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Apple Remote App for iOS Now Works With New Apple TV Following tvOS 9.1 Update
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There is one password that you cannot enter via the Remote app: The Wifi password (since the Remote app requires network connectivity). Given that you should always use long passwords with 20+ random characters for WPA (otherwise it's susceptible to offline dictionary attacks), changing the Wifi password after the initial setup is a pain. This is a use case for a directly connected Bluetooth keyboard.
That's a fairly childish response ...
Is anyone else puzzled why the Remote app is so damn fast in listing what content is on my Mac, meanwhile when I go to home shares in the Videos app it takes half an eternity to load the content overview.
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Yes it does, if you have the iPhone 6IR.
I had the same issue. I contacted Apple Support and they suggested I watch some cat videos on YouTube. True story.
The update of the Remote App is proof that this is the Beginning of the End for Apple.
First, you can sync over your wifi password from your iPhone over Bluetooth. http://www.imore.com/how-automatically-set-your-apple-tv-your-iphone
Second, I bet I can enter a wifi password of 20 random characters during initial setup faster than the time it takes to get through the initial setup skipping wifi, digging into the settings, and adding in the typical time it takes a pair a bluetooth keyboard.
Ha, I wish. It would be so simple. It is possible to change the Apple TV's volume not the tv's. Like set the TV volume at highest you would go and lower/raise it from there.
Release a half bake product remove a feature and i am suppose to be aww shucks well least we have it now. I am holding them to the high standard they set for them selves. The person who made that call should no longer get to make calls plain and simple. They compromised a user experience on a brand new product out of the box in favor of well we are still wondering that part. This is apple we do not move backwards cause some people could not get there ducks in a row. This is a feature that should have been shipped day one. I would have fallen in love with the little box had i been able to search youtube with out hunting and pecking. I tried for a few hours gave up and sold it promptly the next morning. I normally accept there will be bugs in anything new but to take away the core input device and not even include dictation that was a low blow.
Because it's probably a made up story.
I just wish I could find all the posts from people who said this update wasn't going to happen.
Sigh. Did you even read the comment? This only works during the initial setup, but you cannot use it to change the password later, which is what I explicitly wrote.
I put in my password the scrolly way one time when I first got the Gen. 4 and haven't had to think about it since. Not sure
why people are changing passwords so much but, I'm glad that they'll be able to move on!
With the way Apple works there is no possible way that they didn't have these "fixes" in the works WAY before they released the things people were complaining about. I just don't think they really care if we complain.
that's handled by laying your phone on the tv during setup. Through bluetooth it takes your phone's wifi settings and itunes account. This was actually extremely well done. One annoying thing though was to use 1password first to copy your password to the clipboard because the bt keyboard the iphone pops up is system level.
And yesterday I turned water into wine and won the nobel peace prize.
I know they lost sales from a couple of relatives. They "heard" that the ATV4 was no good/not finished after it came out and bought Roku's. ...which actually have an interesting lineup of channels vs. Apple TV.