HBO Max has been busted for days
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you've attempted to stream something on HBO Max from an Apple TV sometime during the last several days, you may have noticed that its player controls are unusable. It's not just you.
Ongoing issues seem to be related to an app update that supposedly addressed a few bugs lurking around" on June 5th. Since that update released, users have reported that basic playback functionality - such as fast-forwarding, rewinding, and pausing - is borked completely when you try to use the service on an Apple TV box.
How an update this riddled with bugs rolled out to consumers remains unclear. Unfortunately, it's also unclear when exactly they're going to be fixed.
There's legitimately no way to pause, rewind or fast forward on the HBO Max app no...