Twas the night before, and all through the sub, not a fanboy was sleeping, not even the mods at the pub. The remotes were placed by the TVs with care, in hopes that new hardware soon would be there.

The faithful lay restless, all tucked into bed, while visions of new Apple TVs danced in their heads. With dreams of new chips and more RAM to spare, and perhaps a new Siri with something upstairs.

The Plex crowd demanded their audio passthrough, the gamers wanted more power, and 120Hz too. The HomePod owners prayed for surround sound divine, while one guy keeps posting, “My 2017 model works fine.”

The rumor mill churned, the excitement ran high, as fanboys refreshed every website nearby. “Tomorrow’s the day!” they exclaimed with delight, “we’ve waited for YEARS! Apple HAS to get this right!”

But somewhere in Cupertino, behind a locked door, John Ternus and company may be plotting to disappoint us once more. For should morning arrive with no new little box, no upgraded processor, no shiny new box, no Wi-Fi improvements, no features to tout, then heaven help Reddit when the fanboys find out. The megathread will burn. The complaints will take flight, “APPLE HAS ABANDONED US!” they’ll scream with all their might. There’ll be forty-seven posts titled “WHAT WAS THE POINT?” And at least twelve petitions to boycott the joint. The “just buy a Shield” guy will rise from the dead, while conspiracy theories spread through every thread. The mods will demand calm, decorum, and grace, while privately screaming into pillows someplace.

Reports will pile up. The downvotes will rain. Someone will announce they’re switching to Roku again. And when all hope is lost, when the subreddit is through, Apple will quietly announce… a new HomePod mini in blue.

So here’s to tomorrow, may our dreams finally come true.
May John bless us all with an Apple TV that’s new. But if nothing gets announced, well, consider this fair warning: THIS SUBREDDIT WILL BECOME AN INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY BY MID-MORNING.

Happy Apple TV Eve to all, and to all a good night.

Hi r/appletv! I built an app called Spår that shows trains in Sweden, Finland and Norway moving in real time on a dark map. I wanted something I could leave on the TV and occasionally stop to watch.

The trains are coloured by delay, from white to yellow, orange and red. You can select a train to follow it as it travels.

For the remote controls, swipe to move around, click the top or bottom edge to zoom, and press Play/Pause to open the menu.

When you leave it running, the interface fades and the map slowly drifts to protect the screen. The app also keeps the screensaver from starting. There’s an optional clock in the corner if you want one.

It runs on Apple TV HD and newer models. No account, no advertising and no tracking.
It’s $3.99 in the US:

https://apple.co/4B0CUPB

I’d especially like feedback on how the remote controls feel.

Not asking about your personal wishlist.

I’m curious about what has actually evolved in recent years (faster hdmi / Ethernet / etc) and might be in the new Apple TV. Or is there not much and this is likely to be more about software features like AI?

Before tvOS 27 I could press long press the tv button on my remote, bring up the control center menu, then click the center button and it would automatically go to the power off icon. I could click again and it would power off. Now, after updating, that flow doesn’t work anymore :(
Anybody know how to change it?

I’m considering buying an Apple TV and I believe that it supports automatically turning on the captions for a few seconds when you hit the back button to rewind about 10 seconds. But does anyone know which apps support that feature?

Do any third party apps such as paramount plus app, HBO, Hulu, Disney, etc support that feature?

Has anyone else noticed hiccups where music skips, pauses, and then continues? The same issue appears with my videos.

before the price increase, I was like I’ll wait cause I got the 1st gen and it’s good enough and the new one might be even better than the 3rd.

then the price goes up on gen3 and I still wait.

now the new one is boutta drop and it looks like its gen3 for video stuff, just mainly processing updates and ai? and this crap prolly gonna be more expensive than the current gen3 pricing.

shoulda bought early I think I fked up

I’m deciding between getting HomePods or a classic surround system with passive speakers and AVR/amps. My TV has eARC and its hooked to a ATV 4K 2nd gen.

I’m confused about how a system with passive speakers would be able to achieve this:

• play music almost entire day from my phone without powering the TV on.
• play audio when I’m watching TV or playing games on my PS5
• automatically power on and support changing the volume from my phone/ATV remote
• support stereo (to begin with) and later proper Atmos/surround when I add more speakers
• seamless setup (powering the ATV also powers on the speakers and directs audio to them). Airplay from phone turns them on etc.

Is this achievable? What amps, receivers, etc are you using to make something like this work?

A stereo HomePod setup will be the most convenient, sleek and will get me all of this, but they are currently at the end of their lifecycle and there are no rumours for a product refresh anytime soon. The current gen also has ghost touch issues and they recently increased their price.

Is it possible to replace hdmi port on gen3 4k apple tv. The one is broken and when moved picture goes black 3-4s

Apple is rumoured to be introducing a new operating system called homeOS, which will power the upcoming HomeView smart display.

It’s got me wondering whether homeOS could become the unifying software across all Apple’s home devices: HomePod, HomeView and Apple TV.

HomePod already runs a modified version of tvOS, unofficially referred to as audioOS (officially called HomePod Software), and presumably homeOS will be based on tvOS too.

So it wouldn’t surprise me if Apple brought everything together under one new platform: homeOS.

Was bad enough in 26 but now seems worse. I typically use a photo album and it now is stuck on the same 40 or so images and repeats and never adds new
Images from an album of about 200 photos. It is such a fun feature I wish it would work.

It’s been in storage a few years and this is how I found it. I believe there’s no internal battery on any of the black Apple TV models so I don’t understand what this crust could be. Any ideas?

Hi r/appletv. I'm the developer of Excalibur AI IPTV, an IPTV player built only for Apple TV. Version 1.5 went live on the App Store yesterday. It's the biggest update since launch, so I wanted to share it here. I've put in over 1000 hours since August 8, 2026, it's been an obsessive development cycle 😂

It doesn't come with any channels. You add your own M3U playlist or Xtream Codes login from a provider you're authorized to use, and Excalibur gives it a proper Apple TV experience.

New in 1.5

• Prism guide: the channel you're on keeps playing behind a glass guide, with Top 200, Sports, Favorites and More along the top. Settings › Guide › Look switches back to Classic.

• Sports opens on Scores: pick a game to see every feed for it across your accounts, or send several games to Multi-View.

• Watch on: lists every copy of a channel across your accounts and plays the best one first: smoothest, sharpest, surround sound, then highest bitrate.

• Native playback for TS streams: faster channel changes, reconnects that keep the picture going, and Dolby Digital surround when the stream carries it.

• Deep 16s buffer for channels that stutter.

• Commercial Escape offers your last channel during a break.

• HomeKit scenes can run when a program starts, pauses or ends, so the lights can go down when the movie starts.

• Add a playlist by pasting it from your iPhone instead of typing a long URL with the Siri Remote.

• Fixes for playback, recordings, the guide and the screen saver.

Already in the app

• Built on Apple's own playback frameworks with hardware decoding, plus frame rate and HDR matching when Match Content is on.

• Multi-View with up to eight live streams on one screen, and you choose which one you hear.

• Merlin, an AI guide. Ask for a team, a movie, or what's on across all your accounts.

• Recording for compatible live streams.

• Home Hub with HomeKit cameras, lights, fans and scenes.

• iCloud sync across your Apple TVs.

Price: free to download. Yearly is $24 with a 7-day free trial, or Lifetime is $89, paid once.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6800797457

I read every comment, so bug reports, feature requests and "this annoys me" are all welcome. What would you want from an IPTV player on Apple TV that nobody does well yet?

I’ve been developing for Apple ecosystem for about 8 years, and now it’s my time to shine with the app I wanted to create for a long time.

I built a (yet another) IPTV app the way it’s intended to be - Beautiful (subjective 😜), SIMPLE, and with good performance.

I have a small Discord community with good people who enjoy it and wants to help me shape the app to the right direction.

Meet max - The best IPTV player & Live TV app I made, and you can join in and enjoy it completely free during the beta phase.

https://dsc.gg/max-iptv
Download from TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/czbNGF6g

Partial list of what max has

• A native Apple TV app, built for the Siri Remote.
• Plays your own sources: M3U/M3U Plus, Xtream Codes, Plex, Jellyfin, Emby and Silo
• A full TV guide with up to 7 days of catch-up
• Multiview: up to 4 live channels at once, with multiple grid options and easy to switch between them.
• Three playback engines (KSPlayer, VLC, AetherEngine) that you can switch between in the middle of playback.

Sources

• Add as many sources as you like. Keep them separate or merge them into one library.
• iCloud sync for sources, favorites and where you stopped each film or episode.
• Playlists refresh quietly in the background while you watch.
• One tile per film or show, even when your provider lists it several times. Select source lets you pick which copy plays.

Live TV and guide

• Catch-up: play past programs from the start (when your provider supports it)
• Pause live TV and pick up where you stopped, with a Jump to live button
• Program reminders with notifications. Tapping one opens the channel.
• Pinned groups and Favorites at the top of the group list
• A live menu over the player for changing channel or group without leaving it
• The versions button: the same channel in another quality, or from another source
• Radio mode for audio-only streams, showing the station and the program on air
• Picks up where you left off: after the app is killed, the live channel you were watching comes back

Player

• HDR10, HDR10+, Dolby Vision, Atmos passthrough and tvOS Match Content (most are supported with AetherEngine)
• Thumbnail previews while scrubbing the timeline
• Skip Intro, Skip Recap and Skip Preview buttons, plus Up Next autoplay for the next episode
• Audio and subtitle track switching, with preferred languages that are applied automatically
• Missing subtitles from OpenSubtitles, with timing adjustment and custom subtitle appearance
• Sleep timer
• Decoder settings: deinterlacing, network buffer size and preferred resolution

Films and shows

• Rating tags from TMDB, IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes (Tomatometer and Popcornmeter) and Trakt
• User reviews from TMDB and Trakt, trailers and extras, More like this, and Where to stream
• Cast member pages, with each filmography matched to what’s in your library
• Filter and sort the Movies and Shows grids by genre, sub-genre and year, with saved presets synced over iCloud
• Library home with a hero carousel, Top 10 rankings, Because you watched, and Continue Watching (the Library/Home is NOT finalized yet)
• BetterPosters support (posters with ratings built in)

Watch tracking

• Trakt and Simkl integration
• A quiet automatic sync once a day

Organizing

• Hold any channel, film or show to favorite it
• Favorite a whole group, and channels added to it later join automatically
• Reorder your favorites by hand
• Rename channels
• Missing channel logos found automatically, or searched for by hand
• Your favorite channels on the Top Shelf
• Your choice of menu: a floating menu bar or a side menu, plus which section the app opens on

max is a player. It does not include channels, playlists or a subscription.

Sharing an app I've been working on. CineSync is a watchlist and history tracker for film and TV, built for people who just want to keep a list without wading through a social feed.
Core features:
• Unified watchlist for movies and shows in one place
• Release calendar for upcoming films and new episodes
• Live Trakt sync — connect your account and history/progress syncs automatically
• Per-episode progress tracking, with shows auto-completing when you finish them
• Rate, review, and keep a running diary of everything you've watched
• Fast search plus a Trending view if you're just browsing
Free to download. Optional Pro lifetime unlock ($14.99 AUD) removes ads and adds some extras — all the actual tracking works without it.
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. iPhone, iPad, M1 Macs, and Vision.

Still actively updating it, so feature requests and bug reports are welcome.
Promo code: REDDIT

Two weeks agao I posted here about Jib Jab Smash, the 4-player couch brawler my son and I made starring his real stuffed animals. I said the Apple TV version was in review and “should be out soon”. Sorry it took so long. Honestly, I’m not sure why it dragged on as long as it did. But it’s out on Apple TV now.

Two things changed since then:

It’s free. The whole game: story mode, 4-player couch play, online, all 16 fighters. No ads, no in-app purchases, no subscriptions. Nothing to buy.

It’s the Halloween Edition for October. Every toy wears a costume (Jib Jab the cardinal is a vampire, the bee wears a jack-o’-lantern head, the budgie is a bat), there’s a new Haunted Porch stage, and the house and yard in story mode are decorated with flickering jack-o’-lanterns, skeletons and trick-or-treat signs.

You need a gamepad to play on Apple TV. Any controller the Apple TV supports works (Xbox, PlayStation, Switch Pro or an MFi pad), one per player. The Siri Remote alone won’t play it.

Quick recap of the rest:

• Up to 4 players on one screen, one gamepad each
• Cross-play with iPhone and iPad on the same Wi-Fi or online through Game Center, and your saves follow you with iCloud
• A full story mode: an old blanket escapes the attic and puts the family’s toys under a spell, and you fight room by room through 26 places in and around our house to win them back
• Computer players from Baby to Pro, so little kids can win too

Thanks to everyone who commented on the first post. We’d love to hear what your families think, and my son reads every comment.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6809242110

Lately we can’t pause when using this app, all other apps seem ok. This is frustrating when we’re catching up on Taskmaster or of course, Bake off!

I’ve tried removing and reinstalling the app, but this has not helped.

Anyone had this issue? Any ideas on how to resolve it?

So my power went out last night, and when the power came back my apple tv didnt. Its a 4k 3rd gen, it still powers on but its stuck on Recovery mode and the remote doesn’t work to move the options, I tried everything.

Home + Volume down

Back + Home

Back + Play/pause

None of it works, does anyone had a similar issue, my guess its that its bricked, but i want to know any other tips.

I have more than one Apple TV and “One Home Screen” turned on. I realize some Apps that are discontinued, but still work, will not appear when I set up my new Apple 4K box (presumably available in a few days). I’m wondering if I continue to use my Apple TV 4K 1st generation on a different TV would those Apps disappear from it (or if I have it connected to the same TV as the new one to a 2nd HDMI connection (with same Apple ID on same network)?

I’m uncertain, because some Apps no longer available do still work on my 4Ks, but not on my HD Apple TVs. On the HDs I get a message that they are no longer available and I’m asked if I want to delete them. I haven’t deleted them, so they still remain as non-working Apps. I’ve feared if I delete them on the HDs, they will then disappear on the 4Ks. I don’t want to risk deleting them on the HDs for that reason. This is why I wonder what will happen when my new 4K Apple TV is set up. Maybe I would be forced to turn off “One Home Screen” to not lose those Apps?

Wondering if anyone has some answers to this, because I might not be the only one having this concern right now.

Edited for grammar.

Hi everyone, this just happened to me a couple days ago. My appletv 4k started resetting after an update. Came back on then kept resetting itself. The Apple would come up and then shut off. I tried restarting from the menu and unplugging for about 5 minutes or so, then plugging back in. Now it won’t even go back to the Home Screen and brings up an error with support.apple.com/appletv/restore. The problem is I can’t even restore to factory as I can’t get to the menu now. Anybody else run into this and have a fix? Thanks!

For the past few weeks, I’ve been having issues with 4K Dolby Vision content on Netflix. Specifically, the problem manifests as follows:

When I start an episode of, say, *Stranger Things*, I often hear only the audio for about 5–10 seconds while the screen is black, or the picture is there but remains frozen for several seconds with audio until it eventually starts playing normally on its own. Strangely enough, only 4K Dolby Vision formats are affected—1080p Dolby Vision formats are not. Likewise, 4K Dolby Vision productions in the Apple TV app (i.e., purchased movies) are not affected.

The issue is “immediately” resolved for the episode if you briefly rewind 10 seconds or tap the “Start Over” button in the player. The player is visible.

My TV (LGC1) is connected directly to the Apple TV 4K 3. Gen (tvOS 27.0 and now 27.2 PB) via an HDMI cable and is also connected via Wi-Fi.

I’ve already tried everything possible:
- a different HDMI cable
- disabling frame rate matching/disabling dynamic range adjustment
- setting the format to RGB high or low instead of YCbCr
- setting the format to 4.2.0
- disabling HDMI CEC on the LG C1
- using a different HDMI cable or port on the TV

Has anyone else had this kind of problem, and if so, were you able to fix it?

My family has a shared album of curated photos we use for our screensaver and we love it. But ever since upgrading to tvOS 27 it only cycles through the same 3-5 pictures over and over. It used to cycle through hundreds pretty well, and shift them every couple days or so, so not sure what broke.

My theory is that whatever SiriAI crap they're preparing to release is taking up way more disk space so it is crowding out the ability to pull down new pics.

Anyone else experiencing this?