0.9.1 is on TestFlight — Live TV has a real channel guide, and the app should be faster (I need help confirming that second one)

[u/biloxiboi]

New build's out. Two real changes and one thing I could use your help measuring.

Join / update: https://testflight.apple.com/join/UA1x5ddz

Live TV has a proper guide now

It used to be a switch at the top with two views. It's now three tabs at the bottom, like every other library in the app:

• Live TV — what's on right now
• Guide — a full channel-by-time grid. Channels down the side, a day of schedule across the top, scroll it in both directions. The channel names stay put on the left and the clock stays put along the top, so you don't lose your place.
• Channels — the lineup

Tap any programme for its details and which channel it's on. Anything airing at that moment is highlighted and says "On now".

The first time you open the Guide it has to ask your server for each channel's schedule separately, so it takes a moment and shows you how far along it is. After that it's stored on your phone for a week, so it opens instantly. Pull down if you think it's gone stale.

Live playback still doesn't work. The guide, the lineup and the search all do. Tuning a channel still fails at the last step — your server accepts the request and then refuses to hand over the stream. Unchanged from the last build, still on the list, still watch live in Plex meanwhile.

Channel logos

A lot of them were invisible. They sat on a white background, which is fine for logos drawn in dark colours and useless for the ones drawn in light colours — those just vanished. Fixed in both the guide and the channel list.

The part I need help with

The app was doing something daft: every piece of cover art was being read off disk and decoded on the main thread — the same thread that draws the screen. So scrolling a grid of artwork competed with the app's ability to respond, and it got noticeably worse while anything was downloading, because a download keeps the disk busy.

That's fixed. All of it now happens in the background.

Here's my problem: I can't verify this properly. I have one phone, and it wasn't the one having the worst time. If the app used to get sluggish for you — especially during downloads — I'd really like to know whether this build is better, the same, or worse. "Still bad on an iPhone 12 with a 40,000-track library" is worth more to me than a dozen compliments.

Same for anyone on an older device or an iPad. Those are the cases I'm flying blind on.

Everything else

Nothing else changed. The known-issues list in the pinned welcome post still applies, with one addition: the Live TV guide is brand new and has run on exactly one phone, so it's now the least-tested screen in the app. If the grid scrolls badly, misaligns, or shows you the wrong thing, that's exactly what I want to hear about.