Updated to the new layout on iOS and can immediately say I am not a fan. As others have stated elsewhere the removal of access to music and photos is a major step backwards. The new app is also extremely laggy when it never was before. For example scrolling through my library and the scroll is stuttering and the TV/Movie posters take much longer to load. Additionally, the new libraries tab layout is nonsensical. I do NOT need a “recommended” tab for my own library. It should be as simple as it was before where all I had to do was click my TV/Movie library and boom, there was my collection to scroll through at my own leisure. For TV in particular, the UI decision to scroll sideways between seasons/episodes rather than having it as a list also makes no sense and is a pain to deal with. For shows with numerous seasons, or seasons (like a sitcom) that has 20+ episodes, having to side scroll rather than vertically is the complete opposite of how people typically scroll on their phones and is cumbersome and annoying. With a vertical scroll you can have multiple columns (like it used to) which also reduced the overall scrolling need. With one horizontal row to scroll through it is now much more annoying to get to a particular episode if you want to. Finally, not having the ability to have the video rotate with the phone and lock to just the horizontal view is also a frustrating decision and a step backward in the previous functionality.
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