FOX NOW: Watch TV & Sports Reviews

I only redownloaded FOXNOW to binge watch The Masked Singer and it buffers and freezes all the time. I have it downloaded to my Xbox One and it’s ALWAYS connected to the wireless no my phone data, and can’t even use it on my iPhone or iPad with or without the wireless, they won’t even open without the spinning circle and doesn’t load. I can only watch 20-25 min of the show with out issues and then it’s every few minutes that it will freeze and then right near the end, it does it every few seconds. Not to mention with the commercials, they freeze as well, and when I get to the end where I want to read the clue at the bottoms of the screen or go back cuz I missed something, you can’t, because it’ll only show the play/pause button and “ad” written inside a circle. FOXNOW has so many issues and reading the reviews it seems like they’ve been around for quite awhile. Someone needs fix these issues. This is why I deleted FOXNOW before nearly a year or so ago, but forgot when I decided to binge this show, which I can’t find anywhere else. It’s ridiculous. I shouldn’t have to reboot my Xbox every 30 minutes to watch a 40 minute show.

New version of FOXNOW on AppleTV is so bad in terms of GUI usability. All it does it lock up and freeze. Finding shows is like fumbling through and just blindly pressing and swiping buttons until you get lucky. Once you’ve actually watched a show, navigating back out and to something else is impossible as the GUI freezes as it tries to buffer and pull data for all the graphics and show previews. Just bad overall and this is on a latest gen AppleTV with latest OS on it that NO OTHER APP HAS ISSUES RUNNING ON LIKE FOX NOW DOES. Fix this last horrible rewrite of FOXNOW !

To make matters worse, you can’t rewind some shows like The Orville and if you exit the show playback, it requires a FOX Profile to resume without starting from the beginning? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! App is so bad...

It also slows down the Home AppleTV GUI when FOXNOW has been running for a while and is still in the background. I always have to close FOXNOW fully in order to get my 4th gen AppleTV to work smoothly again. Leaving FOXNOW opens almost seems like it causes a memory leak or CPU cycles to be used by it in the background when it shouldn’t be.

I just spent an hour and a half trying to watch a 45 minute show through my chrome cast device. Every time I hit the 15 second rewind it would go back to my starting point of the show. In other words, I had started watching a show at the 15 minute mark but whenever I tried to loop back, it would loop all the way back to that 15 minute mark. The only way I finally figured out to make it work was to stop chrome casting and watch it on my iPad or iPhone so I could slide the show forward manually then start casting again. However every time I did that, if I needed to loop it back 15 seconds he would go back to the last starting point. Extremely frustrating and irritating and will be the main reason I won't use FOXNOW with my chrome cast. It will just be easier to watch the shows on demand. It's a shame really because there are some great shows I'd love to catch up on that I can't on demand.

This is one of the most frustrating apps I’ve used in a long time. I am a DC metro commuter so I travel from cell tower to cell tower as well as underground. FOXNOW absolutely struggles with trying to keep up. Key features like preloading or the ability to download an episode are missing. The AMC app gives that ability which is great for planning for your travel. FOXNOW has a terrible time remembering where you left off, a lot of times requiring me to restart an episode, which of course queues commercials. Speaking of commercials, if you lose connectivity for a second FOXNOW quits out of the show and requires you to find the show again and restart, which again requires watching the 5 commercials. When going through tunnels on a subway this can be a nightmare. I had this happen 4 times in a row one time. Sometimes even when I have 4 bars of LTE the show will still hang up and do the loading circle. Nothing quite compares to the Netflix or HBO apps. This has taken me way too long to get through the horrible show that is The Passage.

I use this app so it can view FNC programming live & also later; FN works ok on my slow internet connection. I find it really hard to navigate , hard to play the program I want, when replaying a program it is difficult to go back or forward the buttons don’t always appear and there is no tech support to help; there is no directions to help; I have tried text chat for text Support there is no phone number for tech support I’ve emailed tech support . generally I don’t get an answer or I get someone who has no ability to help me.
After a program is broadcast live it does not show up on the menu to view again until the next day or many hours later.
It would be nice if they provided telephone tech support or at least detailed instructions on how to use the application.
Not having cable; not having a television; only using a slow Internet connection with an iPad fox now is cheaper than anything else but other than that I would not recommend it.

After talking to my tv provider and to the fox now app support I still have no use for my fox now app. Fox now app customer service was so rude both times I was basically hung up on because I wouldn’t agree that FOXNOW not working wasn’t their fault. They obviously have a bug in their app that needs to fixed so dish network people who pay for the use of FOXNOW can actually use it.

And yes I did call and confirm not once but twice with dish that the fox now app should work and I should have all access because they receive their money so we could use the service. Dish can not fix a bug that is not their app issue. Dish network was polite and listen and was helpful. They were not jerks who blamed everyone else for their stupid app bug. Try to be courteous to people and don’t hang up on them just because a woman knows when there is a flaw in your app. Fox now app customer service stinks be glad no one answered when you called.

Has anyone ever changed service providers before?
Has anyone ever tried to use your chat help?
How much were your idiot programmers paid to write an app that you can’t change service providers? When you try to log on to your service provider, it automatically goes to the old saved info and there is no way to enter new info and a new provider. And no, im not going to erase my phone just to log into your complete crap. Eat a bag of dicks.
Then you try to log on to chat and after you enter a bunch of info that is unnecessary to me but allows you to track me, there is no way to actually request the signin to chat, (which would have been an incredible waste of my time because they would have said to erase my phone). Get it together!!! People are absolutely sick of complete stupidity on the part of corporations and paid employees. Why am I beta testing an app that has been released for years?
Once again, go eat a bag of dicks.

So I use FOXNOW on my iPad and my Apple TV (4th gen). This review addresses both devices.

On my Apple TV you cannot pause/resume while watching "live". This is the same on my iPad.

If, while watching in "live" mode I choose to "restart", I can pause/resume using iPad, but NOT in Apple TV. With either device while doing a restart of a live show I cannot scrub forward to the current live position of the show. This is VERY annoying! If I'm wanting to restart a live show and then scrub (fast forward) to somewhere in between the start position and the current "live" position I can't. I should be able to!

If I stream something previously recorded I can pause/resume a show on both devices. I can scrub forward/backward on my iPad but NOT on my Apple TV. Of course, scrubbing is deactivated during commercial breaks, which is normal for most streaming TV apps.

The menu is thoughtfully designed and easy to navigate. It's a better menu implementation then DirecTV NOW, or Sony Playstation VUE, both of which I use on my Apple TV and iPad.

If it weren't for the issues mentioned above (inconsistency between devices, pause/resume and scrub niggles) I would have given FOXNOW 5 stars. As it is, I gave it 4 stars on iPad and 3 stars on Apple TV.

I use to love FOXNOW since it was the only app that would allow you to see new shows same day while other channels’ apps, you have to wait a day to see new episode if you didn’t watch it live.

Now, it won’t even let me watch any shows even though I logged in via my tv provider login name. My TV provider says to contact Fox. Fox says to contact my tv provider. I asked both to talk to each other with me on the phone to help resolve this issue but no one would.

I notice all the recent reviews are really negative and the developer says the same thing to each user, to use chat to contact for help. Well I already did that, multiple times so wonder if anyone will fix this issue without telling me to contact support that was useless, pushing me back to my TV provider even though this is clearly a Fox app issue given my provider looked up my tv package and I do have Fox included in my package.

I’ve had FOXNOW for a month or two. When I first downloaded FOXNOW it worked fine! I could sign in easy, live news streams loaded fast, and even streaming to my chrome cast via iPhone worked 9.5 times out of 10. In the past week or so they’ve had two updates and have completely killed my love for FOXNOW . Now when I stream to my TV it buffers during ever commercial break. I have to restart FOXNOW and everything about 5times to watch 1hour of news. The Bally sports app wasn’t even this bad when it launched (and I thought that app was and still is a mess).

Update: FOXNOW has somehow gotten worse. I can’t watch a full baseball game without having to disconnect from my chromecast, exiting, then restarting FOXNOW . The buffering is terrible, and at one point the game just went to commercial in the middle of a play… NBC, CBS, and ESPN all have way better app quality than this joke.

When it comes to streaming apps I have them all, mostly so I can watch college football at work on Saturdays. The Fox app is the only app that constantly allows me to watch and then randomly started telling me my provider package didn’t include Fox which I know is a lie because I watch it at home all the time when games are on and I’m home. This happened during the Michigan Army game in the 4th quarter after I had been watching it all game long. I ended up missing the end of the 4th and the OTs and I’ve never been able to log in since. Every time I try to log-in it says I’ve exceeded the maximum attempts and to try again in 15 minutes. I try once per day and still get this message when I know I’m putting the correct info in. My favorite team USC plays Washington on Saturday and I’m upset to see it’s on Fox because I will not be able to watch it on Saturday due to FOXNOW being awful. Hopefully they fix this bug.

The UI is slow and hard to navigate. It insists on showing distracting animated backdrops when trying to navigate to your show. It has stupid hidden multilevel menus when trying to navigate to the shows you want to see. It requires a separate login to remember where you left off in your show. It requires location services once to get live TV functionality otherwise it nags you to turn it on even though I never plan to use it. It constantly forgets my TV provider, and I have to constantly log into it every time I start it. It takes minutes just to get back to the shows I want to see. It takes too long to discover new shows. It really wants to get in your face with interactive ads even when I’m already paying for this stuff. It makes me feel like the product instead of a customer. The only good thing about it is the selection of shows is good when you’ve paid for it.

There is no way in hell any of these reviews are real for FOXNOW. Anyone, ANYONE who tries to use FOXNOW for more than 5 sec would want to punch the developers baby in the face. It does not load, if it does it takes 45 sec, maybe. Then it locks up and quits every time you get more than 15 sec into any show. There is nothing useful about FOXNOW. I would rather watch my shows on a VHS tape that has been recorded over 10 times than to try and watch them on this. And I would even prefer and risk it if there was even a 50/50 chance my parents private recording happened to pop up at the end. That’s how bad FOXNOW is and what I would rather go thru then have to deal with this. They have too much animated crap going on that nothing can handle the amount of data or ram this has to use. I would rather be kicked in then it’s for 5 min than try and get a show to actually play in FOXNOW.

On xbox1, while entering my information from my cable subscription. FOXNOW would not accept the number 9. Seriously, it wouldn’t take the number 9 in my password. I checked another app that uses the same information and had no problems. I went to Fox support via the chat feature. I was told it was a known issue and to use a different device. No idea of a target date for a fix and a rufe agent to boot.
So I set it up on my smart tv. No problem except for every 10-15 minutes I get an error saying there are too many devices streaming? You then have to go all the way back to the main page and choose to resume or restart the episode. When you resume you are set to the commercials (all of them) before you restart.
FOXNOW is garbage. Go to the HBO or Showtime apps to see how to do it right. This one is not ready. Real garbage.

It keeps kicking me off every time the actual show starts to play. I’m logged in to my provider yet still this keeps happing. I have watched like 6 adds so far as, oddly enough, they play just fine - TRYING TO WATCH THE SAME EPISODE only getting less than 30sec each time! And even after reinstalling it, it still pulls this crap!!! I guess they care more about making themselves money than making an app -or website- that works at all for what it’s supposed to do!
Even their own website doesn’t work at all. It won’t even let me log into my provider, always giving me this crap message “something went wrong”. Been doing this for weeks! What is the point of even making a website that you won’t even let ppl use.
Ironically pulling this crap all the time tends to promote illegal downloading, something which they claim to be cracking down on.
I would give this negative stars if I could!

AppleTV plays HD during 5-minute ‘free preview’ then drops to crayon resolution. Meanwhile, my fiber connection tests at 120Mbit and there’s Cat6 copper to my router - no WiFi.

*Update* tonight during prime time, endless crashes and messages “FOXNOW is not available”. After midnight, everything is beautiful.

FOX, contact me for some great performance, stress and load testing if you want to fix FOXNOW.

And - All these shows are broadcast in 5.1 surround, only two-channel sound in FOXNOW ?? Apparently FOXNOW is only for ‘catching up’ using your phone or tablet or the crappy old TV in the back bedroom.

*Update 2* Thanks, FOX, for your developer response. I was trying to catch up on some of your beautiful shows. Unfortunately they looked terrible and were difficult to appreciate with all the problems. PS - yes, I already tried the troubleshooting on your web page without positive results.

*Update 3* Props to Fox Support for being super responsive in a Sunday in the US. A big raspberry for going completely silent when it was time to actually fix something after all the canned questions (“What’s the model number of your AppleTV 4?”) and responses like switching to another DNS server. Software gurus recommend a “fail early, fail often” strategy. It appears Fox has strongly adopted for FOXNOW.

Shows keep freezing, then you must restart FOXNOW to unfreeze. Beautiful design, great user interface, but functionality lacks. After restarting you will either be forced to have to start from the beginning of your show again, or be forced into creating a profile and surrender your email and other personal info, which by this point in 2017 is pretty lame on FOX's part to say the least. Let's just make sure I understand this, I need a network provider to sign in. Once signed in and you piggy back on my network, I'm still subjected to watch your commercials and interactive ads, and when your app freezes while watching our shows, you want us to create a profile just to resume watching where we were interrupted. LAME... very lame indeed. Your development team should be ashamed. : (

I know this is a weird review but I found a bug in FOXNOW on my TV and reached out to tech support. When trying their methods of troubleshooting and getting nowhere I branched out and tried something they didn’t suggest and found a workaround to my issue. When I tried to tell them the steps I took just to spread knowledge in case someone else has a similar experience; and ultimately to make a better customer experience they ended the chat suddenly. The feedback link provided was also corrupt so I wasn’t able to leave this there.

Overall FOXNOW is okay with a few issues but there’s workarounds. Customer service on the other hand from tech support could use significant boosting.

I can only get like 30 seconds into a show before the entire app closes itself out, and opening it up restarts the show again, only to play though commercials perfectly fine, then crash 30 seconds in again. Every time I open FOXNOW I have a problem. I’d love to use it if it worked properly, and I’ve gone through with all the updates for it, but with each update it seems to cause more bugs for me than fixes, and the ‘chat with an expert’ option never goes beyond a blank screen with no option to actually type or do anything to communicate issues. I feel really dissapointed considering how well it worked when I first downloaded it. ☹️

I enjoyed using Fox Now, until it became useless.

First one show wouldn’t play. It would crash partway through the opening ad. But other shows were fine. Then other shows started having issues too. I assumed it was my phone, as it was starting to have problems. But now I’ve upgraded my phone, and it won’t even connect to mu TV provider! Other channels’ apps will, so this is neither my phone anymore nor my provider.

Probably the most frustrating part is that I can find absolutely no “report a problem” option anywhere on FOXNOW . The link in the AppStore is useless as that website apparently no longer services the this app app. My only possible recourse *might* be the live chat, but I *should* be able to simply submit a report form.

Since FOXNOW update 6 days ago, the iPad app keeps crashing. The question list in FOXNOW suggest clearing the cache of safari, and deleting and reinstalling FOXNOW . I’ve done both, it still crashes. There is a “chat with an expert” box, but it opens up a white screen and no chat begins. There is nowhere to send an email, and no where to send requests for help. In FOXNOW Store, where it says “?App Support”, it goes to a page that says the developer no longer is using this page for their support. This is very frustrating and upsetting.

I also hate the new layout when you start a program, where it opens in a small box to the top left, and there are large icons for upcoming programming to the right. If you tap the icon to make the program full screen, then you lose the portion of the picture on the far right and far left, there seems to be no option to letterbox. And I HATE that when a program ends that it automatically starts another seemingly random program. Now because of the crashing, I have not finished a program on Fox for a few days, but it looks like the next show up is several episodes in on a show I don’t even care to watch. But even if I did, why would I want to watch it starting several episodes in and not from the beginning? Why can I not choose whether to go on to the next suggested program? Or give me several to choose from, if I ever manage to finish an episode?.

Maybe people using FOXNOW exist in a bubble where they’ve only used Fox’s streaming app, because if you’ve used any other for even a second, you’d know how utterly terrible FOXNOW is. Using FOXNOW is like a battle, and I’m always losing. Want to cast to a TV? Sure, but if you want to pause, rewind, fast forward, or use any feature that a reasonable person may want to do, FOXNOW freezes, locks up, and you’ll have to restart your show completely over. I find myself having to completely quit FOXNOW several times just to start a show. Finally get it working and are enjoying your show? FOXNOW will start the episode simultaneously on your phone AND TV, forcing you to once again quit FOXNOW , and start the battle of getting your show on all over again. Not a single feature on FOXNOW works like it’s supposed to. I don’t know who designed FOXNOW, but they clearly didn’t get a chance to finish.