Apple Releases tvOS 12.2.1 for Fourth and Fifth-Generation Apple TV

[matrix07]

I've got hundreds of apps on my Apple TV and lately its download speed has sometimes slowed to a crawl, but never as bad as this morning. Using Spectrum Cable today my iPad Pro downloaded at its usual 350 Mbps while the Apple TV at times was less than 1 Mbps! When it finally got up to around 10 Mbps I checked to see if there was a tvOS update, and happily there was. I downloaded and installed tvOS 12.2.1 and now my Apple TV is back to normal, almost as fast as my iPad Pro running iOS 12.2!

For me, this is a HUGE update. I've always been using my Apple TV far more than my Cable box since the day it came out back in 2007. It's nice that it is running perfectly again! By the way, here's how I've set mine up over the past dozen years:

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How are you able to capture Apple TV Screen like that?

 

[Matt.Cheetham]

It’s fixed the random and frequent screen flashing on my lgc8.

Oh! I've been having this issue but it started at the exact time I bought a sound bar and started viewing through that so assumed it was an issue with the sound bar. Excited to try this now and see if it fixes it for me.

 

[MoreRumors?]

The only issue I have with the Gen 4 is connecting a Bluetooth device, other than that, it is probably related to the new subscription services.

 

[Soondae]

Since tvOS 12.2 my Apple TV 4K stopped connecting via CEC with A/V and TV not turning devices on/off anymore. I unplugged and reset HDMI cables to no avail. Issue persist with 12.2.1

I've been running TVOS12.2 since release and have had no issues with my Samsung TV and Samsung sound bar connected via HDMI CEC, all remotes control all devices perfectly. And that is with the ATV 4K.

 

[jimac]

How are you able to capture Apple TV Screen like that?

I think that I used John Martellaro's method to take overlapping Apple TV screenshots over at The Mac Observer, using QuickTime:

https://www.macobserver.com/tips/how-to/easy-way-take-apple-tv-screenshots/

and then I used GraphicConverter (other photo editing apps might do) to combine them, sliding the newer screenshots over the previous ones until they registered exactly. I had to select a file on the top and bottom screenshots, that's why both the "Movies" and "Sports Games" folder are selected and enlarged.

This is useful if you've got a lot of apps and you want a record of how you organized them. I had to recreate mine once from memory which wasn't fun. I think I read somewhere that as of tvOS 11 or 12 your setup is automatically remembered. It's a bit different from iOS in that there is only one screen, but you can get to just about any app in less than a second, which is nice. A thousand times better than any Smart TV or Blu-ray Player that I've used, which all seem to come from the dark ages.

 

[jimac]

I thought you were kidding when you said at the start that you had hundreds of apps installed. I would venture a guess that you have more apps installed on your Apple TV than 99% of Apple TV owners. Wow.

I think there are many Apple TV users with lots of apps. I've added all these over a dozen years, just like on all my other computers -- Macs and iPads, and even iPhones and iPod touches. If it were up to me I'd bring even more capabilities over to the Apple TV, like iBooks and audiobooks. Apple could combine those to make this an even better teaching machine for kids. I've learned more on my iPads than I ever did at school or university and I think that the Apple TV could add another dimension to that. How about using Apple TV to teach speed-reading or the Trachtenberg or other system of speed-math? I use Udemy and Lynda.com and other education apps but they seem limited on the Apple TV right now. But even as it is, the Apple TV has far more capabilities than any cable-tv box ever dreamed of.

I remember showing my original hard-drive-equipped Apple TV, which was loaded with music videos, to a local restaurant that I frequented and they were VERY interested in getting one or more to entertain their customers. But Apple would have had to make some kind of royalty arrangement, which they didn't seem to be interested in at the time. Too bad. Maybe now with Apple Music...

 

[Mr. Donahue]

How much were you wanting to bet?

I’d bet it all.
I remember before Steve Jobs died updates were so super fast. Then he died and Tim Cook stepped up and updates too twice as long. What gives? It’s a conspiracy tells ya!