F1 TV 12+

Still quality issues

Update: March ‘23. Still no Picture in Picture. They only streaming app I use out of around 10 that doesn’t have it as a feature.

Still issues with quality of stream on iOS. Most recent FPs, quali, races will eventually kick in good quality, but forget it with a race from even a couple of years back. Terribly quality. Can’t even read the names on the on screen standings. Recent press conferences also poor quality. Running ultra fast fibre so no issue with Netflix, Apple, Disney etc. Where is Picture in Picture? Even standard free to air TV companies offer this.

Needs option to change quality

On desktop you have an option to change the quality to help with bandwidth, but that option isn't available on the iPad app. Despite very high download speeds and a good connection, the app frequently drops to terrible image quality and you can barely read the standings or lap times. Even pausing it to help it buffer for a while makes no difference. Sometimes closing the app and reopening it helps, but most of the time you're left with terrible image quality. Please add the option to change from auto quality to user selected. Secondly, the suggested videos could do with improvement. If I've just watched FP1 in France then the obvious next suggestion is FP2 in France, but instead you're suggested other FP1 sessions from older races. Finally, please add a 'back 10 seconds' and 'forward 10 seconds' option as that would be a big bonus for watchability.

Updated: the ten skip has been added but the quality issues are much worse. The quality drops to potato camera level to save bandwidth but I'm on a high speed connection and switching to any other device provides high quality images with no issues in buffering. It's now basically unwatchable on my iPad Pro.

Terrible Video Quality & other frustrations

The app works well enough. But 3 major things really bother me. 1. The video quality can not be changed. Watching a replay on an iPhone 13 pro, with fibre 300Mb+ internet it looks like complete garbage. Can’t read positions or even make out the position logos it’s so bad. Genuinely unwatchable, but cast it to a tv, and it’s fine. 2. If watching replays at this quality wasn’t bad enough, when you go to a previous race to select the replay, more often than not, plastered right at the top of the screen is the winner of that race. Info I’ve been so desperately trying to avoid all day 🤦🏻‍♂️ 3. This is a paid app… and these issues aren’t just sometimes, the quality is EVERY time, on every device. And the results being displayed is far more often that not. Happy to pay for a decent app, but not this.

Developer Response ,

Hi there, if you let our team know about the issues with your stream on general@en.formula1.com then they can take a closer look at this issue for you