YouTube Studio

Help Centre for YouTube Studio is horribly inconsistent. Multiple features mentioned in the articles are not present in the app itself. For example, to view hidden users, I have to select options in 'the left menu' which is not even present in the app. New comments are sometimes hidden until you clear the 'I haven't responded' filter. Customization options are also extremely limited. Only useful if you'd like to see slightly more detailed statistics.

Cannot see audience active time? Cannot change the duration of data? There are so many missed steps, it's amazing! Oh by the way, news flash: changing the appearance of the app does not change the quality of it. The same thing happens on the laptop as well. Certain parameters in the audience section are not linked to the duration that I select. Quite enraging. Purposeless updates. No improvement, only show. You know you can do BOTH, right?

While I'm glad I can manage my channels on the go, a bunch of bugs, app speed, and UI design issues get in the way of my work flow with this app. I really wish someone from YouTube or Google would contact me about this but we all know that's not going to happen. BUGS For example, when I switch channels and respond to comments the replies are made by my other channel username, instead of the proper one where I'm working from. It happens on this phone (Galaxy S4) and my old one (Galaxy J5 2017), so it's not a phone issue. Another thing is the comments in the Comments tab doesn't show all the comments that ARE shown in the Notifications screen. I find the Comments section to have a better layout but since it doesn't show ALL of the comments made on my videos it's unusable for me. UI Usability issues Getting specific video stats take too many taps to get to. There's no indication of comments held in review and spam; you won't know unless you check. The time switching between sections (Comments, Videos, Etc.) and pages is too long. The animations between pages are slow, I wish I could turn them off altogether, they add no value and only slow down administering a busy channel. There are other things, these are just a few of them. I do appreciate the work that went into this app and I see it's getting new features, but if you ask me the core features need improvement first and the bugs need to be fixed first and foremost. Thank you YouTube for all you do for Creators!