Apple’s TV app is quickly improving, and just got more new updates

For a variety of reasons, Apple’s TV app doesn’t offer the most user-friendly experience. Fortunately, that started changing recently in iOS 18.4, and now Apple has rolled out additional TV app updates that make navigation simpler, more streamlined, and better organized than before. Apple TV app’s aggregator role can create UI clutter Unlike most alternative streamers such as Netflix, Max, and Peacock, Apple TV+ doesn’t have its own dedicated app. It lives inside the Apple TV app, but so too does content from other streaming apps and Apple’s digital store for movies and TV shows (formerly known as iTunes). On one hand, this setup is an advantage for Apple’s TV app. It lets you enjoy a single, unified queue for content you’re watching across a variety of services. But the TV app’s role as content aggregator is also a weakness, because it can lead to a cluttered UI and confusing user experience. While Apple isn’t fundamentally changing its aggregator model at all, recently the comp ... Read full article.