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tvOS 14.5 Beta 6 References Apple TV Remote With 'Center Button' [Updated]
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Tim Cook: Today, Apple is re-imagining how you and your family interact with entertainment. We are giving you more control over your devices and content in a brand new way, revolutionizing how you watch your favorite movies and TV shows. Introducing, Apple Control! (Holds up a Roku remote with an Apple sticker on it)
Yes, but not just that.
The iPhone Remote app takes all the bad things about the Siri Remote, and just makes them even worse:
Sudo D-pad on the Siri Remote, no D-pad at all on the Remote app.
Endless swiping on the Touch Pad, Touch everything on the Remote app.
Lack of physical buttons on the Siri Remote, no physical buttons at all on the Remote app.
No mute button on the Siri Remote, no volume at all with the Remote app.
I guess the one benefit is that the iPhone is harder to lose and has a find feature.
Still, I rather not keep my iPhone with me all the time when using the TV. It is great with I am out, but I hardly touch it once I am home.
Same, the new one feels fine. Problem is the Apple TV UI in general. For something that's a dedicated media playing device, its interface should be better for that than a generic thing like macOS, Windows, or an iPad, but it's not. Part of that also has to do with the 3rd party apps being 3rd rate.
Yeah but they quickly updated. They must have received that schematic and forgotten about that universal remote for service providers that distribute via TV.
Just given the usual responses here and in general tech media, I must be in the extreme minority in that I enjoy using the Siri Remote quite a bit.
It's one of the very few remotes I can use and know all the buttons without ever needing to look. And I love using the touchpad for scrubbing, especially with how you can get some fine control from accelerating or sliding slowly.
Speculation:
The center button refers to something not unlike the big Xbox or PlayStation button on consoles.
I therefore theorise Apples new remote is in fact a proper games controller for all devices. Apple will be talking about it at WWDC as they’ll want devs to code for it day one.
Also Apple will announce some 3rd party games coming to ATV 5.
The center button refers to something not unlike the big Xbox or PlayStation button on consoles.
I therefore theorise Apples new remote is in fact a proper games controller for all devices. Apple will be talking about it at WWDC as they’ll want devs to code for it day one.
Also Apple will announce some 3rd party games coming to ATV 5.
FWIW - I believe the remote app can control volume when its being controlled by the TV via HDMI-CEC. At least my remote app always seems to control it.
The swipe pad is good. I hate using other TV devices now and not being able to easily scrub through videos.
The problem with the Siri remote isn't the touch pad, which is a great idea in theory, but the dumb symmetrical layout of the remote and the lack of attention paid to ergonomics or how it feels in the hand. I'd definitely keep the touchpad. Just bulk the thing out a bit so it's obvious how to use it, or at least which way up you're holding it, without looking at it.
I could live with it if they refined it a bit.
I don't think they will do away with it completely anyway, certainly if this beta code refers to a new remote then there will be some kind on touch pad it seems.
Just came here to say that the Apple remote is right up there with the hockey puck mouse. It's a truly atrocious piece of hardware. Anything they can do to make it better would be welcome. Just please don't use the services of anybody from the same design team involved with the previous remotes (hopefully they're all enjoying a well deserved dirt nap somewhere on the Apple campus).
Makes me wonder if folks could choose between the Apple TV 3 remote and the Apple TV 4 and 4K remotes at time of purchase. Bet a lot of folks would never complain.
Agree. If they offered a cheaper SKU with just the basic non touch, non voice remote. It would fix most of the problems with the Apple TV.
That’s... better than spam clicking yeah but I feel like it would be like the backspace on iOS. You hold it down to erase multiple letters... and the longer you hold it it starts jumping backwards faster and faster. Letters turn to words turn to sentences turn to the entire page deleted. Sarcastic of course but you get my point hopefully. It’s hard to control or guess when it’s gonna start jumping faster.
I get that, but if you notice, the bottom glass has much more friction than the smoother trackpad on top, so I always know which way it’s facing. But again, the tactile feedback is from the raised menu button, no?
It became a garbage app when they changed it from following Apple conventions and the player to rolling their own which was the same as every other device (i.e. lowest common denominator design).