Yesterday, February 23, YouTube pushed an update to its app for Apple TV 4th and 5th-gen, upping the version to 1.01.04. It is addressed a few of the recent user concerns, and the improvements mainly focus on making channel selection easier alongside usual bug fixes and stability enhancements.
The original Apple TV YouTube app did not get much favor from the users, and the update from two weeks before had numerous user concerns. These included poor playback UI, laggy controls, improper channel list changes and more.
The newest Apple TV YouTube App updates modified the subscriptions tab that previously consisted of a long horizontal list of channels alphabetically arranged. It is presently the grid layout, just like in the original version of the app. The update also brings the app in line with other of its models found in Android TV, PS4, smart TVs, and Xbox One.
Another improvement regarding video scrubbing gets you a thumbnail preview of the video popping up for you to choose where to land in it. While this has become convenient, YouTube still hasn’t used the system-wide playback UI of Apple. Therefore, you aren’t getting any convenience for a quick 10-second jump forward or backward in your videos.
Last but not the least among significant improvements, the app fixed a glitch with the search keyboard for users with non-Siri TV remotes.
While these look fairer than before, certain issues are left unaddressed. These are such as the Material Design, confusing playback interface, unnecessarily space consuming side menu, no follow-up of tvOS development guidelines, inability to swipe between sections, jumpy controls and more.
Tell us your experience on the latest YouTube app update for Apple TV. What other changes do you think it needs to have?
Stay tuned for the next update on the same as it surfaces.
