DisneyNOW Reviews

I’m sorry if my title comes off strong , but I don’t like DisneyNOW anymore. When I first got it I thought it was cool that I could see all of my favorite shows from my childhood , but I recently started watching more frequently and all of a sudden I was about to watch the next episode and after the adds the screen just turned black. So I thought it was my phone so I closed out all of my apps and reopened DisneyNOW to try again, but the same thing happened again. I wasn’t about to loose faith in DisneyNOW so I powered off my phone still thinking that the problem was my phone, after turning back on my phone and opening up DisneyNOW again the problem had not resolved. I decided that maybe It was DisneyNOW so I deleted it and downloaded it again. When I opened DisneyNOW after I had got it again and chose my shows again I went to the show I had been watching and there were only two episodes. That’s what made me really mad. So I decided to see what else I had lost in DisneyNOW . I found one show that had all of the episodes, so I tried to watch it and after all that work and frustration it did the same thing that made me delete DisneyNOW . That’s why my title stands as it is. DisneyNOW still needs a lot of improvement.

I have deleted DisneyNOW from all our devices and will not reinstate until some of these significant misses on parental controls are addressed. DisneyNOW allows for the user/child to create a profile and to select between only Disney Jr channel or all Disney network channels. The problem is that there is no parental lock to prevent a child from creating additional profiles and then opting into the all network channel option. In fact, I'd say DisneyNOW design encourages new profile creation by virtue of the avatar placement and the ability to select new character faces - an appealing feature to my kiddos - and after this screen is where the child could pick their channels... and why would a child chose to limit? This is extremely disappointing to me, especially when the channels meant for older children are introducing more adult conversations - although over my kiddos' heads, I don't appreciate hearing teenagers asking each other if they "want to go to a movie and NOT watch the movie (wink, wink)". Parents absolutely should have the ability to block child profiles from accessing specific channels and/or shows they do not approve of for their families. As Disney moves forward with their plans to release their own complete streaming service, they would be well advised to address this significant gap in their app development.

Terrible, DisneyNOW refuses to function properly at least for my family. On all of our devices whether it be iPad, iPhone, etc it doesn’t work. We’ve updated every time when it’s required and we’ve uninstalled DisneyNOW and reinstalled several times. My 2 year old daughter is obsessed with Mickey and the gang and it’s so unfortunate we can’t get DisneyNOW to work with or without WiFi. Nick Jr. and other kid apps work perfectly so it’s not my devices. We have frontier and we’re CONSTANTLY being kicked off or logged out. Just got a notice to update from sep 26 (yeah we don’t even try to use DisneyNOW anymore that’s why we’re late for the new update. Stupidly, I tried again and got my daughter so excited for nothing. I’m trying to read new terms and agreements and it starts to load and does nothing. Try’s to log in again, it does nothing, the page won’t even change. I’m over it. For the amount of money our family alone puts into Disney it’s a shame we can’t seem to access the mobile app. Uninstalling DisneyNOW after this review, 2 years is a long time to wait for something to work properly. Anyways if anyone else is experiencing this I’ve been using noggin and nick jr app. It doesn’t have a live tv option (I think) but it works.

As parents to a 19-month-old, we have loved using the Disney Now app, and especially ad bedtime. The lullaby shorts are just so sweet, and it was one of the highlights of our evening, just watching the whole list, one after another, while our sweet girl settled down. These run generally 1min - 1.5mins each, so they were also manageable in case we needed to bail for whatever reason without it being jarring, which is important when our dynamic kiddo is finally getting calm.

But then, for whatever reason, Disney has started running 30-second advertisements after every bit of content. Every. Single. One. And it’s always a high-energy ad for T.O.T.S. or Target, so it negates any of the calming effect the lullabies were having. I get that someone probably just made a blanket programming decision to play an ad after each viewing of chosen content, but 30 seconds of ads for every minute of content in this case is absolutely ridiculous. We’ve had to remove this section of our bedtime routine because of it, which was a huge bummer. And I can honestly say that we mostly had been using DisneyNOW for this, so this development has crippled its functionality for us.

I think this app is a great way to watch Disney shows. I only gave it two stars is because I have some problems with it that if the developers fixed it would make DisneyNOW a lot better. My first problem is the ads. There are to many and the same ones every time. I went to play a game and there was like three ads. I know that the ads are getting a little better but think of some new ads please. My second problem is that the shows take a long time for new episodes. I am always waiting for a new episode. I know it might be hard but please this is one of my biggest problems. My third and final problem is that it always signs me out when I click the button to keep me signed in. I know that I said my third problem was my last one well I lied. My fourth problem is that it takes away shows. I know you can’t have to many but seriously it gets annoying. Also it takes away episodes so you have like episodes 1 7 and 10 this is just an example. It is really annoying when it takes episodes away cause sometimes I’m behind them I can’t even watch it. That is all I have right now but please fix these problems then maybe I would give this app 5 stars.

I’ve been using DisneyNOW for a while and overall think it’s a great app to have. But there are some login issues. For starters they have personal accounts and that’s great, but there only on one device. You can’t sign into an account you can only create a new one. Also in order to access to full content you have to have a cable provider. Now that’s not so bad, but with the launch of Disney+ they should have some updates by now. Instead of just being able to sign in with your TV provider, you should also be able to sign in with your Disney+ membership. DisneyNOW also doesn’t include a whole bunch of DCOMS. There is only one free movie on the whole site! Now let’s talk about the games. They are totally fun and vibrant. My only problem with the games is that they take up a lot of storage. Currently I only use 2 of five GB and DisneyNOW still tells me to clean my phone. After that I decided to play a different game, I went back to the game with out clearing any of my storage and it said I could play. This makes me think that DisneyNOW wants you to delete other apps on your phone so Disney now will be one of less than 10 apps on your phone and consume most of your time. But considering DisneyNOW is 100% free to download and use I think this is an okay platform and will give it a 2 star review. (I was going to give it a 1 star review but my cousin really likes DisneyNOW )

Downloaded this for Apple TV. I have never seen an app so sluggish as this one. Also, shows that are available for my daughter on Watch Disney Junior app are missing from this new all-in-one app (My Friends Tigger and Pooh?). Not that you can search for shows by name only by pictures with no text. If you don’t know the character you are out of luck. Also, you can setup profiles, but they don’t sync over iCloud between your iPhone or Apple TV(s). Very frustrating to go through the complex profile setup only to have to do it again. Moreover, after showing you ads on Apple TV it keeps the ad countdown at the top of the screen overlaid on your video even though it says your add will end in 00:00. Finally, upon first time opening DisneyNOW it doesn’t let you switch the live TV feature on Apple TV between JR and XD AND DC. Only after you switch out of DisneyNOW and then switch back will it work. Looking forward to some app updates. Right now this is a step backward.

UPDATING TO 2 STARS: the iOS “TV” app is apparently able to find more shows through its search feature that are available through “Disney Now”. It says “Open in Disney Now...” for shows that are not otherwise listed by DisneyNOW . iOS TV app also provides the missing search feature since shows in Disney Now are indexed through this search.

Don’t get me wrong I love DisneyNOW good UX design however there are play back issues to the extreme nova major. Like it works pretty well some of the episodes that I cast to my television however a lot of the time I’ll press the cast button everything will be set and then I select the episode I want like DuckTales season two episode one and it won’t play on my TV and will just keep loading and loading and loading and loading but the sound will be on in the background and will play the episode but no picture will come up except the loading bar red screen that says “Disney now”. And once it finishes an episode I can’t select an episode right after it where it won’t play and I will just go black. Which is not a big deal I just turn off the TV and turn it back on again or close up DisneyNOW completely as well it’s just annoying however I want to watch season two episode one of DuckTales and I cannot what is why am writing this review finally. However it’s a good app just fix some of those playback issues on the chrome cast. Also can’t there be a way to set the episodes on auto play? Like Netflix? I just Want to select episode one of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and just have it play through until I’m done watching it. Just a thought.

I was confused why Disney Channel doesn’t show their reruns anymore but then I remembered they had a app. So I thought to myself they would have their shows Young and old on there… Boy was I wrong they didn’t have Wizard of Waverly Place, Ant farm, Liv and Maddie, Austin and Ally, Dog with a Blog, Best Friends Whenever, Good luck Charlie, and Sonny with a chance. These are some good shows that many people want to see and if it’s not gonna be shown on Disney Channel at least need to be shown on their app. If DisneyNOW had these shows I would’ve probably given this review a five but it doesn’t. One more thing I would like to talk about that isn’t really about DisneyNOW but about the channel. Why have you guys stopped showing reruns of recent shows. For example K.C. Undercover, Stuck in the middle, and even Liv and Maddie. Dove Cameron is still doing descendants series and her show disappeared from the channel. I just find that a little disrespectful for other stars that are still working with Disney Channel but their shows aren’t even showing on it. Now even Gravity Falls and the whole Lab Rats series is gone. I know now there is Disney+ but not everyone what’s to pay. Anyway work on these five star you will have and many other views. bye sis 🖐🏾

So I’m an 11 year old girl, I’m slowly getting out of cartoons. (Slowly…. I’m love cuphead show….) so, when it comes to Disney I live things like descendants, z-o-m-b-i-e-s, adventures in babysitting, etc. I also like Kim possible and I used to looooove some shows. But there’s a reason I don’t anymore. Disney started putting in politics in. Like, come on here! What I mean by that is they are adding in LGBTQ and Coronavirus. SHUT UP DISNEY!!! I’m a Christian and yes I think it’s okay, but I don’t want to be harassed. Stop trying to brainwash kids with the vaccines. That’s a choice. Like I used to love watching big city greens and owl house and Amphibia. Y’all ruined it by adding in sex content that’s not appropriate as well as the COVID stuff. I do love your voice actors though. Like Sofia Carson. She’s like my role model. But anyway, back to DisneyNOW . It’s not good because they just put very little things on there. I get bored in like 3 days. I stopped watching Disney because y’all’s stuff just got boring. Like your shows. When will you make good content Disney. I traded u in for Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network because I got bored. Overall I don’t like DisneyNOW cause the games are also boring. And I’m just bored and y’all are trying to brainwash me! #bebetterdisney #stopbrainwashingpeople #bored

Hello, Disney! Let me just say, I’m a big fan of yours, and all of the other companies you’ve bought(especially Marvel)! I want to say first, that this game is pretty cool. You can watch shows, play games, and even create your own avatar. But I have some suggestions:
1) I don’t like how you have most things locked, and you need to log in with your tv provider to do watch stuff. I understand why you need it for watching live, but not for the other things. Because what if you don’t have a tv provider? 2) The parental controls can work a little better. Like instead of just choosing which channels your kid can watch, what about also adding which shows he/she can watch without having access to the whole channel?
3) I know it’s called this app, but what if you open the games up to other things, such as Pixar, Marvel, National Geographic, and other companies you have bought, as long as it still stays safe for all ages. And 4) maybe have about one or two ads every two or three times you click on something? The amount of ads are pretty annoying, and can water down some of the fun.
Thank you for reading this review, Disney, and please take some of these suggestions!

I love DisneyNOW, but it shouldn’t ask for your TV provider. I put mines in, but the unlocked videos never worked. And, for shows like Sofia the First, it only has the latest season. Not any of the other ones. Plus, the locked video never unlock like on Coop and Cami. Whenever there are adds, that’s okay with me, but don’t put an add right in the middle of a song like in Zombies 2 because it just messes the whole thing up. I love the intro of DisneyNOW , but it doesn’t work without internet connection. The favorites area is very glitchey as well. Another bad thing about this is that you can only create one account, and you can’t have multiple ones. I have it on my iPad, and my sister wants one too but her iPad is broken so we have to share accounts, which is bad because she likes different things. What happened to the old Disney app? I wanna know! The Dcom doesn’t have movies from like, 2 years ago, such as Zombies, only the latest ones. You might think that I don’t recommend this, but that’s wrong. I love this as well. I’m only explaining the bad things just so you’re notified. I love the sound it makes when you click on things, and the birthday surprise gets kids really engaged in DisneyNOW . There are a variety of shows, and I love them! I just wish most of the videos weren’t locked. Anyway, I really hope this helps! 😁

So it’s been a while since I used the Disney app since I’m able to watch most of the Cartoons, Movies and TV Shows on my TV. Since I heard they were doing Live TV now on DisneyNOW (which that could’ve always been a thing i dont know why I’m just finding out about it now) I got extremely excited and wanted to try it out immediately. Since it’s been so long since I used DisneyNOW I was asked to sign into my TV Provider, not a big deal at all I was fine with doing it. So I use Directv as my TV Provider and once I put all of my account information in it continuously loads, I put my Directv email and password in but it says “verifying” so I wait and guess what? Its still “verifying” after me waiting patiently for 20 minutes. I didn’t exit out of DisneyNOW at all and don’t let my phone turn off then I wait 30 minutes the next time and guess what? Still “verifying” it’s extremely annoying I was just wanting to test out the Live TV function, new or not i had never seen this function but I might never if this continues. Please fix I know it’s not a big deal since I have Live TV on my Provider but I just want to see it.

So I’d like to start off with saying, really nice app but DisneyNOW has a lot of issues such as Having to connect to the internet see I guess it’s only fun when you have internet connection but I’d still love to watch a movie even if the power goes off or if we have internet issues. Second A lot of ads so every time you start a show: ad. When you start a game: ad. In random parts of movies: ads. And sometimes the ad has 3 ads and it’s very annoying . Third it has to ask for your tv provider and I always have to ask my dad after a month or so it would be really nice if you type it in it stays like that forever. Fourth: having to only have the most recent or whatever shows/movies to where it only has like 5 movies I want it to be like Disney+ with unlimited movies. Fifth: I want there to have 2-10 accounts because My sisters phone is broken and that’s all she has and we have to share accounts and and we like different things so it is difficult to watch smth when your sister wants to watch something else.
That’s all please fix all these issues.

I loooove this app 👍🏼🤗💗💗💗 I especially love how you can make your own profiles but there’s just one problem I’m having it’s the fact that you can’t choose only older kids shows when your going through the whole making a profile process. For my favorites I only picked the Disney channel category and it gets a little stressful trying to go through all those different shows that some I don’t even like just to find one episode of something! 😤 but other than that I like how you can choose your profile, you can pick your favorite Disney shows and as soon as you get to the this app home screen it will show all of them. I also like how when you’re watching a show you can exit out to go do something and you come back, what, an hour later and it has a whole section on the home screen that says continue watching and the show you were last watching will show up first and you can click on it and it will play starting where you left off last time. 🤗🤗🤗 I recommend DisneyNOW to any Disney fan... GET this app!!!!

I love DisneyNOW so many fun things to do! See what’s in live tv, play games, take quizzes, and watch the Disney Channel original movies! But what I would love is if they could air some of their old shows! Like: Shake it up, K.C undercover, and many more but as Sharpay says in HSM “Out with the old and in with the new” And also the live TV is a bit behind like when I go into the Channel on my TV it is fine but when I go into DisneyNOW it is way behind Idk if that’s a “me” problem but it’s something that would be nice to know that it is caught up and I’m not missing anything and I have one recommendation, At the beginning when your making your account they ask for your b-day and it calculates how old you and by how many quarters you are and this might a big task but I think it’s that at the beginning too you put in your favorite Disney star and it’s like a little chart with The stars name and what show/ DCOM they are in and we get to pick three of our favorite stars and on our exact b-day one of our favorite stars says happy birthday or whatever now we could put a block for parents just in case they don’t want that but it’s something I just thought about or DisneyNOW could say happy birthday to you but yeah just seems fun (JUST AN IDEA) besides that I love the Disney now app! It’s One of my most used apps! Fun exciting and the movies are the best keep doing what y’all are doing Disney now! ❤️

UPDATE: Thank you Disney team for reaching out in a short amount of time! We are back to “regular programming,” and just in love with DisneyNOW again. They gave us the exact steps we needed to take. Few ads, and we have access to all of our daughter’s favorite TV show episodes. AND so far no glitches have even popped up. Thank you!!!

First review: We loved DisneyNOW just a couple weeks ago. There have been a couple time where we would have to uninstall and reinstall just to get the glitches to stop. Our daughter loves Disney Junior so it’s a huge help whenever we have to do things around the the house or just need her distracted for a couple of minutes. However, recently, we haven’t been able to sign in to our TV Provider. It won’t even let us go to the sign in screen! It just does it its little Mickey loading thing and stops. I can clock sign in all I want, but it goes nowhere! She does have an iPad and it works but not everywhere we go has WiFi. Please fix this issue!

So first of all I just want to say I love this game because I almost watch Disney and I was bored and then I went to go to find a game and then I found this game and I saw all the good reviews so I decided to download it and it was so much fun so this game is perfect for teenagers and kids also my sister enjoys it she says she loves it and yeah also I need to update it that’s letting you know anyways I love your game so so much so can you make another app where it’s like this but a little different also I could give you some ideas so like can you make it like where you can pick your favorite game and stuff like that and also can you make all the videos unlocked because in this actual game they are kind of all locked up and can you also make a jack skeleton games because I love jack and also can you make like a Christmas update in that kind of game because I love Christmas and we all know that Christmas is almost coming

DisneyNOW is really great to use when you want to watch some Disney shows and movies. They have all sorts of channels that you would have to wait to come on on the original Disney channel on cable. You can easily just click on a image of a show on the Disney now app and start watching for FREE. All you have to do is connect your T.V too DisneyNOW and you can watch all of the shows. I don't have a cable T.V. so it makes it hard to watch all the shows that deem "locked", with a little blue 🔒 on the bottom. But, that is totally fine because I can still watch some of the shows when they unlock. This is a really good app and I do recommend it to the people who are thinking into download this. But, Disney, stop recreating the orginal movies. Like the lion King and beauty and the beast. I mean the shows you are recreating are great and all, but then everyone wants to watch that instead and it just takes away the whole orginal Disney movie purpose. So, sure re-create the lion movie but, just stop please. Not cool for the feature generation. And we only need one version of those movies.
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I think that DisneyNOW is great but there are a few problems. You have to sign in with your tv provider to unlock all of the episodes. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, I was just confused at first and so was my brother. Also there aren’t any old episodes which is sort of annoying because then I have to go to a Disney+ or something like that to watch other episodes. When a season ends it’s only up for a few days, but then after that you can only watch 4 episodes or so. I get pretty frustrated about that. A really good thing about Disney Now is that is that whenever I’ve been watching a show lately and I want to see if there are new episodes I can just look and I can easily watch it. To everyone who has Disney+ you should know that the latest episodes of Disney Channel shows come onto Disney Now before they come onto Disney+. The games are fun, but they take a long time to load and half of the time they don’t work. I will say that when they do work they are super fun to play! There aren’t a lot of DCOMs on Disney Now but there are the newer ones. Overall this game is amazing! I really hope that you choose to get this game and have as much fun with it as I did!

I got this a couple days after it came out and I liked it. I grew up watching Jessie, Austin and Ally , KC Undercover, etc. So I was so excited that I was able to watch it on my spare time. But then this happened a couple weeks after I got DisneyNOW ... I came home from a long day of school and I wanted to watch Jessie and I noticed it did not have a lot of the shows so I thought it was a glitch so I deleted DisneyNOW turned off my phone for about 20 minutes and came downloaded DisneyNOW and signed in but a handful of the movies and shows were still gone. I thought it came off because Disney+ was coming out soon and they wanted to put it there so I just worked with what I had. About 2 weeks later Disney+ came out and I was exited all of the stuff was coming back but then I looked there were only COUPLE DISNEY CHANNEL SHOWS!!!! I was so mad. At the time I was in the middle of watching Gamers Guide To Pretty Much Everything and it disappeared from both apps. Where did they go? I have NO IDEA!! I thought Disney+ had all the Disney shows and movies. There is no Disney XD there is no Decendants 3 there is limited Disney Channel stuff and I am mad. So if I was here a couple months ago this whole thing would be filled with complements but no, I do not recommend this.😤😤😡

Now I’ve been watching Disney since I was a baby, im not talking about this coop and cami stuff, I’m taking Zack and Cody! That’s so raven, Hannah Montana! But my favorite show from when I was little was WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE!!! And I specifically downloaded DisneyNOW to watch it and guess what! When you type in the search bar “wizards of waverly place” no results found! I’ve searched everywhere! And some people may thing “oh it’s an old show maybe they took it off because it’s old” but their wrong! There was Hannah fricken Montana on DisneyNOW and that came before wizards of waverly place! Wizards of waverly place first aired in 2007 and zack and Cody aired around 2005 and they have every season of the suite life! Granted I loved watching zack and Cody! It was one of my all time favorites, but when you take away SELENA GOMEZ from Disney, that’s saying something! That’s saying a lot! I’m still giving DisneyNOW 2 stars for having some other classics like Suite Life Of Zack and Cody, Hannah Montana, That’s So Raven, and all the other early 2000s shows. Please fix this, honestly please! Selena Gomez is the reason I started watching Disney in the first place ( besides Zack and Cody ) thank you for reading my very very long review of this stupidity, don’t feel embarrassed for not having it on I bet you have a “very good reason” for doing so but anyways again thanks for reading this lengthy comment. #whereselenaat #malex #2007 #contracts

I loved Disney channel growing up and still do at a young child age and seeing DisneyNOW would make me want to want to watch it a bit more and there is some problem the shows are getting worse which also goes with TV and when I open hearts the favorites it is there on the homepage even when I refresh DisneyNOW the and also I DONT know why they are bringing back more show tat was old and already was a show and changing it a bit that is horrible !! Lastly the updates there is nothing good about them .. Just please make the show better like Andi Mack or a Jessie or like something fun and interesting not boring and rude actors for me to hate on them PLEASE Make Also DONT know why you Would Do THIS have Disney Junior and Disney Channel together WTH Disney Junior already HAS their own channel and please no BABY SHOWS in Disney channel like really big hero 6 omg and also like tangled like OmG why and why at like for me 6am in the morning Disney junior shows UGH WHHY they already have their OWN channel really connected OMG and make the actors better and not for me to hate on PLEASE OmG oR ELSE

So I downloaded this when my friend was like omg Check out this app. So I downloaded it and did the birthday stuff,the emoji thing. Then I chose the little kids shows or big kid shows. So then I wanted to watch a show called. Andi Mack so I pressed it and it showed that some had a key on it. I trapped the show that had a key on it and it said to chose a tv provider. I’m like what no why do you need my TV provider to watch a show that I want to watch. So I just tried another one it it told me that I can only watch the ones that don’t have a key on them. But I wanted to watch the new andi Mack shows that come on. And I don’t watch it on TV because it some times but on shows that I already watched. So if you download this you have to do you TV provider then you have to do the user ID and password and all that just to watch the show you want. Well there is a good part about it is that you can play FREE games and you can watch SOME free shows. You also can play disney quizny for free and win 100 dollars.

this app is an amazing app where you can watch any episode anytime (with WiFi always of course XD ) I mean going on demand using your tv provider usually has its limitations to what you can watch so I prefer watching from this app. For some reason when DisneyNOW updated something went wrong, It signed me out of this app and I thought “alright I’ll just uninstall and re-install” but when I got it back put all my “faves” and put m name it was fine, until I needed to sign in with my tv provider. I allowed access to my tv provider from settings, but it seems that it would load, then it just stops loading and doesn’t sign in.
I’m not really sure what the problem is, I tried many times.
AND! I repeated the same thing, over and over but it came out with the same results. Perhaps it’s my tv provider? Again, im not completely sure, just thought I should share this with you. ( just in case it really is DisneyNOW )