Dailymotion: Social Videos

I downloaded the app, because I hated how terrible the website was with iPhone rotation and how it didn’t keep your progress in a video, only to find out the app is worse in a lot of ways: * When I relaunch the app is shows me the same stupid Home video instead of resuming the last video I was watching and there seems to be no way to resume it. The best I can do is find the video in my watch history and restart it from the beginning. * The most frustrating thing is that the scrubber is UNUSABLE when in landscape/full-screen mode on the iPhone — there is literally no way to move the scrubber, as it keeps trying to shift the app (triggered by the white bar at the bottom of the screen). The ONLY way to use the scrubber is to rotate back to portrait mode, which is pretty obnoxious. DID NOBODY TEST THIS?! * And I wouldn’t need to use the scrubber if there were jump forward/backward buttons like EVERY OTHER STREAMING APP. Why is it you’ve opted not to include them?! OK, I just had to downgrade from 2 stars to 1 because of utterly frustrating this app is. If what you want is to constantly replay whatever stupid video is on the Explore (a tab I wish I could turn off altogether), and never be able to resume a video, and constantly automatically switching to portrait but NOT back to landscape, and constantly have to use the worst scrubber of any video app in existence, then this is the app for you. Either no one who designs this app actually uses it to watch videos, or they’ve never used another streaming app because there’s no way someone who had ever used, say, the Netflix app would design such a terrible user experience.

Update: It’s been a while since I wrote this original review, which was the only thing that got the developers’ attention. After finally contacting me back, they assured me they were working on the problem. However, it’s been at least a week more, probably longer, and still the issue persists. I’ve heard nothing from the developer again now, and none of the devices in my house will work with the download feature now. That’s iPad minis and iPad Pro 10.5” all freeze on trying to use the download feature. It’s very frustrating, so I’m dropping another star. Edited original review: For longer than two weeks, I haven’t been able to use this app, because if I download something to watch and tap it to play, it just freezes everything and the app has to be shut down. The date, time, battery, and wifi symbols disappear from the top of the screen, and the app freezes and you can’t load the video, or click on anything else in the app. I’ve tried everything. Deleting the app, turning the iPad off and on again, hard powering off, messing with the settings, deleting all recently updated apps, and even updating my iPad; but nothing works. I contacted Support and never heard back. I’m using an iPad Pro 10.5” with iOS 15.4. Please fix this! I don’t want to not like this app.

I do love Daily Motion in general because every time I really want to watch something I can’t find anywhere else, I almost always find it on DM. I used to be able to cast to Chromecast from the browser UI but recently found that wasn’t the case, and there were some weird ad/commercial glitches. I was glad to find there was an app and the app is many times better and easier to use AND the chromecast is back! I also love (on both, I think) the super easy scrubbing bar used to fast forward/rewind/find your place in a video. There are also loads less ads in general on the app. The only issue is my “Recently Watched” list consistently displays that I haven’t yet watched anything even though I’ve watched many episodes of my show since installing the app a few days ago. The search also leaves a little to be desired and it’s not always easy to find what I want. I wish I could sort videos of those I follow alphabetically instead of just how recently they uploaded. All said, I’m super pleased with the app and will never use the browser again. Well done!