Manchester United Official App 4+

First impression, I have to say they did a great job. Everything seems very smooth and I don’t feel like I have to go digging to find the things that I want. Player profiles are a great touch and I’m finding myself reading up on things I normally wouldn’t since it’s all right here.

The app is ‘clean’. First day using it and I’m enjoying it so far. If they could make a deal to show first team matches on it, it would be absolutely perfect!

Like the title says. MUTV doesn’t work properly on my iPad. It says my subscription is expired, except that it’s the exact same account I use on my phone. It works on my phone. And my Xbox. So either the phone and Xbox are glitched out and giving me access that I should not have, or the tablet version of the app has a bad connection. Given that my account works literally everywhere else, I’m leaning more to the tablet version of the app not working. I would prefer to watch the preseason matches on my iPad rather than my phone, but it seems to be my only option at the moment. I was hoping that there was a compatibility issue with the iOS build and the app build except it’s been like this since at least last season, basically since MUTV was merged into the main app. While I appreciate the streamlined nature of it, I would really enjoy being able to actually view the content I’m paying for in all the places where it is advertised.

Overall, I’d rate the content at 4 stars, but the app itself at 1 star. Weird issues and bugs persist across multiple versions, including not respecting orientation of the device after a video ends (e.g. the whole UI flips to portrait even if your device is in landscape). This is frustrating, since 90% of the time I use my iPad in landscape orientation.

Most annoyingly of all, there’s a timeline of recent posts, which automatically scrolls to the next post after a certain period of time (similar to Instagram Stories). It’s supposed to stop auto-scrolling if you interact with the post, but there’s a bug which makes it immediately advance to the next post when a video starts. So in order to watch the video, you end up having to go back and race the app to try and expand the video to full screen in the fraction of a second before it scrolls to the next post! Please fix it!