F1 TV Hack 2.16.0 + Redeem Codes

I've been an F1 fan since my first race in Long Beach 1977. I instantly found the sport captivating. I've traveled to many races over the years, but now I just watch everything I can on TV. I was losing interest a few years ago and almost gave up following the series.

The last couple of years has rekindled my passion for the sport. F1TV is a vast improvement over any network coverage in the USA. Picture and sound quality are top notch as expected. I had a slight issue signing in at first, but it's been resolved and streaming experience worked flawlessly for Bahrain. The pre and post race shows are exactly what I want available as an F1 fan. Will's grid walk talking about the cars is what I've been missing all these years...

I signed up in time to watch the Bahrain testing sessions. The in depth information provided by Sam Collins and others make this a very worthwhile subscription for me. I'll never go without F1TV again. I LOVE IT!

I am in love with this sport. It’s why I keep paying for this service. It’s my only access to the sport as an American. Between the atrocious quality issues most of the time, the frequency of error codes and connection disruptions, and the infrequency of having the honor and privilege to cast the events onto my tv, it’s really maddening and quite disheartening really. The sport makes an ungodly amount of money, especially from the American market, and yet all we are given in return is this buggy unreliable app that we pay a sizable sum to use. I’m forced to watch it on my tiny phone screen more than half the time because they seem to decide to either allow or prevent us from casting it onto our tv’s on a whim. Most of the time I’m watching it on 240p-540p max even with great internet connection. If I didn’t love this sport, I would have canceled this a long time ago. I think the suits in charge know this full well and rely on our love of the sport and lack of alternative access to it to justify both investing the bare minimum into the service and the refusal to make it any better. I wish I could share with you a photo of what it looks like when I cast it to my brand new Samsung OLED tv. It’s like the old distorted color bar screen of tvs of old. Remember those?

The first review listed indicated that Airplay issues were probably user error. As someone who did iOS support professionally for 8 years, I can guarantee you that the Airplay implementation in the F1 app is at fault. I have no other Airplay issues with other apps on any device I use. The F1 app Airplay may work for a practice session or qualifying but then the next video you watch will play on the iPhone or iPad but just spin when choosing AirPlay. Restarting the Apple TV will sometimes fix it. Restarting the phone or iPad typically does not. FWIW it seems to happen more often on the “International” feed (Sky Sports?) and more often on a race. Less so on qualifying. For the longest time I thought they were using a copy protection flag in the video to prevent Airplay for some races but now believe that it’s corrupted data that gets cached on the device. Force quiting the app doesn’t actually reset the app as it should so it’s a pain to get it to work.

The real solution is to switch to the F1 AppleTV app. I don’t know when they released this but it wasn’t there last year when I looked.

F1TV should be partner with Netflix to handle all the streaming and maybe partner with a user account specialist company to handle security and login. It’s the only way to display telemetry so they have a monopoly. And like all monopolies there’s no competition so they don’t have to work as hard as they should to deliver a quality product. I streamed just fine a week ago but now that the season officially starts I can’t even login. Not the app, not online, and tech support is responsive but they are clearly not prepared for this. The person I worked with was great but the product is the Michael Masi of apps.

Following weekend I streamcast FP2 from my device to my TV since the AppleTV app won’t let you stream the world feed and that blocked all my other devices from being able to start a new season. Had no issues with FP1. Tech support again…. And not a quick fix.

It’s been YEARS and they still can’t make a decent product. Focus on the sport and let the experts focus on the delivery!!!

I’ve had F1TV Pro since 2020. Was excellent until start of 2023 season when subscription renewal no longer works. F1 insists the credit card is “declined by your bank” except that it isn’t and when you call your card issuer they can see that F1 has not even attempted to process a transaction. Your card issuer offers to do a 3 way call with “the merchant” i.e. F1 if you have a customer service phone number for them. Unfortunately F1 no longer has a support phone for F1TV Pro. There is now only live chat and email. Both the live chat and email responses you get when you tell them you have contacted the card (3x in my case!) and problem is entirely on F1’s end of it, they just parrot “I see here your bank is declining the transaction”. Over and over and over. The chat is polite about it (claims to be a human) but the email replies are quite arrogant and insulting. So don’t waste your time, they have now completely ruined what used to be a truly outstanding service. Really sad how it’s suddenly like this and F1 does not give a hoot, won’t own up to the fact that something is wrong with malfunctioning transactions on their end of it.

I’ve had this app for a few months now after recently getting back into F1. This app while the video UI can be a little clunky at times has overall been great. I’m not sure what everyone else is talking about with stream quality and airplay issues. I personally use this app on my iPad. The quality has never been bad for me personally and I have no issues when I watch on my iPad or AirPlay it to my TV. That being said I’m unsure if my experience is in the minority or if most of the reviews here are just upset. As someone who works in IT it’s entirely possible user error is the culprit for many of these reviews. Take mine with a grain of salt but check out the app anyways and see if it works well for you - it’s free after all.

UPDATE: After 10 days (and another update), app still doesn't work, and refuses to *Restore Purchase". I explained to Apple and they have refunded my purchase. Apple should completely remove the app from the App Store too, as F1 have apparently disabled "Restore Purchase" (at least for monthly renewal attempts) and seek to divert us to their website. *****REVIEW: The F1 sales team is dishonest, in my opinion. I renewed this app two days ago. I paid money to the Apple App Store to do so. However, the "Restore Purchases" button no longer works. It says it is "retrieving purchases" but then says "try second flow to restore". That is where it stops working completely. After doing all the usual logout, re-download stuff to no avail, I contacted "Support Chat". But they said the app can't Restore Purchases and tried to convince me to stop using the Apple App Store and sign up directly with them. And their phone line support simply hung up on me after I described the steps to prove the failure. It all seems disturbingly dishonest and unethical. I am distressed by this. Sorrowful. No wonder this app has such low ratings.

While I do enjoy the features and archive, the app can be fidgety, especially when you consider how expensive it is relative to the provided content. I’ve recently been unable to AirPlay the app to my tv, all my other streaming services do this so I don’t know why this app is having trouble all of a sudden.

Also, I often use one device to watch the main coverage and on a second device I have the timing board or a driver cam up. While I typically do this on my own, it would be nice to have a split screen feature or even device syncing so I don’t have to readjust every time I pause a race.

Then there’s the sub levels. You can go all in or not at all, the mid tier level sub for 3 or 4 bucks gets you hardly anything at all, it’s entirely pointless. I can’t believe it’s even an option.

Altogether, (assuming you have the full sub) I think it’s a pretty good app and most of the time does what it claims to do, save for those fidgety occasions, but it’s too expensive for me to warrant a monthly sub. I’m a college student- which kinda seems to be F1’s new target audience if I’m not mistaken? So why is it so expensive? If there is a triple header I’ll consider buying it again on a month to month basis, but largely speaking, I’ll record the race and watch it afterwards and sacrifice a timing board to keep my ten bucks that month.

This app hasn’t worked right since it was launched. I have emailed F1 support numerous times with my issues. For $100 streaming subscription per year you would think they would figure out a way to get stable app performance. Lots of errors pop up attempting to stream. Be prepared for “the current network connection maybe effecting your experience. Please check your connection and try again.” This is a constant error, that’s hasn’t been fixed in numerous updates and has nothing to do on the user side. The only way to fix it is to completely delete the app and reinstall. You used to be able to sign out and sign back in to fix it and get the streaming to work again. However, with subsequent updates it’s been made worse to where you have to go as far as to delete the app and start over by re installing and signing in all over again. This error occurs after about every two races you watch. So it’s an incredible annoyance.

App normally works (kind of), but has recently stopped being able to stream to Apple TV for race replays. Live races work fine, but when you try to stream to Apple TV for any previous race, it fails. Disappointing considering how much the service costs. Also, if you delete the app off of your phone and reinstall it, it counts as another device to your total allowable devices. Do this several times and it will no longer allow you to open the app and will tell you that you have exceeded the number of allowed devices. You then have to login on a PC to your account, delete all of the allowed devices, and sign back in. Garbage. Absolute garbage. Mates, take some of the billions of dollars that F1 generates each year and spend some money on an app developer who actually knows what they are doing. Right now it’s like you hired Jen Barber from the IT Crowd to run your development.