Turn Off the User Profiles Screen on Apple TV 4K

[sfrsteel]

What i hate about it.. Is even if i only have 1 account in my household this still happens. What's worse is Youtube does the same thing. Its irritating.

 

[sfrsteel]

I really wish there was a way to link these system-wide profiles to the app-specific profiles for each user, so you're only making one selection (at "log on") versus every time you open an app.

I dont find the feature useful as i am the only member of the household. But what would be useful, and i understand this might be in development, once you have logged into the apps on your IPhone, IPad or Mac.. your profile would be logged into them regardless of device. So no more logging in on each device (provided that the app incorporates the feature)

 

[Hank001]

The remote control is still an issue after all these years.

Apple finds the remote sucks as well, hence them creating a new design with every new AppleTV.

 

[reden]

Apple continues to annoy the heck out of customers more than ever lately. It's ridiculous.

 

[Palliser]

Apple decided to make my profile a kids profile and anytime I go into Appletv to watch shows it’s only kids programming. Have yet to figure out how to turn that off even in the settings. Been using AppleTV for years and this update has made it almost unusable.

 

[TheBeverage]

This is the most redundant article ever. What kind of self loathing, split-personality narcissist would create multiple AppleID/iCloud accounts, then manually add and configure all those accounts on their AppleTV, even though they are the "sole user" of that AppleTV.

Somehow I'm not surprised you live alone!

 

[TimCrapple]

Oh good, another step back in usability. What a shock

 

[MacMan988]

User profiles on Apple TV is useless. Regardless of which profile you select, almost all apps (including Apple Photos) will have the same content.

 

[jamie0610]

I wish they would take away the plus icon on the Home Screen. Seems like a task you wouldn't do very often and would be better under settings>accounts

 

[jml12286]

My friends Apple TV has a bug (on 26.2) where if she clicks the option to disable this, it recognizes the click, and nothing happens. Click again, and it turns off. However the setting doesn’t actually change, and when you come back to the menu, it’s back on. She literally can’t disable it lol.

When people on here complain about the Software QA, this is the type of things they’re talking about. We’ve tried everything, she would most likely have to reset the Apple TV to get this setting to work

Mine was experiencing this same exact glitch. I just kept clicking it a bunch and finally it showed disabled 🥳

 

[groove-agent]

They should clearly indicate the current user on start, and keep the previous user logged in. If someone else starts using the ATV, they can go through the effort to switch the user.

Selecting the user every time is tedious. Disabling the feature entirely is overkill.

 

[jonnysods]

THANK YOU!!

 

[East_Bay_Mac]

Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I find this feature very useful. 🤷‍♂️

For the longest time, before this feature, my wife would watch her shows on HBO, Apple TV, Prime Video, etc., but she would watch them on my profile because it was automatically there when she turned on the TV. My Apple TV Home screen would show all of her shows AND mine in the Continue Watching section, and it would drive me nuts to see them mixed together. Oh, and if we were watching the same show but not together, trying to remember who saw which episode last was a pain. Plus, I would see recommendations that were useless to me based on her viewing history.

 

[ScooterComputer]

And, with ONE feature, IN A NUTSHELL, Apple shows, again, that they just don't get "tv".

First off:

thank you for letting me know. Netflix and the likes have their own way of handling profile. Apple TV implementing this was annoying for my use case.

This. This needs to end. If profiles are set up, Apps should have to use them. Apple need to ENFORCE this, to the point of rejecting app submissions until fixed. Apple has the leverage, wield it!

But… it really gets worse. Because a full 80% of my time viewing Apple TV content is done when -I am not the only person sitting in the room-! I can imagine that, outside of single people, this is obviously common. Aka "families". Yes, yes, I KNOW, 'modern' families no longer do ANYTHING together… or so I'm told. Balderdash. So why didn't Apple engineer this ENTIRE 'profile' thing FROM THE START with 'viewing groups' as the basis of 'viewer(s)'? Because… they're idiots. Once again, they are designing systems on a 50 year old concept of the 'person' object being default, vs the 'group' object being default. Benefit to 'group' being the intrinsic default? A group CAN BE a group of just 1 individual. Downside of using 'person'? Can't have more than one individual in there without a mental health check. This originated with UNIX, and it is a crime that it has persisted to this day. But… here is Apple, STILL designing systems revolving around 'individual', vs what the REAL WORLD tells us! HomeKit? THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE 'Home "Organizer"'. Tell that to the 'marriage equality' folks. Apple TV profile? ONE PERSON ONE PROFILE… when the entire mythos of "television" is the family sitting around a glowing box. And, worse even, with ALL the technology involved, an Apple TV box really should be able to KNOW who is sitting 10 feet away watching THE EXACT SAME CONTENT, because every one of them has an iPhone on them (probably in their hands… which… I can't even with you people), without having to ASK. It KNOWS. But… nope… let's not actually try here, let's just shovel more slop. Thanks, Apple… you've 'cracked it." Sure.

EDIT: see immediately preceding comment… user has bought into the poor design, because it is better than nothing. When did our expectations become so low?

 

[minik]

While I don't mind an extra click every time powering on the TV and select my profile, this option should be there on day 1.

 

[Itinj24]

There are four members in my family and we only use the Remote app on our phones to control the AppleTV’s. Matter of fact, all the remotes to all of our AppleTVs are still in the boxes. Cool thing about using the remote app is the profile auto selects depending on who turns on the AppleTV. So if I turn it on with my phone, my AppleTV profile is automatically selected without any additional user input. Same goes for my wife and my kids so this feature is completely useless to us.

On a side note did anyone else have the Twitter app automatically download to their AppleTV after upgrading to 26.2? None of use Twitter or ever had the app on our phones either.

 

[SAIRUS]

Is it me, or is this feature not intuitive at all?

Its like they came up with 2 designs, the top right menu and a switching menu like this, and deployed it to get some return on investment because a fraction of people might like it so they cover all bases...not realizing the overall system is a mess?

 

[DblHelix]

I have it on for the living room tv, in rooms with only one person I have it off.

 

[johnsawyercjs]

User profiles on Apple TV is useless. Regardless of which profile you select, almost all apps (including Apple Photos) will have the same content.

One of the main reasons for allowing more than one user profile on Apple TV, is so each user's viewing history is kept separate from the others, so that you don't have to see a bunch of programs listed in your history that you didn't watch. See an actual use-case explanation here, a few comments further below: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...s-screen-on-apple-tv-4k.2474969/post-34344768

 

[StevenHCarter]

The user profiles are useful even if you are the sole user of the Apple TV. The profiles feature allows a single user to have a profile that is specific for each country in which the user has an Apple Account. Each account then uses the language, time zone, and apps that are only available for that country or the localized version of internationally available apps.

 

[dwrufus53]

I disabled that on day one.

 

[Flying Grayson]

Can't tell you how disappointed I am with this update for TvOS - we were promised the ability to create kids' profiles, but after assigning age restrictions to tv shows and movies, my children can still freely access any app on the Apple TV and watch any content from any adult profile. I've been an avid Apple user and fan since 2005 but stupidity like this is getting beyond annoying.

 

[SkippyThorson]

We have profiles on the AppleTV which don’t impact any third party app to date, nor even most of the Settings…

…But we still don’t have separate user accounts on the iPad. 🤦‍♂️

 

[crees!]

If you use the TV remote app on your phone to turn the TV on or wake it up, it’ll auto select your profile and you’ll skip that screen

 

[MilaM]

My friends Apple TV has a bug (on 26.2) where if she clicks the option to disable this, it recognizes the click, and nothing happens. Click again, and it turns off. However the setting doesn’t actually change, and when you come back to the menu, it’s back on. She literally can’t disable it lol.

I have this bug too. You have to click on it only once. It appears that the option has not changed, but it has. Go back in the menu and then enter it again, and you will see, that it has switched to "disabled".