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Formula 1®
Formula One Digital Media Limited · 84,290 ratings · ★ 4.8
4.8
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84,290 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 64 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"update"
17 negative reviews mention this · 27% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Update Required. Current version of the app for iPad incompatible with the app itself. App requires 17.0 and current iOS for my iPad is 16.7.5. Next update not available. Poor form on the part of Apple and the developers." - Sad10023
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"slow"
12 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Full of bugs. Very slow, very long to load. Fantasy team screen is full of bug event the transfer points are not calculated properly. 2 days after barcelona gp still the points are not up. It ruins the spirit of any game." - Zia44b4u
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"watch"
10 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "They spoil the Grand Prix. Really frustrating they send out notifications with the Grand Prix winners before you are able to watch it for yourself. Used to love the app until they started doing this. Don’t understand why they have the reply timing option within the a…" - Aniggli
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"race"
9 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Spoilers. They need better notification settings because they will send you race spoilers right after the race. I want notifications on other days, but it ruins the races to get notifications on those days." - SamTompk
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"fantasy"
8 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Full of bugs. Very slow, very long to load. Fantasy team screen is full of bug event the transfer points are not calculated properly. 2 days after barcelona gp still the points are not up. It ruins the spirit of any game." - Zia44b4u
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"every"
8 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Crashes. Unfortunately this app now crashes with my iPhone 12 ProMax everytime I open it. Tried deleting it and re-installing same thing. This app used to work well." - SD5477
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"spoilers"
7 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Spoilers. They need better notification settings because they will send you race spoilers right after the race. I want notifications on other days, but it ruins the races to get notifications on those days." - SamTompk
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"notifications"
7 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Spoilers. They need better notification settings because they will send you race spoilers right after the race. I want notifications on other days, but it ruins the races to get notifications on those days." - SamTompk
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"version"
7 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Update Required. Current version of the app for iPad incompatible with the app itself. App requires 17.0 and current iOS for my iPad is 16.7.5. Next update not available. Poor form on the part of Apple and the developers." - Sad10023
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Full of bugs
Very slow, very long to load. Fantasy team screen is full of bug event the transfer points are not calculated properly. 2 days after barcelona gp still the points are not up. It ruins the spirit of any game.
Spoilers
They need better notification settings because they will send you race spoilers right after the race. I want notifications on other days, but it ruins the races to get notifications on those days.
Crashes
Unfortunately this app now crashes with my iPhone 12 ProMax everytime I open it. Tried deleting it and re-installing same thing. This app used to work well.
spoilers
push notification spoiled race for me :(
DRIVER TRACKER Issue
DRIVER TRACKER does not display cars on the track image. Would give ZERO stars if allowed! Works perfectly on my Android phone.
Membership issues
Subscribed 3 times and none of them worked and the support team could not fix the problem, they just keep sending you on a wild goose chase
Update Required
Current version of the app for iPad incompatible with the app itself. App requires 17.0 and current iOS for my iPad is 16.7.5. Next update not available. Poor form on the part of Apple and the developers.
“Spoiler Mode” is a lie
Only download this app if you do not care about results or care to watch races. It has the option to not receive notifications for spoilers. However this option only lasts roughly 1 hour. So races that occurred at 2am or while you’re at work wherever you live, be prepared to have the race results blasted in your face all day and night after the race. Having to go deep into your phone settings to disable notifications every single race shouldn’t be a thing
Spoiler Notifications
Hey F1 app - you just sent a push notification that just spoiled the Monaco race for me even though I have all your notification settings OFF, including Race Notifications, and News.
You have a spoiler-free feature for replaying live timing, so you know how important it is not to spoil a race for your fans.
So which team sent this notification and doesn’t understand your fans?
You have a spoiler-free feature for replaying live timing, so you know how important it is not to spoil a race for your fans.
So which team sent this notification and doesn’t understand your fans?
Spoilers in Notifications!
I love the app. It’s just what it needs to be, with no extra fluff. I opened it just after a qualifying event and it warned me I might see spoilers, so I felt safe in leaving notifications on. Big mistake, as I just had an early morning race ruined by a notification while answering a text message. TURN OFF NOTIFICATIONS IF YOU DON’T WATCH LIVE RACES.
Now has ADS
Now Formula One is running ads and commercials during the coverage. This will be the last year I watch Formula One. Between the terrible regulations and having to watch ads, it’s clear this sport has lost its identity. The whole reason I fell in love with Formula One was that it wasn’t a shameless money suck like NASCAR and Indy.
Terrible Forced Updates
Forced weekly updates that just seem to make, what’s basically a news reading app now, run slower and slower. New subscription scheme that makes it necessary to pay for both F1 TV and Apple TV. Apple TV to watch the races and F1 TV to get the live timing in the app (can’t watch races on F1 TV since I live in the US). Will definitely say $80+ dollars a year just to get live timing is not worth it (plus of course the $120 a year for Apple TV with Ads). Not giving anybody $200 a year just to watch 24 (-2 this year =22) races.
No longer made for racing fans.
What used to be a great app to follow races in detail has now become a media platform impossible to navigate.
Horrible
I literally just want to check the schedule for upcoming race time, but there’s an update to the app every 48 hours apparently so everytime I go into the app I’m stuck in an exit or update screen. Just let me use a dated version of the app. It’s not a blanking platform you morons I just want to look at a schedule
Too Many Updates, STILL
Just once I want to open the app without having to update it. Every friggin time!!!!
Worst than Stroll
This app has one of the worst UXs I’ve seen in a long time. It’s extremely slow and discourages me to use it. The f1 fantasy league takes so long to adjust and to switch between your different teams is so hard.
Forced updates...
Forced updates result in 1 star... 2/16 and again. 5/21 and again
No iPhone 8 support
Won't install on older iPhones. What genius thought that was a good idea?
Bad Update
App does not recognize my login: “oops we didn’t recognize your details.” Deleted the app, reloaded. It knows I have an account because it sent an email when I selected to change my password. Please fix.
No PIP
No picture in picture
We no longer have F1 racing
This is NOT F1 racing this is Prius racing. I no longer watch this sport. It’s a disgrace.
Forced updates
Forced updates or you can’t use it
NoF1
No longer following F1 after 30 years since I have to pay to see races.
New Update is Horrible
New update has ruined the app.
Doesn’t work
When you download the app and open it you get an update required message. You click on that and it takes you back to the app download. It’s an endless cycle of frustration and disappointment.
F1
Been a F1 fan when you could hardly see a race in the U.S. Just as the fan base in the U.S. gets big. Everybody gets greedy. To bad
Don’t Worry About Wasting Your Money, They Don’t Want It
Purchased a subscription to watch this season, log in and it’s locked because I didn’t pay for the “premium” plan (there were no tiers when I signed up, only “monthly” or “annual”). When I looked to see why I couldn’t access content I determined I needed to upgrade my subscription tier, except there is no option to and it will only let you manage your subscription from this app, which pulls a blank page every time you go into subscription settings. Fortunately for me, I couldn’t spend more money even though I want to because of this error, I will take the loss of money and find something better to do on my weekends.
Update required
Keeps saying update required but there is no ios17 available
Stop showing apple tv connection at the start
Please stop showing apple tv connection. I am already paying for subscription.
Spoiler mode never works. App developers are terrible
The only reason I use this app is for live timing. But every time I get onto this app, I get a spoiler. Case in point China Grand Prix I login 9 hrs after the race and I see the winner of the race on the home splash screen. I have spoiler mode enabled, but it did not work. It is basic and it is simple. This is nothing new, the app has been broken like this for years. If someone choose a spoiler mode, they should not see any spoilers, they should always be given the option to have to have timing replayed it shouldn’t matter whether it’s a one hour or or 12 hours or 36 hours. No spoilers. For reference I am in the US pacific time zone. Terrible app developers…….
Pay $30 for nothing
You pay $30 to see the racing and the everything is luck went it happening. I don’t feel like paying apple tv went i just want to see it the phone this is ridiculous
Lags like crazy
Can you guys please fix the lag in f1 fantasy!!! It’s crazy
Just ads ads ads
The amount of advertisements on this app now is unacceptable. Every little video every little article makes you watch an ad. Even in the "moments" section you have to watch an ad after every little 3-5 second video. It has progressively gotten much worse the last couple years however this new release has me clicking on Delete App
I will be getting my F1 news elsewhere from now on.
Also why does Apple not let you sort through reviews in any specific order? Most of these reviews are 7-9 years old. Back then the app was awesome.
I will be getting my F1 news elsewhere from now on.
Also why does Apple not let you sort through reviews in any specific order? Most of these reviews are 7-9 years old. Back then the app was awesome.
Predict gone
They did some update that completely ruined the prediction feature on certain iPhones, doesn’t load and when it does it’s super laggy.
What’s with the glitching
This app was great. This year it is so glitchy
Required iOS 17
Can’t use this app anymore on my iPad Pro anymore.
March 5, 2026 - SUCKS - Thanks Apple
Whatever they did in this update totally broke the Fantasy league section. Cannot even manage Team now (though we should be able to with chips; says infinite but that’s another bug). App is just awful now. I hope people read this. I feel really bad for everyone who paid for F1 TV (almost me). I wonder if AppleTV has anything to do with this app just sucking bc they see it as competition…
Buggy, slow gameplay, gone bad
Last years version was great, this year has gone really bad. Gameplay for Prediction was super slow on the app, while it works nicely in a computer web browser.
When wanting to add a league in the season of the fantasy game, I’m getting “syntax error” when searching for a league. 👎
When wanting to add a league in the season of the fantasy game, I’m getting “syntax error” when searching for a league. 👎
Useless
I like the old app so much better. If this one doesn’t become as intuitive as the old one pretty quick I guess Im done. This sucks
Will not open
I have used the App for several years. It will not open. A message states I must Upgrade the App but requires iOS 1.17 or later. My IPad is up to date but it is not iOS 1.17. When I go to the App Store a messag tells me 1.17 is required but asks if I want to download an earlier version, I click download but I get the same message when I try to open the app -must Uprade, but I cannot. Maybe the same tech geniuses that created the rules for the current F1 season are in charge! Can you fix this?
App Called Me “Poor”
I have an iPhone 8.
I can no longer use this app because my version of iOS is not supported.
I can no longer use this app because my version of iOS is not supported.
Can't access
Forcing me to update the app to use, and won't let me update the app unless I'm on a version of iOS that can't be run on my iPhone.
Not able to use
I can’t use it do to stupid update
extremely laggy
it’s very slow to load F1 predict and takes entire minutes to load one screen, completely unusable
So Slow!
I used to love this app and I couldn’t wait to start with my predictions for the season! But the app is so slow all of I sudden that I can’t do anything anymore. I can’t even get through the first question of the predictions because it takes so long to load! F1 needs to fix this fast because it is ridiculous. The app is unusable outside of making my predictions too. I can’t read articles because it takes forever for them to show up. The app is too slow to be functional.
Horrible!
How ironic is an app about the fastest cars in the world being so slow? I’ve been trying to make my prediction for days, but the page freezes all the time and I couldn’t answer any questions. I’m very disappointed!
Constant Updates
Every time I open this app it asks me to update it and it doesn’t let me use it if I don’t do it… really annoying.
App is ridiculously slow.
Trying to add drivers to the predict page and it’s annoyingly slow. This is an issue with your app, not my phone or wifi because every other app works fine except for this one. Couldn’t even finish adding drivers because of the lag. Fix your app.
Forced upgrade and Slow
Just before productions opened for Melbourne, they forced an app upgrade and it was a fail! Slowest app performance ever. 28 min to submit 10 questions and 1/2 functionality didn’t work.
NO FUNCIONA
Me invitaron a participar en el Fantasy, me mandaron una liga, NUNCA pude entrar a la liga, no la encontré por ningún lado, luego me aparecían una publicidad llamada Kartra, que no tiene manera de desaparecerla. PATETICA esta aplicacion. Me gustaría darle menos de una estrella pero no se puede. No pierdan su tiempo
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Sentiment summary
96%
Positive (4-5★)
2%
Neutral (3★)
3%
Negative (1-2★)