Tag: Apple TV

Apple TV fourth generation renamed to ‘Apple TV HD’ following this weeks event

Following on from this weeks Apple event, the company has decided to rename the existing and nearly 4 year old Apple TV fourth generation to ‘Apple TV HD’ which does fit much better along side the Apple TV+ service and the Apple TV 4K model. The fourth generation model was just simply called ‘Apple TV’ before this week and looking at it, sitting next to the new Apple TV+ service […]

tvOS 12 now out for Apple TV 4th Gen and 4K

Alongside yesterdays slew of updates for HomePod, iPhone and Apple Watch – tvOS 12 was also released for the Apple TV fourth generation and Apple TV 4K. Like all the other Apple software this year, it was also announced at WWDC 2018 back in June and unlike iOS 12 and watchOS 5 there isn’t actually much new here. What’s new? The big notable features are: Support for Dolby Atmos surround […]

tvOS 11.3 update released, includes new AirPlay improvements

This week, along with watchOS 4.3, iOS 4.3 and macOS 10.13.4 Apple released a small minor update for the Apple TV. tvOS 11.3 is available for both the Apple TV 4th generation and the Apple TV 4K. The new release includes some new privacy pages, which are also present n iOS 11.3 and macOS 10.13.4 they go over how Apple is storing and moving your data around. Also new is […]

What’s new with Apple TV in tvOS 11?

At WWDC 2017 last week, the Apple TV didn’t gain much stage time really, but the next tvOS 11 update does add some new useful features. Tim Cook did mention on stage the new addition of a native Amazon Prime Video app, which is coming later this year. What’s new in tvOS? tvOS 11 may not add any headlining big features, but similar to macOS High Sierra – it focuses more […]

Amazon Prime Video will come to Apple TV this year

At WWDC this week, Apple made a brief announcement for the Apple TV and tvOS. Among that was the news that later this year, Amazon Prime Video would be coming to the Apple TV, supposedly to download from the App Store. “We are so pleased to welcome Amazon to Apple TV.” Apple CEO Tim Cook The addition of Amazon to Apple TV has been rumoured for a while now, the two […]

Amazon Video might come to Apple TV this summer

Amazon and Apple haven’t had the best relationship over the past year or so, mainly over the availability of the Apple TV on amazon.com as well as negotiating a deal to get an Amazon Video app on the set top box. While nearly every media streaming device supports Netflix, NOW TV, YouTube and Amazon Video – the Apple TV just doesn’t support it, currently if you want to use Amazon […]

Whats new in tvOS 10 for Apple TV?

Along with iOS 10 and watchOS 3 this week, Apple also released tvOS 10 for Apple TV. And with this release, it may not be as feature rich as iOS may be but it does add some useful features. Siri Siri has seen some improvements to aid finding movies about certain subjects. Siri can now search for movies and tv shows which are about two subjects. Such as “Show me […]

New Apple TV beta enables voice dictation search

When the new Apple TV launched back in November last year, a few days after headline after headline popped up in the Apple community regarding various things that had been discovered that the new device couldn’t do, one of which was voice dictation meaning the user was forced to go through the process of manually entering each character. Also things such as keyboards couldn’t be used with bluetooth initially as […]

Over 2,600 apps are now available for the new Apple TV

The new Apple TV has only been on sale for just over a month now and already, tvOS has over 2,600 native applications which can be downloaded, apps such as games, shopping apps, weather, panoramic views and ways to watch TV. Also surprisingly as this device is intended to be plugged into a TV to watch Netflix, Now TV and YouTube and in the US Hulu, HBO Now and ESPN […]

Apple TV may soon have folders, similar to iOS

We’re used to what folders are, the iPhone has had them since iOS 4 back in 2011 and the Mac also uses them on Launchpad. Well, we may soon be able to have them on the new Apple TV has developer, Steve Troughton-Smith has found some code in the public release on tvOS 9.0 which hints towards folders for apps, named Headboard. The act of creating folders work exactly as […]