Watch AFL 4+

This app has so many frustrating bugs it is no wonder almost everyone rates it with 1 star. You’d think the developers would pay attention to the universal dissatisfaction. When trying to download a game to watch later, it just says “downloading” with no indication of the status or progress of the download. Given this status never changed for me over the multiple tries, it seems it never did start downloading. But the most persistently annoying bug is the inability to scrub the video to any exact point in the game you seek. It seems to only move forward or back in increments of about 5 or 6 or more minutes at a time, making it impossible to fast-forward past half time for example without getting a game score spoiler. And it’s impossible to replay the past few seconds you may have missed or just want to re-watch. Please get it right, Fox! We pay a LOT of money for this!

This is a dismal app. The vaunted “facelift” has evidently been executed by people with no conception of accessibility guidelines - tiny red text on a dark blue background? I ask you. The app does not remember which round is live, so you have to navigate to a different round from the one it opens on every time. And worse than all this, the live streaming is unreliable, routinely cutting out at any point in a match and not resuming until some time later. All you get is a little “content not available” message. It’s a scandal that this is the only option available to AFL fans outside Australia - maybe if Fox had some competition they could produce something usable. You have no choice, but you’ll be wishing there were something - anything - else available.

Honestly such a terrible app for the amount of money paid for the subscription. And it’s not complicated. It’s just showing videos on demand. It’s slow and laggy, and almost impossible to cast or connect to a bigger screen. Other apps don’t have this issue. Since the update it never remembers where you were last watching, so if you leave the video and come back you have to scroll through to get back to the last point. Good luck using the tiny controls on the video though.