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Is something wrong with my Apple TV or does YouTube just suck?

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ajiuo

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I’ve actually had this problem for quite a while. When I start a YouTube video the description-bar towards the bottom will stay on the screen indefinitely. The only way I can get rid of it is by touching the touch pad to open the playbar and then touching it again to close it. It is really annoying to have to do this for every video. I would think that automatically closing after a few seconds would be normal behavior.
 
Mine does this too on my atv4. Have to use the touch bar or menu to get rid of the description bar or it never goes. Really annoying.
 
this happens to me with various videos...be it YouTube, iTunes, a Channel App...

sometimes they just stay up
 
I get this too, same thing happens with the Red Bull TV app. I usually hit play/pause twice quickly which seems to remind it to hide the bar.

ATV4, latest firmware. Edit to add, this drives me insane also 🙂
 
"Is something wrong with my Apple TV or does YouTube just suck?" <-- These are not mutually exclusive propositions. 😉
 
I have this issue as well and I believe I see it most when I use Siri to search Youtube directly (not from within in the app). I get better voice recognition from Apple's main Siri overlay over the in app voice recognition, and I believe once I've engaged the app this way the banner issue persists and requires the tap on tap off remote gesture to remedy.
 
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