TV Show Art / Thumbnails Missing On IOS 8

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The majority of time Apple does things their way, not the way of others. I'm pretty sure the only way they'll change it back is if millions of people complain. Case in point the Camera Roll in IOS 8 is back. I don't think there's millions of people out there that care about artwork. I what the artwork to show.

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I also have the same issue with No TV Art on my Mom's iPad 4. The same files display great on my AppleTV.

just updated my iPhone 4S to iOS 8.1 from 7.1.1.. album art/thumbnails are now missing from my Playlist folders in the Music app/iPod :-(

This is garbage from Apple. How many things has iOS8 broken??? I've lost count. I ripped a fair few TV shows too which are in my library and whislt I don't sync them to my devices I use home sharing in videos app quite a bit. Films show the thumbnails fine but the TV shows are hit and miss whether they show them. Whilst on iOS7 this was fine and on my apple TV they display fine. Really despise Apple's rushed and poorly QA tested iOS8 - problems all over the place.

Came across an article on Macworld showing how to get the old style Get info in Itunes 12. I don't have an iPad to test and see it this makes a difference.

"If you’d like to continue doing this the old fashioned way, you can. Hold down Control-Option and then click on the video. From the contextual menu that appears choose Get Info. The old-style Info window will appear, where you can edit tags as you did previously."

I have tried this. The control-option does bring up the old style get info window. Unfortunately it doesn't solve the issue. Since it's very clear that Apple decided for some unknown reason, to change what the iOS devices will display for TV Show artwork. Unless Apple decide to change this in a future iOS update, I don't think there is anything that we users, can do to resolve this.

Changing the artwork to square dimensions (250x250, 1500x1500, exact size does not matter) fixes the issue. A bit of a pain.

My experience is that square artwork means that the artwork shows in the series "cover" but not against each individual episode which instead has a landscape grey box.

Nope. doesn't fix it.

It only shows up as the category artwork within the TV series. But not in the TV Shows listing (square gray box) nor on individual shows (rectangular gray boxes).

iPad Air 2 with iOS 8.1

iMac (2009) with Yosemite

October 28, 2014 and still no update.

iPhone 5s

iPad 4th gen

iOS 8.1

Yosemite and the latest iTunes 12

My Apple TV displays TV shows just fine but iPhone and iPad both do not.

It's like Apple doesn't even care anymore.

I have had some success for those who are interested. I'm confident this is not a fix and it is certainly fiddly!

I have my TV show artwork back on my iPad (8.0.1) and same on my iPhone 5S. It is only the cover art at this stage and the episode art (landscape rectangular) is still greyed out.

This is what I did:

1) Firstly, I wanted to change my TV show artworks from portrait to square artworks because I wanted my library to be uniformed for my mac and Apple TV, not so much expecting the art to show on the iPad. Having recorded all the kids shows on free to air TV I originally used MetaZ to tag all the shows with the information. They were processed in iTunes via an external drive.

2) Next, I upgraded to a new Macbook running Yosemite. And then spent a week re-created my millions of artworks (slight exaggeration) to square artworks 800x800 pixels

3) I deleted my TV Show library and re-processed the shows into iTunes via the external drive. Instead of using MetaZ again I decided to use iTunes to change all the artworks (which worked quicker than I expected). I'm wondering whether using iTunes and not another program made a difference to this working or not.

4) I did a new sync (having a new MacBoo,k the first iPad sync took a while and i had to set up a few things again), but i was amazed to see the TV Show cover art appearing.

Again, it is still missing the landscape episode artworks and I can cope with this for a while. Wondering whether adding an additional landscape artwork in the 'get info' - 'artwork' section would help sort this out? If anyone knows then let us know too.

And I am still missing artworks from my Home Videos that do not have landscape artwork (such a pain to have to re-do all these too if that's the case!)

I hope this helps someone else! And I'm sorry that the process takes a long time.

Not read this whole thread but do have the same probs.

I have iFlicks 1, and I spoke with iFlicks and they say iFlicks 2 does solve this issue.

so I just downloaded and updated and all the pics disappeared.....my kids can't read so this is a BIG problem as they rely on the picture.

I can confirm that changing the picture size to 999w x 704h fixed the issue! We did a test on one movie picture which worked so now I just have to find the time to do all of them. Perhaps the update just included different display parameters.