A nice app with some major pitfalls

All in all, it’s pretty good, but has enough annoyances I’ve considered switching services.

First of all: they advertise its $35, which it is unless you sign up through the iTunes / AppStore, then it’s $40. I guess they tack on the processing fee... so save yourself $5 a month and sign up in a web browser. There’s no difference in service.

I really like the overall interface and interactivity, but some of the UI could use more guidance / direction.

Not having an AppleTV app is a huge pain point - yes you can stream from your phone, but I have found the overall experience troublesome and ultimately taking away from the rating of this app. While YouTube states you can do other things on your phone and it will continue to stream in the background, it’s easy to accidentally open an app that disrupts streaming. But my biggest pain point is below:

I consistently had issues when watching a recorded or on-demand program that would go to commercials:

1.) between switching from the show to a commercial, and in between commercials, it goes back to the main AppleTV screen for just a moment... not a problem per se, but annoying.

2.) my biggest complaint: Often times, after going to commercials, if your phone is locked or not in the YouTube TV app, it will play some commercials, then appear to hang or stop. You have to switch back to the YouTube TV app, press play, and it will “reset” and play all the commercials again even the ones you just watched, (and you still have to watch your phone closely that it doesn’t turn off again or you have to start the process all over). This can be a problem when using my iPhone X which has a short auto lock unless I’m looking at the screen, which I’m not doing while trying to watch the tv. I think I saw the same ad 5 times in one commercial segment because I wasn’t preventing this from happening well... screaming 2.5 year old and 5 month old baby and whatnot.

All in all, it’s a good start, but lacks some of the polishing that could make this absolutely fantastic.

joshuadbooth about YouTube TV, v2.00.7