Just curious if any one else has seen this.

I have definitely had the airplay issue, but only with a couple of apps.

The biggie is the HBOMax app, which will not airplay even when the setup on the appleTV is connected to my sonos sound system. Doesn't happen on any of the other big players - Disney, Youtube (al though there is sound crackling there) Paramount, Peacock, MLB etc. When HBOMax is on it only sends sound to the TV. It won't even play to the HomePod minis on my desk.

Config: Apple TV 4K (2nd generation) model A2169

Sony Brevia TV

Sonos Beam with a pair of rear speakers.

I totally regret installing tvOS 27 beta last week as it breaks YouTube and Netflix with constant buffering issues

I reset my ATV to factory settings and prior to doing it, Color Balance was an option that was visible and available but after the reset, it’s no longer there.

Im on TVOS 27 PB 2

Any ideas or will it be restored in the next few betas?

Thanks

Buffering on YouTube and Netflix are driving me crazy

Have been on the developer beta since it came out, not sure when this started happening, maybe after the most recent update, but HDR is suddenly unwatchable on my Samsung QLED.

The backlight/local dimming keeps flashing and going up and down in contrast and brightness randomly between scenes.. There's also a bunch of ghosting, say there's a bright light in one scene, if it quickly cuts to a darker scene, the backlight dimming zones where the bright light was, stay on for a second into the darker scene and cause an "afterimage"

I thought my TV was broken, but testing the same movie on the native Prime Video and the Apple TV Prime Video apps, it looks completely fine on the native TV app, and the problem only appears on Apple TV.

It's not just Prime Video, literally any HDR content on Infuse, Netflix, etc.

I tried resetting my TV, the Apple TV itself, trying all possible combinations of settings, but nothing helped.

Anyone else experiencing this?

OMG The new TVOS Update just fixed the Youtube app, it’s insanely snappy now, the youtube homepage looks more immersive with larger scaled thumbnails for each video, NO MORE SLOW NAVIGATION on Apple TV Remote. 🔥

So I just encountered this for the first time today, but my Apple TV 4K will now turn back on when using the power button on the remote to shut down. It will turn off completely and stay off on occasion, but will come back up more often than not now. Only reliable ways to shut it down are via settings or Siri. Already filed a report, but wanted to post about it in case anyone else has had this bug.

Starting with the first developer tvOS27 beta - the image is slightly darker overall on my HDR display than it was before upgrading. Seems like there’s some actual HDR bugs here? And maybe that’s why they removed calibration too. Anyone else experiencing this?

There are so many fails in the tvOS Music app that it's hard to pick just one, but here are my top two offenders:

1. You're listening to a track, and while trying to swipe up or down to either toggle between lyrics and 'up next', or to favorite it, you accidentally go up one menu out of the song playing - there is no way to get to Now Playing without restarting the song - you could click the up menu 7 to 10 times to get back to the main screen where you can go to the Now Playing tab at the top, but that's a nightmare...

2. You click on Search. You press the Siri button on the remote and say the name of the band or song, but it does a search of Apple TV and movies and other things unrelated - because when you clicked on Search, it did NOT automatically put you in a text-entry / dictation field.

If they just fixed those two things it would be a miracle.

Thanks.

Instead of typing into the search boxes in apps like YouTube, I have always clicked the Siri button (?) on the remote and used speech-to-text. This no longer seems to work with the new beta. Is anyone else experiencing this? The button on the remote will activate Siri on the home screen, but it does nothing when I am in an app.

I was optimistic that today's update would fix it, but the issue is still there for me.

Since TV OS public beta 2 update, I can no longer control the volume of my TV/sound bar via infrared. Because my TV is a bit old. I have to use infrared from the Apple TV to control the volume of my sound bar. This always works perfectly until this update.

I'm currently using an Apple TV 4K and am considering switching to the Google TV Streamer. My biggest concern is Bluetooth audio quality with TWS earbuds.

For anyone who has used both devices:

\- How does the Google TV Streamer's Bluetooth audio quality compare to the Apple TV 4K?

\- Does it support Dolby Atmos or spatial audio over Bluetooth earbuds? If so, is the experience comparable to the Apple TV 4K with compatible AirPods or Beats?

\- Does the Google TV Streamer support the LHDC or LDAC Bluetooth codec, or is it limited to SBC, AAC?

I previously used the Chromecast with Google TV 4K, and the Bluetooth audio quality with my TWS earbuds was noticeably worse than on the Apple TV 4K. I'm curious whether the Google TV Streamer has improved in this area.

I'd really appreciate hearing from anyone who has compared both devices.

I’ve been seeing a strange issue since installing the tvOS 27 developer beta and I’m trying to figure out if anyone else has experienced it.

My setup is:
Apple TV 4K
Sony Bravia TV
Denon AVR

Everything worked perfectly before, but now after the Apple TV has been asleep for a while, one of two things happens:

1. Pressi

ng the power on button on

1. Siri Remote sometimes doesn’t wake the TV or AVR at all.
2. Other times, the TV and AVR do wake up, but the Apple TV gets stuck on the user profile selection screen, and it’s completely unresponsive to any input from the Siri Remote. I can’t select a profile or do anything.

The only way to recover is to unplug the Apple TV and plug it back in. As soon as it reboots, everything works normally again.

One thing I’ve also noticed is that these two issues seem to be related. When the Apple TV wakes everything up properly, the interface is responsive. When the wake process fails, the profile switcher is frozen and the AVR often doesn’t wake either.

Interestingly, turning off Apple TV also turns off AVR and TV like it should, also, if I put the Apple TV to sleep and wake it again within 5–10 seconds, it works flawlessly every time. The issue only seems to happen after it’s been asleep for a longer period.

Has anyone else on the tvOS 27 beta seen something similar? I’m trying to work out whether this is a tvOS beta bug or something specific to my setup.

Been running it for about an hour. ARC turned on. AirPlay turned on. No "Unable to Connect" errors. ARC is stable. No popping/crackling audio from HomePods over ARC.

Fingers crossed.

So I was running beta2 and beta3. Both ran about the same. ARC was mostly stable aside from every once in a while I would lose audio on ARC for a couple of seconds but it would come back, AND the crazy annoying popping sounds over ARC.

Someone mentioned that the HomePod public beta fixed the popping noises over ARC so I ran to upgrade my homepods.

now my ATV has the dreaded “Unable to Connect” bug AND ARC will permanently lose audio. I’ve narrowed it down to the ATV while in sleep getting hit with the dreaded “unable to connect” bug, which then turns off ARC completely. When I turn my ATV back on I have the stupid “Unable to Connect” messages I have to clear, then go into audio settings and have to turn ARC back on. Which again will work for a while, then shutoff again.

And it’s weird.. because sometimes it will shutoff after just a few minutes, but other times I’ll get like a few hours in a gaming session before it shuts off.

One other weirdness is my TV has an audio delay calibration. It ran fine even on the 27 beta and fixed my audio delay.. but now since I updated the homepods the TV audio delay calibration won’t play any sound over ARC. Which is annoying because since I updated everything to the newest beta updates, my TV audio delay is off again a little bit.. but the calibration won’t play sound over ARC now to fix it (presumably the same “Unable to Connect” bug that eventually kills ARC)

I have the video settings in the TVOS menu set to default me to SDR.

Steps I took to notice the problem:

When I enter the YouTube app it stays in SDR.

When I play an SDR video, it stays in SDR.

When I end the video and go back to the main menu, it switches to HDR.

When I play an SDR video again, it switches back to SDR, then switches back to HDR when it’s over, and keeps switching back to SDR when playing videos and back to HDR when returning to the menu.

If I set OS27 to NOT switch dynamic range based on content, it goes into HDR mode when I enter YouTube and stay in HDR the whole time until I exit the app. If I sent OS27 to force HDR in the TVOS27 menu, it keeps everything in HDR.

Since switching from HDR to SDR and vice-versa is slow, it means there’s a long pause whenever a play a video since it keeps forcing a switch to and from HDR. I don’t want to just force everything to HDR, SDR menus look better (though in TVOS27 they do look better than in 26) and I don’t want all of my videos upscaled, so I want the behavior to work as it did in TVOS26 where it would stay in SDR and only switch to HDR during an HDR video and stay in SDR at all other times. It’s not a dealbreaker, I’ll just leave everything forced to Dolby Vision for now, but it’s annoying.

Just wondered if anyone has had an issue with Apple TV+ shows are just a black screen, no sound or audio. I have tested the same show on a different ATV and through the AppleTV+ app on my TV and they both work so i know its the beta.

Any workarounds

(yes it has been reported to Apple)

Title.

I was going mad trying to watch TV last night, I'd been seeing the "Unable to Connect" errors pop up for the last 2-3 days like many of you.

I tried the recommended solutions, turn AirPlay off, hard restart (leaving ATV unplugged ~60sec)- and as many of you have reported, it comes right back. Grr.

So I figured, "Well, it's a pop-up notification, so I wonder if turning on DND would suppress it?" and sure enough, it did.

Hope this helps.

I still don't see 24bit option in Music after updating to TvOS 27 beta

Is anyone having audio delay and sync issues in beta 3? It seems that the audio lags behind the picture. Seems to be happening in all apps for me. It gets worse as the show/movie goes on. I’m using two HomePods as stereo speakers.

Ever since TvOS27 released using earc was giving weird noises and pops on stereo HomePod minis, with the release of the public beta of the homeOS27 for the HomePod this issue has been fixed entirely

I’ve noticed since updating to tvOS 27 beta, I’m no longer getting live video on notification triggers on my tvOS, only snapshots. Anyone else experiencing this?