With iOS 17.2, iPadOS 17.2, and tvOS 17.2, Apple eliminated the choice to buy TV exhibits and flicks from the iTunes Retailer apps, redirecting clients to the Apple TV app as a substitute. Sadly, Apple’s transfer to consolidate buying and viewing within the Apple TV app has finished away with wishlists, and clients who used the characteristic obtained no warning about their elimination.
On Reddit, Twitter, the MacRumors boards, and the Apple Help Neighborhood, clients are complaining in regards to the change. From the MacRumors boards:
Eradicating the want record is a extremely dangerous transfer by Apple. I had a bunch of flicks I used to be working my means via. That record is simply gone now. I will not be renting or shopping for something from Apple TV any extra. Dangerous transfer Apple.
Within the iTunes Retailer app on the iPhone and iPad, and the separate iTunes TV Reveals and iTunes Films apps on the Apple TV, there have been choices so as to add TV exhibits and flicks to a devoted wishlist when shopping, which shoppers used to save lots of the content material for later and look ahead to gross sales.
The wishlists didn’t switch over to the Apple TV app with these updates, so some clients who had compiled lengthy watch lists are unable to entry these curated lists or copy them over to a brand new location. Some customers are in a position to open up the iTunes Retailer app on iOS units and faucet on the hamburger button within the higher proper nook to see their wishlists, however this doesn’t look like working for everybody. Those that compiled lists on the Apple TV seem to don’t have any method to entry them. From Reddit:
I’ve seemed on iOS, and my wishlist has utterly disappeared. I have been constructing it for about 10 years, and it had a bit over 400 films on it. I want Apple would’ve thought this via extra earlier than simply springing such a drastic change on us.
In tvOS 17.2, iOS 17.2, and iPadOS 17.2, there’s a “+” button that can be utilized for saving content material for future watching, however this provides it to the Up Subsequent characteristic, which could be relatively extra cluttered than a conventional wishlist.
With tvOS 17.2, Apple disabled the separate iTunes Films and iTunes TV Reveals apps throughout the beta testing course of. The choice to buy TV exhibits and flicks from the iTunes Retailer app on the iPhone and the iPad was eliminated on the time iOS 17.2 and iPadOS 17.2 have been launched via a server facet replace.
It isn’t clear if Apple will reimplement wishlists ultimately given the variety of upset clients, nevertheless it appears unlikely. There have been related complaints when Apple eliminated App Retailer wishlists means again with iOS 11, however that characteristic didn’t return.
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