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iOS 10.2 TV app offline issues

So sync'd 12 movies and 50 TV shows for a flight. Get onboard and the Movies all work in offline mode fine - though the offline mode is clunky - seems to wait to check for a connection even though wifi is off and airplane mode is on


TV shows showed the titles (this was in downloaded upper left category) - going one level deeper to specific episodes in each title resulted in a busy indicator on the TV app and then a blank list. Had this happen for ALL TV shows - again movies were fine.


Connected to inflight WiFi and viola - list is updated. Go back offline and then it all works as it should.


HIGHLY suggest checking to see if your content works offline before leaving your itunes sync location if not using cloud download for content.


How did this pass QA? I know the TV app replaces Videos but for offline use it's a buggy mess - would prefer an option to go back to the Videos app. Now rolling this out to 5 year old on her iPad is going to be painful - keeping her device on an older iOS build till this is fixed.

iPad Mini, iOS 10.2, iPad Mini 2 actually w/cellular

Posted on Dec 15, 2016 7:56 PM

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Posted on Dec 31, 2016 5:48 PM

I Can't even open TV app after a few hours since logging on to a wifi network. This is not going to be helpful on a 12 hour flight to China next month! Please either fix this problem with TV app or let us go back to the 10.1 Videos app!

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iOS 10.2 TV app offline issues

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