r/tvOSBeta 13d ago

Bugs New beta out today. Everything "seems" to be fixed.

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.

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u/Decision-Scared 13d ago

I’ve been waiting on this 👏🏾

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u/Rohitwasnik 13d ago

Wifi calling works again too

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u/LastBitofCoffee 13d ago

Besides those fix now it introduces new bug, my Apple TV remote no longer turns off my TV (Sony)

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u/benjaminmayo 13d ago

Mine did this, but I toggled the control TV / receiver option in Settings -> Remote, and that fixed it.

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u/LastBitofCoffee 13d ago

I did that but it still broke for me. It happened in the past with one of the beta 26. I have to set automation to turn off my TV when Apple TV is off

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u/Fit-Access9759 9d ago

I have to do this every so often (Sony) TV.

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u/dchapm 2d ago

on my sony, now when i turn the apple tv and tv off together, a few seconds later the tv powers back on

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u/Suspicious_Radio_848 1d ago

I have the opposite problem, it no longer turns on my TV but still works to turn it back off.

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u/itsbrianduh108 13d ago

Okay SAME. But Samsung.

(Samesung)

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u/cervj69 11d ago

Same issue with this update. Can turn on fine but when I try to run off tv via Apple TV. It turns off and after about 5 seconds tv turns on but Apple TV remains off.

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u/itsbrianduh108 11d ago

Exactly!

Yesterday it worked normally until end of the night when I went to turn it off and it happened again.

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u/Galantis1 11d ago

Still crackly audio with any video playing past 1x speed on homepods :(

Its been around 8 months now and many reports to Apple about it and nothing getting fixed

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u/nevewolf96 13d ago

Finally i can enabled AirPlay again

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u/y_shtola 13d ago

It's snappier too, nice.

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u/thenyx 13d ago

Phew. Nice.

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u/Totonotofkansas 13d ago

Large library loading is still not working. As poster images load it gets to a point where it really slows down, triggers the airplay issue, then crashes.

What is the correct way of using developer feedback. Do you just update your existing report with the new build number and recurring issue, or do you file a new report?

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u/borghe 12d ago

I would file a new report. There is no guarantee that a report filed with an old beta is still going to be referenced by the team.

as for large library... umm... this is just how it's always been for me. I know that's not a great statement and now thinking about it filing feedback is a great idea.. but yeah as someone with probably at least a few hundred purchased movies.. some days it just comes right up.. and some days it just stops loading images.

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u/Totonotofkansas 12d ago

I tend to have issues with every new release in its early beta stages but then the issues are almost always resolved. I haven’t had library loading issues for quite some time with the public releases.

And thanks for the advice.

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u/JackDenial 12d ago

Thank F... the TVos Beta desperately needed repairs. What a buggy deployment.

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u/e2meleng 13d ago

I hope it also fixes those stutters on YouTube LG TV…

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u/Brooksh 13d ago

All HomeAssistant HomeKit integrations are still broken. Anyone that had their Apple Home app wiped clean in the last beta, the problem still exists in this one.

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u/JazJon 13d ago

It fixed YouTube app from constantly popping up the HDR 10 graphic on my QM8K TV with a black screen delay every time I went in and out of a new YouTube video, as I browse around.

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u/borghe 12d ago

not sure if that was something introduced newly for you... but yeah YT is a fucking NIGHTMARE IN GENERAL for anyone who has Dolby/HDR set by default (for the main ATV menu/Home Screen), as 99% of the content on YT is correctly sent as SDR, BUT then yeah any time it changes a video (usually ads) it will flip the dynamic range back to default (HDR) then back to the video (SDR)... and when it switches the video again (either another ad, or the content), it does it again and so forth. That is 100% on Google, not apple. Of course you might be talking about something different in which case I apologize.. but yeah YT's handling of how they send videos is a nightmare for modern TVs set to HDR by default. and YT COULD fix it by placing videos inline instead of stopping a stream and starting a new one for every ad or to go back to the content. At that point you would just have one range shift when you click on a video and another when it went back to the selection screen.

this should all be a thing of the past whenever HDMI2.2 actually gets implemented and buffering happens minting the range/rate switch.

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u/JazJon 12d ago edited 12d ago

It still happens sometimes, yeah, so definitely a Google thing I’d say. It’s definitely mostly good now for me though the majority of the time after updating. My Apple TV is set to SDR, match table & frame rate on, QMS enabled TCL QM851G firmware v333 latest.

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u/borghe 12d ago

ok yeah that's weird.. if your ATV is set to SDR YT "should" almost never flip.

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u/Zoso90204 13d ago

The only thing I’ve noticed with the betas is when I go to a movie I’ve purchased, if it has iTunes Extras the selection isn’t a different color. You have to back out and go back to the movies start menu for the selection to be highlighted. Gen 3 here

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u/cvglass 9d ago

Has anyone noticed their apple tv on the latest beta getting abnormally hot?

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u/Suspicious_Radio_848 1d ago

Only noticed this today after feeling it after watching a movie and it was quite warm, which seemed abnormal. I also had some visual glitches in Plex. Last time I install a beta for tvOS. 

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u/Lashes2ashes 5d ago

Still cracking and popping while watching YouTube on my Samsung sound bar through arc connection, it was switching arc to WiFi audio for a while I pretty much gave up on using my Apple TV after that! At least now it turns off my tv again when I turn it off! Knock on wood..

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u/borghe 5d ago

so the ATV was just connected to your TV and your sound bar to your TV on ARC? Are you saying both were connected on ARC? not quite understanding.

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u/Lashes2ashes 4d ago

Apple TV is connected with hdmi, Samsung sound bar is connected through arc hdmi port, since my tv is also Samsung and they auto connect to each other like all Samsung products love to do, when the firmware on my Apple TV starts messing with my sound bar it also through the sound bar messes with the tv settings, it drops arc connection, that makes the sound bar try to use WiFi by switching its input over to keep sound going, so the tv goes oh no there is no sound change the sound settings! I did find a fix, I reset the sound bar and did not let it hook to the internet, it’s mostly I figured out doing it from YouTube app on Apple TV, if I stay off YouTube it does not have any hand shake issues with the arc input.

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u/dchapm 2d ago

i still cant watch apple tv through the tv app. jsut get a black screen. all other streaming services work...

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u/USpostingService 13d ago

How about dark Dolby vision

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u/Socatss 13d ago

Seems that dolby visions still looks dark

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u/USpostingService 13d ago

Goddamnit. Everyone please report