New update:
Here is my feedback in terms of bugs I am/have experienced in the past in regards to this new version:
- I am seeing a difference when it comes to selecting a TV show under “Continue Watching” and what item it automatically highlights for selection, though the results are very mixed. Sometimes when I freshly launch the app, it does as it should by selecting the next up episode. Sometimes it still does the thing where I have to press down on the remote to go to the seasons bar, down again for it to select the episode description, and then down again to select the episode. One time I have seen it briefly highlight the episode (for like maybe a single second) and then revert its selection up to the top again. Another time it auto highlighted the “Watch” button. But, once I go down to highlight the next up episode, it then seems to work properly for other shows from that point until I hard close the app. All in all, it does seem like some attention was paid to this issue, though to be honest I never tested it to this extent before, so maybe it always had this behavior.
- At one point I could swear that the app wasn’t properly hiding items from the browse page that are within collections that are supposed to hide their items. Maybe I mistook items that I think should have been hidden but I wasn’t correctly setting to do so (i.e. in other collections set to show their items). Regardless, that doesn’t seem to be an issue now.
- One issue I had today when checking for the hidden items is that when I was scrolling down the browse page using the letters on the side, I got stuck where I could only go up and down on that scroll bar, and selecting a letter did not adjust the page to show items starting with it, and I could also not move my selection to items within the page. All I could do was press back and it would take me to the libraries, or go up to the seasons bar. I haven’t been able to replicate this issue though since I first got it.
Again, I want to give the devs a thumbs up for continuing to communicate more frequently the progress being made on this. From my side, as someone who has a Samsung TV which does not do DV, and thus cannot attest to that side of things, once the continue watching issue has been fully and reliable fixed, I am not sure what is holding it back from being release ready. I didn’t mess with the new Roku app when it launched but from the actual issues people were reporting, this doesn’t seem to have any of those. I can’t see how this would cause as much of an uproar as when the Roku app launched, other than the inherent blowback it will receive regarding the UI, which I have to say, coming from Infuse, I’d take any day.
On tvOS 26.4, for what it is worth.
