My ipad VIDEOS app doesn't show the movie Names with IOS 7

"I'm having difficulty locating The Amazing Spider-Man movie"

Using spotlight to search for specific titles would solve that problem. Such a silly thing for Apple to get wrong but everyone does make mistakes. The real test is how quickly they fix it and apologize.

Just chiming in to say I've found this to be a very frustrating problem as well. I have 20 American History lectures on my ipod; all of them now show with the exact same title screen, so the only way to distinguish between them is to open up the movie itself! Such a silly oversight. I can't be bothered to go in and change the movie type, so I'm just hoping there's a fix round the corner.

I have to give my 2 cents. This is a major hassle. This was supposed to be an upgrade with iOS 7? APPLE, ARE YOU LISTENING! I have hundreds of movies and load a dozen or so at a time on my iPad for airline flights etc. I need to see the names of these movies on my iPad. Why do the Home Videos get names, but Movies don't? Are we supposed to tap each movie to find out what it is? Like I have the time to attach artwork to hundreds of movies. Give me a break. FIX THIS!!!!

And while you are at it Apple - it's completely unnecessary to view movies as "icons" of the artwork. This puts fewer movies on a single screen and requires more screen swipes to go from screen to screen. You need to include an option to view videos as a "list" - maybe even a 2 collumn list for iPads. This way we could view 3 or 4 times as many movies titles on a single screen. But at a bare minimum - PLEASE put the movie name beneath the icon. PLEASE . . . . . .

I would like to know how you identify movies without the title. The artwork does not contain a title, it shows the first frame of the movie on my iPad. And again, why do Home Movies and Music Videos show titles, but not regular movies? I have over 1500 movies and none of them display titles on my iPhone or my iPad! This is becoming a pattern with Apple. Since Jobs passed away, they seem to be in a race with MicroSoft for mediocre performance, but at a much higher price.

Commando Cody,

I did as you suggested the first time but when I clicked on the movie there was nothing there, so I did them individualy. Time consuming, but it worked. Thanks for your thoughtfulness and suggestions.

Ciao, Chas

Agreed. I'm a video professional. Clients send me files to view all the time. The videos all start in black. So now I have a hundred black boxes with no file names to see what each file is. This is insane. The ios 7 graphics are terrible. I can't believe we have sunk this low. The original green type on a black CRT screen was easier to read than this.

And yes a list view should also be an option. Come on Apple! You really need to fix this quick.

I urge everyone having this problem to follow Commando Cody's instructions. I just got done converting 52 DVD rips that had no titles in the video section of my ipad, to 52 home videos (complete with titles AND date of installation) in less than five minutes. As long as I have thumbnails with titles, I don't care if they are in the video or home video section. Apple, you really blew it. There was no reason to change the previous video format. Thank you Forum.....I knew you come come through.

"Purchased" movies are indeed inside iTunes.

Look at the bottom of the screen. (Abeit they could've made it a little more obvious - like color, but none-the-less, it's there.)

(Don't take that wrong, it took me awhile to find, it too.

Bill

I wish they'd do the same for TV Shows! I've got many home recorded and side-loaded TV Shows in iTunes that I home share to my iPad for viewing and it's always driven me insane that you couldn't get the titles listed beneath the frames even though the meta-data is all there in iTunes.

Why I used to moan doesn't it display titles for Movies but not TV Shows? Why is there no list view available for anything? At least now Movies works the same as TV Shows always has! I couldn't believe it when I saw what they'd done to the Videos app in iOS 7, they actually made it worse! I wouldn't have believed that was possible.

Maybe now people will kick up enough of a stink to force Apple to finally fix this appallingly designed app. I just hope they fix it for Movies and TV Shows, not just one of them.

I'm using iOS7, smack-dab in the middle of the screen - inside/under the "Video" app, it's GOT TV shows.

Forgive me, I hope I'm not missing something here, forgive my ignorance if I am.

Just trying to help.

Ah, Brian. You and I are cut from the same cloth! And I assume we've fought the same marketing :vs: manufacturing battles as well! Luckily (unlike the products I worked on), relief is (or can be) just a download away!

This is not simply an issue of videos contained on the iPad. I have none. I have, however, about 300 movies from my DVD and DVR collection in iTunes on a Mac that I use as a media server here at home. Mostly, I play them through one of my AppleTVs (via Home Sharing), but, from time-to-time, I wish to view one on the iPad, and the lack of titles makes selection more difficult than it should be.