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Beware! The Download feature does not work well! First, the app does NOT download the video or audio in the background on wifi so you have to make sure you keep the app open! Second (and even worse) when you click on "My Talks" then choose downloads, it will show your talk as being downloaded when in fact it isn't! (the talk has only started to download or is only partially downloaded). This means that you will consume a lot of unplanned bandwidth when you try to view the "downloaded" talk (which may cost you a lot of money) or you won't be able to access it all all if you don't have an internet connection. It's a poorly designed app. They should have a "pending download" section in "My Talks" and enable the app to download in the background when on Wifi. There should also be a progress bar when the talk is being downloaded.

I've decided to uninstall the app. Interestingly you need an internet connection to be able to see the downloaded talks! I thought we download to watch them off line! Even though I have good internet connection, it doesn't play the downloaded talks. They stop after a few minutes of playing. sorry, it's getting frustrating. I love TED talks but not this app.

The ability to download talks is great. It is possible to watch when no network connection is available. Problem is that, when connected to a network it will try to stream from the net instead of locally! If the connection is bad or metered I have to go to turn off wifi to avoid lag or reduced quality. This is even the case mid talk, switching wifi on or off briefly pauses the talk before it resume. Good quality with wifi off, bad when on! It should prefer local downloads

Seriously needs an update. I download videos via wifi for offline viewing and then when i go to watch them they need to use data to play. Also the "clear downloads" option is not working, my downloads are still there. Overall it's just glitchy. I love the talks and the options the app has but it just doesn't work quite right.

Having been waiting many months for the download function to work, this version kind of works, yet with many bugs. 1. Crashes when downloading about five or more playlists. 2. When come back, the downloading function will not be able to resume properly. 3. When you play a video, even if it’s a downloaded video, the downloading function stopped. 4. When you first started download a talk, the downloading button shows a circular progress bar. But when you come back from the middle, like crashes, or shutdown, the progress button is gone, and not responsive. 5. No indicators on the download status, I will never know which video has finished download so that I could view offline. 6. No pause, resume 7. No control for individual videos within a playlist. 8. No background downloading.

does not work offline as advertised. i have downloaded several talks to watch on the plane. the lastest app ver. might play one but then will not play anything else in my download list until i reconnect with the internet. this makes the app useless for me. too bad otherwise would be a great app. previous version of this app use to work fine.

- needs a setting for only downloading via Wi-Fi. – need a progress bar to show what is being downloaded and what has not been downloaded. (One of Ted’s talks state-owned Porten a progress bar is. Irony that they don’t take their own advice.) - videos should be grouped by categories to make it easy to watch similar videos. For example if I want to learn about astronomy, all those videos should be grouped together, and easy to find. I’m giving the such a low rating not because the app is good but because I believe this is the only way the developer will take notice of my comments and fix the limitations I find in the app.

Your app is a great app and I use it every morning when working out to get “educated”. One big flaw is when I choose a video to watch and I see on the right hand side another video in “Related Talks” I’m interested to watch afterward there is no way to find it again. Every time I finish the main video the “Related Talks” have changed again and I’m not able to watch the other video I was interested in. Even more so: There is no way to add a video in “Related Talks” to your watch list. That makes actually the “Related Talks” section pointless since I can never get back and watch what was suggested to me. Please, I would appreciated if you can make it work that the “Related Talk” videos are NOT changing every time I finish a video or add the main video to the watch list but rather that I’m able to go back and be able to watch one of the suggested videos. Thank you.

This app is very buggy. If you do anything besides watch the selected video straight through (e.g. 15s rewind, change the playback speed, rotate the screen back to portrait mode, etc) you run a high risk of it completely crashing on you and having to wait to get the error message pop up asking if you want to force close it.

When trying to search for a topic, such as “white privilege,” the response is “sorry, we couldn’t quite find anything like that.” So, when trying other searches such as “black poverty,” only two talks show up as results. When searching these two topics alone through an internet (google) search engine on “Ted Talks”, hundreds of results reveal themselves...I would have thought that an app would provide the same number of results, if it more. Poorly designed app!

Latest update: download speed is still not as fast my normal download speed and the issue with full screen still isn't fixed Old version: Download speed is too slow, full screen is not working (makes the video go black every single time) and consumes data when downloading almost double/triple than what is stated.

I've been using this app for many years and the one thing that's remained constant is it's inability to do the one thing I wanted it to do. Use this app if you enjoy downloading talks to watch offline, then pulling out your phone on the airplane and seeing no talks downloaded. This has probably happened to me a dozen times now. I think it's time I bid farewell to TED talks, if not for this than because the quality of the talks has tanked over the years.

The download feature of the app is perhaps the most important one, and it just doesn’t work. So many times I had queued up a few videos to watch on a plane, and got burned each time as I realized the videos did not download properly. There is no indication of download progress, status, or controls to start/pause/continue, or prioritize downloads. You click download and then it’s a complete mystery. Very poor programming.

I love the app, love TED talks, but when I try to cast it on my tv (google chromecast) from my iphone (7) it won’t even give me the possibility to do so, but then if I try the same thing with my ipad mini it’ll cast it with no problem, (on the ipad) the “cast” icon appears on the top right corner of the screen, while on the iphone it won’t even appear, please guys fix this, I really like this app, it almost hurts to give just 1 star. Thank you

I follow TED on fb and am able to watch wonderful talks. Sometimes I want to send them to my son who is not on fb. When I search for the talk on the app or even the same topic (today it was “How did Hitler rise to power”) which was not found in the app. So then I searched under just Hitler...and nothing! Come on! I find it impossible to believe that TED has nothing on Hitler, when I JUST WATCHED a talk on fb. What gives TED app? Super disappointed with this app.

I love TED talks. I want to watch them when I fly, which is often. However, what is the point of having a download option or section if they DONT DOWNLOAD?! No matter what I do I can't get them to download. Very very frustrating. Back to iTunes Documentaries I go..... please fix this immediately TED. You're hurting your band.

I can tell it to download talks, but there's no indication of download progress, and then when I try to listen without my cellular data on, it won't allow the talks to play at all. What?? What's the point of "download" if I can't watch what I've supposedly downloaded, without using my data?

I tried reporting this problem to the support page but there is no support page. Its just general ted support without any way to reach the developers. So I will report the problem here. When I select the app, it moves to the foreground for a second and then immediately moves to the background. Its is unusable in this form.

I love watching the "Inspiring", the "Jaw Dropping" and "the Courageous" but why don't they show up in my Recents? Wait, where is "My Recents" and how do I share them with others? How do I get back and watch them, save them for later? Unheard of features in your apps and on AppleTV. What a shame. A huge value missing.

This app has a lot of potential but needs work. The saved for later and liked talks un-save and un-like within a few seconds. When you select like the related talks change. Many bugs. Using iPad Pro 12.9 with updated OS.

What's the use of "my talks" if there's no option to sign in!!! Sooo laughable lol!! The ATV app also has its issues, each time i try to search it shows this message "NETWORK ERROE, THERE WAS A PROBLEM LOADING YOUR SELECTION" and it's literally all the time i try to type something in search! And there's no way to rate the ATV app!! Who rate them anyways?

I signed in and it erased all of my talks that I saved. You’re kidding me, right? With all of the money this app must be making, you couldn’t carry over my liked videos to my account, you just had to erase them all. You’re kidding me, right?

My videos stopped downloading for offline use. They used to start downloading as soon as I clicked the download button and I could watch them load. Now they do nothing and the only videos I can watch offline are ones I downloaded months ago.

I’d really like a simple way to download audio from talks and queue like a podcast, to play in the background, while on my commute. Huge inventory that is hard to enjoy.

This app is small, but the talks take up a lot of space, and once you download a talk there does not seem to be a way to reclaim the space it took without deleting the app. So, I'm deleting the app. 😕

Was hoping to love this app but’s it’s horrible. I can never find specific speakers when I do a search. Content really needs to be updated. The talks freeze at times. Although I download the audio, I wish can use other apps while the talks are playing.

If you can let us play these videos offline after we “downloaded” them, this app would definitely would be a 5 Star one.

Why the speed of downloading is such low??

سرعت دانلود به شدت پایین در حالی که به اینترنت پر سرعت دسترسی دارم

I don't wanna give you a single star, please improve the app. offline videos Don't play further. i love ted talks but the app is really bad...

Seriously needs an update. I download videos via wifi for offline viewing and then when i go to watch them they need to use data to play. Also the "clear downloads" option is not working, my downloads are still there. Overall it's just glitchy. I love the talks and the options the app has but it just doesn't work quite right.

I need dual translation its not available

Horrible install for me. Tells me I need to confirm the message to complete the install. When I do that, it tells me I’m already online and won’t let me do anything. Going back to just using the web. Uninstalled.

Disappointing for an informational app

Deleted the app today after many years of listening.Although some of these talks are wonderful, most of clearly pushing a certain message that not everyone might subscribe to. I wish this was a place to find interesting positive content that would appeal to many different kinds of people. However it’s just not. The truth shall set us free. I felt like someone was vomiting bias into my mouth like a baby bird eating from its mother. I just wanna discern what is true for myself! But how can I when the source is so obviously biased.

The latest version doesn’t even launch properly. As soon as it launches it crashes.

I just lost all my likes, history and everything. Thx TED

TED is excellent and this app was great until the most recent update. Now the app crashes upon every attempt to open on my SE. When the issue is fixed I'll amend this review to reflect my appreciation for TED talks. Thanks

I tried reporting this problem to the support page but there is no support page. Its just general ted support without any way to reach the developers. So I will report the problem here. When I select the app, it moves to the foreground for a second and then immediately moves to the background. Its is unusable in this form.

Keeps crashing every time I search something it’s very frustrating

I follow TED on fb and am able to watch wonderful talks. Sometimes I want to send them to my son who is not on fb. When I search for the talk on the app or even the same topic (today it was “How did Hitler rise to power”) which was not found in the app. So then I searched under just Hitler...and nothing! Come on! I find it impossible to believe that TED has nothing on Hitler, when I JUST WATCHED a talk on fb. What gives TED app? Super disappointed with this app.

I love watching the "Inspiring", the "Jaw Dropping" and "the Courageous" but why don't they show up in my Recents? Wait, where is "My Recents" and how do I share them with others? How do I get back and watch them, save them for later? Unheard of features in your apps and on AppleTV. What a shame. A huge value missing.

When trying to search for a topic, such as “white privilege,” the response is “sorry, we couldn’t quite find anything like that.” So, when trying other searches such as “black poverty,” only two talks show up as results. When searching these two topics alone through an internet (google) search engine on “Ted Talks”, hundreds of results reveal themselves...I would have thought that an app would provide the same number of results, if it more. Poorly designed app!

The app crashes right after start every time on new iPad Pro 12.9“ with iOS12. Please fix.

Bring back surprise me!!!!!!!!!!!!

You have a serious bug on iPhone 6 iOS 12.1.2. All the tabs including the segment section cause the app crash on Tap

I love TED Talks and listening to multiple a week on YouTube. So figured they must have an app and wouldn’t ya know. My major issue is with the search tool. 90% of the words I enter into the search bar reveals no results. These are words that I know for a fact there are talks on. I’m not sure if the words has to be in the title of the the talk, but most words I enter I’m sure are in the title. This makes the app useless as the only way I have to search for specific talks is a very long drawn out process that probably will not reveal accurate results either. Major fail TED talks, major fail :(

Currently the app freezes every time I try and open it.

That figures. Question is - WHY? After all, it's just a video!!!! Guess I'll have to start using YouTube.

It crashes the moment I load it.

Can’t open, crashes

I love the app, love TED talks, but when I try to cast it on my tv (google chromecast) from my iphone (7) it won’t even give me the possibility to do so, but then if I try the same thing with my ipad mini it’ll cast it with no problem, (on the ipad) the “cast” icon appears on the top right corner of the screen, while on the iphone it won’t even appear, please guys fix this, I really like this app, it almost hurts to give just 1 star. Thank you

Having been waiting many months for the download function to work, this version kind of works, yet with many bugs. 1. Crashes when downloading about five or more playlists. 2. When come back, the downloading function will not be able to resume properly. 3. When you play a video, even if it’s a downloaded video, the downloading function stopped. 4. When you first started download a talk, the downloading button shows a circular progress bar. But when you come back from the middle, like crashes, or shutdown, the progress button is gone, and not responsive. 5. No indicators on the download status, I will never know which video has finished download so that I could view offline. 6. No pause, resume 7. No control for individual videos within a playlist. 8. No background downloading.

After last update. W ios12. Will not open. ???

Can’t bookmark or download

This app big gay

I’d really like a simple way to download audio from talks and queue like a podcast, to play in the background, while on my commute. Huge inventory that is hard to enjoy.

The download feature doesn’t work at all. Any solution for this?

The download feature of the app is perhaps the most important one, and it just doesn’t work. So many times I had queued up a few videos to watch on a plane, and got burned each time as I realized the videos did not download properly. There is no indication of download progress, status, or controls to start/pause/continue, or prioritize downloads. You click download and then it’s a complete mystery. Very poor programming.

i just download this app but i can not see on the screen who is talking i don't know if it's my data or the app it's self

Upon attempting login within the Ted app, I’m brought to an infinite “syncing..” screen. I’ve tried force closing, rebooting, reinstalling, still every time I attempt sign in I’m stuck at the “syncing..” screen. Update: Still cannot sign in, same problem on latest version of the app- 5.1 published on 7/25/18. Using an iPhone X

I've been using this app for many years and the one thing that's remained constant is it's inability to do the one thing I wanted it to do. Use this app if you enjoy downloading talks to watch offline, then pulling out your phone on the airplane and seeing no talks downloaded. This has probably happened to me a dozen times now. I think it's time I bid farewell to TED talks, if not for this than because the quality of the talks has tanked over the years.

I’ve noticed that some speakers that I have watched videos on YouTube giving TED talks are not to be found on the app, and the thing that they have in common is that they are not leftist thinkers, but moderate and right leaning thinkers. I’ve also found that the talks about Christianity several of them are anti Christian and anti God. I also found that no talks with Judaism as a topic cannot be found, but many talks about Islam empowering people and complaining about the hardships they face in America. I understand that people have different views, and that’s what’s great. But to have an app that features talks that are by people of the same mindset and not other one’s is a disservice to people to be exposed to all kind of ideas.

I love TED talks. I want to watch them when I fly, which is often. However, what is the point of having a download option or section if they DONT DOWNLOAD?! No matter what I do I can't get them to download. Very very frustrating. Back to iTunes Documentaries I go..... please fix this immediately TED. You're hurting your band.

It still doesn’t work without crashing even after upgrade.

Newest update 6/25 won’t open. Won’t start period. Crashes on opening.

Not everything plays, if it even has a play button. A known video didn’t show up in searches. And this was in the first 3 minutes of use.

It took me over 5G data plan in a month, very disappointing.

The latest update has quite a few bugs. I am unable to add any videos to the “liked videos” or to “my list”. And I noticed all my previously liked videos do not show in the liked videos list.

This app has a lot of potential but needs work. The saved for later and liked talks un-save and un-like within a few seconds. When you select like the related talks change. Many bugs. Using iPad Pro 12.9 with updated OS.