5 must-know Apple TV tips and tricks

With its silky performance and its video resolution cut by a razor, the Apple TV 4K has been my choice of choice for years, but it has a few quirks that push the wall.

For example, why does the TV button on the Siri remote control send you to the Apple TV application rather than on the main screen of the Apple TV house? What is with these Apple TV + video promotions that start to play automatically, with sound? And do not start to try – constantly – to identify a particular moment in a video by awkwardly sliding the touch navigation block from the remote control.

Fortunately, you can stifle these Apple TV 4K troubles in the bud with a few simple adjustments in the settings menu. Read the rest for the five quirks that perpetually annoy Apple TV users.

Quirk: the remote television button Siri does not take you to the home screen

At the start of the Apple TV, the remote control button did what he said that he would do: he took you to the Apple TV home screen, where you could find all your mountain bike applications, just like on an iPhone.

Then, the Apple TV application arrived, and before we know, the Home button on the Apple TV remote control (later nicknamed Siri remote control) jumped on the Apple TV application rather than on the home screen. Talk about annoyance.

Fixed: Change how the TV button on the SIRI remote control

Fortunately, there is a way to make the home button – ok, well, the TV Button – On the Apple TV remote control do what we really want.

Go to Parameters On the Apple TV, select Remote controls and devicesscroll towards the Television button adjustment, then choose an option: either Home screen Or Apple TV App. Choose the first and you are ready.

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Quirk: “rub” videos are far too capricious

When you arouse the video on your Apple TV, you can slide the touch surface in the center of the navigation cushion to “rub” forward or back.

But rubbing with precision can be a royal pain, because it is too easy to exceed the place you are trying to find. And the more you try, the more you want you to never start cleaning in the first place.

Fixed: use the edge of the navigation wheel

If you are frustrated, try this trick: instead of sliding the touch surface in the middle of the navigation wheel, slide a finger around the edge of the wheel itself – in the direction of the place for the front or the anti -threading sense for the reverse. The use of this gesture makes it easier to identify an exact place on a video.

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Quirk: Automatic game videos in the high reservoir

So, you know when you scroll through the application icons in the upper line of the Apple TV home screen, and promotional images or even automatic game videos appear at the top of the screen?

Apple calls this promotion on the upper shelf, and for the most part, you cannot control the content which appears to it when you scroll from one application to another.

However, there is a key exception: Apple TV application.

Normally, when you scroll through the Apple TV icon, you will see a present on the screen what to watch the preview that starts to play automatically, full with sound (more on the boring automatic play audio in a moment). But for the Apple TV application, you have the possibility of changing the behavior of the upper shelf to something more useful.

Correction: Change the upper parameter of the shelf for the TV application at the next

Try this: go to Parametersthen click Applications,, TVand scroll downwards Home screen setting. Finally, rocks the Upper shelf adjustment What to look at has Following.

Now, when you scroll through the Apple TV application on the Apple TV 4K home screen (assuming that you keep the Apple TV application on the upper quay), you will see what is in your next queue, at hand to jump in what you looked at or in love that you already want to look at.

Bonus advice: You can configure the following promotions to show the cover of the television program or the film you watch or a video frame; Just switch the Next display setting.

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Quirk: Automatic games have herAlso

One of the most aggravating features of the Apple TV application is its habit of automatically playing an overview – with its sound – for any show or video that the Apple TV cursor takes place.

Now you can’t do anything for automatic game videos, but you can Mute their sound (you can always scroll if you decide that you want to hear the preview).

Correction: Silence Automatic games

Go to Parametersclick Applications,, TVscroll down Video and audio Header, then switch His automatic game video has Disabled.

Ah, that’s better.

Quirk: going from one application to another is pain

Navigating in the screens and convinces of Apple TV 4K can be a tedious process, especially when it comes to going from one application to another.

For example, if you are deeply inside the Netflix application and decide to consult Hulu, you will probably have to click on the return button several times to return to the home screen, then you will have to navigate to the Hulu application icon and click to start, for example, your terrible session The bear.

Of course, you can just click on the TV button to return to the home screen (assuming you have followed my advice above), although you should always access the application you want to open.

Correction: Double-click to change applications

Instead, try this: Double-Click the TV button.

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This will trigger the Apple TV application switch, which will evolve a stack of windows for all your recently open TVOS applications.

Slide the SIRI remote control of the remote control to scroll through the windows, then click on a window to launch its application. Easy.

This story is part of the in -depth coverage of Techhive of the best multimedia streaming devices.