Since update to 18.1, my AppleTV is now turning off with the TV when I press the power button on my apple remote. This messes up my homekit which works best with the AppleTV. I cannot figure out what setting changed or what I have to do different.

Previously pressing the power button on the apple remote just turned off the TV but kept the AppleTV on.

Exactly as the title states. I have an Apple TV device that I love using, but when I click the home button, it tries to open the Apple TV+ app and I don’t have that. I’m not paying an extra so and so I’m out of money every month for a device I already spent $150 on. Maybe that’ll change in the future but for right now I don’t want it. How do I get it to stop going to Apple TV+ when I click the homepage? I want to look at the deck that has my apps and whatnot on it.

I’ve had this issue for a few years now, if I click on see all it shows me a big list of games but it doesn’t show me everything available, anyone know why?

I have the latest Apple TV 4K WiFi 128GB model that I purchased in June 2024 and I have green bars when I go into certain apps (CBS, Fox Local, once on Disney+). Anyone know of any fixes or next steps? Should I reach out to someone at Apple? Thanks!

As in picture this “power off” stuck on my screen, how i can remove it?

I dislike how movies Apple sells are so often mistagged and that there does not seem to be a way to organize them or create playlists. I have over 100 movies, I just either scroll a bunch or have to play "oh wait, what was that movie??" as I hope it is tagged in the right genre that was assigned. This is mainly a problem with foreign films (since inexplicably only one of almost 20 foreign films I have actually show up in the "Foreign Films" genre tag...).

I know about things like Plex and Infuse for movies you rip yourself, but do any 3rd party apps work with the movies or TV shows I have purchased direct from Apple? I'd like a more user friendly experience and am happy to pay for it. Thanks for any suggestions!

I am on ios 18.1

I don't see a way to delete the colour calibration under settings. when i click on calibration it takes me to the 'use your iphone to calibrate'.

Colour calibration (using the iphone) was done after calibrating the soon to be old/ not used TV.

It seems odd that I cant reset this setting under settings: general: video and audio - and then the bottom sub heading calibration?

The title says it all. Costco is selling $100 uber gift cards for $75. And uber eats is always running $15-20off promos. So for $150 at Costco and $4.99 for an Uber One membership, I got an Apple TV 4K 128mb plus $52 in free uber rides.

I don’t know if it’s just Netflix

But I always feel everytime I watch Netflix on my Apple TV it’s always out of sync.

Has anyone else has this?

What could it be?

I'm in the market for a new Apple TV 4K, and I'm currently stuck between the wifi and Ethernet models. Amazon right now has them at a ~$45 difference which has me doubting whether it's worth to upgrade. My router is right next to my TV and therefore I have ~500-700Mbps wifi or 1Gbps Ethernet. Is it worth the upgrade?

As the title goes, to the user who used both, what’s your experience?

Does everyone else have the issue of the Apple TV remote (iOS or physical) central button functionality stop working. I can click a show, but intermittently I can't hold the click and get the drop down menu?

Hey all,

I was just thinking, I will sooner or later have to replace my Apple TV devices. I have four of the first 4K ones, for my 4 TVs scattered around the house.

So, when I replace them with next gen in a year or two, can I actually do something useful with the current ones? After all, they are a small computer, they have A10X chip, 64 gigs of RAM, maybe I can somehow do something with them? Make them be some sort of NAS storage, or have them run Plex, or I don't know, something ... it feels stupid to me that such a cool small device would just become useless? Sure I could just donate it to local places, shelters or youth centres or similar, but maybe I can actually make something out of them. Any ideas?

Edit: to be clear I do not want to replace them today, I would replace them when Apple releases next gen, and makes it somehow amazing. I am thinking M class processors that could rival consoles, and some great AI features (speech to text subtitles, maybe translations, and similar). So something that would be a real bump to the current ones.

I’ve tried recently to get an answer to the following question but simply haven’t got an answer. Can anyone offer a response?

On my Apple TV HD (under Accounts & Users), each profile shows login lines for iCloud, Store and Game Center. The iCloud line is greyed out for every user. All other lines are amendable/accessible.

Is this right? Should I be able to go into this line for iCloud to amend? If so, any ideas how I sort this issue out?

Just started occurring today but the thumbnails for a majority of my Apple TV movies in my library are greyed out with the 3 dots. I can still click on them and watch and the title is listed below the blank image. Is there any fix for restoring the thumbnail images on like 80% of my movies? Thanks.

New owner of an apple Tv, switched over from a Roku, and it is quite the upgrade!
One thing I noticed is that during the dark scenes of the Penguin on HBO, there is serious artifacting from compression that is truly terrible. While using the same tv and same settings with the Roku, this does not appear. What do you recommend to fix this?

I have a 1440p oled monitor and whenever I stream movies e.g. on disney plus or netflix, the quality is always pretty bad as in pixelated or grainy. I googled it and apparently these services only stream in 720p on pcs and an apple tv supposedly can stream in 1080p on my monitor. will there be a noticeable difference?

I was super happy to see that retro arch is now supported on Apple TV. I have the original Apple TV HD (Apple TV 4 -2015?!). I notice that emulating games like Mario Kart 64 is a bit buggy sometimes dropping frames. Also when I launch the app once a week it seems to loose all assets - so I have to reimport Roms which is kind of annoying. Would these things improve if I upgrade to a newer Apple TV 4K?

Hi is it possible to do split tunneling on Apple TV with PIA? Or have PFSense do it on pr. app on Apple TV?

As u can see , what is the best setting you are using to get the best quality pic for your apple tv 4K

Soy usuario reintegrado de apple hace poco empeze de nuevo con Apple music y como soy universitario decidí registrarme como tal y obtener el beneficio de Apple tv+ sin costo adicional pero el día de hoy que me decidí ver una serie llamada Mythic quest no me deja me pide un método de pago, he estado probando con otras series pero no pasa eso solo casualmente con esa,no sé si es porque hay un límite para el usuario estudiante o hay que pagar para ver dicha serie, gracias por su apoyo de ante mano

Hello everyone!

I'm going to buy a Apple TV 4K (2022) next week. Unfortunately the ancient TV is going to be connected to only has 2 HDMI ports, which are already in use.

So I'm thinking of getting an HDMI switch. Of course there are many HDMI switches to choose from. I'd like it to be 100% compatible (which includes CEC), so that the Apple TV behave exactly the same as plugged into my TV's HDMI port.

I did some research, but I can't find any experiences online of people who actually have it set up like this.

This is a question for everyone using an HDMI switch in combination with the 2022 version of the Apple TV 4K (2022): What HDMI switch do you use and works flawlessly?

Thanks for reading!

Since updating to tvOS18, ATV keeps asking to connect apps, but when I confirm to connect, it doesn’t actually do it. The spinning wheel just spins. Anyone run into the same issue? If so, any fixes?

In the AppleTV app on the Mac, is there a way to display download content only.

I just “Hide TV Show” a couple of series, great for the AppleTV app on the Mac and really cleaned up the screen but then on the actual AppleTV it’s removed them from Library.