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Peacock TV – Stream TV, Movies, Live Sports & More
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About Peacock TV – Stream TV, Movies, Live Sports & More
Introducing Peacock: the new streaming service from NBCUniversal. It’s where the best of streaming meets the best of TV. And best of all, you can watch for free (or upgrade for more).
With Peacock, you can stream current hits, hundreds of timeless movies, thousands of episodes of your favorite TV shows, and exclusive Originals. Plus… timely news, live sports, and pop culture, updated daily.
Here’s what you get with PEACOCK FREE:
Instant access to hundreds of movies from major Hollywood studios such as Universal, DreamWorks Animation, Focus Features & Illumination; fascinating documentaries like Murderball, Dying Laughing, I Am Ali, and Dave Chappelle’s Block Party.
Thousands of hours of iconic TV shows, including full seasons of buzzworthy faves, bingeworthy classics, and current-season NBC hits.
Peacock Channels – playing your favorite movies, shows, and clips, 24-7. Scroll less and stream more with the SNL Vault, Fallon Tonight, Seth Meyers Now, TODAY All Day, True Crime, and Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Exclusive Originals for everyone in the household, including the new Psych movie and In Deep with Ryan Lochte.
A daily dose of live news, showcasing the best of NBC News, CNBC, MSNBC, and E! News; plus late night and pop culture to satisfy your FOMO.
Live sports, including the Tokyo Olympics.
Kids’ movies and shows, including brand-new seasons of Curious George and Where’s Waldo?
Hit Spanish-language TV shows and news from Telemundo.
Upgrade to PEACOCK PREMIUM ($4.99/month) for an all-access pass to everything Peacock has to offer – every movie, every episode, every season, every live sporting event. More to watch. More to binge. More to love.
Stream everything—including even more blockbuster movies and full seasons of premium TV.
Full seasons of Exclusive Peacock Originals, including Brave New World, The Capture, Intelligence, Lost Speedways with Dale Earnhardt Jr., and more.
More live sports, including hundreds of Premier League soccer matches.
Next-day streaming of current-season NBC hits like New Amsterdam, Manifest, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and Saturday Night Live.
Unlimited access to the entire library of Kids and Family entertainment including titles from the vaults of DreamWorks Animation.
With PEACOCK PREMIUM PLUS ($9.99/month), you get everything included in Peacock Premium, plus:
Stream Peacock ad-free*.
Download available titles to your mobile device and watch later, anywhere.
* Due to streaming rights, Peacock Channels, events, and a few shows & movies will still contain ads.
Content availability may vary over time.
Please note: use of the app is limited to the United States and its territories. Data charges may apply.
If applicable, charges begin after your promotional period of Peacock Premium/Peacock Premium Plus concludes. You will be charged on a recurring basis minus applied offers plus applicable taxes. Your subscription will auto-renew until you cancel. Cancel at any time by visiting your account. By subscribing, you agree to the preceding subscription terms and our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Upgrade for More: www.peacocktv.com
Terms of Use: www.peacocktv.com/terms
Privacy Policy: www.peacocktv.com/privacy
Customer Help: www.peacocktv.com/help
Do Not Sell My Personal Information:
www.peacocktv.com/do-not-sell-my-info
This app features Nielsen proprietary measurement software, which will allow you to contribute to market research, like Nielsen’s TV Ratings. To learn more about our digital measurement products and your choices in regard to them, please visit http://www.nielsen.com/digitalprivacy for more information.
With Peacock, you can stream current hits, hundreds of timeless movies, thousands of episodes of your favorite TV shows, and exclusive Originals. Plus… timely news, live sports, and pop culture, updated daily.
Here’s what you get with PEACOCK FREE:
Instant access to hundreds of movies from major Hollywood studios such as Universal, DreamWorks Animation, Focus Features & Illumination; fascinating documentaries like Murderball, Dying Laughing, I Am Ali, and Dave Chappelle’s Block Party.
Thousands of hours of iconic TV shows, including full seasons of buzzworthy faves, bingeworthy classics, and current-season NBC hits.
Peacock Channels – playing your favorite movies, shows, and clips, 24-7. Scroll less and stream more with the SNL Vault, Fallon Tonight, Seth Meyers Now, TODAY All Day, True Crime, and Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Exclusive Originals for everyone in the household, including the new Psych movie and In Deep with Ryan Lochte.
A daily dose of live news, showcasing the best of NBC News, CNBC, MSNBC, and E! News; plus late night and pop culture to satisfy your FOMO.
Live sports, including the Tokyo Olympics.
Kids’ movies and shows, including brand-new seasons of Curious George and Where’s Waldo?
Hit Spanish-language TV shows and news from Telemundo.
Upgrade to PEACOCK PREMIUM ($4.99/month) for an all-access pass to everything Peacock has to offer – every movie, every episode, every season, every live sporting event. More to watch. More to binge. More to love.
Stream everything—including even more blockbuster movies and full seasons of premium TV.
Full seasons of Exclusive Peacock Originals, including Brave New World, The Capture, Intelligence, Lost Speedways with Dale Earnhardt Jr., and more.
More live sports, including hundreds of Premier League soccer matches.
Next-day streaming of current-season NBC hits like New Amsterdam, Manifest, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and Saturday Night Live.
Unlimited access to the entire library of Kids and Family entertainment including titles from the vaults of DreamWorks Animation.
With PEACOCK PREMIUM PLUS ($9.99/month), you get everything included in Peacock Premium, plus:
Stream Peacock ad-free*.
Download available titles to your mobile device and watch later, anywhere.
* Due to streaming rights, Peacock Channels, events, and a few shows & movies will still contain ads.
Content availability may vary over time.
Please note: use of the app is limited to the United States and its territories. Data charges may apply.
If applicable, charges begin after your promotional period of Peacock Premium/Peacock Premium Plus concludes. You will be charged on a recurring basis minus applied offers plus applicable taxes. Your subscription will auto-renew until you cancel. Cancel at any time by visiting your account. By subscribing, you agree to the preceding subscription terms and our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Upgrade for More: www.peacocktv.com
Terms of Use: www.peacocktv.com/terms
Privacy Policy: www.peacocktv.com/privacy
Customer Help: www.peacocktv.com/help
Do Not Sell My Personal Information:
www.peacocktv.com/do-not-sell-my-info
This app features Nielsen proprietary measurement software, which will allow you to contribute to market research, like Nielsen’s TV Ratings. To learn more about our digital measurement products and your choices in regard to them, please visit http://www.nielsen.com/digitalprivacy for more information.
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Oct 27, 2020 Amended. The app is quite slow to load, but eventually everything appears, including my watch list. You do have to be patient to get back to a show you've been watching. There's quite a bit of good content, though, including some new shows. The "channels" section was confusing me at first; now I just ignore it and am much happier.more -
Decent service, real poor app quality
Sep 30, 2020 First off, I do love the peacock service - I appreciate the shows available and as I pay for the full subscription I’ve been enjoying the content without ads. The streaming quality has been good for me. I do agree with another reviewer that the reload time is obnoxious, if I pause the video and come back to it. Pausing and returning usually takes the video back 15 seconds which is very frustrating. Also, I’m frustrated that I can’t have the app running in the background while doing something else on my phone. Netflix lets me turn my phone off and just plays the show as audio, which allows me to listen to the show without draining my battery. This seems like a very basic user functionality that all apps should have these days, but I understand that if the app was maybe rushed to production that it’s not there yet. I would appreciate this being fixed for an update. I also wish the app had a homepage where I could save shows for later. It’s frustrating having to remember what I was interested in or having to use the search bar every single time I want to find a show. I also would like an option to hide the main page, which currently shows news and stuff like that. It should be a customizable front page or I should be able to hide the news/sports so that they’re not what I see when I first open the app. I will keep paying for this for a few months in the hopes that the app will get better.more -
Oct 25, 2020 Great content/ good idea, however I don't believe developers are quite there yet with playback. I have an extremely stable super fast Wi-Fi connection and have yet to be able to play one movie or show all the way through without some kind of lag where I have to restart. The major issue I have had is I will be playing and the audio will start to not be in sync with the picture or it will almost skip.. a 2 hr movie will take 20 min extra to watch. Please improve. Long initial loading time also.more -
LOVE the content, but problems with playback
Sep 14, 2020 Go team 🌈Peacock 🦚 for providing AWESOME content — all my favorite Bravo shows, every season, even every season of Bethany’s spin offs! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 I also love the variety of Indie movies with great celebs and directors! 🥳🥳🥳 Now — the problem with playback. When I watch Peacock on my TV through my Xfinity connected set top/DVR cable box, everything works fine. No problems with the time tracking, (ie if you are 30 mins into watching the program, it accurately displays the progress). BUT — while watching the same show or movie on my iPad or iPhone (not necessarily picking up where I left off on one device and watching it on another — that works great and is an awesome feature!), I can be 30 mins into a show, yet the progress bar is stuck on the time from the last commercial break. Then if I try to rewind, it makes me watch the entire commercial break AGAIN. It has happened where I wind up being forced to watch more commercial time than actual content time in one 30 minute show!! Also, sometimes I will get all the way to the end of a program, and it won’t auto start the next episode. Any progression feature (rewind, FF, etc) tapped will trigger ANOTHER commercial break!! Lastly, can’t you remove commercials altogether for premium subscribers? Hopefully this progression issue gets fixed QUICKLY 🙏🏼🙏🏼! It’s REALLY ANNOYING to have to sit through so many commercials every time you rewind!!more -
No Feedback offered
Oct 5, 2020 No customer service or contact for feedback ... but has no issue taking my money! I’m writing re: my Roku Insignia TV 1. I can’t tell what program I have selected - I know it’s a soft white cloudy hue around the box with the program title listed - - but it’s still really tough to see and my mom can’t see it at all so she just presses ok and the wrong show starts. 2.How do you get to episodes of a show without streaming the show first? I just want to open it and see the episodes. So instead I go to my watchlist and open the show from there ... 3. My watchlist is missing more than 1/2 the shows I added. Last night I fell asleep watching law and order - so I just wanted to open the episodes to see where I am (see point #2). Law and order used to be in my watchlist and now it’s gone ....a bunch of shows are gone. 4. In the HISTORY of NBC I guess there has only been 45 comedies (15 rows of 3) Why oh why is Roseanne listed on the front page of “Just For Laughs” I hated that show and still do. Is there a way to “Thumbs Down” or “stop showing me this crap show” - you make me seriously wander about the amount of content you have 5. Can I go to TV shows and click Genre? Instead of finding your cheeky name for a genre? Same with movies. Do you not offer this because the amount of content is so low? 6. Seriously - how much content do you actually have?more
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Oct 28, 2020 Audio is awful, shows are quiet, commercials are absurdly loud. The app is also slow and the menu is awful, like really awful. The watchlist is really clumsy to use. The android app doesn't support picture in picture. The library is absolutely awful for the price, not worth it at all. Get it together guys because this is a complete disaster and I was paying for premium.more -
Decent streaming service, TERRIBLE app
Sep 26, 2020 The streaming service itself is decent, but this review is for the app specifically (both iPad and Apple TV). For some annoying reason, the app uses its own player rather than the iOS one, which means you can’t use any of the iOS features such as Picture in Picture or AirPlay. When I have a keyboard connected, I can’t use the space bar to play or pause like I can in pretty much every other streaming app. If I pause the video and use another app and then come back, it can often take up to 15 seconds for the video to load again before I can play. My biggest complaint with the app/service is when auto playing the next episode, about 70% of the time the next episode will start somewhere in the middle and I have to manually rewind it back to the beginning. It’s a good thing I’m only re-watching a show I’ve already seen multiple times before so nothing gets spoiled for me, but if I were watching a new show and had something spoiled because of this bug, I would be very upset. All things considered, once I finish watching the show I’m currently watching, I’ll be canceling my Peacock subscription. The content available to stream does not outweigh the numerous annoyances and complaints I have with the apps.more -
Oct 23, 2020 I love nbc and their shows. The app, however, is extremely frustrating. If anything interrupts the video (like a phone call), I have to uninstall the entire app and reinstall it. The video freezes or has error messages constantly. If my favorite shows were not held hostage to this app, I would absolutely not keep it. I hope they improve this immediatelymore -
Streaming is decent
Sep 30, 2020 The streaming is okay. Haven’t had issues. I have issues with them imposing the app on us in order to watch the Premier League. How is it that so far we’ve HAD to stream to watch the champions of England play 2 of the top teams? The biggest games should be available on TV where the majority of people already pay to watch the EPL. Putting them on the Peacock app is pretty upsetting and likely an attempt to boost their subscriptions to justify putting more big games on the app after NBCSB Gold failed. Additionally, I can’t even use air play because it’s restricted and there’s no app for my 2019 samsung tv. Having a toddler and crawler, we keep wires hidden and out of reach. So, airplay alike is a must. But if I want to watch this on the tv, I have to bring wires out and end up spending half the time keeping the kids from grabbing the wires or pushing buttons on the laptop. Pretty big waste of money if you ask me. They pay insane amounts to win contracts to get the rights to the games but then want us to pay additional for the big matches in addition to the main channel that’s supposed to show the best games. ....It’s like if I pay for HBO but then forced to pay extra for Game of Thrones...oh, and I wouldn’t easily be able to watch it on my tv.more -
Oct 16, 2020 Wretched. It's hard to believe a streaming app could be worse than CBS All Access, but you've managed to lower the bar. It shouldn't be so hard to return to new episodes of a show I watch every night. No preview while forwarding. Rudimentary player controls. Take a look at Netflix or Hulu to see how it's done. It looks like a streaming app designed by a cable company. I expect more from NBC.more
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LOVE the content, but problems with playback
Sep 14, 2020 Go team 🌈Peacock 🦚 for providing AWESOME content — all my favorite Bravo shows, every season, even every season of Bethany’s spin offs! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 I also love the variety of Indie movies with great celebs and directors! 🥳🥳🥳 Now — the problem with playback. When I watch Peacock on my TV through my Xfinity connected set top/DVR cable box, everything works fine. No problems with the time tracking, (ie if you are 30 mins into watching the program, it accurately displays the progress). BUT — while watching the same show or movie on my iPad or iPhone (not necessarily picking up where I left off on one device and watching it on another — that works great and is an awesome feature!), I can be 30 mins into a show, yet the progress bar is stuck on the time from the last commercial break. Then if I try to rewind, it makes me watch the entire commercial break AGAIN. It has happened where I wind up being forced to watch more commercial time than actual content time in one 30 minute show!! Also, sometimes I will get all the way to the end of a program, and it won’t auto start the next episode. Any progression feature (rewind, FF, etc) tapped will trigger ANOTHER commercial break!! Lastly, can’t you remove commercials altogether for premium subscribers? Hopefully this progression issue gets fixed QUICKLY 🙏🏼🙏🏼! It’s REALLY ANNOYING to have to sit through so many commercials every time you rewind!!more -
Oct 19, 2020 Looks like, overall, they've fixed the scrolling bug I previously experienced. Sometimes I still notice arbitrary "dead spots" when trying to scroll through a season (doesn't happen in any other app, so it's not the screen) but if I tap a different area it usually works. I also noticed that when I'm watching on my phone, not casting to a TV, autoplay works — it's when I'm casting the video to my TV that the autoplay function doesn't work at all. Would really appreciate that being sorted out.more
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Oct 27, 2020 Amended. The app is quite slow to load, but eventually everything appears, including my watch list. You do have to be patient to get back to a show you've been watching. There's quite a bit of good content, though, including some new shows. The "channels" section was confusing me at first; now I just ignore it and am much happier.more -
Decent service, real poor app quality
Sep 30, 2020 First off, I do love the peacock service - I appreciate the shows available and as I pay for the full subscription I’ve been enjoying the content without ads. The streaming quality has been good for me. I do agree with another reviewer that the reload time is obnoxious, if I pause the video and come back to it. Pausing and returning usually takes the video back 15 seconds which is very frustrating. Also, I’m frustrated that I can’t have the app running in the background while doing something else on my phone. Netflix lets me turn my phone off and just plays the show as audio, which allows me to listen to the show without draining my battery. This seems like a very basic user functionality that all apps should have these days, but I understand that if the app was maybe rushed to production that it’s not there yet. I would appreciate this being fixed for an update. I also wish the app had a homepage where I could save shows for later. It’s frustrating having to remember what I was interested in or having to use the search bar every single time I want to find a show. I also would like an option to hide the main page, which currently shows news and stuff like that. It should be a customizable front page or I should be able to hide the news/sports so that they’re not what I see when I first open the app. I will keep paying for this for a few months in the hopes that the app will get better.more -
Oct 25, 2020 Great content/ good idea, however I don't believe developers are quite there yet with playback. I have an extremely stable super fast Wi-Fi connection and have yet to be able to play one movie or show all the way through without some kind of lag where I have to restart. The major issue I have had is I will be playing and the audio will start to not be in sync with the picture or it will almost skip.. a 2 hr movie will take 20 min extra to watch. Please improve. Long initial loading time also.more -
No Feedback offered
Oct 5, 2020 No customer service or contact for feedback ... but has no issue taking my money! I’m writing re: my Roku Insignia TV 1. I can’t tell what program I have selected - I know it’s a soft white cloudy hue around the box with the program title listed - - but it’s still really tough to see and my mom can’t see it at all so she just presses ok and the wrong show starts. 2.How do you get to episodes of a show without streaming the show first? I just want to open it and see the episodes. So instead I go to my watchlist and open the show from there ... 3. My watchlist is missing more than 1/2 the shows I added. Last night I fell asleep watching law and order - so I just wanted to open the episodes to see where I am (see point #2). Law and order used to be in my watchlist and now it’s gone ....a bunch of shows are gone. 4. In the HISTORY of NBC I guess there has only been 45 comedies (15 rows of 3) Why oh why is Roseanne listed on the front page of “Just For Laughs” I hated that show and still do. Is there a way to “Thumbs Down” or “stop showing me this crap show” - you make me seriously wander about the amount of content you have 5. Can I go to TV shows and click Genre? Instead of finding your cheeky name for a genre? Same with movies. Do you not offer this because the amount of content is so low? 6. Seriously - how much content do you actually have?more -
App Works Good on iPhone, Not So Good Elsewhere
Aug 19, 2020 I enjoy the shows I can watch on my iPhone. Great selection, and plays back anything without a hitch. However ... ... I also like to play videos on my much larger TV. Now we have a problem. My iPhone 11 Pro Max running the latest version of iOS refuses to play any videos from this app on any TV. It will still play on my iPhone, while the TV shows a freeze frame of where I started the video. The audio comes from the TV as it should, though. When I try to play a video on my TV from an older device, it doesn’t play on either screen, though I can still hear audio from the TV. It still plays on my device properly while not plugged into a TV. I have several other streaming video apps, and all work the way they’re supposed to. Peacock is the only one that doesn't. I was hoping the latest update would fix this problem. It didn’t.more
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Oct 24, 2020 This app crashed constantly. I have tried to watch it every day this week after several attempts I can't get it to stop freezing or closing. Also you can add to a watchlist but there's no way to get to it. There are many other flaws for viewing like I dont care about what's trending I want quickly get the content I am interested in. Also you always have to browse or watch channels that repeat content. I would not pay for this when it's all jacked up with ads. I did sign up for the $5&$10 same.more -
Oct 26, 2020 Update: Have since attempted to use the app again. The same issue persists... buffering ~every minute so the content is unwatchable. I'm disappointed. --------- There are a handful of shows/movies I'm interested in watching, with plenty of filler packed around them, but unfortunately the constant buffering (anywhere from every 30 seconds to every 2 or 3 minutes) makes it very hard to watch anything. The free shows and episodes on other network apps (ABC, CBS) are much more accessible.more -
Buffers
Aug 14, 2020 I hate when it occasionally buffers none of my other apps do this on my iPad you have to stop it and start it up again and then it goes to your commercials and then starts the program, afraid to pay for premium service because of this issue, I went away for a while thinking they would fix it, and they haven’t but they keep coming out with new content, so I thought I’d check it out again and it’s still not fixed what’s the problem who wants to pay for something if you can’t even fix it, sorry I won’t pay for something if you can’t fix the buffering problem when it goes to commercials and doesn’t want to come back, without restarting it myself it doesn’t happen constantly but when it does it’s frustrating, quit adding new content and get people excited for something you can’t take care of or maintain good service, hope you have people look into this, I should have wrote a review right from the get go however I’m assuming I’m not the only one with problems I see a lot of low starsmore -
It’s ok
Oct 19, 2020 I got this app to watch Rich Eisen. His show is live, but I am not available to watch until about 1/2 way through. I prefer to watch beginning to end. The live broadcast ends at 1pm, but it is not made available to replay until late evening or in some cases the next day. When I 1st began using the app I had frustrations a plenty and hoped the bugs would get worked out before The Rich Eisen Show stopped broadcasting on TV. I don’t see that anything has improved from when I 1st began using the app until now. This app seems to have a wonderful catalog of movies, sports, old tv shows and The problem is, you get about 7-10 minutes in and the buffering begins. I am then informed that I am not connected to the internet. This is while I see all WiFi bars light up. I am then informed I should try a premium membership. Each time I open the app I see so many programs to watch, but it ends in heartbreak. This streaming service looks great, but it doesn’t work. And don’t tell me it’s free and the suggest I purchase premium version.more -
Not Ready for Prime Time (but we are forced to use it)
Sep 20, 2020 I have been using the app on my iPad and Apple TV since it was released. The app freezes regularly - some of which require navigating away from the stream and back in order to rectify, others which self-correct. This is especially frustrating when watching live sports (I subscribed to Peacock Premium to have access to English Premier League streams). EDIT 9/20: I had no problems 9/19 and 9/20. I would increase to 3 stars except I saw too many people on Twitter and Discord with the same problems I had in the past - including the significant delay which Peacock emailed me was a technical issue limited to 9/14. The app excludes NBC Sports despite NBC Sports Gold being replaced by Peacock - leaving sports fans with having to check multiple locations for content. NBC should migrate all NBC Sports app contents to Peacock and allow users to log into their cable subscription in Peacock to unlock access to that content. A single NBC content app would make for a better user experience.more
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Oct 28, 2020 Audio is awful, shows are quiet, commercials are absurdly loud. The app is also slow and the menu is awful, like really awful. The watchlist is really clumsy to use. The android app doesn't support picture in picture. The library is absolutely awful for the price, not worth it at all. Get it together guys because this is a complete disaster and I was paying for premium.more -
Decent streaming service, TERRIBLE app
Sep 26, 2020 The streaming service itself is decent, but this review is for the app specifically (both iPad and Apple TV). For some annoying reason, the app uses its own player rather than the iOS one, which means you can’t use any of the iOS features such as Picture in Picture or AirPlay. When I have a keyboard connected, I can’t use the space bar to play or pause like I can in pretty much every other streaming app. If I pause the video and use another app and then come back, it can often take up to 15 seconds for the video to load again before I can play. My biggest complaint with the app/service is when auto playing the next episode, about 70% of the time the next episode will start somewhere in the middle and I have to manually rewind it back to the beginning. It’s a good thing I’m only re-watching a show I’ve already seen multiple times before so nothing gets spoiled for me, but if I were watching a new show and had something spoiled because of this bug, I would be very upset. All things considered, once I finish watching the show I’m currently watching, I’ll be canceling my Peacock subscription. The content available to stream does not outweigh the numerous annoyances and complaints I have with the apps.more -
Oct 23, 2020 I love nbc and their shows. The app, however, is extremely frustrating. If anything interrupts the video (like a phone call), I have to uninstall the entire app and reinstall it. The video freezes or has error messages constantly. If my favorite shows were not held hostage to this app, I would absolutely not keep it. I hope they improve this immediatelymore -
Streaming is decent
Sep 30, 2020 The streaming is okay. Haven’t had issues. I have issues with them imposing the app on us in order to watch the Premier League. How is it that so far we’ve HAD to stream to watch the champions of England play 2 of the top teams? The biggest games should be available on TV where the majority of people already pay to watch the EPL. Putting them on the Peacock app is pretty upsetting and likely an attempt to boost their subscriptions to justify putting more big games on the app after NBCSB Gold failed. Additionally, I can’t even use air play because it’s restricted and there’s no app for my 2019 samsung tv. Having a toddler and crawler, we keep wires hidden and out of reach. So, airplay alike is a must. But if I want to watch this on the tv, I have to bring wires out and end up spending half the time keeping the kids from grabbing the wires or pushing buttons on the laptop. Pretty big waste of money if you ask me. They pay insane amounts to win contracts to get the rights to the games but then want us to pay additional for the big matches in addition to the main channel that’s supposed to show the best games. ....It’s like if I pay for HBO but then forced to pay extra for Game of Thrones...oh, and I wouldn’t easily be able to watch it on my tv.more -
Oct 16, 2020 Wretched. It's hard to believe a streaming app could be worse than CBS All Access, but you've managed to lower the bar. It shouldn't be so hard to return to new episodes of a show I watch every night. No preview while forwarding. Rudimentary player controls. Take a look at Netflix or Hulu to see how it's done. It looks like a streaming app designed by a cable company. I expect more from NBC.more
What’s Groovy
I am a day 1 user, waited months for this app at first never had any issues in my Apple TV or iPhone but now it’s constant errors. Most recent is just solid black screen with an outline of the channel schedule instead of puss in boots error screen occasionally. They also took away the office channel quietly a couple of days ago. Changed the reality tv “in it to win it” channel (that had huge variety in programming) into deal or no deal for over a week non stop 24/7. Just rename the channel already after nearly 250 episodes straight it’s officially the deal or no deal channel! I assumed okay maybe after they play each episode in the series I will get to see something new, sadly they just stared over from episode 1 again. Same episodes of kitchen nightmares (season 1) have been playing non stop for 5 days when it’s KN evening time block and the profit season 1. This didn’t used to be the case! There would be a mix of several seasons. I was thinking about subscribing but these are pretty major and sudden changes that make no sense. They were also what I used the app for 99% of the time. Went from being my #1 app to deleting and resubscribing to CBS all access who instead of taking away content added over 200 season of different shows last week.
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If a streaming service was made in hell. The interface is confusing and downright unusable. The interface not only sucks but is extremely inconsistent. You never know if you're going to have a continue watching section or not. It constantly lost where I was in shows and I would have to watch many ads trying to skip to the point I was at. The app constantly crashed and I would have to restart it. Overall this app sucks, don't waste your time, and definitely not your money.
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Amended. The app is quite slow to load, but eventually everything appears, including my watch list. You do have to be patient to get back to a show you've been watching. There's quite a bit of good content, though, including some new shows. The "channels" section was confusing me at first; now I just ignore it and am much happier.
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Decent service, real poor app quality
First off, I do love the peacock service - I appreciate the shows available and as I pay for the full subscription I’ve been enjoying the content without ads. The streaming quality has been good for me. I do agree with another reviewer that the reload time is obnoxious, if I pause the video and come back to it. Pausing and returning usually takes the video back 15 seconds which is very frustrating. Also, I’m frustrated that I can’t have the app running in the background while doing something else on my phone. Netflix lets me turn my phone off and just plays the show as audio, which allows me to listen to the show without draining my battery. This seems like a very basic user functionality that all apps should have these days, but I understand that if the app was maybe rushed to production that it’s not there yet. I would appreciate this being fixed for an update. I also wish the app had a homepage where I could save shows for later. It’s frustrating having to remember what I was interested in or having to use the search bar every single time I want to find a show. I also would like an option to hide the main page, which currently shows news and stuff like that. It should be a customizable front page or I should be able to hide the news/sports so that they’re not what I see when I first open the app. I will keep paying for this for a few months in the hopes that the app will get better. -
Great content/ good idea, however I don't believe developers are quite there yet with playback. I have an extremely stable super fast Wi-Fi connection and have yet to be able to play one movie or show all the way through without some kind of lag where I have to restart. The major issue I have had is I will be playing and the audio will start to not be in sync with the picture or it will almost skip.. a 2 hr movie will take 20 min extra to watch. Please improve. Long initial loading time also.
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LOVE the content, but problems with playback
Go team 🌈Peacock 🦚 for providing AWESOME content — all my favorite Bravo shows, every season, even every season of Bethany’s spin offs! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 I also love the variety of Indie movies with great celebs and directors! 🥳🥳🥳 Now — the problem with playback. When I watch Peacock on my TV through my Xfinity connected set top/DVR cable box, everything works fine. No problems with the time tracking, (ie if you are 30 mins into watching the program, it accurately displays the progress). BUT — while watching the same show or movie on my iPad or iPhone (not necessarily picking up where I left off on one device and watching it on another — that works great and is an awesome feature!), I can be 30 mins into a show, yet the progress bar is stuck on the time from the last commercial break. Then if I try to rewind, it makes me watch the entire commercial break AGAIN. It has happened where I wind up being forced to watch more commercial time than actual content time in one 30 minute show!! Also, sometimes I will get all the way to the end of a program, and it won’t auto start the next episode. Any progression feature (rewind, FF, etc) tapped will trigger ANOTHER commercial break!! Lastly, can’t you remove commercials altogether for premium subscribers? Hopefully this progression issue gets fixed QUICKLY 🙏🏼🙏🏼! It’s REALLY ANNOYING to have to sit through so many commercials every time you rewind!! -
No Feedback offered
No customer service or contact for feedback ... but has no issue taking my money! I’m writing re: my Roku Insignia TV 1. I can’t tell what program I have selected - I know it’s a soft white cloudy hue around the box with the program title listed - - but it’s still really tough to see and my mom can’t see it at all so she just presses ok and the wrong show starts. 2.How do you get to episodes of a show without streaming the show first? I just want to open it and see the episodes. So instead I go to my watchlist and open the show from there ... 3. My watchlist is missing more than 1/2 the shows I added. Last night I fell asleep watching law and order - so I just wanted to open the episodes to see where I am (see point #2). Law and order used to be in my watchlist and now it’s gone ....a bunch of shows are gone. 4. In the HISTORY of NBC I guess there has only been 45 comedies (15 rows of 3) Why oh why is Roseanne listed on the front page of “Just For Laughs” I hated that show and still do. Is there a way to “Thumbs Down” or “stop showing me this crap show” - you make me seriously wander about the amount of content you have 5. Can I go to TV shows and click Genre? Instead of finding your cheeky name for a genre? Same with movies. Do you not offer this because the amount of content is so low? 6. Seriously - how much content do you actually have? -
Looks like, overall, they've fixed the scrolling bug I previously experienced. Sometimes I still notice arbitrary "dead spots" when trying to scroll through a season (doesn't happen in any other app, so it's not the screen) but if I tap a different area it usually works. I also noticed that when I'm watching on my phone, not casting to a TV, autoplay works — it's when I'm casting the video to my TV that the autoplay function doesn't work at all. Would really appreciate that being sorted out.
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App Works Good on iPhone, Not So Good Elsewhere
I enjoy the shows I can watch on my iPhone. Great selection, and plays back anything without a hitch. However ... ... I also like to play videos on my much larger TV. Now we have a problem. My iPhone 11 Pro Max running the latest version of iOS refuses to play any videos from this app on any TV. It will still play on my iPhone, while the TV shows a freeze frame of where I started the video. The audio comes from the TV as it should, though. When I try to play a video on my TV from an older device, it doesn’t play on either screen, though I can still hear audio from the TV. It still plays on my device properly while not plugged into a TV. I have several other streaming video apps, and all work the way they’re supposed to. Peacock is the only one that doesn't. I was hoping the latest update would fix this problem. It didn’t. -
As an app that is meant to let you watch seasons of a show, why in the world can't I search through the season without having to start an episode? Also, with all other streaming app, why is the fast forward not a skip 10-15 seconds ahead? Prime video literally just added this and they were waaaay behind on it compare from other apps, don't follow in prime's footsteps. Also, a paid service that still has ads? Seriously? This app (and tv app) needs a lot of work still.
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Pay wall of quality problems
I get that they want to make more money so they are locking EPL behind a pay wall. As a consumer it’s frustrating but I am willing to pay for the content even though it is wildly anti consumer. What I can’t stand is that the streaming quality on my phone and home console that I use to stream to my TV is awful the picture breaks up “smears” once or twice every five minutes. This morning I couldn’t get the app to load on my phone OR console so I had to exit and relaunch multiple times. Once I finally got it up on my console I selected match week 2 for EPL and it would load in without yet another exit and relaunch. I have zero issues with loading and streaming youtubeTV or Sunday ticket or ESPN so NBC....I’d you make the people pay then make it something worth paying extra for please
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LOVE the content, but problems with playback
Go team 🌈Peacock 🦚 for providing AWESOME content — all my favorite Bravo shows, every season, even every season of Bethany’s spin offs! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 I also love the variety of Indie movies with great celebs and directors! 🥳🥳🥳 Now — the problem with playback. When I watch Peacock on my TV through my Xfinity connected set top/DVR cable box, everything works fine. No problems with the time tracking, (ie if you are 30 mins into watching the program, it accurately displays the progress). BUT — while watching the same show or movie on my iPad or iPhone (not necessarily picking up where I left off on one device and watching it on another — that works great and is an awesome feature!), I can be 30 mins into a show, yet the progress bar is stuck on the time from the last commercial break. Then if I try to rewind, it makes me watch the entire commercial break AGAIN. It has happened where I wind up being forced to watch more commercial time than actual content time in one 30 minute show!! Also, sometimes I will get all the way to the end of a program, and it won’t auto start the next episode. Any progression feature (rewind, FF, etc) tapped will trigger ANOTHER commercial break!! Lastly, can’t you remove commercials altogether for premium subscribers? Hopefully this progression issue gets fixed QUICKLY 🙏🏼🙏🏼! It’s REALLY ANNOYING to have to sit through so many commercials every time you rewind!! -
Looks like, overall, they've fixed the scrolling bug I previously experienced. Sometimes I still notice arbitrary "dead spots" when trying to scroll through a season (doesn't happen in any other app, so it's not the screen) but if I tap a different area it usually works. I also noticed that when I'm watching on my phone, not casting to a TV, autoplay works — it's when I'm casting the video to my TV that the autoplay function doesn't work at all. Would really appreciate that being sorted out.
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Amended. The app is quite slow to load, but eventually everything appears, including my watch list. You do have to be patient to get back to a show you've been watching. There's quite a bit of good content, though, including some new shows. The "channels" section was confusing me at first; now I just ignore it and am much happier.
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Decent service, real poor app quality
First off, I do love the peacock service - I appreciate the shows available and as I pay for the full subscription I’ve been enjoying the content without ads. The streaming quality has been good for me. I do agree with another reviewer that the reload time is obnoxious, if I pause the video and come back to it. Pausing and returning usually takes the video back 15 seconds which is very frustrating. Also, I’m frustrated that I can’t have the app running in the background while doing something else on my phone. Netflix lets me turn my phone off and just plays the show as audio, which allows me to listen to the show without draining my battery. This seems like a very basic user functionality that all apps should have these days, but I understand that if the app was maybe rushed to production that it’s not there yet. I would appreciate this being fixed for an update. I also wish the app had a homepage where I could save shows for later. It’s frustrating having to remember what I was interested in or having to use the search bar every single time I want to find a show. I also would like an option to hide the main page, which currently shows news and stuff like that. It should be a customizable front page or I should be able to hide the news/sports so that they’re not what I see when I first open the app. I will keep paying for this for a few months in the hopes that the app will get better. -
Great content/ good idea, however I don't believe developers are quite there yet with playback. I have an extremely stable super fast Wi-Fi connection and have yet to be able to play one movie or show all the way through without some kind of lag where I have to restart. The major issue I have had is I will be playing and the audio will start to not be in sync with the picture or it will almost skip.. a 2 hr movie will take 20 min extra to watch. Please improve. Long initial loading time also.
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No Feedback offered
No customer service or contact for feedback ... but has no issue taking my money! I’m writing re: my Roku Insignia TV 1. I can’t tell what program I have selected - I know it’s a soft white cloudy hue around the box with the program title listed - - but it’s still really tough to see and my mom can’t see it at all so she just presses ok and the wrong show starts. 2.How do you get to episodes of a show without streaming the show first? I just want to open it and see the episodes. So instead I go to my watchlist and open the show from there ... 3. My watchlist is missing more than 1/2 the shows I added. Last night I fell asleep watching law and order - so I just wanted to open the episodes to see where I am (see point #2). Law and order used to be in my watchlist and now it’s gone ....a bunch of shows are gone. 4. In the HISTORY of NBC I guess there has only been 45 comedies (15 rows of 3) Why oh why is Roseanne listed on the front page of “Just For Laughs” I hated that show and still do. Is there a way to “Thumbs Down” or “stop showing me this crap show” - you make me seriously wander about the amount of content you have 5. Can I go to TV shows and click Genre? Instead of finding your cheeky name for a genre? Same with movies. Do you not offer this because the amount of content is so low? 6. Seriously - how much content do you actually have? -
App Works Good on iPhone, Not So Good Elsewhere
I enjoy the shows I can watch on my iPhone. Great selection, and plays back anything without a hitch. However ... ... I also like to play videos on my much larger TV. Now we have a problem. My iPhone 11 Pro Max running the latest version of iOS refuses to play any videos from this app on any TV. It will still play on my iPhone, while the TV shows a freeze frame of where I started the video. The audio comes from the TV as it should, though. When I try to play a video on my TV from an older device, it doesn’t play on either screen, though I can still hear audio from the TV. It still plays on my device properly while not plugged into a TV. I have several other streaming video apps, and all work the way they’re supposed to. Peacock is the only one that doesn't. I was hoping the latest update would fix this problem. It didn’t. -
As an app that is meant to let you watch seasons of a show, why in the world can't I search through the season without having to start an episode? Also, with all other streaming app, why is the fast forward not a skip 10-15 seconds ahead? Prime video literally just added this and they were waaaay behind on it compare from other apps, don't follow in prime's footsteps. Also, a paid service that still has ads? Seriously? This app (and tv app) needs a lot of work still.
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Pay wall of quality problems
I get that they want to make more money so they are locking EPL behind a pay wall. As a consumer it’s frustrating but I am willing to pay for the content even though it is wildly anti consumer. What I can’t stand is that the streaming quality on my phone and home console that I use to stream to my TV is awful the picture breaks up “smears” once or twice every five minutes. This morning I couldn’t get the app to load on my phone OR console so I had to exit and relaunch multiple times. Once I finally got it up on my console I selected match week 2 for EPL and it would load in without yet another exit and relaunch. I have zero issues with loading and streaming youtubeTV or Sunday ticket or ESPN so NBC....I’d you make the people pay then make it something worth paying extra for please
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Audio is awful, shows are quiet, commercials are absurdly loud. The app is also slow and the menu is awful, like really awful. The watchlist is really clumsy to use. The android app doesn't support picture in picture. The library is absolutely awful for the price, not worth it at all. Get it together guys because this is a complete disaster and I was paying for premium.
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Decent streaming service, TERRIBLE app
The streaming service itself is decent, but this review is for the app specifically (both iPad and Apple TV). For some annoying reason, the app uses its own player rather than the iOS one, which means you can’t use any of the iOS features such as Picture in Picture or AirPlay. When I have a keyboard connected, I can’t use the space bar to play or pause like I can in pretty much every other streaming app. If I pause the video and use another app and then come back, it can often take up to 15 seconds for the video to load again before I can play. My biggest complaint with the app/service is when auto playing the next episode, about 70% of the time the next episode will start somewhere in the middle and I have to manually rewind it back to the beginning. It’s a good thing I’m only re-watching a show I’ve already seen multiple times before so nothing gets spoiled for me, but if I were watching a new show and had something spoiled because of this bug, I would be very upset. All things considered, once I finish watching the show I’m currently watching, I’ll be canceling my Peacock subscription. The content available to stream does not outweigh the numerous annoyances and complaints I have with the apps. -
I love nbc and their shows. The app, however, is extremely frustrating. If anything interrupts the video (like a phone call), I have to uninstall the entire app and reinstall it. The video freezes or has error messages constantly. If my favorite shows were not held hostage to this app, I would absolutely not keep it. I hope they improve this immediately
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Streaming is decent
The streaming is okay. Haven’t had issues. I have issues with them imposing the app on us in order to watch the Premier League. How is it that so far we’ve HAD to stream to watch the champions of England play 2 of the top teams? The biggest games should be available on TV where the majority of people already pay to watch the EPL. Putting them on the Peacock app is pretty upsetting and likely an attempt to boost their subscriptions to justify putting more big games on the app after NBCSB Gold failed. Additionally, I can’t even use air play because it’s restricted and there’s no app for my 2019 samsung tv. Having a toddler and crawler, we keep wires hidden and out of reach. So, airplay alike is a must. But if I want to watch this on the tv, I have to bring wires out and end up spending half the time keeping the kids from grabbing the wires or pushing buttons on the laptop. Pretty big waste of money if you ask me. They pay insane amounts to win contracts to get the rights to the games but then want us to pay additional for the big matches in addition to the main channel that’s supposed to show the best games. ....It’s like if I pay for HBO but then forced to pay extra for Game of Thrones...oh, and I wouldn’t easily be able to watch it on my tv. -
Wretched. It's hard to believe a streaming app could be worse than CBS All Access, but you've managed to lower the bar. It shouldn't be so hard to return to new episodes of a show I watch every night. No preview while forwarding. Rudimentary player controls. Take a look at Netflix or Hulu to see how it's done. It looks like a streaming app designed by a cable company. I expect more from NBC.
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Worst streaming app
Ok so is 2020 and you create a streaming app that cannot be casted to a smart tv. Is it me or is that not just dumb. I might have expected this 10 or maybe 5 years ago but in 2020 if you are making a streaming app you better make sure it can cast to a tv. My tv does not get the peacock app so it would have been nice to just air play it. It’s not preferable but it works. But you crated a streaming app that cannot do this. What kind of stupid are your programmers that thought “hey let’s create a streaming app that cannot be casted. There’s a brilliant idea”. Also the app navigation is kinda clunky. I do like one of the original shows but I hate watching it on my phone. For the first few episode I kinda was able to make it cast but when I tried last night i could only connect the sound. One again. What a dumb move at not adding the ability to cast to smart TVs. Why is this not a thing. Hell even the dumbest cable app have figured out the value of allowing there content to be casted. But the big nbc universal company cannot get this one small thing right. You are loosing the streaming war my friends and all because you where to dumb yo not add one feature that allows people to watch your shows on there big TVs. -
This app crashed constantly. I have tried to watch it every day this week after several attempts I can't get it to stop freezing or closing. Also you can add to a watchlist but there's no way to get to it. There are many other flaws for viewing like I dont care about what's trending I want quickly get the content I am interested in. Also you always have to browse or watch channels that repeat content. I would not pay for this when it's all jacked up with ads. I did sign up for the $5&$10 same.
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What is this, the year 2000?
This app is the absolute WORST app I have dealt with in 20 years. Whoever the hell designed this app needs to be fired and seriously consider a career change. Unless you have a very specific device to stream this service on, GOOD LUCK. First, getting it to play on our tv was like attempting brain surgery as a GED drop-out. Second, the content struggles to play worse than a no-armed wrestler. Third, if the app fails to load after commercials it just reverts back to the previous stopping point. This happened 3 straight times before we just gave up. That’s when I started searching for and easily finding reviews saying the exact same things over and over and over. A show that should have taken an hour to watch took over an hour and 45 min to finish. I’d rather buy every single show and movie on this app (from another service) rather than attempt to watch them on Peacock FOR FREE. Anyone considering Peacock, RUN AWAY AS FAST AS YOU CAN. If somehow this review makes it to anybody in the tv/movie industry, pull your content from this app before people start turning their crosshairs on you! Take this thing out back and put a bullet in it, put us ALL out of our misery. HORRIBLE!!!! -
Trashy Cash Grab
At least when some big corporations take full advantage of a fanbase they give a reasonable product, with a good interface, and enjoyable content. In the case of Peacock TV, they have taken our built up love of a product that they have spent time promoting, with hosts and talent that we now care about, and bastardized it to the last degree. This app is horrendous, nearly impossible to navigate or to play on your TV. What once was abundant free access to channels, shows and games, has now moved all behind multiple levels of a pay-wall. But wait, here’s the kicker, it’s not available on nearly HALF of all streaming content providers such as Roku, Amazon’s Fire Stick, Samsung’s Smart TV, LG’s Smart TV, and others. Spare me with the “You can just watch it on your phone” or “Watch it in your browser”. These products were previously free or abundant to watch on many NBCUniversal channels, and instead you must pay to watch them on this garbage can of an app, in the sake of competition which will clearly fail this corporation and their product. Don’t download, don’t pay for this service. Find a stream of the EPL games online, save your cash. They certainly don’t deserve it. -
Crashing problems. That's it. But at the same time it's much more than that. This app crashed completely after every single commercial. Oh and when it came back, hopefully it put you on the right side of the commercial break or it was time to crash again. Also, happened any time something else happens on your phone. Great shows though 👍
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NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA
i was told i did not meet US roaming requirements.... why is this not available in Canada
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This app crashed constantly. I have tried to watch it every day this week after several attempts I can't get it to stop freezing or closing. Also you can add to a watchlist but there's no way to get to it. There are many other flaws for viewing like I dont care about what's trending I want quickly get the content I am interested in. Also you always have to browse or watch channels that repeat content. I would not pay for this when it's all jacked up with ads. I did sign up for the $5&$10 same.
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Update: Have since attempted to use the app again. The same issue persists... buffering ~every minute so the content is unwatchable. I'm disappointed. --------- There are a handful of shows/movies I'm interested in watching, with plenty of filler packed around them, but unfortunately the constant buffering (anywhere from every 30 seconds to every 2 or 3 minutes) makes it very hard to watch anything. The free shows and episodes on other network apps (ABC, CBS) are much more accessible.
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Buffers
I hate when it occasionally buffers none of my other apps do this on my iPad you have to stop it and start it up again and then it goes to your commercials and then starts the program, afraid to pay for premium service because of this issue, I went away for a while thinking they would fix it, and they haven’t but they keep coming out with new content, so I thought I’d check it out again and it’s still not fixed what’s the problem who wants to pay for something if you can’t even fix it, sorry I won’t pay for something if you can’t fix the buffering problem when it goes to commercials and doesn’t want to come back, without restarting it myself it doesn’t happen constantly but when it does it’s frustrating, quit adding new content and get people excited for something you can’t take care of or maintain good service, hope you have people look into this, I should have wrote a review right from the get go however I’m assuming I’m not the only one with problems I see a lot of low stars -
It’s ok
I got this app to watch Rich Eisen. His show is live, but I am not available to watch until about 1/2 way through. I prefer to watch beginning to end. The live broadcast ends at 1pm, but it is not made available to replay until late evening or in some cases the next day. When I 1st began using the app I had frustrations a plenty and hoped the bugs would get worked out before The Rich Eisen Show stopped broadcasting on TV. I don’t see that anything has improved from when I 1st began using the app until now. This app seems to have a wonderful catalog of movies, sports, old tv shows and The problem is, you get about 7-10 minutes in and the buffering begins. I am then informed that I am not connected to the internet. This is while I see all WiFi bars light up. I am then informed I should try a premium membership. Each time I open the app I see so many programs to watch, but it ends in heartbreak. This streaming service looks great, but it doesn’t work. And don’t tell me it’s free and the suggest I purchase premium version. -
Not Ready for Prime Time (but we are forced to use it)
I have been using the app on my iPad and Apple TV since it was released. The app freezes regularly - some of which require navigating away from the stream and back in order to rectify, others which self-correct. This is especially frustrating when watching live sports (I subscribed to Peacock Premium to have access to English Premier League streams). EDIT 9/20: I had no problems 9/19 and 9/20. I would increase to 3 stars except I saw too many people on Twitter and Discord with the same problems I had in the past - including the significant delay which Peacock emailed me was a technical issue limited to 9/14. The app excludes NBC Sports despite NBC Sports Gold being replaced by Peacock - leaving sports fans with having to check multiple locations for content. NBC should migrate all NBC Sports app contents to Peacock and allow users to log into their cable subscription in Peacock to unlock access to that content. A single NBC content app would make for a better user experience. -
Lacking compared to all other streaming services
I’ve never written an app review before but NBC is forcing us to watch Premier League this way so hopefully they can improve the streaming options to match other live streaming services. The live stream has been ok but they need to add the ability to pause/rewind/FF like most live streaming services offer. Also having the ability to join an already started event live or have the option to start at beginning would be a big improvement and again this is the standard in today’s streaming services. The only other issues i have is the speed of searches can be very slow and when you browse for Premier League replays and select one you don’t get the button to play. I’ve found that you have to perform a search to find the replay you want and select it that way to see the button. Both the browse and search seem to go to the same screen but only through search do you actually see the button to play it. Rob -
Great if you're looking to destroy your battery or use your phone as a hand warmer but all I wanted was to stream some videos. No option to disable autoplay or decrease video quality to save data. "Do not sell my info" opt-out page does not load. Must re-enable subtitles after every app restart. No way to resume shows so you have to manually find which episode you last watched. It's free and the video quality is good but many improvements are needed.
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Bad UI, slow, sound loss
Want to watch your favorite show? I hope you’ve got plenty of time. Even though I watched six episodes this morning, I have to search for the show as if I had never watched it before. Once it opens (minimum 1 minute to find it) I lose the last 7 seconds of each segment because the sound goes on mute, then I have to watch a commercial. Even if the commercial was interesting, I then lose sound for the last 7 seconds of each commercial. At the end of each episode, you need to go through the menus to find the next one (no auto play functionality.) I got an alert of my iPad today to watch SNL. I click it and it’s nowhere to be found on, only a short “preview” with no link to the full episode. I went to the search, typed in SNL, waited 45 seconds watching a spinning wheel and then gave up. As soon as my free trial is over, I will be deleting. The only reason I’ve kept this app is because I got it for free. Also, no Samsung TV app support! :( -
Broken promises for EPL games
For years I have had Gold to watch English Premier League soccer, & I was always very happy with it. I would tell people it was a steal for 50-60 bucks a year, with all the stuff you got. It was easy to use, all in one place, & every game was available with ample supplementary material. We were told Peacock Premium would be just the same when EPL coverage switched over to it this summer. What a horrible joke!! The content is not easy to find and maneuver through. All the games are NOT included, only 175 games out of 380?!! I have to go over to NBC Sports or regular tv to watch many games. Why can’t this be all in one place? The supplementary material is hard to find- no clear lists of upcoming shows/coverage. I can’t even figure out how to pause during live play, which you could do on Gold. And if you go to the “Premier League channel” on the main page for “24 hour” programming- most of the time it’s a blank screen telling you to go to NBCSN. What happened?! -
I have to uninstall and reinstall the app every day to get it to work. The audio works but video is blacked out with the message "Error Code: CVF_OVP_START Heartbeat Error" The only way around this so far is uninstall and reinstall. I have emailed their support address last week about this and have yet to hear back. Device is a Pixel Slate tablet, FWIW.
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Audio is awful, shows are quiet, commercials are absurdly loud. The app is also slow and the menu is awful, like really awful. The watchlist is really clumsy to use. The android app doesn't support picture in picture. The library is absolutely awful for the price, not worth it at all. Get it together guys because this is a complete disaster and I was paying for premium.
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Decent streaming service, TERRIBLE app
The streaming service itself is decent, but this review is for the app specifically (both iPad and Apple TV). For some annoying reason, the app uses its own player rather than the iOS one, which means you can’t use any of the iOS features such as Picture in Picture or AirPlay. When I have a keyboard connected, I can’t use the space bar to play or pause like I can in pretty much every other streaming app. If I pause the video and use another app and then come back, it can often take up to 15 seconds for the video to load again before I can play. My biggest complaint with the app/service is when auto playing the next episode, about 70% of the time the next episode will start somewhere in the middle and I have to manually rewind it back to the beginning. It’s a good thing I’m only re-watching a show I’ve already seen multiple times before so nothing gets spoiled for me, but if I were watching a new show and had something spoiled because of this bug, I would be very upset. All things considered, once I finish watching the show I’m currently watching, I’ll be canceling my Peacock subscription. The content available to stream does not outweigh the numerous annoyances and complaints I have with the apps. -
I love nbc and their shows. The app, however, is extremely frustrating. If anything interrupts the video (like a phone call), I have to uninstall the entire app and reinstall it. The video freezes or has error messages constantly. If my favorite shows were not held hostage to this app, I would absolutely not keep it. I hope they improve this immediately
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Streaming is decent
The streaming is okay. Haven’t had issues. I have issues with them imposing the app on us in order to watch the Premier League. How is it that so far we’ve HAD to stream to watch the champions of England play 2 of the top teams? The biggest games should be available on TV where the majority of people already pay to watch the EPL. Putting them on the Peacock app is pretty upsetting and likely an attempt to boost their subscriptions to justify putting more big games on the app after NBCSB Gold failed. Additionally, I can’t even use air play because it’s restricted and there’s no app for my 2019 samsung tv. Having a toddler and crawler, we keep wires hidden and out of reach. So, airplay alike is a must. But if I want to watch this on the tv, I have to bring wires out and end up spending half the time keeping the kids from grabbing the wires or pushing buttons on the laptop. Pretty big waste of money if you ask me. They pay insane amounts to win contracts to get the rights to the games but then want us to pay additional for the big matches in addition to the main channel that’s supposed to show the best games. ....It’s like if I pay for HBO but then forced to pay extra for Game of Thrones...oh, and I wouldn’t easily be able to watch it on my tv. -
Wretched. It's hard to believe a streaming app could be worse than CBS All Access, but you've managed to lower the bar. It shouldn't be so hard to return to new episodes of a show I watch every night. No preview while forwarding. Rudimentary player controls. Take a look at Netflix or Hulu to see how it's done. It looks like a streaming app designed by a cable company. I expect more from NBC.
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Worst streaming app
Ok so is 2020 and you create a streaming app that cannot be casted to a smart tv. Is it me or is that not just dumb. I might have expected this 10 or maybe 5 years ago but in 2020 if you are making a streaming app you better make sure it can cast to a tv. My tv does not get the peacock app so it would have been nice to just air play it. It’s not preferable but it works. But you crated a streaming app that cannot do this. What kind of stupid are your programmers that thought “hey let’s create a streaming app that cannot be casted. There’s a brilliant idea”. Also the app navigation is kinda clunky. I do like one of the original shows but I hate watching it on my phone. For the first few episode I kinda was able to make it cast but when I tried last night i could only connect the sound. One again. What a dumb move at not adding the ability to cast to smart TVs. Why is this not a thing. Hell even the dumbest cable app have figured out the value of allowing there content to be casted. But the big nbc universal company cannot get this one small thing right. You are loosing the streaming war my friends and all because you where to dumb yo not add one feature that allows people to watch your shows on there big TVs. -
What is this, the year 2000?
This app is the absolute WORST app I have dealt with in 20 years. Whoever the hell designed this app needs to be fired and seriously consider a career change. Unless you have a very specific device to stream this service on, GOOD LUCK. First, getting it to play on our tv was like attempting brain surgery as a GED drop-out. Second, the content struggles to play worse than a no-armed wrestler. Third, if the app fails to load after commercials it just reverts back to the previous stopping point. This happened 3 straight times before we just gave up. That’s when I started searching for and easily finding reviews saying the exact same things over and over and over. A show that should have taken an hour to watch took over an hour and 45 min to finish. I’d rather buy every single show and movie on this app (from another service) rather than attempt to watch them on Peacock FOR FREE. Anyone considering Peacock, RUN AWAY AS FAST AS YOU CAN. If somehow this review makes it to anybody in the tv/movie industry, pull your content from this app before people start turning their crosshairs on you! Take this thing out back and put a bullet in it, put us ALL out of our misery. HORRIBLE!!!! -
Trashy Cash Grab
At least when some big corporations take full advantage of a fanbase they give a reasonable product, with a good interface, and enjoyable content. In the case of Peacock TV, they have taken our built up love of a product that they have spent time promoting, with hosts and talent that we now care about, and bastardized it to the last degree. This app is horrendous, nearly impossible to navigate or to play on your TV. What once was abundant free access to channels, shows and games, has now moved all behind multiple levels of a pay-wall. But wait, here’s the kicker, it’s not available on nearly HALF of all streaming content providers such as Roku, Amazon’s Fire Stick, Samsung’s Smart TV, LG’s Smart TV, and others. Spare me with the “You can just watch it on your phone” or “Watch it in your browser”. These products were previously free or abundant to watch on many NBCUniversal channels, and instead you must pay to watch them on this garbage can of an app, in the sake of competition which will clearly fail this corporation and their product. Don’t download, don’t pay for this service. Find a stream of the EPL games online, save your cash. They certainly don’t deserve it. -
Crashing problems. That's it. But at the same time it's much more than that. This app crashed completely after every single commercial. Oh and when it came back, hopefully it put you on the right side of the commercial break or it was time to crash again. Also, happened any time something else happens on your phone. Great shows though 👍
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Great sound, no picture except for the ads. I uninstalled and reinstalled but still didn't work. No actual support,just a help page with excuses that blame my internet connection, no other streaming service I use has these issues. Needs a lot of improvement even if it is free. After 2 months of complaints and attempts to get support I still only get video when ads start. App works fine on my Roku device just doesn't work on my moto Z.
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Release Notes
1.4.4
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