Category : Entertainment
This app is the worst app in the entire history of apps. It doesn't work. Period. It crashes every few seconds, doesn't load majority of the time. Freezes when it does decide to work. It doesn't matter if I use it on my phone or my xbox... it just doesn't work! Seriously, did yall lay off your IT department or what? If not you should definitely rethink some things!
First the app said that the episode i was just watching is unavailable. So I tried updating the app. Now it says I have no connection. But I do. My internet is working perfectly fine with anything else I watch, except tlc. I even tried to watch a different show on the tlc app but it does the exact dame thing. This has happened before a few years ago and it took about 3 or 4 months for it to fix! I guess I'm done watching tlc for a few months at least 😔
We continue to have issues with this App recently and now we're at a point where we have to watch an entire episode without any breaks because we get caught in this vicious loop of going to commercial, then the show for a few minutes until the next commercial, then back to the start of the previous commercial. We can't get beyond the first few minutes of any show. And the fast forward buttons don't work beyond 2x. We uninstalled, reinstalled, reset, etc. It never works.
App has very poor streaming capabilities. Regardless of what TLC commented, I had this app for years and I guarantee there were no ads! Now I watch way too many 2+ minute ads for a 45 minute show. Although, considering it freezes during every single ad, making me have to restart it and watch the ads again from the start, I think it would be better to just delete the app and forget about this channel all together.
It's a really bad app. Streaming through my Chromecast, plays some of the episode, then an ad, then crashes. I try to do it again and same thing happens. It is so frustrating
Worked fine and now all of a sudden no videos will play. I tried signing out and back in. Getting back in with my cable provider and even uninstalling and reinstalling the app and still cant watch any thing. Just says video unavailable.
Literally ever since they started making you watch ads the app has turned to trash. The ads are long. You start and stop a show and hit "continue watching" but it makes you start from the beginning and you can skip scenes like before. I'm so over this app honest to god.
I've had the app for a while. i can navigate and search with ease. I would advise to get the app. Now, besides that, If tlcgo can offer commercial free or limited commercials for some of the content....hmmm. just a thought..🤔
Horrible update. Before this nasty update I was able to cast shows to my TV no problem. Now they've added 2 minute ads every 15 minutes to the streaming feature. The streaming is also terrible, as the audio and video get off from each other every 30 seconds. Sick of having to stop and start every 30 seconds trying to get through an hour and a half long show. Turns it into 2 and a half hours. WITH ADS? Definitely not worth it at that point.
I've had a smart phone for over a decade and have never left a review for an app, that ends tonight. This is the most frustrating piece of garbage I've ever had the misfortune of using. Don't ever stop watching a show because you won't be able to skip back to where you left off! Follow that simple rule and you might think you're safe, but wait... There's more! The app itself will close out on you and disconnect from your TV thus putting you in the very predicament you were trying to avoid.
Edit February 6, 2022: I tried clearing the cache as suggested. It does not help. Every time I watch a show, the last 10 minutes gets cut off and the app will not load it again. It just auto plays an entirely different show. I changed my rating from 2 to 1 star because I hate this app the more I use it. The app used to work fine but the new update is terrible. It crashes mid episode constantly. And when I try to restart the episode, it will start playing an entirely other show. It's awful now.
Forced ads make this app a horrible experience. At times it doesn't remember where you left off, and it takes 10-15 minutes of watching ads to find your last place. Then, it seems like you only watch 3 minutes of the program, then another 3 minutes of ads, over and over again. I make a mental note of all the companies' ads that I watch, and vow to NEVER buy those products, ever! I know ads give TLC revenue, but it's making your viewers disgusted. Lately, ads have been freezing,can't get past.
There are more commercials than show. And the app randomly brings you back to previous parts of the episode. If you try to fast forward, you have to watch the commercials over again.
OK so I had been trying to get this stupid app to work and connect to my provider since Nov. I see it's a ton of others w same issue. I got a new phone and I did get to connect. We'll see how it goes I haven't watched yet. So I'm wondering if they aren't supporting older phones. Mine was s8+ before which isn't old old but...I don't know if these others also have older models. 🤔I'll boost the stars if it stays connected.
I don't like the new update. It flips the screen when I barely touch my phone. It freezes and starts the show over almost every time I've used it. Makes it frustrating to watch anything and I like so many of the tlc shows. So I'm starting to just watch them on my TV provider, spectrum app on demand until another update.
Used to be one if my favorite appa until the latest update. It lags horribly, sometimes a show will play with just a pink screen and audio, it randomly "locks" episodes but still shows that I'm linked to my TV provider so I have to unlink it and link it again. Usually I get so frustrated I just go watch whatever show on Discovery+. Should have left it alone
Worthless app. Watch commercials to start the episode we were halfway through just for it to almost start over nowhere near where we are, then we try to skip forward just for it to give us more ads then take us back where we were...
I understand the ads. What I don't understand is why when ad 6 of 6 gets stuck loading, I have to watch ALL 5 ads before it AGAIN when I refresh the app.. only for ad 6 to get stuck again. Literally unwatchable, I've watched about 10 straight minutes of ads trying to move past the 1 that fails to load. I give up on even trying to finish the show I'm watching
Well, I tried the app today, what a mess. I have officially taken the app off my phone. I dont know why TLC decided to update the app when it was just fine. I never had issues before the update. It played beautifully ad free. Talk about greed, I mean watching through xfinity they already play a bunch of ads, and now I have to watch ads through the app. I think everyone needs to complain and make them put it back the way it was before. Unbelievable. Everyone should delete it off their phones.
New update is terrible. Can't watch any of my favorite shows all of a sudden. It either says to restart the app (that doesn't work) or it says it's not in my package and to upgrade my service (can't log into my provider). Uninstalling, don't want it taking up space on my phone for absolutely nothing.
Content is great but the app itself doesn't work well for playing episodes. I chromecast from my phone and experience a lot of lagging on commercials, jumping ahead in the episode, etc. Half the time I have to uncast when the commercials are on just to make sure I get through them.
I like the set up of the channel app availiable on phne, ipad, tablet, compiuter and laptop which iam using now and the many topics and episodes that are convient to the viewers, just love it.
The app doesn't allow you to forward. If the app is closed you loose your place when casting to vizo TV and have to start from the beginning.
This app is annoying. It keeps freezing during the ads when casting. I have to stop casting and recast 3-4 times to watch one episode of a show.
Good until you stop the show in the middle & try to finish it later... it makes you restart the whole show & won't let you fast forward.
Does not work properly; crashes every other second, does not cast to television properly without inexplicably stopping every 5 minutes. Each time the app crashes and you have to re-open it, it goes automatically to 3 minute ads, even if you just watched them before it crashed so you end up watching 6 minutes of ads in a row only for it to break in another 5 minutes. Also it rarely returns to where you were so when you try to resume where you left off, it's another 3 minutes of ads.