tvOS 17.2 Apple TV App Wishlist

In the Apple TV app, click or swipe left to bring up the side menu. Then select Library

Yeah, right, make threatening statements about using something else if you don't get your way. That will get you precisely nowhere on these forums. If you did the same with your feedback it will likely go straight to the trashcan. What you should have done is state your case logically, reasonably, and with examples of why you want the feature returned.

No one here is an Apple employee, just volunteer users. We have no interest in what you do. If you think switching to Amazon Prime will be a better experience then go right ahead,

This is just another example of out of touch companies. Apple removed the App Store wishlist back in iOS 10 and STILL hasn’t done anything about it. Now they remove all our saved movie and TV shows we wanted to not forget about and buy in the future. 🤦🏻‍♂️

This is really frustrating because it reads as passively hostile toward customers. This couldn’t possibly have been a hard feature to preserve from an engineering perspective. It was the one place in all of technology where my own preferences for movie recommendations had stayed safe from subscription services that came and went, and now it’s gone. I’d been amassing recommended movies to rent or buy — and yes, I would actually pull from that list multiple times a year — since I was in college.

It was already frustrating that the Apple TV app had fragmented the tagging mechanism by having “Add to Watchlist” in iTunes, and “Add to Next Up” in the Apple TV app. And now both are gone? Huge bummer.

To those who don’t think apple monitors this community they must definitely do. I’d still leave feedback on the help site, but they definitely see these comments. They just don’t care.

I will never rent another movie from Apple if they don’t fix this. Amazon has basically the same library. Its probably time to buy a Roku as well.

Seriously, this is a dumpster fire.

also, there is almost no way they fix this. Those list are likely gone.

I am super ****** about the AppleTV app merg too, but for other reasons. TV series are all sorts of mixed up now if you own partials and complete series of the same show. If you own "bundles" that are no longer for sale on the store, they're also difficult to navigate and mixed in on 1 "season" tab. Its an absolute joke of an update, and since there's no way to roll back the OS on a ATV4k 5th gen, I'm stuck navigating this garbage.

If it helps, I would recommend downloading CheapCharts on your iPhone to track wish list items, its 100x better than Apple's built in "wish list" ever was.

We are not that important to Apple. We are just going along for the ride. This is just how Apple operates. My suggestion is this move helps Apple customers to curb their spending and use of Apple products and movies. If you don’t like what they’ve done, then stop purchasing Apple’s products: movies, music. Inform others to do the same, and keep moving. Apple just helped me to curb my spending on their movies. I can direct my spending elsewhere: DVDs or blue ray or the upcoming new format after blue ray and DVD are replaced. No company operates on less revenue. When Apple understands this, then maybe, just maybe they will consider the people who keep them in business. Long gone are the days Steve Jobs was in control, and did things to excite Job’s customer base. Apple is no longer controlled by Steve Jobs, and the individuals who control it now operate in a think tank quite opposite from the creator of the company. Lob your complaint, but find another outlook for your spending.

Doesn’t work, they don’t sync

It appears they’ve brought the Wish List back! My original list has repopulated!

the wish list on itunes is different than the wish list on the apple TV. I tried it on itunes and it has only one movie I must have added back in the day. Not the dozens of movies on my apple tv wishlist.

Thanks anyway.

I didn't have 200 movies like rayherring, but I had a list of movies I wanted to watch at some point, and that list is just gone. I do not understand why Apple is doing things like this. It's not an improvement. I won't be renting or buying anything through Apple TV until this is fixed.

I did submit several feedback items for various complaints about tvOS 17.2 and not carrying over the movies wish list. I also did a support chat, which was frustrating, but they did say they would pass on my feedback to the engineers. We'll see if that happens.

They want to merge everything into ONE program they say. Fine.

Now AppleTv is a MESS.

Everything is cramped together on one page :

I want to rent and watch movies, I dont want "advertising" about tv series

I want to rent and watch movies, I dont want "advertising" about AppleTv+

I want to rent and watch movies, I dont want "advertising" about other streaming services

Its a mess. The young restless people probably love this caos

I am older, I know what I want, and I do not do Impulse purchases.

I disagree with the comment's suggestion that it's somehow incumbent upon the users to rationalize for the company their disappointment with the removal of the feature, unannounced. Rather, it's intuitive to expect that the company would instead provide rationale to the USERS for the removal of the feature, and offer the users a path to retrieving the data listed within the feature.

As it stands, the feature is gone, its deletion was unannounced, and users have not been offered recourse to recover their data. I see no reason the users' collective disappointment should go into the trashcan -- that would seem only to reaffirm a refusal to admit the mistakes, which will only further deteriorate the users' confidence in the product.