Twitch’s cellular app is getting a serious replace that places its TikTok-like feed entrance and middle. The corporate began testing the replace earlier this yr, and over the course of this week, the brand new app will roll out to all customers on Android and iOS, Twitch says in a weblog put up.
The large change is that the brand new app will open on a feed of content material you may like (a “Dwelling” tab) as a substitute of opening on the “Following” tab. The change follows lots of steps on this course from Twitch: the corporate introduced an preliminary “discovery feed” experiment in August, and it rolled the feed out to all customers in April as a “Feed” tab within the cellular app. Earlier this yr, as a part of his 2024 open letter, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy additionally mentioned the corporate’s plans to make the invention feed the “new touchdown expertise within the app.”
Greater than 50 % of Twitch customers “primarily” watch Twitch on their telephone, however “we have to make it simpler for these viewers to search out content material after they go to Twitch and make the expertise extra enjoyable in order that they arrive again extra typically,” the corporate says in its weblog put up. The intention of the redesigned app is to make it “straightforward to search out streamers that you just already love whereas additionally exploring and discovering new streamers.”
The brand new app additionally has a Browse tab, an Exercise tab to see notifications, a profile tab, and a plus button you possibly can faucet to entry options like beginning a livestream. If you wish to see what’s happening from the streamers you observe, you possibly can faucet the Following feed within the upper-left nook.
