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YouTube's Apple TV App is Crashing and Causing Issues For Users After Latest Update
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My Google Maps updated while I was on a roadtrip, and it made the app unresponsive in CarPlay. I need to submit this issue. Felt like a GD pioneer blindly driving across Chicago.
Yeah been getting a black screen ever since the update.
Has anyone else had the issue with the keyboard on YouTube app when you first type something in search it shows you but for some reason I can’t go straight up to search again using the keyboard
I have to come out again to go back to search.
Has anyone else had the issue with the keyboard on YouTube app when you first type something in search it shows you but for some reason I can’t go straight up to search again using the keyboard
I have to come out again to go back to search.
I really dislike the YouTube app on Apple TV. There's loads of great stuff I want to watch on there but it drives me bananas.
The worst offender for me is if you switch the TV off while playing YouTube, when you switch it back on it'll just start playing whatever was on when you turned it off. No other app behaves like this and it really grinds my gears.
The worst offender for me is if you switch the TV off while playing YouTube, when you switch it back on it'll just start playing whatever was on when you turned it off. No other app behaves like this and it really grinds my gears.
YouTube and YouTube tv have been buggy as of late on the Apple TV. For example, YouTube tv has a bug where if the last running app is YouTube tv prior to the apple tv going sleep, when the Apple TV is woken, the YouTube tv app crashes and displays a black screen. The only way to recover is to either force close the app or go to the Home Screen and reenter the app again.
I just ditched my Roku Ultra for Apple TV! LOL! I like Roku, but it was a buggy experience and some things just never worked right.
This is absolutely classic Google. Management decides they need more engagement. Programmers ordered to make it harder to exit the app. There are no testers, "feature" ships as is. People complain, Google "support" has no clue what is going on and gives the same boilerplate non-answers as always.
At no time is user experience considered.
At no time is user experience considered.
Is it just me or are there quite a few apps that have a plethora of minor annoying bugs, at least on the newest Apple TV?
The only thing where Roku has apple beat in my opinion is the ability to theme the Home Screen. I used to use Roku but once I got an Apple TV I never looked back.
I have YouTube on my 9th gen iPad. I found it odd that I get so many updates on there (haven't taken metrics, but I'd say at least once per month). The updates have some optimizations cited as the reasons, but typically a humorous blurb (e.g. something in the lines of "making the app more kickass"). I can only begin to imagine what folks are going through on the Apple TV side.
That's odd. I had the exact opposite experience. I felt like everything on Apple TV was buggy in one way or another. I've never had an issue with the Roku built into the TV.
That is aweful, but you can turn it off. And it’s one of many reasons why I don’t use Chrome. Whereas, if you want to use YouTube on Apple TV you don’t really have a choice.
That is indeed ********, but it’s not the only app that does it. Certainly I think All 4 does it when you’re watching live TV, and possibly BBC iPlayer as well.
I have been able to get out by holding the back button until the home screen appears. It has to be something with a recent update that added the "Are you sure you want to exit" that hung it up. The app does behave more like the smart tv app with that exit screen though.
For me, there’s only 2 players in this space: Apple and Roku. All the rest are bad experiences. I’m having bugs on my Apple TV, but the Roku was slightly worse in some ways. But both have bugs.
I’m getting the logout request on exit too. I’m perfectly happy to force quit Google aps so that doesn’t bother me too much but I’m also getting glitchy playback when (and immediately) after ads play. This wouldn’t bother me (I mean, ads) but it causes the video to miss bits of dialogue.
Yep. I've had some luck using the Siri button to get back to the search term bar. But it's very annoying.
YouTube's app on AppleTV is mediocre. There's a huge number of little (mostly little) problems with it, along with a whole bunch of poor design choices - the one that always bugs me is interacting with the progress bar on a video. Any other app, you can hit the left edge of the touch surface to go back 10 seconds. But with the YouTube app, that first press brings up the progress bar, along with obscuring the bottom quarter of the screen with the top half of the thumbnails of a bunch of other videos, pausing the video, then a second press moves the play point back ten seconds or so, and then... you have to press the middle of the touch surface to get it to switch from paused to playing again. Three button presses instead of one, and filling the screen with needless junk. And then, if you want the thumbnails to go away right away, instead of timing out, you have to hit Back. But if it decides right then to take the thumbnails down, poof, you've exited the video. It's a mess.
They've engineered a system where they train the user to hit "Back" a lot to back out of things or remove things from the screen, and about a third of the time it decides you're trying to get out of the app itself. I suspect this is where the new prompt is coming from - they're putting an "are you sure?" prompt on the screen to deal with their mess, rather than fixing the mess.
It feels like they half-adapted their code for SmartTVs to the AppleTV, and they've never tried anyone else's video streaming app for even ten minutes, to see if they could learn a few things.
It's particularly galling because the interface on the iPad is way better - double-tap anywhere on the left or right halves of the screen to go 10 seconds back or forward, and in full screen mode there, there are no thumbnails intruding, just the progress bar.
I've actually gone in and made a shortcut to remap "Quit Safari" to Cmd-Opt-Ctrl-Q, because I use Cmd-W a lot, and every once in a long while I'd miss and hit Cmd-Q and Safari would cheerfully quit everything, and it was a pain to reload it and move all the windows back to their proper spaces and such. I don't actually Chrome's "keep holding to exit" deal, in this one specific circumstance, but I rarely use Chrome.
Instructions unclear. There are things I want to watch on YouTube. I've tried yelling at the TV, but they fail to display. Please advise.