photos on apple tv

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Created Sep ’15

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The photos app on the new apple tv only shows a very small subset of my icloud photo library (~ 90 out of 6,000). The photos are called my photo stream, but I do not have any streams or folders that match this on my other apple devices. I wrote a bug report 22772152 but it was closed as expected behavior.

from the apple page describing the photos app http://www.apple.com/tv/music-and-photos/ the following is listed:

"Your entire library of personal content. Right on your TV for you — or everyone — to see and hear. It’s everything you love. Only bigger" and

Your Photos

Put everyone you know on television.

Imagine you, your family, and your friends on the big screen — now that’s entertainment. Apple TV makes it easy to share all your photos and home videos from iCloud, displaying them in impressive fashion on your HDTV. It’s a great way to turn your life’s best moments into the life of the party.2"

I cant for the life of me see how this is expected behavior or for that matter if it is how does one control whcih photos are shown?

does anyone else have this issue?

Thanks,

jeff

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Answer 1

Pete OP

Sep ’15

The existing Apple TV behaves this way also.

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Answer 2

KMT OP

Sep ’15

Keep in mind that marketing promise targets the pubile w/the public tvOS release, which is not what dev kit participants are (yet) exposed to, so you may want to hold dismay until it becomes available.

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Answer 3

lcurry OP

Sep ’15

Hello,

I m not judging but why close the report as expected behaviour and not a known issue? If this is expected behavior than it does not match what the apple web site says, if its a known issue I didnt see it in the release notes so I wrote it up---

doesnt make sense

Jeff

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Answer 4

KMT OP

Sep ’15

Again, the website is talking to the public, based on the tvOS they will see, not the pre-release tvOS devs see now - two different cases. Your conclusion as stated is mistaken, I think. There are many things we don't have in our version that the public and devs will enjoy later, so the website is correct.

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Answer 5

lcurry OP

Sep ’15

Hello,

I am not saying the website is incorrect, I am saying if the website reports a function works one way, but it in fact currently works differently, that is a BUG or not implemented not "This issue behaves as intended" which is what the bug report was closed as.

So what you are telling me, if I report an issue that does not appear to work the way it is written in the website, then the response in the bug report should be "This issue behaves as intended" because the public release will have it working and I should know not to report things that dont seem to work as expected and are not included in the known issues and notes?

in the relase notes Apple states:

Bug Reporting

For issues not mentioned in the Notes and Known Issues section, please file bugs through the Apple Developer website (https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/tvOS/). Additionally, you may discuss these issues and tvOS SDK 9.0 in the Apple Developer Forums: https://forums.developer.apple.com/community/pre-release/tvOS-beta.'

I didnt see in the notes or known issues that photos was not working as intended, so I wrote it up. I wrote to the forum to see if others saw the same behaviour thinking perhaps my setup was just messed up, and it does indeed work as stated.

Its not a big deal either it will work or it wont ----

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Answer 6

KMT OP

Sep ’15

Semantics aside, I see no reason to dispute the feedback from your report.

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