Sometimes I like to give (“gift”) people movies that I enjoyed. You used to just send them a .torrent file, but nowadays it’s kind of frowned upon. I watch price changes on the Apple TV Store using an app called CheapCharts, which works amazingly. When the price drops on a movie on my wish list, I get a notification and usually when the price hits \u20ac3.99, I buy, since that’s the lowest a normal movie will ever go for. Sometimes I have to wait for years, but eventually I can get everything for cheap and legal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now this works well when I’m purchasing for myself. But when I want to give a movie to somebody, Apple makes me play a little game, which I habe become quite fond of. This is the game:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ever since iTunes went away and we’re supposed to use the Apple TV app, gifting movies has not been possible any more. But there is a workaround.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You start by going to the old iTunes app. It only lets you search for music though! So you have to find an actor, who also recorded a song!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now you find the song, click on the actor’s name to show a list of everything they’ve done, including movies! Now you can play: click on a movie, view the cast and click on another actor’s name to show their movies. You have to find a connection to an actor, who was in the movie you’re tring to gift! It may take multiple, if not many, steps, but eventually you get there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now you can use the established way to gift that movie. On iOS, it’s share arrow and scroll down, to “Gift”. Enter recipient details and send.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I always found it amazing it works this way. Laughable, but somehow fun. It will be a sad day, when the iTunes app is finally removed from iOS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PS: I usually start my journey with Bruce Willis \ud83e\udd70<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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