This update improves sign‑in reliability and session stability, making it easier to stay logged in and keep watching. We’ve also refreshed visuals, improved subscription guidance, strengthened privacy controls, and enhanced overall performance and stability.

We’ve made some small improvements to make your streaming experience more comfortable.

Fixed issue with Live captions (ONESUPPORT-1201)
Updated integration to Akamai Player to (v 9.10.7)

We’ve updated our app to comply with Apple’s new age rating questionnaire, ensuring our age rating accurately reflects Apple’s latest guidelines.

Bug fixes and enhancements.

The release adds a few improvements to the Live Channel experience as well as minor bug and performance fixes.

This release includes new features, accessibility improvements, and general bug fixes to enhance your experience

Highlights
·         Enhanced Google Analytics 4 (GA4)
Improved GA4 analytics by resolving issues with event tracking.
·         Xcode 16 & iOS 18 Update
Updated to Xcode 16 & iOS 18 for improved performance, stability, and compatibility.
·         New tab bar experience on iOS 18
The app now takes advantage of iOS 18’s updated tab bar for a more intuitive and seamless navigation experience.
·         Privacy Manifest Compliance
Updated third-party SDKs to include required Privacy Manifests, ensuring compliance with Apple's privacy policies.
Bug fixes
·         Bug Fixes related to Unauthenticated Home Page

Known Issues/Limitations
·         Favorite Item Playback: When an item is added to favorites, the "Resume" button incorrectly changes to "Play," and the playback progress bar disappears.
·         Series Episode Progress: On a series' episode page, the playback progress bar does not update automatically after closing the player. Users must manually refresh the page to see the updated progress.
·         Data Zoom is not included

Suggested What’s New Text:
This release includes a few minor bug fixes and improvements for users on iOS 18.

- We have begun implementing support for the new iOS 18 tab bar design updates to align with the latest UI guidelines.

- There was an issue reported on Apple TV where captions (specifically musical notes during song lyrics) were rendered incorrectly. This issue has now been fixed.

- There was a bug found where clicking on favorite button on detail pages would make the whole metadata shift below and the buttons disappear. This bug is now fixed.

- A bug was reported where video playback would continue even after exiting the video player. This issue has now been resolved.

Suggested What’s New Text:
This release addresses a few minor UI issues, including some incorrect rendering of captions during musical interludes.

We’re working hard to make all your holidays joyful by fixing bugs and continuously improving app performance. In this release, UI elements now look and behave much better, and we resolved an issue that sometimes caused images to appear incorrectly.

We're always making improvements to improve your watching experience. This release includes a few bug fixes and overall stability improvements.

We've included several updates to support the brand new Hallmark+ membership benefits! Stream your favorite new content and enjoy a fresh new look. Members will now enjoy a unified Hallmark+ experience on all supported platforms.

We have changed the app title to "Hallmark+"
We have updated app icons according to new brand
We have updated the splash screen according to new brand
Enhanced Performance with Network Layer Refactor and Image Caching

Hotfix for correctly displaying ToS when launching the iOS app.

- Multiple Performance improvements including app load times
- Dropped iOS 14 and tvOS 14 to better support UX related changes

- Resolves the GA4 issue encountered with the previous release 8.104.1
- Includes same release notes as previous release build
- Implement versioning in Feature Config blocks
- Push notification to a series detail page was giving error
- User should be able to add an item to Favourite regardless of login status
- There was an inconsistent behaviour in the More Menu Account section for Subscription information for a user. To fix the issue we updated the IAP purchase flow to use correct auth token to get updated user profile and subscribed products list

·         Implement versioning in Feature Config blocks

·         Push notification to a series detail page was giving error

·         User should be able to add an item to Favorite regardless of login status

·         There was inconsistent behavior in the More Menu Account section for Subscription information for a user. To fix the issue we updated the IAP purchase flow to use the correct auth token to get updated user profile and subscribed products list

Search page promos not rendered in app
Nav Bar Style Implementation not supporting Liquid expressions

Introducing Download to Go: Seamlessly download and enjoy your favorite episodes and movies offline, anytime, anywhere.
Bug Fixes:
Push Notifications now properly lead to the show or movie page instead of the home page. Happy watching!

GA4 is enabled
Datazoom New Collector is introduced

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