Non-Stop SW Update Messages!

[Juicy Box]

I have auto updates turned off on my ATV4 and ATV4K, as it seems like updates sometimes breaks some of my apps.

On my ATV4K, there were non-stop popups asking if I wanted to install tvOS14. It seemed like about once every 20 minutes it would ask again. It was crazy annoying.


Anyone else experience this?

Installing the update was the default option to pick, and I knew that one of my kids would eventually accidentally update it, which happened a few hours ago.

 

[0128672]

I have auto updates turned off on my ATV HD and have never seen a pop-up message about updating.

 

[Juicy Box]

I wonder if it has to do with the tvOS version installed.

Or maybe just one of the many tvOS 13 bugs.

 

[jst333]

This is my biggest gripe with all apple products now. Especially when it comes to ATV, ruins your entertainment experience. If everything is working flawlessly why chance a broken or .0 update? And in this case with tvOS14 after updating (because of constant messages to do so) I've got constant 2 second black screens, when using "match frame rate". Which was working fine before. In the past I've only updated to get rid of the messages.

 

[uptownnyc]

AppleTV does weird things with poor error messaging when the storage is full. Is yours anywhere close to full?

 

[Juicy Box]

It is doing it again with the lately update. Pretty annoying, and way to easy to accidentally select the update option.

AppleTV does weird things with poor error messaging when the storage is full.

I have experienced some storage related issues in the past, but I don't think that storage is related to this particular bug.

I have mentioned this in the past on a thread I created about storage on the ATV.

Is yours anywhere close to full?

There really isn't any way of knowing if it is close to full.

Sometimes you can tell if it is full by not being able to install more apps, but even then it doesn't mean that the storage is full.

There can be storage full errors making impossible to install another app, but once temporary data is purged, which cannot be done manually, more apps can be installed.

 

[nickdalzell1]

All Apple products endlessly annoy you with update prompts. My Mac is an exception since I turn on DND for 24 hours so it can't do that.

Soon as any device phones home to query a software update, an XML file is downloaded that enables the 'updated software available, download now?' prompt. The only way I have managed to completely turn it off is by going into my router settings and blocking these sites:

mesu.apple.com
softwareupdate.apple.com
applednld.apple.com

Then rebooting any affected device. No more update prompts, and it will have an error if you manually check for one. I'm an 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' type of guy, extremely cautious after iOS 7 ruined my experience back in 2013.

 

[Juicy Box]

All Apple products endlessly annoy you with update prompts.

In the case of my Apple TV 4K, it is excessively prompting for the update. About every 20-30 minutes.

It will interrupt with the update prompt if you are watching something, playing a game, or listing to music.

I think it is just another tvOS bug, but in this case, the last update did not fix it, because it is doing it again.

Just for comparison, my Apple TV 4 (HD) does not constantly ask to update. It does maybe once a day.

 

[nickdalzell1]

Mine also interrupted when I watched content. Usually twice during an episode of Star Trek. It annoys me and I don't do updates anyway so I turned them off at the router

 

[Juicy Box]

extremely cautious after iOS 7 ruined my experience back in 2013.

I had a very similar experience with iOS 9 on my iPad Mini 2.

The iPad Mini 2 was great on iOS 8, but then iOS 9 basically made it unusable. Luckily iOS 10 made it somewhat usable again, but my faith in Apple Updates was lost.

so I turned them off at the router

I will probably do this as well, thanks.

 

[nickdalzell1]

I might be mistaken, but before blocking the update server at the router, I remember the longer I waited to update, the more aggressive the prompts got. Once they started interrupting my TV shows, that was enough.