TV App

For what it's worth, I've done a couple things to workaround:

1. I've opened the app and started a tv show and paused it. Then just let the app run in the background until I ready to watch without wifi / airplane mode. Worked fine while in airplane mode.

(Once, I opened the app only and when I did not have wifi / airplane mode it reverted to blank screen)

2. After the above happened, I was able to use my iPhone as a hotspot long enough to connect to iPad and open said ****** TV app! . Repeated step 1 and it worked fine after I put in airplane mode.

Agreed! Apple needs to fix it. In the mean time I'll be relying on DirecTV! Too bad for iTunes!

i have been struggling with this problem for a while and when i called apple support was told to try reinstalling iOS and if that didn't work it was probably a hardware problem (Haha, clearly not your Apple Rep.). So i resigned myself to doing what someone else suggested and having the TV app just open all the time -- but after one too many times caught with a hysterical child screaming his head off as i fumbled with the iPad trying to get a movie playing for him... i found your fix. My little one thanks you, I thank you and my previously shot nerves thank you.

Thank you for posting a fix. I was having trouble with this for awhile, then another update corrected the issue, and now the issue is back again. I stopped by the Apple store the other day and the blue shirt was dumbfounded and suggested I make an appointment. I'm glad I logged onto this forum tonight. I also wish Apple would get this issue fixed. I switched everything to Apple because it's supposed to be easier (which I need) and we shouldn't have to find a workaround. If it's downloaded to my iPad, then I should be able to access it anywhere and anytime I want to. I'm saving the fix instructions in case this happens again.

I had the same experience. I downloaded movies on my iPad for a long flight to Hawaii. I could not open TV app to watch my downloaded movies without buying the Internet connection. Please fix this bug

Sometime in the next 15 years, you will be unable to use any device you own, or access anything you already own unless you are connected to wifi.

It's not enough to buy something once. In the future, you will pay monthly to use the thing you paid for.

Not sure how your reply relates to the current state of Apple's TV App.

BTW Apple fixed this TV app issue when they released iOS 10.3.2.

So, kinda makes your snarky statement irrelevant at this point in time.

On another but related subject, I have a lot of DVDs I transferred to iTunes Movies with Handbrake and they are available on my G4 ATV along with my purchased content in the "Computers" home sharing. However, only iTunes purchased content and movies display in the TV app. Any way to include these in the TV App along with purchased movies?

Did you check the Home Videos section of the TV app, yes or no?

I have DVD movies I have converted using Handbrake and these found are in the Home Videos section of the TV App.

If these videos aren't there, check to see if those videos got stored in the iOS Photos app, instead.

If you go to the main TV App menu and select LIBRARY, the only categories displayed are TV SHOWS and MOVIES and they only display purchased content. There is no HOME VIDEOS as in iTunes.

The only way I can access the HOME VIDEOS and all MOVIES is by selecting COMPUTERS. Then, because I have HOME SHARING enabled in ITunes, my library is displayed - MY MUSIC, MOVIES purchased and imported), TV SHOWS, HOME VIDEOS and PHOTOS.

There is a Home Videos category in the iOS TV App.

I have videos in that category, right now, sitting on my iPad.

Do not know why your converted movies aren't going there.

Are these converted movies in iPad or .mp4 format?

I'll do a quick test myself to see what is going on

I just hung up the phone with Apple. Regarding the TV App/Library, the only thing that displays there is content purchased from the iTunes Store so I'm not sure how your seeing your videos added to the iTunes library there (which is separate from the Apple TV/TV App/library).

Then why are you posting in the iPad forums if this is NOT an iPad issue?

This post is about the iOS TV App on iPads/iPhones/iPod Touches.

I assumed you are using the TV App on an iDevices, like an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad!

I have no clue how the TV App works on an Apple TV.

I don't own an Apple TV.

In the TV App on an iDevice, converted movie/video content gets saved to the Home Videos section.

You have a completely different device and situation going!

Post your question in the Apple TV or iTunes forums!

Thank You.

so what do i do if these steps aren't working for me? the only issue i'm having with following the steps correctly is after i restart, my apple ID is already signed in... not sure if this is affecting the outcome or not. help, my kids need their movies, lol

FYI: This is a user forum, you aren't addressing Apple. This is also the Apple TV section

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