A few weeks ago Twitch rolled out an update to some users of its mobile app across iOS and Android, and after using it for three weeks I can safely say this is one of the worst redesigns I have ever seen. It’s so bad that I no longer want to watch any Twitch streams on my phone.
The new version of the Twitch mobile app is almost a carbon copy of TikTok, with a vertical scrolling feed of streams, some of which will be accounts you follow and some you don’t. By default, these streams autoplay, with the option to stop that being buried in the settings and no other way to pause them. If you click on a stream in the feed, you’ll be taken to the full page for that steamer, including chat.
If I want to navigate to a list of my followed channels that are live, it's an extra button press and there is no way, that I can find, to sort that list, so it’s in an order that Twitch deems suitable. For the streams I watch regularly, I know the average viewer count they have, so typically know how far down the list of followed channels I need to go. Not being able to sort this list of followed channels just makes life a little bit more annoying for no good reason at all.