Weird thing that’s been going on with my AppleTV for a while now. Double screensvaers. That is, a screen saver will be running on my AppleTV, and when I press the remote, the screensaver will disappear, only to reveal another AppleTV screensaver running underneath it. I have to press the remote one more time to get rid of that one and return to where I was before the screensaver activated. At first, I thought this was due to the annoying YouTube screensavers, but the YouTube app is not running, or at least, the app is minimized if I had it open earlier. This is such a strange issue. Has anyone else out there seen this?
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Double screen savers, one on top of the other.
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Oh I have. I’ve restarted many times since this showed up. It’s just such a weird thing. Not super frustrating, just odd, and slightly annoying.
No, it’s two different screen savers. But I’m just clicking, not swiping (I have the touch pad remote). I always have to click twice when this happens.
Okay, I figured this thing out.
Because I have the touch pad remote that came with the AppleTV HD, in order to make the screen saver go away I have to click exactly in the middle of the touch pad. If I click left or right of center, it just switches to another screen saver. I don’t have to swipe left or right to make this happen. Merely clicking on the left or right side of the touch pad will switch to a different scree saver. That’s annoying, but that’s what it is.
Mystery solved. Case Closed.
(Now if only the Sky News app would behave)