Yoto: Music, Stories, Sleep

This app has never worked on any android phone I've had nor iphone on multiple yoto players. it connects you can change the vol, click a track, nothing or maybe it just plays some random track. I don't get how it can be this bad. It's borderline purposeful to force you to buy more physical cards. plus with all the poorly handled recalls it just feels yoto doesn't have any idea what they are doing. could be great but instead just frustrating and you'll end up just playing Spotify from your phone

It's a nice looking app. but it needs more controls. there should be a proper "bedtime" or "clock only" mode that basically stops kids from turning stories back on in the middle of the night. I will set a 15min countdown timer, which stops playback. they just reinsert the card and carry on!! a gradual volume fade wouldn't go amiss either. Podcasts also need sorting, they never play for more than 2 minutes before randomly stopping.

We love our Yotos, and theoretically it is nice being able to play our content on the app and not just on the Yoto. But in practice, the app has always had issues. The biggest issue currently (spring '25) and that the app doesn't do pausing very well. much of the time, after pausing, it won't respond to trying to play again.