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SW3029

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Something odd just happened to my Apple TV. The "dark" elements of the UI just went from black to navy blue.

Is this a new feature of the latest tvOS?

I know it's not my television that's messed up because the black background in an app like Netflix is just as black as always and none of the other blacks/colors in any UI element is off either....
 
Mine is still the same shades of dark and medium grey. It was never pure black. Netflix app background is definitely black though. But no blue for either the ATV 4K background, the Apple TV+ app background, or the Netflix app background. I’m running tvOS 15.4.
 
Does it still happen if you turn it off and on again? I'm not familiar with Apple TV, but my Mac menu bar randomly went yellow a couple of days ago so I wonder whether there's some bug in the latest updates (bear in mind that all the different systems share a decent chunk of code).
 
What's so weird is 24 hours later it's back to being its normal Dark theme color - a dark grey/black. I have no idea wha was up with the navy blue color yesterday. I didn't mess with a single setting either time.
 
What's so weird is 24 hours later it's back to being its normal Dark theme color - a dark grey/black. I have no idea wha was up with the navy blue color yesterday. I didn't mess with a single setting either time.
It has to do with the last screensaver that played. Certain screensavers will force the UI to tint to the predominant color in the screensaver after exiting the screensaver. This has been happening for a long time for me. But it is pretty rare.
 
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