IGTV from Instagram Reviews

by Cadenmyers_

In Instagrams latest attempt to spread its horizons, they released IGTVfromInstagram allowing long videos to be shared. Unfortunately, it’s trash. Only about half of your videos show up to be able to post, videos automatically start playing and the content is rarely relevant to what you like.

The worst thing about IGTV is it’s irrelevance. It is a completely useless app, and anything you need to see can be found within the instagram app itself.

Don’t waste your time trying to download it, it’s not worth it.

by Ucjdnsjx Lsbskd Dlsbskkwj

IGTVfromInstagram is a great idea, the problem is it only lets me post vertical but I usually film in horizontal and the fact that I can’t use my videos now is frustrating. So can you make it so you have the option to post vertically or horizontally.

Also trying to find videos is incredibly confusing and annoying. There’s always some video playing in the background whether you want it or not. Even going to your channel doesn’t make it go away. And you can’t make it go away either. And then browsing is difficult because it just has one strip at the bottom of the screen instead of having them fill the whole screen with videos or having the layout be the same as the regular instagram so it makes more sense. The whole thing just looks messy and I can’t stand looking at it.

by Lomree

Great concept, unfortunately, I am very disappointed in the apps lack of functionality. I cannot find a way of editing, or deleting a video. To err is human and I am a novice, and one who is still navigating my way through the ways of video social media, user friendly is going to be very important to me. In other words, a simple means of being able to make corrections to my posts is essential. I find it difficult to believe that the IG developers did not think to add such a basic function; therefore, I can accept that, maybe, I am not seeing it. That said, it should be more obvious.

by ZTrandum

While I’m sincerely enjoying creating content for IGTV, it feels clunky. Uploading videos results in at least one failed attempt every time I upload. Search function doesn’t feel right either. I think IGTV is on track to be something truly amazing, but to see that happen it really needs some evolution. As we speak, I’m attempting to upload a video for the THIRD time. Solid internet connection and no issues with files. Just tells me there was an error. 🤷‍♂️

by Ryry.ne

It lacks some basic video functionality like tapping the middle of the screen to pause or the left/right side to rewind/fast forward. The playback menu is really hard to see against a white background (see Philip DeFranco's videos). Also, it would be nice to be able to close a video I'm not interested or at least somehow auto pause it while I'm browsing.
And this might sound weird, but here's my biggest complaint - as an adult with a job and responsibilities, I need to immediately be able to see what time it is. It would be helpful if the time (and battery life, etc.) was shown whenever the title and playback menu is visible. Sometimes functionality is more important than aesthetic design.

by Marky_MarkC

Instagram continues to dominate the social media scene and is even working its way now into dominating the media scene as well with IGTV. HOWEVER, if you do not give users the option to follow someone without giving them a secondary option to unfollow from IGTV, mute Stories, and mute Posts. There are options right now to 1.) mute stories and 2). Mute stories and posts. But what if someone wants options other than those? It’s SO restricting. Many people will start unfollowing their favorite accounts just because there IGTV is annoying. There is no option right now to distinguish IGTV account follows from Instragram post and story follows. Give us the freedom and the options please. IGTV has huge potential with these options added.

by Yannicinco

It’s a good idea to finally allow creators to upload higher quality and longer videos, but why limit it to vertical viewing? Is it really that inconvenient for people to turn their phones to view a video the way it’s meant to be viewed? Instagram needs to get off its high horse and not limit creators to compromising the amount of information people can see. Content is best viewed horizontally. We don’t watch movies vertically. We don’t flip our TVs to watch. There are filmmakers would would actually love to get real support from Instagram and not limit it to people who don’t care about quality.

by 3zozq8673585

Supporting higher resolutions would be appreciated. Let people have the Choice to go between standard and HD quality (up to 1080p hopefully, its 2018 😬).

More importantly, we need the support of horizontal videos!. Users are already rotating their videos to the right and left and have to turn my phone with that. Support horizontal videos for people who wants to use it. I get it, phones are held vertically, but most people who watch longer videos will turn their phones horizontally anyway. There isn’t that left to work with when you have to crop the video that much!

by Mmastro994

I was hoping this would be an opportunity to post longer vids, but when I put one, (it wasn’t even that long, maybe thirty seconds) IGTVfromInstagram totally crashed just like the regular Instagram app. I don’t know if this whole thing was necessary, why couldn’t they have just made it so you can do the longer videos on the regular app. Now I have two Instagram apps taking up more storage on my phone.

by 1309804

Couldn’t upload the video with a custom thumbnail so that was a tad frustrating. Should have an edit for descriptions at least but that and titles really. And the live function should be in igtv as well. And I️ should be able to choose who I️ follow on igtv I️ don’t like seeing these random things I’ve never cared about before. Also multiple channels for one user. I️ want to run multiple channels from my account

by Ultimate1247

I think you should rethink the UI to be honest... I understand the look and how you’re trying to go for a seamless experience when consuming content, but I think it would be even better if you changed the way we could pick videos to watch (like the explore page but different). Other than that I’m excited to see where this goes...

by Kisochkin

Ok I’m so glad that there’s finally a platform for posting vertical vids! Problem is I had a typo in the title of my video and I couldn’t find any way to fix it. I had to delete the video and repost it, which made me loose all of the views and feedback :/

Would be great if you add a way for us to edit the title and description after posting :)

by ILOVEPOLARBEARS

IGTV is good but lacking some features like a filtered search engine, something that you can pick between looking for a specific view or a channel, also lacking a way to see what videos you’ve already watched in one list. And there’s no way to save videos to a watch later list.

by H4n5 28

I’m liking the layout and style, not to big on watching videos on portrait mode but give it about 15 mins, and you’ll get used to it.

This was first suggested to me by a tech related video creator.

I can see some IG users getting big on content creation with IGTVfromInstagram, so there’s definitely potential.

by &rew Blu3yacht

Here are a few things I wish that will change in the future. There should be a whole page where your subscriptions, following, popular, history and saved are displayed and sorted on a page filling the whole screen. Categories such as sports, tv shows etc to choose from would also be nice. And PLEASE, make it possible to change the cover of the video after posting it. That would be really helpful. Thanks!