I love it! I have music or podcasts going and just watch the screensaver when it comes on. 😂

I'm across town at a meeting, getting text complaint from wife that TV is screwed up, she's shut it down. Happens to be a decent enough Samsung 4k TV that came with this house I bought 2-1/2 months ago.

Get home, and start trouble shooting / trying stuff. I can see a red LED on the bottom of the TV blinking like it's receiving a remote input. Remotes all look fine, nothing obvious there. Unplug reboot the TV, the AppleTV 4K, the Sonos PlayBar, the Xfinity STB (don't ask, happy wife, happy life, you get it), screw with the Apple phones and pads. Nothing.

Do some searches and come across this post, which contains:

"I had the same thing happen recently with my QN90B remote. The volume would increase to 100 on it's own without me touching it. I thought it was the Samsung remote or the TV just acting up so I went through the whole procedure of resetting the TV and, of course, that didn't work. Turns out it was my Apple TV remote that was causing problems. To fix it you just need to press the TV Icon button and the Down Volume button on the Apple TV remote and hold them in for about 10 seconds and that will reset the Apple remote. Since doing that I haven't had any problems and everything is back to normal."

I do exactly that with my AppleTV 4K remote and TA-DA! Problem goes away.

Not sure what happened. I do have the AppleTV set to auto update, thinking it was an unwanted artifact from an update? Anyway, posting in case you peeps ever encounter that weird one.

I use a couple of Sonos 5s with my Apple tv using airplay and it works great.   The only problem I have is with the streaming app Kanopy which will not use the airplay.  It will only work with the TV audio.   Any suggestions?

trying to get files to play on my phone.. when i connect my phone to my mac it says all the episodes are there but my phone looks like this? please help

I want to add some family members to my household but none of them have apple devices, can I just create one apple id account form one of my devices for them?

My devices: two mac minis, macbook pro, ipad and apple tv

I'm looking for a cheap device to mirror an older Macbook to my tv for media consumption. Do the older generations still work for this or are they bricked? Specifically 3rd gen?

I have an ATV 4K A2843 connected to a Hisense U75. There are no soundbars or pass-through connections of any kind. Just a high-speed HDMI straight into the eARC on the TV.

Ever since I’ve moved the ATV to this TV, it’s had an audio stutter. The sound with break for a very brief moment. Sometimes it’ll happen like once an hour. Sometimes it’s worth and it’ll happen several times in a few minutes.

For the record, I haven’t tried replacing the HDMI cable yet. I will, whenever I can get someone h to help me pull this TV off the wall mount. It’s in a tight space and I can’t do it by myself.

But until I can do that, is there a setting I should try to change that might be causing this?

On the Hisense, I’ve already tried to turn eARC on and off. No difference.

On the ATV, Audio Format is set to Atmos, which the Hisense supports, Enhance Dialogue and Reduce Loud Sounds are both off, and Audio Mode is on auto.

Hoping someone on here might know more about the OG Apple TV and have some advice. I bought a 1st gen Apple TV from a thrift store a while ago, and when I first got it it booted up and ran no problem, but when I recently tried to use it to try installing some software mods to make it usable again, it no longer seems to boot, I get no video output from it, and the power/status LED just blinks yellow. I'm not sure what would have gone bad in storage to make it not boot, perhaps the hard drive didn't like sitting unused for that time, but finding out any information about the original Apple TV errors through Google seems to be impossible.

Thanks in advance.

I personally like Motion Smoothing. Clear or Standard. I've noticed that Setting ATV to 4K SDR and turning on Match Content and Frame rate, the TV will do what it sees coming in. Yet some Dolby Vision content from Apple TV Movies turns off or disabled Motion Smoothing... I can't adjust it or turn it on... So Is it overridden by turning on Match Content and Frame Rate? I'm guessing but nice to know if thats the case.

Wife calls me at work and tells me our primary Apple TV isn’t working and says there’s an animation wanting her to put an iPhone near the box. Seems like it went into recovery mode. Go home at lunch and use me iPhone to update the firmware but it boot loops after it’s done. I’m running out of time so I go grab the box out of the living room. As soon as it boots up, BOOM boot loops. Like wtf is going on here!? Now I really have to run. Go grab the guest room box as a last resort and yep, you guessed it. FUCKING BOOT LOOP. All were being plugged it to a Denon AVR but I literally can’t see how that would have had anything to do with it. Tried the suggestion of putting the remotes in the microwave while trying to troubleshoot today (since some posts indicated that bad remotes can cause it) but of course that didn’t help anything. I’ve never seen or heard of anything like this. FML.

I have a Roku tv right now and it is ok but I love Apple I have a iPhone 16 Pro and I am currently saving up for a Mac book air and a new Apple Watch I don’t know if it’s worth it to buy a Apple TV if I already have a Roku tv

I do not have an iPhone or airpods or Mac or you get the point. I want to use it for streaming and watching my library using plex. Would I be missing out on anything? Would it make more sense to get something like a Google tv streamer instead in this case?

Edit: yes I am waiting for the new apple TV as well if I do buy it.

My 89 year old dad is a huge soccer fan. The TV-rights are bought by DAZN so now he has to use AppleTV and the DAZN-app and it’s not going well. At the move, I drive 3-4 times 40 km’s on Saturday and Sunday to assist him, but he makes no progress.

I’m looking for a solution to assist him remotely. The ideal solution is something like a remote viewer. The DAZN app GUI is a disaster and his problem is navigating inside the app.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

For a while now, clicking the play button hasn’t been starting things from menus in any app. Works fine to play/pause in the middle of shows. It was seemingly random and would work for a while after a reboot.

Had this happen on 2 different aTVs, different models (1st gen 4k, and I think it’s a 1st gen of the ones with the App Store)

Finally figured out our old friend Disney+ wasn’t releasing the player after exiting after a show. Noticed a show still showing on my phones lock screen long after I had stopped playback.

Force quitting D+ sorts it out. This has been happening for a month or so, so possibly multiple versions.

Where is the list of the movie & show ? Hahaha like wtf Apple. You let people add movie and show but not possible to find them ?

Please help!

I’m sure I bought it in the past and when my dad wanted to watch it Apple didn’t have it anymore. Was it removed? If so, why?

Here's my configuration: 4K Apple TV, model 2169. Normally connected to wireless network with all the Home hardware. In use as a Home hub. Good signal, good data. On tvOS 18.

I decided to try using the ethernet port to see if anything changed. It did. I lost the ability to view the outdoor cameras. Unplugged ethernet, outdoor cameras came back. Updated to run the latest version of tvOS 26. Tried the same test. same result. Looked on line, not sure why this setup doesn't work with the cameras if it's not on the wifi network.

Thought I would ask the hive mind.

Anybody got any ideas?

I’m thinking about buying an AppleTV 4K Ethernet. I got a TV (NeoQLED Samsung something) and an Nubert Soundbar, both support HDMI EArc. Does both of these devices’ EArc work with the AppleTV? I mean that I can control the soundbar volume and the AppleTV itself with the Apple remote?

When match dynamic range is on I get the “extra” black screen but with it off I don’t. What happens to video quality with it off?

Why is my apple tv showing snow white dots if connected via hdmi on jbl bar1300 and picture blurry with hdmi direct on tv as if match content not working

…how is it possible that my collection of 230 movies that I bought on Apple TV can't be seen through the Android app?

That is, how come I can access Apple Music and even Apple TV but I can't see my purchased content on Android... what's the point?

Turnes on the TV to buy the F1 movie. Then turned it off and saw it in recovery mode. Tried recovering by phone and wasn't successful. Tried skipping recovery now just in a loop of apple logo and spinning logo