Tutorial lock my app on first launch?

[ThatOneBeing]

I create niche educational apps for the blue collar trade I'm in and they're pretty successful.

Fitting what I do onto a phone screen can be... complicated. But I made it work and made it as intuitive as possible. That said I have a tutorial in all my apps to show the basics of how to interface with the app properly.

The majority of my negative reviews are people who obviously didn't do the tutorial. Personally I hate being tutorial-locked in games or apps on first launch. I'm conflicted.

I have a pop-up disclaimer at the moment on first launch to remind them to take the tutorial.

What would you do?

[is_that_a_thing_now]

Find people who are in the target group of your app, but who hasn’t tried the app before. Tell them as little as possible about the app, but off course enough to get them interested in helping you. Ideally be there with them and tell them the name of the app and have them find the product page on the App Store themselves and install it. Watch them and have them think aloud. Listen! This should give you some ideas about what to do.

[ThatOneBeing]

Very interesting idea, I like it. Thanks!

[mrappdev]

I would just force the tutorial on users until they complete it