FOX Sports: Watch Live Reviews

by Dr Loon2nz

This is a visionary sports app that has gone in a completely different direction, bringing fans everywhere a truly unique sports viewing experience--one totally devoid of sports! Whereas even the most unstable sports apps typically make it through several seconds of a game at a time, typically quitting immediately before a crucially pivotal play, the brainiacs here at Fox Sports have opted to skip out on the whole sports thing entirely. Instead, they have developed a killer app that replays an endless stream of the same two commercials without ever showing any sports coverage. It's no secret that Fox and CBS have always lagged behind the other sports viewing apps (ESPN, even NBC) in terms of stability. While CBS decided to start charging for their clunker of an app to convince those duped into paying that their product was actually worth something, Fox has gone in a different direction entirely. Those intrepid fans who survive the initial stability issues with the TV provider login are rewarded in due course with an uninterrupted stream of the same two commercials repeating endlessly into eternity. No longer need they fear the dropped stream just before the game-winning walk-off RBI, or a long fieldgoal attempt to take the lead as time expires. My applause for the creativity and vision that went into this. One star for not charging us.

by Amk2889

FOXSports is a major let down. Opening it up it seems so promising and then every time I’ve used it to watch a sporting event it’s let me down. Picture quality is awful and it’s usually always has a lag to it. Lately when I have been watching it, it will randomly cut to the screen you get when there is a commercial break in progress and it’s almost as if it gets stuck on that and never goes back to the program or game. I will close down the entire app and restart it and within minutes of doing that it will take me back to the commercial break in progress screen and will stay there. I usually don’t even watch what I want to because I get so frustrated I just give up. I wouldn’t go as far to say I wouldn’t recommend FOXSports, but I would tell someone all the issues that I always have.

by Thebradley_center

For about 3 months now, the option to watch replays on my phone just flat out does not work. No matter how many times I close FOXSports , delete, and redownload FOXSports it just refuses to allow me to watch replays. Then when I know what time shows are on frequently I click on them to watch it and it tells me it has ended or not available... How? I wanna watch first things first, comes on at 6:30am and ends at 9:30am everyday it is clicked to watch the show at 8 and it tells me the show has ended and no longer available.... how? Undisputed comes on at 9:30 how is the show over? The updates do nothing, closing FOXSports does nothing, idk what to do, but what I do know is that I’ll be watching espn from now on since this seems to be an ongoing issue that I feel will never be fixed. I’m quite frustrated with FOXSports, and it hurts because now I basically can’t watch Uncle Shae Sharpe talk about anything anymore. Hope you guys actually read this, and I know I’m not the only one experiencing it. Hopefully, things moving forward will change but I doubt it... Thanks for coming to my ted talk

by KingTimothius

FOXSports is the absolute worst. I downloaded it to watch the World Series. (I’m from Houston but work in the Permian basin) well so far I’ve seen about 30 min total of the 4 games that have been played because this absolute GARBAGE app won’t even load the game for viewing about 90% of the time and instead gives me an error message. When it does load the game, half the time it’s buffering, glitching out and force closing FOXSports , or there’s no audio. It’s also really annoying because apparently the “live” tv is actually a couple minutes behind because I’ll be watching a batter walk to the plate and then get an update about what he did before i can actually see it for myself. Just a complete and total let down. I have Verizon with their 75gig premium unlimited plan and 3 out of 4 bars of service. Also tried on my wifi. Makes no difference. It’s FOXSports , not the signal. Fix FOXSports and I’ll increase the rating but considering I’m leaving this review instead of watching the end of game 4, you’re getting 1 star. Zero if I could.

by Mustafa Quteishat

I never usually post reviews but I had to make an exception for this one. I’ve been watching their live sports talk shows at work daily on the Fox Sport Go app for the last 2 years. Fox is now forcing you to use FOXSports as opposed to their other app, Fox Sports Go, which was much more user friendly, allowed you to rewind and fast forward, and most of all, would always work. Not only do I always have issues playing their live shows, but it’s extremely frustrating when I lose my place in a show and I’m forced to either restart or watch live (and skip over where I left off).

I don’t understand the switch, especially when FOXSports is much worse than Fox Sports Go. If these issues aren’t fixed any time soon, I’ll have to make the switch back to ESPN and I’m sure they’ll be losing plenty of other long time fans of their shows.

by Chandler_storm

Yes, I must agree that I do enjoy Fox Sports because they cover a vast majority of soccer, baseball, and football games that I would like to watch. Unfortunately, Fox has failed to fix the problem associated with casting the live sportscast to a connected TV. Unlike many other streaming apps, Fox does not have the capability to cast your live broadcast to a television for ease of watching.

Come on, Fox. Please just make one simple change and make it possible to watch your broadcasts that can be accessed on my phone and to allow it be cast onto a television.

UPDATE: after a couple of months of writing my initial post, FOXSports still does not have the capability to cast. In addition, as I attempted to watch the live broadcast of the ALDS, I either could not find the broadcast, or when I did FOXSports would direct me to FOXSports Store to download the exact app that I’m using. Fox, please fix your app so I can finally watch games on my cell phone without having to go through such an excessive and unnecessary struggle with your product.

by MA2(SW)

I don’t care for the four-letter network, so I prefer to get my sports news from Fox. However, FOXSports needs some serious work. For instance, the college football schedule will not update for the top 25. I have had to keep it on the SEC option for any current scores. However, ever now and then I like to see how the top 25 are doing but I can’t. It still shows me the scores from last season. With that, y’all need to make it more interactive. Update your app or I’ll have to go to your other rival, CBS.

Updated review for updated app: still not a fan of FOXSports . I liked having “my teams” front and center. Now, right when I open FOXSports , they’re forcing stories and other teams down my throat that I personally don’t care for or about. Give me the option to put my teams’ scores/stories as the first things I see instead of your latest and greatest of what you think I want to see.

by Chrisisawarmgun

Let me save everyone some time, the suggestion to everyone with issues is from the developer and it is: to uninstall and re-install FOXSports . Like we haven’t tried that. Then they say contact your cable tv provider. They also say to speak to a chat agent, but the agent has been offline every time I’ve checked, and the link to the contact page is broken.

Updated review - if I could go even lower than 0 stars I would. Thanks for nothing.

I have been trying to log in with a tv provider to watch the World Cup, but I get the message “error loading tv provider login page” every time. I thought maybe I could create a profile to add a tv provider that way, but the reset password link doesn’t work, and I can’t create a new profile with a different email either. Why create a separate app when fox sports go worked just fine, and don’t spend any time making the new one work during actual sporting events?

by Vahid Tyau

FOXSports has some serious flaws that make it almost useless:
1. It constantly asks to resign-in to FOXSports with tv subscription to watch program content. It seems to be every 24 hours or less. I’m watching the women’s World Cup games everyday.
2. There is no fast forward option for game replays on the Apple TV version of FOXSports . And the iPhone version only offers 15 second increment fast forwards. When watching a replay of the World Cup games with a 30-45 minute intro before the match starts, it’s asinine to have to fast forward at 15 second increments just so I can get to the actual game starting.
3. Many issues using airplay streaming from FOXSports on my iPhone to my Apple TV. Stream constantly seems to restart (from the very start of a replay, super annoying in particular with the lack of fast forward) with any interruption to FOXSports .

by Angry NoDak

A quick caveat: With the most recent update (oct 30) the pages in FOXSports literally will not load. Not sure what happened with that update, but at least for me it’s made FOXSports completely useless.

Even when it was working before FOXSports is extremely slow as other people have indicated on their reviews. I’ve seen developer responses asking for feedback and reasons for the slowness - no idea. I’m not using FOXSports through Facebook, I’m just using it as any normal app on my iPhone. I’m connected to great WiFi, FOXSports has always been updated, I’m always using the current iOS, and everything else on my phone runs remarkably faster than FOXSports.

It could be that nearly all of the substantive content are videos. It could be that many of the in game headlines seem to be auto generated. Who knows. The point is, expect to spend at least 3 minutes with FOXSports to find and load the score you’re looking for - at least based on my 6 months-ish experience with FOXSports .

It’s a shame too. ESPN is chasing a lot of us away with covering Steven A Smith being angry and Lavar Ball being stupid 20 hours a day. Suffice it to say that is may be an option if you’re sick of that too (see the above caveat about nonfunctionality), but FOXSports cannot be recommended at this point.

by Ushduuwgjs

IOS Review... It appears you can no longer see a replay of a sport that was shown on fox sports well, on “Fox Sports”... the ‘trick’ seems to be you now go to FoxNow to see the sport replay... ok, silly/inconvenient/reduced feature from before, but ok I guess...

IOS (cont.) and Roku review... when you attempt to watch a replay of a sporting event that was shown on FS1 (Nascar in my case) you will most likely find that you have to have a subscription to FS2 because it appears that the replays are, and I’ll say with much confidence, purposely posted as FS2 even though the event was televised on FS1... I say with confidence that this is on purpose because practice and qualifying replays are posted as FS1 yet the race is posted as FS2...

The above is not at all a benefit, feature, service to the customer as compared to prior years and app versions... this is a deliberate attempt to eliminate replays and or force folks to subscribe to a dead/dying channel... FS2...

Thanks Fox for reducing your customer features as well as reducing your IOS app to a social media/gambling (odds) app... I always wanted to remove sports programs from FOXSports and focus on ‘stories’, ‘social’, and ‘odds’... not... now your giving NASCAR’s horrible web site a run for it’s money for the worst...

by Spahr87

I downloaded the fox sports app 3 days ago in preparation for the Wilder fight tonight. Casted a soccer match onto my tv. So today I bought the ppv event and tried casting it from my iPhone. After several attempts in chatting with technical support. They informed me that the fight couldn’t be casted. I asked them how to I get a refund and they kept apologizing without answering my question. There’s no number to contact over these issues? It blows my mind that your sight advertises it to work on ANY device. You just failed to say it won’t be able to cast but funny thing is I casted the other day. But today no it doesn’t work. I was instructed to try casting a tv show yet that didn’t work either. How are you going to run a business and have false advertising up on your page. All I want is my money back. I bought the fight to watch on my tv, not my phone. If I could give zero stars I would

by Kingwhiskerz

I don’t understand the struggles with FOXSports... it constantly makes me resign in with my cable provider and on top of that I doesn’t let me sign in with it anymore. Today when I click on the provider to sign it it loads for a minute then exits me out and won’t give me an option to sign into so I can’t watch any content... I then have to uninstall FOXSports to attempt it again but the same problem keeps happening.
for some unknown reason the Fox now app allows for casting if you have an iPad but the Fox sport go and Fox sport apps do not support casting? That doesn’t make sense to me. If you offer it one one of your apps why not carry it over to the rest, kinda common sense if you already know and have a function integrated into your apps already.
Basically even though I have a cable provider I cannot log into it on FOXSports and it’s basically useless..

by Reviewer0102030101

FOXSports functions but forces at least a 15-second additional advertisement anytime starting Big Ten Network content. Not just the first time in a while, but every time. The same applies on Apple TV.

Switched to another video then came back? Forced ad. Accidentally closed the stream? Forced ad. Want to join the last few seconds of a game to catch a buzzer beater? Better hope you don’t miss it due to the ad you’re forced to watch while the game is happening.

I really don’t understand the extra ads. The regular ones during games are shown anyway. You can’t get access without subscribing to BTN on a regular TV plan. Why am I penalized for watching using the stream/app, which seems to be heavily promoted for live events?

by X173thomasx

When FOXSports works, it’s fantastic. I typically use it to stream the games and races onto my TV that doesn’t have a cable connection. It works fine sometimes which is great, but with AirPlay it refuses to do anything. It will constantly show me the “Error Loading your Content” message but then when I disconnect the AirPlay it loads perfectly wow.

I’ve had much better luck using Chromecast to cast FOXSports to the TV, but even then it will randomly decide it doesn’t want to do that anymore either. It will stay connected but stops playing content with no warning or error message, just rotates through a few promo pictures for upcoming events. I have to cancel the cast on my phone, reload the page, then cast it again. It’ll work for another twenty minutes and then down again.

Overall when it works properly it’s one of my favorite apps to watch sports on, but the instability is infuriating and makes me want to throw my phone at the TV.

by Dave855

Trying to watch the US-France World Cup match I only get a message that FOXSports is unable to play the content, try again. To top it off it was still doing this several minutes into the game, but now when it brought me back to the Feeds screen, even though No Spoilers mode is turned on, the time and score in the game are shown in a huge font. Now I know a goal is scored early on, decreasing the anticipation since I still planned to watch the coverage from the beginning once I got in.
When FOXSports did work for other games, it did work nice. The only issue I had was once when my wifi dropped (on my end) I could only come back to coverage at the beginning or at the live point. I couldn’t rewind coverage to where I lost connection.

by Bschwally09

This review is for the updated app. The new Fox Sports app is awesome and better than the previous app is almost every way. The layout is much more improved and there are stories to view which were not present before.

The notifications have missed the mark big time for me. While the new notification sound is amazing, there are less of them now, and some bugs. I used to be able to receive a notification for every score for a favorite team, but now I only receive a starting and ending notification. No more 3 hour game reminder, no more stats, no more end of the game stats. Thankfully the exciting games notification is still there, but it incorrectly reported four no hitters which did not occur in reality. I know FOXSports is new and may just have some bugs to squash, but I am looking forward to giving FOXSports five stars again.

by KingToby132

Your UI / UX is absolutely frustrating. When I am watching Skip & Shannon on FOXSports I always get upset at how the features don’t allow me to do what you would think it would be able to do. Like… having a pause button- being able to shut off my phone & it still run, or go to any other app and have it play in the back ground. Also when I slide up on my phone to turn the brightness up or down, your app doesn’t run and it lags the video I am watching. Super super frustrating. Other than that I do enjoy it. I am also a junior software engineer- I get my opinion might not matter but I feel like your software team can do better.

by KED72

I have both a Roku as well as AppleTV. The streaming is quite good, particularly like the 4K coverage of the World Cup fames.

However, this is the third day in a row, either device, where it asks me to sign in with my TV provider despite having signed in the day before. Is this intentional (and if so, why)?! If not, why can’t it remember my log in like every other app?

Another curious, repeat experience on the AppleTV version... if I’m trying to watch a Cup game in progress that has already started, no such luck. The wheel just keeps spinning indefinitely (or at least seemingly so as my patience wears out). I can select the restart option and watch the game from the beginning but not just join a game in progress. Works fine on the Roku version. Rebooted the AppleTV. Signed out and back in. No luck. Haven’t tried deleting and reinstalling FOXSports yet.

by Gordy Admirer

I get very frustrated with my menu when looking for games of my interest. I simply go to fox sports and not only do I get the time but also the station that they’re on and if I miss a game they are posted and also the scores. All of the sports are scrolled across the top of the screen for selection and I just tap on the one that I want and it immediately comes up. Reports on my favorite players are also available, I find all of this so convenient especially for a woman in what I call a strange app but it serves me well!!

by Dis App Oint Me 6473

I have tried to watch 3 sporting events on FOXSports. I can’t logon to my provider. It desperately wants me to make an account to synchronize my devices, despite only using one to watch games. Then there is the unresponsive links to games. I touch my screen to watch a game and I get... NOTHING! No response at all! Wow! I sure am glad FOXSports exists to really make my cable dollars go further!

Fox Sports Go was fine. At least, that is to say, it worked. I’m sure not smart enough to understand why you would replace a working app to showcase your sports prestige, with one that everyone I know calls trash.

If this review isn’t deleted they might refer me to a chat link or a FAQ. But the sad truth is that it shouldn’t be this hard. And I’m not going to waste my time trying to get a simple app to work.

by Widntbsjf

I don’t have cable. Cable is antiquated technology. I do however want to watch the 49ers game on fox today. Fox is a free channel that can be picked up with an antenna. Instead, I have internet and I saw that you can watch live sports on the fox sports app. BUT to my disappointment the marketing gurus at fox have not figured out a modern way to monetize my desire to watch their broadcast. In order to use their free app to stream the game that they are broadcasting on their free channel, I need to subscribe to cable with some other company. Not happening. The other alternative is to go buy an antenna that fox won’t receive any profit on, and then watch the game for free without a cable subscription.

This is really dumb. I would have paid a small amount for FOXSports just to watch the game, or paid a small amount for the broadcast, but I’m not going to subscribe to anything just to watch this game today.

Anyway FOX I’m just saying, people are tired of paying for cable. Obviously you’re receiving money from cable companies but that’s a dying industry, so let’s get the transition to non subscription streaming moving a little faster without the archaic love triangle.

by Andreichagas

I got FOXSports to watch the World Cup 2018 and stay updated with the games. FOXSports works really well and updates really fast as the game is being played along, showing you the scores seconds after on video and the hightlights right after the game. I also loved the extra info FSG would give about each country and their players.
The only thing that I wish it was possible is to live stream the games from FOXSports . I wouldn't mind paying extra for it. You can only watch on your phone if you already have a tv cable. Which I don’t.
Above all I totally recommend it!!

by RevolcisumOG

I work anywhere from 55 to 65 hours a week and then on my two days off I have to drive 400 miles each week to see my kids. With being this busy I do not have much time to see any games live but with FOXSports I get instant updates and key plays as they happen is it as good as watching the game? No of course not but I still get to keep up with all of my favorite teams and even our rivals too!! Many years have went by since I have been able to keep up with sports and not have to wait for sports center so glad I found it!!! Thanks Fox!!