Live TV on the New Apple TV version 2.0

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Hi, I have feed back/suggestions but I’m not entirely sure how to go about posting comments or where to exactly. Think of me as a long time listener and a first time caller.

The new UI for Apple TV is great and a much desired improvement over the previous layout.

That said I do have some suggestions for Live TV.

Suggestions:

  • while watching live TV and you swipe down to access “also airing” could you have it go to the TV grid instead of the nasty thumb nails for current episodes. Or at the very least have the option to choose the grid. This would be much like the Roku function while watching live TV and you arrow up it brings the TV Guide (grid) up and places the live show on the top right corner so you can still hear the show and see it while surfing the grid.
  • the “also airing” thumb nail is very slow to scan for programming vs the grid guide
  • I suggest having the grid remember where you left off when you go in and out of it within a reasonable amount of time - this would work well while you are watching a current show and swipe down to access the grid guide, choose another program, and swipe down again and the grid starts at the channel you are currently on. Again, Roku has this function and it’s is far better than that of Apple TV’s UI.

I absolutely love the new UI as is but the Live TV could use some fine tuning.

If the purpose of UNO is to give a unified experience across multiple clients, then this is a must as the Roku UI is great to navigate and the Apple interface is close to being unified with it.

Keep up the amazing work!!

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Completely agree with this!!

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One other thing I’ve noticed is that when scrolling down the list of shows the selection can often get off track of whats currently on. I’ve made sure I’m not scrolling. I think it happens due to the different lengths of shows. Anyway, I feel like it should always stay on the currently airing show unless you scroll horizontally. This really compounds with the fact that the guide doesn’t remember you location. So you might scroll to a show at the bottom of the guide, click on it, realize you accidentally got off track and clicked on a future show, then you have to back up and start at the top of the guide.

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