.
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Pluto app does this as well
 
eliog said:
I could have sworn that one of the things your app "can't do" is stop you from exiting the app with a "Are you sure you want to exit?" prompt. Apple wouldn't approve your app if you did that.

Maybe the rules changed and/or I'm wrong, but I can't think of another app that stops me from exiting with a question like that.
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Yes, it bugged me for a month before I found a decent work around!

When you want to edit your search, instead of trying to swipe up to reach the search bar from the video.
Press the back button, the keyboard should appear and swipe down you should able to edit text again.

Please fix it, YouTube!
 
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I have it on my Apple TV. It came with the last update. I just noticed that there is an update today for all the iOS devices. I hope that there is one for the TV as well and it fixes this extremely annoying issue.
 
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Teletypewriter said:
No issues using Apple TV 4K (first generation, 2017) and YouTube Premium.
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I have the Apple TV from last year (not the newest, but the next newest), and YouTube premium, and it totally happens to me. So Premium having premium doesn't save you. I'm going to unsubscribe Premium today.
 
dugbug said:
A lot of weird things got into the youtube updates recently.

For one if you do a youtube search and watch a video from the search list, you can never edit or get back to the search criteria bar... you have to go all the way out to the main youtube menu and re-select search.
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You can actually get back, I've toyed with it a bit. Click back so that it highlights your recent searches, then click the siri button, then click the siri button again to close siri, then you're in the search menu. Youtube needs to stop playing around, they suck at this.
 
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My Apple TV often shows a black screen with espn and other apps. Not the worst issue with this box. My Apple TV 4K sucks in so many ways. My Roku is far more reliable.
 
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Yeah, I left feedback for YT to "F themselves and their mothers" for making their app behave this way. I've deleted it till I hear that it's not doing this any longer.
 
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