Option to compact or expand a video section. Twitch got fat. With the new followed channel layout I can’t find the people I want to watch. Videos used to take up 1/5 of the screen, like in the recommended section. That was easy to view and easy to find the followed channels I want to watch. Now videos take up 1/2 the screen, like in the discover section. It feels clunky and I would rather unfollow than dig to find people. Easy fix, give an option change the the layout. If I want it to be compact and look like offline channels section, cool got it. If I want everything expanded to look like discover, awesome no problem. Twitch can still keep its metrics by having the most data encouraged setup as default, and I don’t have to deal with a layout I hate. Everybody wins.

A few months ago, I was suddenly able to start using low latency mode in the Twitch iOS app on my iPhone 8. It was awesome, and it made Twitch much more enjoyable to me because there was far less lag.

A few days ago, I deleted and reinstalled the app. For some reason, the low latency option was now missing. When I contacted Twitch support, it seems that low latency mode on iOS is currently an experimental feature, and it is randomly offered to a small percentage of people and can be taken away.

Because I am unable to view Twitch on desktop, finally being able to use low latency mode was very important to me and helped me feel more connected with my friends because I wasn’t lagging so far behind in streams. Without this option, it makes it much more difficult to communicate with streamers because my messages are so delayed. Everyone else in the chat who has access to low latency mode can see the stream sooner and can react more quickly.

Since this feature already exists and works very well, it should be available to everyone who uses the Twitch iOS app.

The mobile app really sucks at the moment if I’m being honest but I fell like the problems can be fixed. One thing is the chat and stream and how all that work. I don’t know if this is just me but the chat it about 10 seconds ahead of the stream for some reason. I always see chat answers questions the streamer asked like 10 seconds before they asked them and it makes chat pretty useless in mobile. Another thing that’s bad on mobile is the twitch predictions. I’m having a lot of fun betting on different things in channels I watch but on mobile you legit can’t bet high amounts. You can get to like 1k in a minute because on mobile you have to spam click add 10. Please just and the custom amounts on mobile too just like you have it on pc.

When watching vods or clips on the horizontal mobile player, tapping to bring up controls makes the follow, notification, and sub buttons pop up. WHY??

When you're watching live it's not a huge deal because you don't need to use the seek bar. But watching a vod or clip, it's insanely annoying having those buttons take up a third of the screen every time you want to go back a few seconds. If I'm watching a vod from a channel I've been subbed to for a year, why I would want the option to unsub and unfollow them popping up every time I want to go to a different part of the vod?

I don't think anyone would miss it if you made it so that group just never showed up in the horizontal viewer. It'd make watching vods a lot nicer. I would love it if this was changed.

Also, related to that, the areas you can tap to activate the skip back and skip forward buttons are really small. If I want to go back more than ten seconds, 70% of the time I will end up opening or closing chat. The fact that the channel info bar moves everything up a half inch doesn't help. The detection areas for those being bigger, or the chat being toggled with a horizontal swipe could be helpful.

I don't know if this is an oversight on Twitch's behalf, but you must realise that the text size on your apps is tiny. It's too small to be used comfortably by some users.

For many people either with bad eyesight or using their phones and tables to keep up with chat whilst streaming they have to put up with this tiny text that gets in the way of the enjoyment of streaming.

I, amongst others plead with you Twitch, please put larger font sizes in chat for those that need them. Be inclusive to those with less than perfect eyesight. It should be an easy inclusion for you and it would be a well welcomed feature within the community for those that this issue blights.

Please consider adding this feature to the mobile apps. You will make a lot of people happy and be more inclusive to a group of people that are struggling with your current font size.

Thank you for reading my suggestion, I look forwards to your hopefully positive response.

Simon