I'm not asking for a complete rollback to the old app because there are a lot of things about the new updated app that I like. However, theswipe to change to another stream is completely unnecessary and often just makes the viewing experience incredibly frustrating when trying to watch anything on mobile. Also, the old landscape chat on tablets was basically perfect since it didn't cover the stream but now that it does I barely ever have chat open anymore when watching on my iPad.

TLDR: Remove swipe to change streams or at least make it optional, and fix tablet landscape mode's chat ui.

So, swiping to switch to the next or previous video is just awful and was honestly a completely idiotic idea. I'm constantly accidentally switching to other stuff now and it's INTENSELY annoying.

Also intensely annoying is the fact that, when multitasking on the iPad Pro, which I frequently do while watching streams and VODs, if I bring up the keyboard, the section where chat will eventually be slides up and covers the stream until I hide the keyboard again.

Speaking of the chat covering the stream, in the newest release it just covers a quarter of the screen and there's nothing you can do about it except completely hide the chat? You can either miss what's going on in a live stream or miss what's going on in chat? I watch people who spend HUGE amounts of time interacting with their chats, so this is seriously just awful.

Sure, it looks great, but did y'all really think about the changes in the functionality you were implementing? The functionality has just dropped through the floor and I almost watch to see if there are any third party twitch apps if these things aren't fixed.

As someone who watches Twitch primarily via an iPad pro, I wanted to give my two cents worth of constructive feedback about this new update.

I should start by saying that I like the direction it has taken, and many of my pet peeves from the previous version were fixed. Many many thanks to the devs for the hard work that has been poured into the app.

There are still, however, things that I think could use improving for better user experience.

• Landing page: I understand the choice to make "Live" the first page users land on, but this means additional navigation steps are required for general browsing. Before, popular streams and subscriptions/follows were grouped in the same home page. While one could argue this may cause clutter, it did have the advantage of having all useful browsing information in one place.

If these things are going to stay in separate categories (I can understand that choice), I would certainly either allow users to choose what landing page they want, or make popular streams more immediately accessible (currently users have to tap browse, and then once again switch to popular).

• Stream player: as it stands, video is dimmed and overlay is displayed when starting a stream. I like the idea of having the least amount obstacles when starting to watch a broadcast. If I tap a stream, it's because my main priority is to watch content. It should therefore be the one thing that is immediate, without requiring further steps (such as tapping the middle of screen to get rid of the overlay and dimming effect).

If some of the overlay's information is valued important on stream launch, my suggestion would be to only show main stream info and disable screen dimming. The full overlay and dimming would still be activated when tapping the display.

On the same note, an option to have a default quality (or any other default quality for that matter) would be great. I have 150 meg fibre, and have to deal with "auto" jumping around until it lands on "High" or "Source" slowly and unreliably. I find myself having to almost always tap settings to force Source quality when I jump into a stream. More unnecessary steps that get in the way of immediate content viewing.

• Finally, while we patiently wait for the return of landscape chat on tablets, I do have one request in advance of its re-implementation - allow users to choose for streams to be opened without chat. As someone who barely uses chat, the previous version of the app again added the additional step of chat dismissal on stream launch. Chat is a vital component of Twitch, but not everyone uses it. A little customisation here would be great.

That's about it for now. Hopefully this helps in some way. Thanks for reading!
-- Alex.

Several areas could be benefit from having a Refresh button, but there are none to be found in the Android app. Currently refreshing even the simplest page usually requires a tedious amount of loading different pages and returning to the original page / stream (or force closing the app and killing the process). The two mentioned below are the most pressing.

• The "following" page will contain multiple offline stream and often will not be refreshed to see new streams. A "force refresh" button / menu item could solve this.




• The actual stream page will not refresh when a stream goes offline and returns online, either due to network issues or changing streams (e.g. going offline to change games). A "force refresh" button / menu item could solve this.

It seems that live streaming is limited to a maximum resolution of 432p. This is much less than competitors which allow streaming at 720p or 1080p. Also, the lack of URL overlay support for cheer/tip notifications, similar to those provided by other apps like IRLTV and Teradek Live Air Solo, prevent this from being a viable alternative for serious IRL streamers.

These features would help make live streaming more popular using the Twitch app and help enable a one-device solution:

• Manual selection of stream resolution (480p, 720p, 1080p)


• Either URL Overlay support or another notification avenue to notify the streamer of new cheers/tips/subscribers/follows


• Ability to change title/game in stream


• Ability to mod chat while streaming


• MPTCP support (iOS 11) to allow bonding of cellular and WiFi signals for increased stream throughput