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Apple TV's Multi-View Sports Feature Available Starting Tonight on tvOS 16.5 Beta

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Apple's rumored multi-view sports feature will be available for tonight's MLB Friday Night Baseball games, and tomorrow's MLS Season Pass matches, according to Tom's Guide. The feature requires an Apple TV 4K running the tvOS 16.5 beta.

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An expansion of the existing Picture-in-Picture split-screen mode, the new multi-view feature allows Apple TV users to stream up to four sports games simultaneously with a four-quadrant screen layout. The report says users can control which game's volume they want to hear by selecting it with the Siri Remote. To enable the feature, users will select the grid icon above the timeline bar, followed by a "More Matches" button.

The existence of the multi-view option was first discovered by Steve Moser last month, but it remained hidden in code. The feature is only available for sports games streamed by Apple through its TV app, meaning it is limited to MLB and the MLS for now. Apple has yet to officially announce when the multi-view feature will be available to the public, but tvOS 16.5 will likely be released within the next month or so.



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After all these years with MLB.TV, I'm not sure why they cannot implement a similar feature within their own app. Broadly speaking, wish I could switch between ESPN+ and MLB.TV "live" for each without a 3-4 minute log out and log back in style process. If Apple can get live switching figured out for AppleTV, that might be enough to get some ROKU users to switch over.
 
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bsbeamer said:
After all these years with MLB.TV, I'm not sure why they cannot implement a similar feature within their own app. Broadly speaking, wish I could switch between ESPN+ and MLB.TV "live" for each without a 3-4 minute log out and log back in style process. If Apple can get live switching figured out for AppleTV, that might be enough to get some ROKU users to switch over.
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Not at five times the price. Apple have lost this market.
 
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If Apple pulls this off without a hitch, all hope is Not lost with software updates.
 
mallbritton said:
“The feature is only available for sports games streamed by Apple through its TV app, meaning it is limited to MLB and the MLS for now.” Right in the article.
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siddavis said:
No, and that’s why it’s almost useless.
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That's a shame. I'd watch 2 games at once with Split View on the iPad, but you can't play 2 videos at once on iPad even though you can on Mac
 
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I wish apple could pull this off with multi-stream from different apps. I.e. MLS from the Apple TV app, MLB from the MLB TV app, NBA game from the NBA TV app all on the same screen. That is the holy grail in my opinion. The processors in the Apple TV are good enough at this point I would think.
 
I'm using this feature right now with Friday Night Baseball (both games) and a couple of MLS Next Pro games. The UI is really nice and intuitive. Much better than ESPN's implementation.
 
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Great features, but there are only ever two MLB games on Apple TV+. I can't imagine there is much crossover between MLB and MLS fan bases.

Let me assign each corner of the screen to an ATV app or an Airplay stream and we'd be in business.
 
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The Friday Night baseball games on Apple TV have a tendency to overlap most of the time. It would be great to be able to switch between games. Especially if one is a blowout.
 
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gleepskip said:
Great features, but there are only ever two MLB games on Apple TV+. I can't imagine there is much crossover between MLB and MLS fan bases.

Let me assign each corner of the screen to an ATV app or an Airplay stream and we'd be in business.
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They gotta start somewhere...
 
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gleepskip said:
Great features, but there are only ever two MLB games on Apple TV+. I can't imagine there is much crossover between MLB and MLS fan bases.

Let me assign each corner of the screen to an ATV app or an Airplay stream and we'd be in business.
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Don't forget to first upgrade your own brain and have two more eyes installed in your skull.
 
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This is not what I would consider to be “multi-view”. That would be different angles of the same game or show. This is just a typical four-way split screen. Obviously computers have had this forever. Apple TV should just have a system wide split screen feature. The Nintendo 64 did this better.
 
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It's funny people think Picture in Picture is something new. I had a tv that did 3 at a time.
 
dannyyankou said:
Will it work with YouTube TV? If so, I'll test it tomorrow with some of the playoff games
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No, however YouTube TV did a test run of its own multiview feature during March madness, and will be offering it alongside their rollout of Sunday Ticket this football season. Whether it will only work for football or all sports/channels is yet to be seen.
 
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