PBS KIDS Video in IOS

★★★★★

★★★★★ Yay! But one question

I first want to start off saying how AWESOME the shows r. Even tho I am a bit too old to watch, as a kid I LOVE ur shows! I do wish that you would stop getting rid of good shows. Like, I used to watch this kid (I forgot how to spell his name) and you deleted him from PBS kids and replaced him with a boring show called Through the Woods. I really hated Through the Woods because it was so short! Another thing is that I agree that you should add PG-13 shows but make it in a separate spot so that little kids don’t come across a PG-13 show and start crying because on the show something a little kid shouldn’t watch happens. I have a lot of suggestions, because while I love your app and shows there r some issues. But I realize that would be wasting your time, so instead I won’t waste your time with those, instead I will go to your website and one day finish my list. To finish off, I LOVE your shows but please take these suggestions into consideration and please write me back. Thanks! And keep up the good work! 👍

★★★★★ Update Leaves a Lot to be Desired

This is one of the few streaming apps we have to use directly from our phones, since our Samsung TV’s App Store interface is so bad that we can’t even search to find if there is a version of this app available there. Therefore, we have to use AirPlay to stream the content to the TV. This update took an already-buggy AirPlay experience and made it so much worse. On opening the app, it starts autoplaying (not new but still frustrating: please add a setting to disable that!). You cannot pause the video without tapping the video preview which then goes to a full screen mode. If you exit that mode back to the app, it begins playing again! If you then navigate to a show and begin playing a video on AirPlay, you, again, are in a full-screen mode and exiting it (or navigating away from the app) pauses the video again and/or begins playing something else. Lastly, the AirPlay controls on the Lock Screen seem to have disappeared altogether. The new update is beautiful and the old app did need a refresh, but there are so many bugs to be addressed around playback. I know this was built to be “kid-oriented” but with no ability for parents to control the experience their kids see, the promise falls short. Please add settings to disable auto-play, filter which shows kids can watch, and fix the AirPlay experience!

★★★★★ Thank you for being FREE

Hello, I am a mom of a special needs teen I myself being an autistic adult with a special needs teen consistency really matters. When I had cable my daughter and I would watch the PBS kids 24/7 channel and our local PBS station alternating between the 2. I can no longer afford cable so I have an Apple TV device and we have the PBS kids video app. I’m so thankful that your app is FREE. Where as the competition channels are not free. You need a cable subscription which we do not have. But your station is FREE: I’m also so glad that you have brought back some of the older shows on the PBS kids video app such as Word World, Sci Girls, Mister Rogers Neighborhood and Maya and Miguel. My daughter LOVES word world we’ve struggled to find a place we can watch it and I can put it on for her my daughter is super excited for the new Daniel Tiger content coming out. I’m just all around so happy with your app. So thank you for being amazing and having an amazing app that we can enjoy for years to come.!

★★★★★ Great content, unstable app with quirky behavior

PBS Kids is dependable for having the best kids content—I never worry about what my kid is watching if I have him in here on Guided Access. It does, however, tend to crash/freeze a bunch (especially on older devices like an iPad Air 2, but also on our Apple TV HD) and for some reason often fails to stop the auto-playing stream when you choose something different to watch. This is worst on Apple TV, where you might try clicking to see the next Daniel Tiger episode from the TV app’s ‘up next’ selection, only to have the audio from an episode of Arthur (or whatever is next in the “Live TV” lineup) playing simultaneously with the Daniel Tiger episode — both at the same volume. I’ve learned to force quit the app then go directly to it to navigate to (in this example) Daniel Tiger, but the same thing can still happen even on iOS/iPadOS when choosing a video to watch while the “Live TV” selection is playing.

★★★★★ Reupload and also fixed, pbs kids why

I see on my tv that your brainwashing kids right now by this one specific month called pride month and it’s driving all of us kids and adults nuts, it’s not okey to make kids do wrong stuff that shouldn’t be done at all, and Rosie’s rules is so terrible I’m not being mean to all the people that help made this but it’s a caillou clone, except the short where Rosie helps her abuela, and even worse Lyla in the loop is really not so good and annoying, even more worse is that I checked the learning goal and there’s nothing at all, even more more worse I don’t care if I say this or not but Milo is a peppa pig clone and a cheap copy cat, just saying I’m not being mean again but it’s all terrible, like just do your own idea that would be good and would be popular as well, here’s some of my ideas the jumping spiders, driving on the road, the great world of great adventures, Harney the yellow dog petcel, also pbs kids why did you remove a lot of the shows, Thomas and friends, bob the builder, pingu, reading rainbow, between the lions, mister roggers neighborhood, and much more, except caillou, anyways keep up the okey work, I guess…

★★★★★ Disappointed in update

I’ve been a parent for 6 years and for most of those 6 years I can say that one of the things that has made my life easier is this app. And it has remained constant in a world full of unnecessary changes. But unfortunately PBS kids has decided they can’t leave well enough alone A few mornings ago when my daughter woke up in the 5 o clock hour I decided I needed a bit more sleep and I would let her watch her favorite PBS show on my phone. Groggy and with eyes half shut it should have been like autopilot but when I opened my app I figured I opened the wrong one. I opened it again and realized it had all changed. First- the orientation is different? Why? Landscape makes more sense because that is how shows are viewed. It is confusing to find anything. My kids used to be able to navigate the app and now it’s not even user friendly for me. When I select a show, one starts playing instantly. Very inconvenient as most kids like to pick their episode. Then when you pick your episode you have to make sure you screen orientation is unlocked so the show can be viewed in full screen. I’m all for change when it makes sense. In my house I always tell my kids we don’t say hate so I’ll just say I really really don’t like these changes. I’m begging you to go back to the original. I would be happy to change my review to 5 stars after that but this app just doesn’t make sense! You had something clear and streamlined and user-friendly. Now you have a jumbled mess.

★★★★★ 5 Stars all the way. Perfect app for kids in every way

How anyone could give this less than five stars beyond me. The content is unbelievable, and it’s FREE! Like really free. Like as in no ads, no banners, no pop-ups. There is literally nothing to purchase ever, and no way your child could accidentally wrack up charges like literally just about every other kids app that exists. All the content is completely wholesome. You will never, ever have to worry about what your kids are watching. The only people who are giving this low ratings are doing so for odd reasons like they can’t get it to cast properly to other devices, or it’s closing out the app when a phone call comes in, etc. All things that they could fix if they understood the settings on their devices. These are not issues caused by the app itself. Overall, I can’t imagine a more perfect app for kids.