Remote app good for
This app is great! I think I like the alternative method in iOS 11 in the control center. It has a full Remote look which makes it easier to use. I love the fact that this app opens very quickly on my iPhone 6. Practically instant to launch and pair. Great app.
My Apple Watch and iPhone connect to my Mac fast. Love this app!
Ten times better than using the standard Apple Remote with Apple TV. The two biggest issues I have with this app are occasional dropouts in connectivity (could be my cheap wifi router), and phone calls. Dropouts I can usually fix by restarting the app, turning my phone wifi off and on, and power cycling my wifi router if all else fails.
***This should hopefully be an easy fix, though Im not an app developer. My biggest issue with this app other than dropouts is that theres no feature to automatically pause content when a phone call comes in. If Im watching Netflix on my Apple TV and a call comes in, I need to tell them to wait, hit the home button, open Remote and then pause. Just a minor inconvenience, but I would give the app five stars if they could fix this. Bonus points if you could turn that feature on and off in the settings menu!
Using wired connections this is the best sounding music stream. Wifi streams flatten out the music making it sound empty and without the punch it should have. By wiring the connections with my Ethernet network, the sound comes alive and I dont have any dropouts or lost connections. This is the best and most underrated app out there.
Works great. Connected to iTunes on my Mac in a matter of seconds and is very responsive
I use Remote on most of my computers with iTunes installed on. Aside from an expected delay every once in a while, everything works in an instant. Even in the basement where my internet can be a little slow, I can control my Dell OptiPlex 755 connected to Ethernet with most things happening instantly. The only thing I would like to see is an implementation of Remote in Control Center so I dont have to wait for Remote to connect back to my computer, even though the wait is only like a second or two, and so I dont have leave the app Im currently on to change my music through Remote. Though that isnt enough to bring the review down to a four star.
Some bad moments
For the longest time I used this app to playback original material created in Logic and bounced to iTunes to playback for musicians and friends to critique and make suggestions for further recording sessions. I could have have multiple versions of a tune to switch back and forth for comparison. Now I have to sit behind a computer to do this.. Really inconvenient compared to older versions that worked. I know you really want everybody to sign up for Apple Music but this a poor way get people to do so.
Used to work fine. After an update a bug was created causing the app to flash between Remote and "more" whenever you exit the app and then re-enter
Latest version has a defect that when you open it and select the latest gen AppleTV, you get a Search screen with a heading of VideoSubscriberAccountViewService and a button to Hide it. You have to hit Hide to close this screen and get back to the normal UI of the Remote. Then a second defect is that if you hit the button for the Keyboard interface, it brings up this same stupid screen and then if you hit Hide one more time, the Remote arrow in the middle of the UI disappear and dont come back unless you close the app fully and open it back up, at which point this entire defect cycle starts again. Clearly the same geniuses that coded the AppleTV Remote app and all its defect glory are the same team that have been working on this app as well and ruined it too. Yay Apple... NOT. ? Just FYI, all devices in use during this testing had current iOS and tvOS versions on them, so its clearly an app defect which seems to be the current trend in code seen from Apple over the past 3-4 years. Your coding teams are seriously failing hard and missing A LOT of defects. Must be those RIM coders you guys picked up a few years ago that left that company. ?
This app does not allow me to manually select a song it will only let me hit the skip button to change the song
Spotify Connect macht es vor: eine Integration in AM ist überfällig!
The proper commands rarely work right and the Remote freezes, then catches up.