Watch together is a fun thing to have for enjoying things with friends who can’t be there. especially with a chat and whatnot. The feature built into the app now leaves a lot to be desired. If you are going to do it, I suspect like myself, most people run sync-lounge.
Why not just build it into the platform natively? provide the ability to make watch rooms or start a session that creates one and have it show as an option for people to join.
You could make a navigational section that can be pinned to the home screen for watch rooms or something like that. Would also make us not have to run a separate application to host sync-lounge now that its the only method to run that.
As noted in our previous announcement, our existing Watch Together functionality will not be included in our new experience apps on launch, which are currently in preview and will be released broadly in the future.
As such, we’re closing related feature suggestions in order to give back those votes, so that you can vote for something else.
We do not preclude the possibility of offering similar functionality again in the future, as we also noted in our announcement. Should that happen, then feature suggestions like this one and others would certainly be considered during that development.
A new suggestion related to adding Watch Together to our new experience apps has already been raised and you’re welcome to comment or vote on that suggestion.
