CBS APK
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Version 15.0.50 (#211505039)
Updated 2024-12-26
APK Size 42.5 MB
Requires Android Android 5.0+ (Lollipop)
Offered by CBS Interactive, Inc.
Category Free Entertainment App
App id com.cbs.tve
Developer's notes Watch New Episodes & Live TV
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Download the latest CBS application, version 15.0.50, compatible with Windows 10/11 (using emulators such as Bluestacks), Android devices. This free Entertainment app is developed by CBS Interactive, Inc. and is easy to download and install.
Previous versions, including 15.0.50, 15.0.50, 15.0.42, 15.0.42, 15.0.26, 15.0.14, are also available. If you need help or have any problems, please let us know.
Description
App Features:
• No credit card or subscription required to watch new episodes
• Stream full episodes for free
• Watch your favorite shows anywhere, on any device
• Latest episodes available for next-day streaming*
• Option to sign in with your cable provider to stream live TV and access full seasons of CBS shows
*Content availability subject to change. Live TV subject to availability. On certain devices, certain content may not be available for next-day streaming, learn more at help.cbs.com. The use of the CBS app is limited to the United States.
Please note: This app features Nielsen’s proprietary measurement software which will allow you to contribute to market research, like Nielsen’s TV Ratings. Please visit http://www.nielsen.com/digitalprivacy for more information.
CBS App Terms of Use:
https://www.viacomcbs.legal/us/en/cbsi/terms-of-use
Paramount Privacy Policy:
https://privacy.paramount.com/policy
Do Not Sell My Personal Information:
https://www.viacomcbsprivacy.com/donotsell
App permissions
CBS 15.0.50 APK requires following permissions:
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows applications to change Wi-Fi connectivity state.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows an application to find out the space used by any package.
Allows an application to record audio.
This constant was deprecated in API level 21. No longer enforced.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Ratings and Reviews
Rating: 3.7/5 based on 19K+ reviews
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3 ★ I appreciate that it's free, so 3 stars. I downloaded because the State of the Union address meant my DVR recording was missing the end of an episode. To start watching required 2 ads, fine. To skip forward to the last segment required 4 ads. It skipped forward to the commercial break before the segment and I had to sit through an additional 5 ads. 11 ads at 5 minutes and 30 seconds to watch the last 3 or so minutes of the episode. Again, I appreciate that it's free but that was ridiculous.
2 ★ The Android version of this app has a bug where when streaming after a commercial break it drops back before the commercial. Also, new episodes really lag showing up in the app...super frustrating - but maybe by design. I appreciate your reply pointing me to your support website but that is broken also (your recaptcha is complaining about an incorrect domain for your subscription).
1 ★ Ads always freeze. If you have to stop watching, including when ads freeze,, you can't just pick up where you left off. You have to try to remember where you were. Scroll back. Watch 4 more ads hoping if won't freeze again. You get back to it. Ads come back, freeze again. Sooooo frustrating. Service is all bars, and even happens on wifi. It's taken me 3 days to and watch a 90 min program. After I finally finishing, deleting the app. If this is how Paramount+ operates, I'm def not subscribing.
1 ★ Use to be a great app, before it started freezing during every commercial. Now I have to stop and restart it each time, watching every ad again to get back to my place in the show. Offering a trouble shooting site isn't helpful, as the issue isn't on my end, as countless people have complained about the same issue. The problem is the app, so fix things on your end instead of trying to blame the users!!
1 ★ Ten commercial breaks in an 85 minute program. Lag and sometimes crashes, after which it didn't remember where I was, so I had to watch a commercial, tap to very roughly where I thought I'd been (because while casting it wouldn't go horizontal, so the scroll bar was tiny), more commercials, then get to resume. It took me two and a half hours to watch that 85 minute program. I stream stuff by casting all the time with nary a blip. Uninstall.
2 ★ My favorite part of this app is the cancerous amount of ads you have to watch with video. 30 sec when opening a video, then 2 min of ads to skip to where I left off the last time. When I clicked to Chromecast, it moved itself 5 min ahead. I had to skip backwards, which caused another 2 min of ads. This skip just so happened to be 30 sec from a commercial break, and CBS so thoughtfully offered me another 2 min of ads. So at this point I've seen 30 sec of show and 6 min of ads. Thanks CBS!
1 ★ What a complete piece of junk. It doesn't remember where you left off in a show. That's a problem in itself. But that also means when you scrub forward to find where you left off, it forces you to watch 5 commercials. And then if that's not the right spot and you scrub ahead again, 5 more commercials. Once I found where I left off, I tried using chromecast and it would say no media selected. I tried discinnecting and reconnecting several times. This app is awful. I won't be subscribing.
1 ★ You have a good choice of action drama movies. But I can't watch them because the commercials freeze up till they kick a error message. When a error message kicks up, it starts the movie back at the beginning. When I get to the second set of Comericals it kicks the error that starts the movie over again. That and the same Comericals over and over again is so damn anoying. The movie plays fine but the Comericals freeze and kick a error, so I never get to see the last half of the movie. Fix it!!!
1 ★ This app is the most annoying thing on my phone. I CAN NOT understand how or why a billion dollar media company can't seem to make a functional app. Especially when everyone else does. I can watch anything on any of the other network apps without issues. This thing buffers constantly. It freezes up. Then you have to start over and watch 9000 commercials to get back where you were.
1 ★ I would rather give a -5, but it isn't an option. I've been trying for a week to watch the Oprah special with Harry and Meghan. It crashes every single time. I watch 5 minutes of ads, 4 minutes of interview, and BOOM. Error, please try again later. I sent an email for support a week ago. Thank you for promptly responding. Oh wait. They didn't. Nothing. Zero. Zilch. I've managed 25 mins with at least 4x as many ads due to having to restart the app and watch ads just to skip to the stop point.
1 ★ This app made me upload the latest version before it would let me stream any shows. The latest version is horrible. The voice and the picture do not match. But worse than that, I get, at most, 30 seconds of show and 40 seconds of buffering. Sometimes I only get 8 seconds of show and 15 seconds of buffering. I have tried and tried. I can't watch a show like this. It didn't do this before the upgrade to fix the problems that I wasn't having. This is the very worse network app I have ever used.
2 ★ Too many advertisements in a special I'm watching. 4 or 5 ads 5 times already, and I'm not even halfway through this 1.2 hr special yet. And after the last set of ads a second ago, an error occurred within the show, and closed. So, now I have to go back and find where I last was, and restart. Go through another set of ads. That's 8-10! First ever show I watched on your app and this already happened. Hope it's not a sign of things to come. Please improve.
1 ★ I have tried three different installs of this app. The streaming is awful. It buffers almost every ten seconds, so that a single sentence is not discernable, and continues until the app gives up and the message pops up that an error has occurred and the video cannot be shown. It directs to CBS for help, which is nothing but a list of troubleshooting articles, none of which answer the problem. And, before you ask...if you think it might be better to view thru Paramount+, there is no better.
1 ★ Despite great content, the app is a streaming nightmare. There's an extreme disconnect when transitioning from ads to programming and vice versa. It freezes a lot despite having a very strong connection (all other streaming apps work fine), and I'm often forced to close and reopen the app to get it to work again only to be forced to watch the same ads that already played. An hour long show may take me an hour and a half to watch. I dread when I get behind on a show and have to use this app.
1 ★ I have tried to play the free episodes on the CBS app and it's NEVER WORKING. Many times you start the episode and it finishes the commercial before the episode starts and then repeats the commercial again and again. I un-install the app. Then re-install the app every time this happens. I have tried 2 weeks ago. 3 weeks ago the same thing and again today. PLEASE FIX YOUR APP. My phone is a Samsung Galaxy s10. This is not an old phone or outdated. Every other TV app works great. So disappointed.
Previous versions
CBS 15.0.50 APK for Windows (#211505039, 42.5 MB)
CBS 15.0.50 APK for Windows (#211505038, 106.8 MB)
CBS 15.0.42 APK for Windows (#211504262, 47.2 MB)
CBS 15.0.42 APK for Windows (#211504260, 105.5 MB)
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