New Features in tvOS 9.2 Beta 3: Dictation Support and App Store Siri Search

FINALLY!!!

Bluetooth keyboard support!!!

 

Does dictation work in any app's text input?

E.g. Do YouTube/Netflix automatically have dictation enabled in their search bar by this update too?

 

I don't have a new Apple TV but these all seem like extremely basic features that should be there from the start. What's happening at Apple these days?

 

Not sure...

 

This better be supported with an API that can be applied to all apps. I'd love to be able to speak all text in

 

Finally

 

what new languages are being supported?>

 

This will be a great addition. It seems like Apple released an unfinished product with the ATV4.

Apple called it revolutionary in their press release, which is a big stretch. But maybe with some of these updates, it is getting closer.

 

YAY! Excited for this update. Was a real let down Siri couldn't search the app store and dictation is a great add on feature. ATV just keeps getting better. Hopefully developers will bring some worthwhile apps soon...

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Agreed. They hide behind "TV OS" as being "New" yet it's code only differs from IOS by like 10% so it's not a stretch. Being IOS supports these things natively already, it's really ridiculous these things didn't launch. But then again... look how long it took them to put copy and paste and MMS in the iPhone. It's what they do. I'm just glad they aren't making us wait years for these enhancements considering we waited years for a ATV update that's really not a huge stretch from 2012.

 

I finally ordered mine tonight. The only thing left that I would like to see is Siri search of local iTunes content. Or the API opened up so that plex could do the same.

 

Really enjoying these new updates, looking forward to seeing what the Devs do with these new features once released

 

Let me know when Siri can search my local iTunes library, and they organize the TV shows in my library by Show, season, episode instead of the awful way it is today.

 

is there a way for siri to search and play movies you have on your computer/itunes?

How do you request a feature to apple?

 

No. Siri only searches the device its on and the web. You can't use Siri on one device to search content on another on your local network.

 

Patent 6,847,959 Universal search. This patent would allow that feature. Apple owns this patent. So is Apple a patent troll for not using this feature in Siri search on appletv?

 

Just make the background dark. White is an awful background color for a TV application.

 

It will get closer when the update includes 4K support instead of fuzz 1080. Apple beta product like the watch.

 

nothing new, remember copy/paste in iOS? or any other of the things they take their time to release?

 

Fuzz? This is the most extra.

 

I'm waiting for an API that lets developers access the mic in the Siri remote directly. I have some great ideas that are pretty much useless without this. Some other developers (e.g. Smule with it's karaoke app) have gotten around this by allowing you to use your iPhone as a mic, but it's a horrible and unnecessary hack when there's a perfectly good mic right in the remote!

 

Not sure what you mean by "these days", but that's normal pretty much anywhere for anything new. The original OS X barely functioned at all. The original iPhone OS didn't even support copy and paste. That seems like a "basic feature that should be there from the start".

 

So that's why my Apple TV wouldn't find an app for me the other day when I tried to search with Siri... Seems like such a basic feature that I just assumed it was there, and thought I had done something wrong.

 

How long are you looking at the background? Isn't 99.9% of the time you have an app open? Navigating from one app to another takes like what?... Seconds???

 

So? Shouldn't that time be spent in an optimal environment? Also, plenty of the white interface elements are in apps as well.