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Apple Releases tvOS 11 With Home Screen Syncing, Auto Dark Mode, and 4K Support for New Apple TV
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When will Amazon Prime be available? I was hoping today, but it doesn't seem so...
Oh. But why did you quote me? Did you think I quoted you first?
It was a reply to what AirPod support meant.
They're streaming some Thursday Night Football games this year.
I'd say they'll launch it a few days prior to that. No way they'd want to miss out on a huge chunk of viewership given how much money they spent on the rights.
Dark Mode has been available in tvOS it’s Automatic Mode that will change it between Light & Dark Mode that’s new.
Because it takes time to populate across the servers, just like all large-scale releases of this type. For example, I saw WatchOS 4 at 12:03 today, but my coworker in another office didn't see it until almost an hour later.
Bezos will probably not release it until after the new Fire TVs are released.
Considering my recent history with Apple software "updates," I was scared to update, but bravo Apple! iOStv is EVERYTHING that I've been hoping for, for years. It's fast, the stupid TV App actually makes sense and works now. But the real winner? HOMESHARE!!! Homeshare has finally had a complete overhaul and it now navigates exactly like itunes and all the meta data is now designed exactly like the iTunes counterpart. So my 200 ripped TV Shows look clean and professional now and my iTunes purchases are grouped in one place as well.
At the apple event they said Amazon prime coming later this year, in fact, back in June, they didn't say it would be coming with tvOS 11, but this fall. Either Amazon is still working on app or deal between Amazon and apple still being ironed out.
Smart invert added in iOS 11 does almost a dark mode
I was hoping for someone to find lots of new tvOS goodies.
I have been following along and not seeing anything super about this update.
Auto Dark mode might be nice but I have had it on Dark Mode the entire time - i didn't like the brightness of the light grey.
Oh maybe new screen savers. Or ability to link Flickr accounts to a screensaver
not sure what they would have added, other than, maybe, PIP or multiple screen-cast OS-wide. Or, maybe, another way to sort movies, like a way to show all Unwatched, or New for the past month, or perhaps sort by SD/HD/4K (well, for ATV4Ks). dunno. I know 4K is a big deal, but the iPhone 8/8Plus and 4K seem like incremental (s) upgrades. there wasn't too much going on for updates.
I have been following along and not seeing anything super about this update.
Auto Dark mode might be nice but I have had it on Dark Mode the entire time - i didn't like the brightness of the light grey.
Oh maybe new screen savers. Or ability to link Flickr accounts to a screensaver
not sure what they would have added, other than, maybe, PIP or multiple screen-cast OS-wide. Or, maybe, another way to sort movies, like a way to show all Unwatched, or New for the past month, or perhaps sort by SD/HD/4K (well, for ATV4Ks). dunno. I know 4K is a big deal, but the iPhone 8/8Plus and 4K seem like incremental (s) upgrades. there wasn't too much going on for updates.
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Seriously?! I am now going to be rushing hope to update (I have auto updates off) ASAP!!!! This is great news!! I use iTunes as me media server too.
I’m trying is but can’t get it. I assume that it’s not included just yet because surely it’s not this hard to do...
Both ATVs updated to tvOS 11, all iDevices updated and nothing.
Yeah, home sharing has finally been improved, it’s sooo much better! A big plus for me, it now actually wakes my Mac, if my Mac was asleep, it would never wake the Mac and use it before, always had to go wake it. As long as I have iTunes open, I can let it sleep or even close the lid and it will wake it and access my library from my Mac! It also loads much, much faster when moving through the content. This is a major improvement. (I’m using the latest macOS Sierra, not on High Sierra yet).
It seems a bit more responsive overall now too.
Airplay 2 seems to work better so far.
Live news and sports updates coming in a later update.
Yep. I tweeted Phil Schiller too. What a big disappointment. I realize it’s their prerogative to add or remove features as they’d like, but announcing it then not implementing it without a peep of communication isn’t a great business strategy.
Yep. I haven’t had a single reply from anyone at Apple, including support.
What a miss
On my THIRD try to download...I will admit my internet sucks...I get to the happiness screen, it looks like it is gonna update...and tragedy...I may have to take it in to town and do the update there tomorrow...I currently have 52 minutes at about a ~meg download to go...
I updated y ATV4 last night. No problems, no real difference that I can see. I just stream from various services to one smart tv. I don't have any locally stored content. As far as I could tell, it all works like it should.
I also got the updated remote app on the iphone. That seems to work smoother than the previous version.
I also got the updated remote app on the iphone. That seems to work smoother than the previous version.