iPhone 14.8 ios is reporting storage correctly after downloading and after a delete.
All those years of literally duct taping things together to make inputs that didn't want to talk to each other do so. Ah... I don't miss it!
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Feature request for this item:
For the use case where Iāve downloaded 10 or 50 shows to my iPad, and I leave home, and I am no longer connected to any internet. When I look at the shows that Channels has downloaded, I do not have as nice of a UI as I would expect. Channels is listing all of the shows, one by one as individuals, however it would be nice if the view showed them in āGroupsā by show, rather than individual shows.
All the same niceties that Channels has in the normal UI would be helpful too, like sort by, order by, etcā¦
I also have the issue with the space being consumed with iPad OS 15.1
This is all planned.
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Iām having frequent failed downloads on my (fairly old) iPad Mini. Submitted diagnostics.
Can you try submitting diagnostics again? It doesn't look like they went through.
Could you also check if you've run out of disk space? I'm wondering if there's a bug around detecting available disk space.
No problem, I resubmitted and made sure Iām not bumping up against the storage capacity. Iāve been able to download a decent amount but seemingly at random it just errors out. Iāve made sure the screen stays on too.
Next time you get a failure, could you submit diagnostics right after it? We have a new TestFlight beta out that should also give me a little more detail about what's going on.
I'm hoping that this functionality will makes its way to streaming (Apple TV, Chromecast w/GTV, Tivo Stream 4K, Nvidia Shield...). Please count this as a vote for it.
Use case:
Second home (Europe) accessing Channels Server in US Limited upstream bandwidth in US limits streaming fidelity and creates pauses. Downloads increase quality and eliminates pauses. Would need storage accessible by the streamer (for me, I've got 32GB available via USB-C.
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There's no plans for adding Downloads to these devices as they do not have the storage necessary for it.
Thanks for the info. I'd like to lobby for it though. With a USB-C hub, it's easy to add a key or SDcard with 32-256GB of storage. With that storage, one could easily download video and play it off it that. Would do wonders to solve viewing problems due to glitchy/limited bandwidth.
This was done in the latest TestFlight beta.
Trash seems to be delayed. I swipe to trash the videos and they do disappear initially. I then go out to the library and back into downloads and they are still there. Then like a minute later they are gone.
Same kind of thing happens when the trash is emptied in the settings section, the videos disappear but then you back out to the settings and it still has the count in the trash setting... but then disappears within a minute.
Not sure if this is on purpose but it seems like a bug in use.
I get why the downloads wait for wifi but i have a very large data allowance and sometimes i really want to download something while iām not on wifi and especially if i have 4g or 5g coverage this seems like an unnecessary restriction. Thereās already a perfectly good ios setting that I could use to turn off mobile data for the channels app if i wanted - why canāt you just use that setting and let people who want to download over cellular do so?
Downloads don't work on cellular right now, not forever. This feature is in beta.
Oh, and thanks for this feature - this has been the major part of my wish list for a long time now. Other than the clock of course 
And now thatās arrived i might start a clock-style campaign for the ability to go forward and back in the guide one day at a time which is also completely inexplicable by its absence!
Yeah i get it. Just a suggestion as feedback on the beta, I think it would be better if users could choose whether to download over cellular, and you donāt even need to build the feature because Apple already did it for you!
See above:
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