In her latest podcast episode, Ida Grace takes listeners on a guided tour of the Disney+ app for iOS devices. Disney+ stands out as a premier streaming platform, boasting an extensive collection of films, television series, and unique content from iconic brands such as Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic. It caters to a diverse audience by offering everything from the newest hits to beloved classics. The service is enhanced with high-definition features like 4K UHD and HDR, comprehensive parental controls, and the convenience of multi-screen viewing. Available across multiple devices, Disney+ provides subscribers with a subscription model that includes access to exclusive original content and the latest releases.
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Hello AppleVis and Happy Pride Month!
Today I'm going to be demonstrating the Disney Plus app and how to use the Disney Plus app.
So we are going to talk about how to navigate the Disney Plus app, how to find things that you want to watch, how to browse through the different categories on the website, or I mean the app, sorry, and I am also going to show you where you can go to turn audio description on or off, and I'm showing you this because it's not the easiest thing in the world to find, unfortunately, so I am going to show you where to go to find that.
So the first step, the first thing we need to do if we're going to use an app is open it.
So, there's the Disney Plus app.
We're going to open it.
Now I will not be able to show you how to add an account.
I'll show you where to go to add one a little bit later, but I will not be able to show you how to actually add an account because our account is already on here.
Now our account has several profiles, so anybody who's logged into a specific account can access any profile on this account.
So one of the options, add profile button, is you can add a profile to this account, and to do that you can add avatars, you put your name, the typical profile info, except it doesn't ask you for personal info for this app, but I am going to swipe until I find my profile and double tap on that one.
Like I said, you can actually access any profile on any given account because I've accessed my sister's profile before, but today we're gonna access mine.
So, access Ida Grace's profile.
Ida Grace, who is that?
Anyway, we're gonna double tap here.
Select Disney Plus heading.
Okay, now the first thing that you get of course is the Disney Plus heading.
Featured carousel, adjustable.
Okay, this thing, swipe up or down with one finger to adjust the value.
This is like the Acolyte, Disney, Big City Greens, the movie, Doctor Who, Disney, for the first time in forever, the Jim Henson idea man, Disney Junior, Ariel, Mermaid Tales, Inside Out, prepare for Inside Out 2, only in theaters June 14th.
Select for details on this title.
Yeah, so this little featured carousel, swipe up or down slider thingy has like the newest content that's available and news.
Star Wars, Star Wars at Haley's on it, new erased, WW2's heroes of pride.
Select for details on this title.
Pride, that's gonna be LGBT pride.
But anyway, after this little slide up or down featured carousel slider thingy, you have Pixar, Disney, select for details, Pixar, pick Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic, newly added heading.
So basically what that is is Disney Plus, you can access titles from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, or Star Wars, and so it's asking you to double tap on one of those.
Now we have headings, so I would recommend when you're navigating this app to navigate by heading, because it's just gonna be easier than swiping to the right through all of this.
So you have the newly added heading.
Continue watching heading.
Yes, I have several titles that I'm watching, so I have a continue watching heading.
Obviously that heading only appears if you're in the middle of one or more shows or movies, and if I want to continue watching something under this heading, I can swipe to the right.
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
Select for details on this title.
Yes, I still watch preschool shows, do not judge me.
Okay, we're gonna double tap here.
Details share button.
So the first thing you can do is share, and that's a typical share dialog.
You can share details about the show, by message, email, Facebook.
Back button.
You can go back if you change your mind.
One thing I want to let you know, though, is that once you start watching a show, you can't exit out of it with a back button, at least not a voiceover accessible one.
You have to actually pause it and close the app when you're done, or you have to wait for Disney Plus to basically run out, because what it will do is when you're playing something, whether under this continue watching heading or you're watching anything, it will play for usually, I've calculated it's about two hours or so, and then it will stop and it will ask you if you're still listening, and I will actually show you that dialog at the end of a program.
I'll show you what happens at the end of a program.
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse HD subtitles slash CC 2006 to 2013 five seasons kids animation continue button okay if I double tap here it's gonna start playing from where I last left off which I don't remember where that is because it's been so long so I'm going to double tap here and it's gonna start playing so any of you who are annoyed by mickey mouse plug your ears okay so that now it's playing I just did a man yep I just did a magic tap to pause it and it tells you how far in it is when you pause now I want to show you some things that you can do when you're actually watching a show or a movie this video is rated TV why this video Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Mickey Mouse Clubhouse okay so it gives you the name of the show and the rating Mickey Mouse Clubhouse now this this video is rated this video if I double tap on that rating it shows the video player controls button and that normally I can't pin unlocked button audio and subtitles menu but okay this is what I wanted to show you this menu will only appear when you're actually in the middle of watching something and this menu audio and sub video player controls are now hidden close and active button close okay so that's a close button audio okay Chinese now but what this is is this is a list of languages and I want to show you because this is how I found this and this is where you go to turn audio description on and off so I'm gonna swipe through this Chinese Chinese dance joint selected English button Espanol button okay now the reason it's not showing it to me right now is because I'm not in an episode that has audio descriptions available so it switches from English right to Espanol but if I am in the middle of an episode that has audio descriptions it will give me two English options English or English with audio descriptions let me show you that okay so I am now in the middle of an episode with that has audio description available and somehow it got turned off and I don't know how but it's okay because now I get to demonstrate it for you so selected English button that's what's currently selected for some reason English audio description button that's what I want so I'm gonna dance okay it moved to date okay English audio description but okay now let's see if I were to play this episode because I'm actually in the middle of it and I knew it had audio description available because I've heard it before and I don't know how it got turned off but I turned it on I turned it back on so I'm gonna close out of it and see if the audio description actually starts playing even in the middle of an episode so let's see if this works inactive button close okay so I've selected the English audio description I'm gonna close out of here and I'm gonna controls okay I'm gonna do a magic tap to start the episode again and again we're in the middle so hopefully this works Donald steps in oh it is working goofy ambles behind Donald okay I won't make you to 05 yeah okay so when you pause it it tells you how far in you are when you pause it so right now I'm at two minutes and five seconds it says but yes it does work okay now I know it does turn audio description on even if you are in the middle of an episode so that is wood so I don't know how it got turned off but you know what I'm gonna say that the universe did it because that way I could demonstrate this in the podcast for you so there's that okay the nice controls are now okay stop sometimes if I don't do anything with this it likes to do the whole video player controls are now hidden fun stuff so there's that but the next thing I'm going to show you is what happens after your program stops so as I said in the beginning of the podcast the Disney Plus app will play for a certain amount of time and then it will stop and I will show you what to do when it does that okay so I have been listening to Disney Plus for a while and I have the speech turned off I recommend turning the speech off of voiceover when you're watching something particularly a TV show on Disney Plus and the reason for that is that while you're watching the show you'll hear voiceover announced each new episode in the video player for Mickey Mouse Clubhouse season 2 episode 3 every single time so I highly recommend turning the speech off or if you're brave enough turning voiceover off sometimes I do turn voiceover completely off by triple clicking my home button because the voice that I'm using as much as I love it American Siri voice 5 it does sometimes have a tendency to crash apps so I will turn the speech back on by three finger double tapping speech on okay so what's been happening is I've been listening to Disney Plus for a while and it stopped what it does is after about two hours or so it'll stop playing and it's going to sit here until you tell it what to do so one thing that you can do you can do one of two things you can Mickey Mouse Clubhouse button back that's the back button where you can actually go back out of here next episode season 2 episode 3 Mickey's handy helpers okay play button if if you hit play here it's only going to play one episode at a time and you'll have to keep doing it so what I recommend you know episodes button as tedious as this is see all episodes see all episodes I would recommend going in here Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and I would recommend choosing an episode from the list of available episodes and the reason why is because if you do that it will start playing from the episode you choose and it won't keep stopping for another two hours you'll have another two hours or so to listen if you do it from here whereas if you just click play on the next episode that's up next it'll just play that episode and then it'll keep displaying this dialogue to you so I would recommend that you go into the see all episodes HD 2006 play button and you hit that play button because what that play button will do is that will start playing from where you leave off from where you left off and it will continue playing so I would highly recommend using this play button here so if I double tap here it will start playing Mickey Mouse Club your video is currently loading yes thank you very much I'm not gonna let it actually play in the video player okay zero zero three yep I paused it at three seconds because I want to now show you some of the other things that Disney Plus can do and I want to show you how to specifically search for a title and start playing it from the search screen Mickey Mouse this video is rate this video is rated TV why okay one thing that I find very frustrating is that when you're in the video player there's no way to back out of here so what I have found the only way for me to do this app switcher Disney Plus is to close and reopen the Disney Plus app as frustrating as that is that has been the only way I've been able to figure out how to get out of the video player when it's actually playing something Disney Plus and when you reopen the app you'll have to reselect your profile okay that's new I have not that's uh that's been new since the latest update okay so under who's watching these are your profiles and again when you're on a specific account you can access any profiles so this account this particular account has six profiles it has my mom dad sister brother me and my nibbling which in case anybody's wondering nibbling is a gender-neutral term for niece nephew so my nibbling is on here as well as my mom dad brother sister and me so we're all on here and so I'm gonna go access I had a graces profile so my profile plus heading and along the bottom of the screen there are some tabs more options access watch list settings and change profiles tab four of four so that I love the descriptions of the tabs that voiceover actually gives you offline downloads tab three of four search tab two of four selected home tab one of four so yeah when you first open the app you're in your home tab and that's where you have your headings Star Wars in time funny families heading Star Wars animation Disney Channel original movies explore national geographic trending heading Marvel series and special exploring our world heading animals and nature heading romantic movies and series heading Mickey and Friends heading dogs and cats heading comedies heading throwbacks heading fantasy and sci-fi action and adventure because you watched Mickey Mouse Clubhouse heading oh yes you have recommendations as well because you watched Mickey Mouse Clubhouse heading animated movies hit Disney Channel favorites animated adventures rediscover these classics heading Disney junior heading recommended for you heading good versus evil hit continue watching heading newly added heading heading not found so those are all the categories that you can get on the home page and they do change they are different like last year around this time because it's June they did have a heading that said celebrate pride month so now they don't have that but if you remember from earlier there's a featured carousel little thing that had pride on it okay so I do want to tell you how to access your watch list so more options access watch list settings and change profiles tab four of four at the bottom right of the screen there's that tab so I'm gonna double tap here selected more options access access mom and dad's profile okay so now there's my list of profiles here add edit profile watch list button okay and of course you have add new profile edit profile there's the watch list and since I had a grace or my profile is selected watch list is going to be for my specific profile right now so if I go here selected selected more options accept icon nav back 24 light active button back okay that's back on the watch list screen heading on the watch list screen Winnie the Pooh select for details on this title okay so there here's all the titles in my watch list so I can select this title select selected more options access what Winnie the Pooh HD tooth up play 2011 1h 12 meters family minute comedy okay play button and then there's the play button now I usually speech off I usually swipe to the play button and then I just turn the speech off so I don't have to hear a voiceover babble about in the video player because I already know I'm in the video player because I'm watching a video thank you very much I love voiceover but sometimes it can be dumb like as if we don't know what we're doing so there's the play button and I want to show you what happens at the end of a movie or at the very end of a show what I showed you with the next episode thing happens in the middle of a TV show but what I want to show you now is the screen that comes up when you're actually at the end of a title whether it's a movie or a TV show so if I double tap on play the audio description should still be on you'll hear a little bit of this movie come on you can do it takes a while to load sometimes now in a logo okay now we're hearing Winnie the Pooh I won't make you watch this whole thing but at the very end of the movie I will come back and I will show you what happens okay friends so I just finished watching the Winnie the Pooh movie and this is what happens when you are at the very very very end of a movie or show so not when your show stops and you have an upcoming episode but when it's actually over Winnie the Pooh button back you may also like puppy dog pals 2017 bullet 26 meters play button see details button see details button okay so that's what it does when you are actually done with a show or a movie not when you're in the middle of one you get a recommendation for something else it thinks you would like based on what you just watched okay I want to show you the search feature because you can also access things by searching for them Winnie the Pooh button back so I'm gonna go back Winnie the Pooh win HD tooth up play trailer button remove the current title download reunite with the beloved bear and his silly but steadfast friends hmm so what this did is it took me back to the description of the movie where I hit the play button and you can also there's a couple of options you can do here remove the current title from your watch list but so your watch list is made up of things that you want to watch over and over again so you can remove this from your watch list you can download it selected suggested tab extras tech details tech the many adventures of Winnie the Pooh select for details on this title whose heffa lumped movie select big lutz big movie the tigger movie whose grand adventure Winnie the Pooh a very merry Pooh year so it oh it does have a very merry Pooh year anyway um so it's giving you suggestions here my friends Tigger and Pooh Winnie the Pooh springtime with through Winnie the Pooh spring okay but in order to get back to the actual main menu of the Disney Plus page I have found the only way for me to do that again is to app switcher close and reopen the app Disney Plus but the search low battery no okay so the the best thing to do in this instance is to just I'm closing out of a low battery alerts watching heading go and select the profile you want so to use the search feature you're gonna go more options to the more options more option access mom and dad I'm sorry offline sir sir home search tab two of four search is one of the tabs on the bottom search by title character or genre search field okay the search field is at the top left of the screen on this tab so I am going to double tap this search field and I'm gonna search for Muppet Christmas Carol and I forgot the E but it's fine it should still come up so I used my Bluetooth keyboard and I typed in Muppet clear tap the Muppet Christmas Carol select for details on there it is selected so I double tap on that tab two of four and then I start at the top left of the screen because for some reason when you select the title it takes you to the bottom of the screen the Muppet HD play but and then you're gonna just hit play and it'll start speech off so I actually turned speech off again when I'm doing this but I hit play and then this will start I just want to say quickly as well that there are some movies that have two different descriptions I'm turning it down for a second but this movie the Muppet Christmas Carol the Disney Plus has the US description of a lot of movies and then there is a UK description of a lot of movies there are exceptions to that rule but a lot of movies have two different versions of description US and UK and usually when that happens the US version is the one that appears on Disney Plus I happen to have the UK version of the Muppet Christmas Carol description but that is not on Disney Plus also a weird thing about descriptions Disney Plus has the US descriptions which place them in the proper key those of you with perfect pitch if you've ever watched a UK described movie a UK version of a movie that has two different descriptions the UK version they often put it up a half step then the US description so it's weird so those are really all the important things about Disney Plus that you need to know the one other thing I want to tell you is that the settings tab that is a lot of visual settings like adjusting the display picking an avatar they do have a lot of neat Disney characters you can use as your avatar but that is all pretty visual and it doesn't work very well with voiceover as far as I have been able to tell when I tried to create my own avatar it does give you an option to choose a photo from your library like a lot of apps do where you create a profile but that's about the only thing that is accessible I mean I couldn't even choose my own birthday on there so that part of the app is definitely needs improvement accessibility wise but that is the rest of it that's how you find what you're looking for by category you search for it use your watch list so I hope you enjoyed this podcast if you have any questions regarding it please contact me via email at rainbow dot girl dot radio at gmail.com that's rainbow dot girl dot radio at gmail.com and please remember I prefer getting to know people via email before I decide to contact them in other ways thank you everybody happy Disney plus happy exploring the happiest place on earth via your iPad OS device and happy pride month