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Flexya's avatar
Flexya
Newbie
9 months ago

Remove QR Code from PhotoStream

PLEASE Remove QR Code from PhotoStream!  The ability to easily add more photos to your PhotoStream is on the Roku mobile app. 

  • RokuRiamie-D's avatar
    RokuRiamie-D
    Community Moderator

    Hi Flexya,

    Thanks for your first post in the Roku Community!

    We completely understand your input and greatly value your feedback, which helps to improve the Roku streaming devices/TVs as a streaming platform. Rest assured that our team will be aware of this, as your convenience and satisfaction are among our top priorities.

    In the meantime, your patience and understanding are highly appreciated. Let us know if there's anything else you'd want us to address. We'd be more than willing to listen and take action as we are committed to finding a resolution to your concerns in the best way we can.

    Regards,
    Riamie

    • R0KU_User117's avatar
      R0KU_User117
      Newbie

      There are multiple posts on this feature request. What is the timeline looking like? My friends and family using Apple TV, Chromecast, or Amazon FireTV don't have to deal with this.....

    • Msw0022's avatar
      Msw0022
      Reel Rookie

      Are you aware of it Riami? Really? Been over 2 years of this request, it takes 10 min to fix the feature.

  • It's there because some marketing iddy ott decided it was a good idea.

    There were probably a team of talented engineers toiling away at making a great app when this one marketing wingnut came in and said "Hey, let's put in this QR code thingy!". The engineers all looked at each other and replied with very logical reasons why that would make for a bad user experience. Wingnut replies with "Yeeeah... if you could still put that in it would be greeeat.".  

  • krkaufman's avatar
    krkaufman
    Channel Surfer

    Flexya wrote:

    PLEASE Remove QR Code from PhotoStream!  The ability to easily add more photos to your PhotoStream is on the Roku mobile app. 


    AT LEAST remove the QR code from displaying over streams of user-uploaded content, since, obviously, the user knows how to upload content.

    How about a compromise and keep the QR code for the stock photo stream, displayed absent available user-uploaded content, but free our uploaded image streams of this menace?  

      • krkaufman's avatar
        krkaufman
        Channel Surfer

        Thanks. That Roku doesn't seem able to address the simple task of removing the QR code in the year+ since requested, combined with the many other limitations I've found since starting to use the app, finding an alternate Roku app or streaming platform other than Roku seems a path more likely to lead to something usable.