Embrace the linearityįinally, another feature Apple should embrace if it’s going to welcome the refugees from the world of cable to its shiny new streaming future: old-school linear channels. Apple needs to set a tvOS standard gesture to view the video playing in the previous app. The LAST button on a cable remote control has been there for years. Not very direct nor very friendly to new users who are just getting into streaming. The most direct way to do it right now is to double-tap on the TV button to bring up the tvOS multitasking view, then swipe to the other app, then click. MultiView is only for content in the Fubo TV app.įor the Apple TV, Apple needs to figure out an equivalent of the LAST button on TV remotes. If I want to watch two games on the Fubo TV app and another game that’s only on the ESPN+ app… I can’t. I’ll also point out that if you’ve got a 4K TV, each of the frames in a four-up MultiView is the equivalent of a full 1080 HD television set. Or a baseball game and a basketball game. YouTube TV is working on a similar feature.įour college football games on at once can be sports-fan nirvana. Fubo TV was initially a sports-oriented service, and it shows: its MultiView feature is excellent, allowing me to watch two, three, or four games at once, along with optional game stats and a live scoreboard. Last year I cut the cord and started watching TV via an over-the-top cable service, Fubo TV. Major League Baseball’s tvOS app used to have its own multi-game viewer interface that was excellent a couple of years ago, it adopted Apple’s picture-in-picture instead, and it was a huge step back. TvOS offers a picture-in-picture feature, but I’ve found that it works only with some apps, only occasionally, and largely only within those apps themselves.
TvOS needs better multi-view features if Apple TV+ is to become a premiere streaming service.
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