Hi, I am testing a video streaming application in the Apple TV. When I am executing the Automation suite from Xcode, the application is not getting installed in the Apple TV. The Apple TV Settings "Background App Refresh" is turned ON for the application that I am testing through Automation. Uninstalling the App manually before triggering the automation suite has a drawback as the app gets installed in Production environment by default and I can't change the environment in the course of automation execution. Hence, the app needs to be pre installed in the Apple TV as I would have it in the preferred lower environments if I want to test them in that. Please suggest a solution.

I would love to see more integration between HomeKit and Siri Shortcuts - a common request I get for my app, Home Flash for HomeKit, is to flash a light when motion is detected, or a button is pressed, but it's not possible today. I could envision this being implemented in one of two ways: Allow a scene to execute a Siri Intent, so an 'Intruder' scene could turn on my porch light, and trigger a Siri Intent either on my phone or Apple TV to flash my bedroom or office light. This is my preferred way, since as a 3rd party developer, I have the ability to create Scene's for my users. Add more flexibility to HomeKit Automations that are Converted to Shortcuts, so that I could direct my users in how to do this

I am done with my tvOS app. But I don't have physical Apple TV. However, it is necessary if I want to distribute my app. Currently, Apple TV has already sold out in my country. Can anybody borrow the UDID of Apple TV? 😅

I'm currently living in a hotel and am used to connecting my Apple TV to the hotel's wifi via MAC address spoofing with my Macbook Air due to a sign-in page that I can't access because the Apple TV doesn't have a browser. I've updated my Macbook Air to Monterrey recently and now can't spoof the MAC address due to the following message "ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Can't assign requested address" I get whenever I try to change my Mac's MAC address to the Apple TV's. Is there a workaround that I could do to connect my Apple TV to the hotel's wifi?

I'm new in SwiftUI and Apple TV applications and I was wondering how to detect swipe gesture on remote control for TvOS in SwiftUI for the ContentView. Every time I search I just found solutions for UIKit or for iPhone/iPad since the drag gesture is not available to tvOS. The plan for this gesture when swipe left or right present menus/side panels on the screen and focus on theses views. Can anyone give some advice/tutorial or demo? Thanks in advance and KR, rpessoa

Hi there. Im using the apple tv app in 4 different equipments, and Ive noticed that the movies and tv shows on ipad pro 10.5 and ipad mini 5 are too dark. Even in daylight scenes. Even with the ipad in maximum brightness. That doent happen in my iphone SE, and using the apple tv through the browser in my Macbook Pro. Is it possible to fix this?

UIDevice.current.systemName giving both TVOS & APPLE TVOS values for Apple TV devices whereas earlier it used to give TVOS always. Is there any change in this API that it starts giving APPLE TVOS in some cases ?

in swiftUI & tvOS 15, when calling the GCController.controllers() to get the list of controllers connected to the apple tv, import GameController ... let siriRemoteAsGameController = GCController.controllers().first the Siri Remote is not registered as the first controller, in fact it is not registered at all ! up until tvOS 15 (14.7 for example) it was working even if i register for notification the connect event isn't dispatched for the already connected Siri remote NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(forName: .GCControllerDidConnect, object: nil, queue: .main) { note in print("GCControllerDidConnect") if let detectedGCController = note.object as? GCController { print("Controller Detected") } } GCController.startWirelessControllerDiscovery(completionHandler: {}) i cannot find a change in that area according to Appel's $#itty documentation any help would be appreciated

He all! I have some sound drop issues on my Apple TV. First of all let me sum up my setup. I have a XH95 Sony TV, the sound comes from the Sonos ARC, and im watching trough HDMI 1 Apple TV). When watching Netflix from Apple TV I have sounddrops of 1 second, then the sound comes back. It only happens on the Apple TV, not with the other HDMI devices or the Netflix App on the TV. thanks all!

How do you re-pair remote for Apple TV

Hello, I have always used hotspot with my Apple TV but since updating my iPhone 12 to iOS 15 I keep getting an error message that says: “there was a problem connecting to the network. The wifi password you entered is not correct. Try again (-100)”. However, it gives me no option to re-enter a password. I can hotspot my older iPhone SE to the Apple TV fine and have restarted it, reset it, and upgraded the software. I can also connect the hotspot from my iPhone 12 to my iPhone SE fine. I have restarted the iPhone 12, reset network settings, turned everything else on and off and nothing works. How do I stop getting this error message on my Apple TV?

What follows is about tvOS 15 but may also apply to iOS 15. Our app may display several types of UICollectionView cells and it depends on the content sent by our backend. Prior to tvOS 15, we used to lazily instantiate UICollectionView cell registrations when needed for the first time while building a UICollectionViewDiffableDataSource. Eventually, each cell registration is only instantiated once (or never). Now tvOS 15 throws an exception when doing so, pretending to prevent the app from creating a new cell registration each time. And it does not care whether it's actually a new cell registration each time or one that is lazily instantiated once. Here is the exception: *** Assertion failure in -[UICollectionView dequeueConfiguredReusableCellWithRegistration:forIndexPath:item:], UICollectionView.m:7413 *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Attempted to dequeue a cell using a registration that was created inside -collectionView:cellForItemAtIndexPath: or inside a UICollectionViewDiffableDataSource cell provider. Creating a new registration each time a cell is requested will prevent reuse and cause created cells to remain inaccessible in memory for the lifetime of the collection view. Registrations should be created up front and reused. Registration: <UICollectionViewCellRegistration: 0x6000000f8c60>' I understand the concern but lazy instantiation is a thing and it should not be for forbidden for the sake of best practices that are not related to it. In my humble opinion, this assert should be removed and apps should be allowed to create cell registrations on the fly.

On the newest AppleTV 4K, I have updated to TVOS 15. Because of that, Xcode 12.5.1 is building, but never runs the project because of the fetchsymbols issue: Failed to start remote service "com.apple.dt.fetchsymbols" on device. Please help! My option was to downgrade, however, it is not doable on the newest AppleTV 4K, 2021.

Hi, We have a narrowcasting app that runs for long periods at a time on TvOS 14.4 without issues, however after updating the apple 4k tv to 14.6 or 14.7 the apple tv 'crashes' before 24 hours. This problem doesn't occur on a full HD apple tv. The crashes aren't logged in our crash logging system (Sentry) So we don't think the App crashes it. We suspect the app gets closed by the apple tv after a certain amount of time. Are there any changes in TvOS 14.5/14.6/14.7 that could be related to this issue?

My Apple TV HD used to turn on automatically when switching to it via Anynet+ on an old Samsung tv. I understand that since tvOS 13, only the MENU and TV buttons (and their related CEC equivalent codes) wake up the Apple TV. So, currently, under tvOS 14.3, my Apple TV HD is no longer switching on automatically when using the tv receiver, and I have to switch it on by using either the Apple TV remote or the iPhone remote widget. I found a solution by teaching Apple TV to learn my tv remote; however, even in basic setup, the arrow left, right, up, down, etc. commands, once learned, conflicts with the tv own menus and commands (using the down arrow to change HDMI input also moves down in Apple TV, for example). So, as an alternative, I reprogrammed the basic buttons by using "fakes" physical buttons for everything but the MENU button, which finally switches the Apple TV on. It would be however much simpler if an option could be added to the Apple TV software so that, for owners of old TV sets like me, the functionality to switch the AppleTV on from "any button" is added back, as it was prior to tvOS 13. Or, alternatively, that just a single remote button could be learned by the Apple TV (instead of 6 in current basic setup). Any suggestions would be appreciated. Regards.

Since Apple TV can pair with a universal remote, the siri remote and the new 2021 siri remote that has the dpad on it, we need a way to distinguish between each unique remotes. Are there APIs for getting the details of the remote being used in tvOS? Reason for this is we want to handle separate logics in using the old vs new siri remote.

i want to integrate a interface to controll a Apple TV over my own app but i couldn't find any documentation about that. Can someone give me a hint?

These episodes completely break the way Watch Now works. Are there plans to allow a user to configure the AppleTV app to Ignore these "special episodes" within Watch Now? This seems to be a very simple but VERY impactful change to the way this app functions.

My Apple TV 4K-2 has the developer HUD enabled. I am unable to turn it off wirelessly. The Developer option has disappeared from Settings on the Apple TV so I can't turn off the Developer HUD. Xcode 12.5.1 discovery sees the device and says that it needs to be paired. Apple TV remote App and Devices says that is already paired. I pair it again in XCode. The device shows as paired on the Apple TV, but Xcode still just gives me the "Pair with ..." message. Same thing if I remove the existing pairing and try it again. Did a restart on the Apple TV but it changed nothing. Don't want to do a reset as there are a lot of settings that would be lost.

HI! I am developing a service for fans of movies and TV series. One of the features of the service is to view lists of sources where you can watch the film or series you're interested in. This includes AppleTV. Is it possible to access the AppleTV API with the ability to search for movies by title or by tmdbid or imdbid? For example for "Cars 2" I'd like to get a link https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/cars-2/umc.cmc.4qadx6arnfd0e5la03oodc4j1