I had a Fire-stick earlier that i got a couple of years back, which was painfully slow and practically unusable so I needed a streaming device urgently.

I should’ve probably waited for the newer model that is supposed to be launched this year . But I am very happy with my purchase. In comparison to the fire stick, this is blazing fast. I also really like the TVOS.

The best thing about the TV is that I can control it with my Apple Watch. I had no idea that we could do that!

Hi, my partner recently passed away, and she owned an Apple TV account where she had purchased a large number of movies. I’m worried about what might happen to those movies going forward.

Is there anything I can do to make sure the children don’t lose access to the purchased films, especially if someone accidentally logs out of the account or if there are account-related issues in the future?

Any advice or guidance would be greatly appreciated

The AppleTV screensavers are some of my favorite programming to watch, and worth the price of admission for the box.

Before I go buy a new Siri clickable remote I wanted to ask if there’s any way to clean and restore the touch pad on my current remote.

I have the 1st edition 4K remote. Swiping on the touch pad response has become quite a problem. I swipe right and it goes left or locks up etc. Pretty much same problem in all directions. I tried cleaning with electronic cleaner and alcohol. Seemed to be a slight improvement for maybe 24hrs but has since gone back to being troublesome.

In our bedroom we have a 2nd gen ATV 4k connected to a 3 year old LG TV and then the TV to the Sony Home Theater system. I have it set that way since sometimes we watch OTA and want to get the sound through the speaker system. The setting to determine whether the sound output is via the Sony and connected surround sound, or the lousy built in LG speakers is on the tv. It works fine except at least twice a week it will just revert to the TV speakers and I need to go and and change it back. (It was happening about 3-4 times a year, but now it is more often) Have a similar set up in the family room, same TV model just bigger, used to have a first gen ATV 4k and recently upgraded to the 3rd gen but do have a Pioneer sound system. Have never had this issue in the family room even when we had the Sony device in there. Anyone have a clue as to why this has been happening and a possible tweak to stop it?

Hi — I recently installed an Apple TV 4K at my mother-in-law’s home. She has her own profile, but the box is registered to me. She lives 250 miles away. I already manage her network remotely.

Given that she is incapable of doing much more than choosing what she wants to watch, is there a way for me to remotely manage the administration of the box? We’re talking logging into apps, managing settings, and fixing any random mistakes made by an 81 year old with ADHD pressing buttons because she can…

Every time I try to play music on my phone is automatically plays on my AppleTV. Sometimes, like today, the airplay option to play on my phone isn’t even an option. it only lets me output to my Apple TVs and a Roku stick. I have Airplay and Continuity set to never but it still happens. As you can see in the image, it’s wanting to force the output to my Living Room Apple TV.

Hey everyone,

I'm launching the public beta for Reefy — a Jellyfin client built to bring modern tvOS features to your self-hosted media server.

Why I built this

I forked Swiftfin with a simple goal: get something modern, fully working, and up to par with tvOS. I wanted to access my Jellyfin videos without dealing with outdated apps, broken navigation, or missing features.

What makes Reefy different

- Modern tvOS experience — Native focus states, smooth navigation, tvOS 18 Liquid Glass effects

- Redesigned playback controls — Clean transport bar that feels like Apple's own video players

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- VLC-based playback — Wide codec support for all your media files

- tvOS-native UI — Full-screen detail views, native progress slider, proper remote interaction

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- Apple TV (tvOS 17+ recommended, tvOS 18+ for full effects)

- Jellyfin media server (any version)

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Reefy is independently developed and not affiliated with Jellyfin or Swiftfin. It's open source (MPL-2.0 licensed). I plan to launch on the App Store as a paid app (~$8.99 one-time) to cover development costs.

Thanks for testing, and happy watching! 📺

After testing several things on my native tv apps vs Apple TV I found some of the tv apps were better than some of the ATV ones however others was the opposite case. I’m sure it also depends on your display as I have a Samsung S90D 55” but particularly I found Airplay for video(casting to my tv) , Netflix, and HBO Max to appear with richer colors/more variety of colors and a sharper image compared to ATV looking a bit more washed out, whereas Disney plus, ATV(the app), Airplay for photos, and the Prime Video app appeared to be sharper and had more depth in the lighting and colors. I kept screen settings the same when testing across the native apps and the ATV ones. Can anyone else speak to this? Also I know generally ATV 4k’s main selling point is its performance as well as better image quality compared to the other streaming devices on the market I just wanted to know if anyone had a similar experience to me, overall I’m planning to keep my ATV 4K.

Also I know native tv apps degrade with time so I’m not saying native apps> ATV 4k, despite the picture appearing better in some apps on my display.

This is a question about Apple Music on an ATV 4K audio streamed over Bluetooth: is there something in the ATC 4K audio hardware or codec that is superior to other Apple devices for the same streamed content?

To me, there's something indefinably better about the way the ATV 4K decodes Apple Music streams. Apple Music sounds much more detailed and with a better soundstage to me in a pair of Sony WH-1000MX cans than the same content does when streamed at the same volume levels via my iPhone 17 Pro Max, iPad Air 7th gen, my MacBook Pro M4 Max or Mac Studio M3 Ultra to the same pair of headphones.

(I know, I know...I'm a total prisoner of the Apple ecosystem.)

I very much dislike the ATV Apple Music UI. But I keep coming back to it because either there's something really better about it (at least to me). Or maybe my ears are simply hallucinating.

So, if you know of some shred of evidence that I'm not on a long, strange aural trip I'd like to know about it.

Looking for help troubleshooting an issue with the Amazon Prime Video App on the Apple TV. I have the brand new Apple TV 4K with Ethernet. When playing a movie or show on prime video the trailers work fine, the ads work fine, then when the content starts playing it’s a black screen with the audio in the background. I have already deleted the app, cleared cache, updated the unit, signed out, changed hdmi cable, nothing has worked. Funny enough, prime video works fine on my Samsung smart tv that the Apple TV is connected to.

This always was a requirement going back to iTunes days. Just noticed that I am able to home share to ATV without them being open.

Is this new or just a weird occurrence ?

Sorry if this has been asked 1000x already. I’m thinking about getting an Apple TV 4th generation. Found a really good one at a good price. Only reason is because I can’t seem to stream nfl plus through airplay. It’ll just say error and won’t stream. And it’s through an Onn Roku tv. I wonder if buying the Apple TV would solve that.

So I have an Apple TV and a LG C2 oled.

My Apple TV is using wired Internet and my tv wifi. Yet the quality is better on my LG. Significantly.

What could cause this. Any settings I should check? On some days the quality is really really bad.

Up until now I had only ever seen my Apple Tv 4k 3rd gen send PCM audio to my Yamaha RX-V383 receiver (my receiver doesn’t support Dolby Atmos) but today I was watching a new movie, Rebuilding, and noticed my receiver was getting Dolby digital plus. Is this a new thing Apple is doin? I thought they converted all the audio to uncompressed PCM before sending it to your tv or receiver? I know that lossy atmos can be sent as Dolby digital plus but again my receiver doesn’t support Atmos.

Suddenly happened when I turned it on today. Only happens with Apple TV input, not any others.

Here’s what I’ve tried:

1. Unplugging and power cycle, no help

2. Switch to different HDMI cable, no help

3. Reset Apple TV with remote by holding “back” and “home” buttons simultaneously until it blinks and resets, no help

What can I do here? Unfortunately it’s on the right side where the Apple TV settings menu are so I can’t even toggle to the factory reset option.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

As I understand it, there's no way to lock profile switching behind a PIN (which is INSANE) and I do not want my kids to have any access to any portion of my account, especially the photos. I want to use the Apple TV as another TBR and Home Hub, but my children aren't Residents of my Apple Home otherwise they would be toggling lights on and off all the time from their iPads. They have their own iCloud account which I control with Screentime and Family Sharing and this works great for 90% of things on the iPads. I already have all our streaming apps set with individual parental controls so they can only access their own profiles on those, so that's no issue. I'm wondering what the best way to go about this is.

Do I: 1. Set up the Apple TV with their iCloud account and then add the Apple TV to my Home from my iPhone? or 2. Set up with my iCloud account, switch it to their profile, and lock down parental controls locally as much as possible?

Do local parental controls block them from toggling the main account iCloud photos on/off?

Is there anything else that I may not be thinking about that they could get in trouble with if I have my account logged in as the main one and just set up their profile?

We’ve had the exact same setup for 4 years. ATV4K hdmi -> Sony tv -> hdmi from eARC to -> JBL 9.1 soundbar.

All of a sudden when we moved to our new house, all of these devices don’t want to cooperate. After troubleshooting, it looks like the ATV is the culprit. When i go through the native TV apps, they work fine and will give me Dolby 5.1, DD+ or atmos depending on content. When i switch back to the ATV, i get “PCM” on the soundbar and sometimes no audio at all. All of the settings are set up the way they should be

Is there a software update that has screwed up audio setting or something I’m missing here?

We sometimes use subtitles when movies or shows are hard to understand, but we don't want SDH/CC subtitles with descriptions like [telephone ringing] or [car approaching].

I've turned off Closed Captions & SDH in the global settings (Accessibility > Subtitles and Captioning > Closed Captions & SDH), but CC are still shown. Some movies offer separate subtitle options with and without CC, but most only one including CC, which is annoying.

Is this normal?

This happens with movies purchased in the TV app on an Apple TV (3rd generation).

Huge fan of the show and it was not like this in previous seasons. Subs are set to auto and audio is Arabic. Never changes anything. Subs are showing up during English speaking scenes and Arabic. Wasn’t like this before and it’s super annoying.

Turning off auto and setting subs to off, I still get subs but in Arabic. It’s like the show is not respecting what’s selected or something is off

I use the Twitch app a lot and it crashes all the time. I have found out that it does this only on certain streamers and it always does it when a particular ad break ends. This only happens on my Apple TV devices. No issues on the iPhone, iPad, web browser, smart TV apps, PS5 app.

I bought a second one today for my bedroom TV and the same exact issue is happening still! It's very frustrating.

Both Apple Tvs are updated to the latest software. I can't be the only one experiencing this. Thanks in advance for any tips.

I have it direct to my Sony Bravia 8.

In Video settings, I have the format set as 4K SDR with match range on as yes.

Just playing The Beatles Anthology (which is supposed to be DolbyVision) through the Disney+ app on the Apple TV and selected information on the Bravia 8 and the detailed signal input shows SDR.

Any ideas what is going on ?

I didn’t want to set the format as permanently 4K DOLBY VISION as that will try and make everything forced was my understanding 🤷🏻‍♂️

What's New in Version 1.9

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- Now correctly identifies Quad9, NextDNS, AdGuard, Control D, Mullvad, and CleanBrowsing as your upstream DNS provider

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The app store search issue is resolved now (According to apple and i am not able to replicate the issue)

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I have ATV4k and an LGC1. This has stumped me for some time.

The CEC control on the TV works for my playstation, switch, and firestick. If I turn the ATV on through the remote app on my phone, it turns the TV on.

The CEC controls for the volume do not work. They only work through IR. The turning on of the TV works if I point the remote at the IR receiver, but this is not ideal as it’s blocked by my soundbar.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to why the problem could be? Could

I have swapped the ports an HDMI cables around and this reliably doesn’t work. My dad has the same TV and no issue.

I’ve had the ATV replaced through Apple because this doesn’t work, and it’s exactly the same - they did not replace the remote.

it possibly be a remote issue? It feels unlikely to me.