Apple Exec: New Apple TV Remote Doesn't Need Find My Because It's Thicker and Harder to Lose

[topdrawer]

What, do some of you have layouts where the remote is hidden in another room or people who take the remote to random places in the house? LOL! I guess if you have young children this may be an issue if you don't secure the remote in a childproof location, but otherwise...

i live in a large loft where you can watch tv from many areas not just directly in front of the tv. you can also use the remote for more than watching tv, like listening to a podcast or music, which you can do from the bathroom or any corner in the house. many times i watch tv while i cook or clean and the remote moves with me everywhere in the house and at some point i will set it down somewhere i forgot.

i sometimes take the remote up to my desk on the second floor where i can see the tv from my stool. imagine not living in a regular apartment.

 

[usagora]

i live in a large loft where you can watch tv from many areas not just directly in front of the tv. you can also use the remote for more than watching tv, like listening to a podcast or music, which you can do from the bathroom or any corner in the house.

i sometimes take the remote up to my desk on the second floor where i can see the tv from my stool. imagine not living in a regular apartment.

Easy solution is to keep the remote in a central location.

 

[Braderunner]

An iPhone isn’t that much bigger. So why does it have it?
Update: I’ve been told that it can be lost. 🤔 😉

 

[Carlanga]

make it $30 then

 

[topdrawer]

Easy solution is to keep the remote in a central location.

and walk to it everytime i need it while i'm cooking and drag food all over my house? sounds great. i could just keep it right next to the tv and walk up to it instead too.

if the solution is always in fixing the user, then there is no need for things like air tags.

 

[TVreporter]

Clearly this guy doesn’t have kids to take a remote and misplace it. Mine was missing for four days until it was found in my son’s laundry basket.

 

[WestonHarvey1]

It's in your couch. It's always in your couch. Check your couch.

 

[theapplehead]

That’s what she said…

I was hoping to find this or else I would’ve had to say it 🤣

 

[TVreporter]

And they’re now touting using eArc with Homepods after they just discontinued them… and it doesn’t work with HomePod Mini.

Clearly this Apple TV was supposed to have launched a year ago — before Airtags and the Mini - or maybe late 2019.

 

[mikethemartian]

so air tags are meant for things smaller than a siri remote?

It is recommended that you purchase an AirTag for each individual dime you have.

 

[Pupi]

It doesn’t even need a U1 chip. Just a little speaker or a vibrating motor. Has anyone tried the function to find controllers in the Nintendo Switch? It’s bloody brilliant.

 

[Black Belt]

Don’t underestimate me. I can lose my iPhone 12 ProMax in my own room

 

[dwright1974]

2 Apple TV remotes are lost in this house right now. But since I ended up replacing one with a new $60 remote, I guess it’s a win for Apple that I can’t find the other ones.

Finding those two remotes in 3…2…1…

 

[mikethemartian]

Then put them away when you are done. Works superbly for me

Apple should use that tagline for their AirTags commercials.

 

[MacModMachine]

The device doesn't leave the home, it's not asinine they didn't include it. You don't need U1 in the new remote – you want it in the new remote.

exactly , we want it. give customers what they want or they dont buy....basics of economy.

 

[mikethemartian]

Doesn’t Apple realize that every single sofa and couch in the world comes from that Twilight Zone episode where the little girl gets lost in the wall?

 

[fakeycakemaker]

What a ridiculous way to say “we forgot, oops”

 

[mazz0]

It’s smaller than this one though isn’t it?

Come on Apple. We’re not angry, we’re disappointed.

 

[Joniz]

Apple has taken so long to update the remote that I’ve become accustomed to the atrocious version and feel no immediate desire to change it.

 

[scuac]

Clearly this guy doesn’t have kids to take a remote and misplace it. Mine was missing for four days until it was found in my son’s laundry basket.

Was going to post a similar thing. Anyone with elementary school age kids knows that remotes disappear with "no one" using them, that they are always "just left it there where it goes", and that they end up in the most unimaginable of places. We also have had ours disappear for multiple days.

 

[Joniz]

Was going to post a similar thing. Anyone with elementary school age kids knows that remotes disappear with "no one" using them, that they are always "just left it there where it goes", and that they end up in the most unimaginable of places. We also have had ours disappear for multiple days.

That’s why you need to tie a piece of string to it, like the idiot mittens we had as kids.

(Do they still have idiot mittens?)

 

[mikethemartian]

It's little pointless backwards steps like that that drive me crazy. I recently bought a new pair of Bluetooth headphones (same brand I had used for 6 years) and they don't let you rewind anymore by pressing and holding the previous/next buttons - they now only skip tracks. Like, wtf? What idiot decided that would be a good feature to remove? 😡

That’s how I feel about dropping cover flow from the Mac. The new gallery mode seems more like the Windows 10 way.

 

[alex2792]

The new iPad is thicker therefore apple should disable find my app for that model since it’s now impossible to lose.

 

[mikethemartian]

What, do some of you have layouts where the remote is hidden in another room or people who take the remote to random places in the house? LOL! I guess if you have young children this may be an issue if you don't secure the remote in a childproof location, but otherwise...

I don’t even have kids, but do you really think that a normal parent is going to childproof the location of the TV remote?

 

[mikethemartian]

It's called putting it on a shelf / on top of the TV / etc. - somewhere out of their reach. AKA common sense

Kids climb trees. I’m pretty sure they can get to a top shelf.