![]() ![]() It's a beautiful, easy thing (and nearly impossible to lose). Should you ever lose your Apple TV remote or simply want to use a keyboard to type a query, download the free Remote app on your iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad or even - would you believe it - on your Apple Watch. If you're one of the few - if not only - people in this world to never lose a remote, you still have to suffer through the experience of manually clicking every letter when searching.īut, like with most things in life, there's an app for that. One of the most annoying things about any home entertainment device is the remote, especially if you need to use it for inputing text queries. Choose the one you want to get rid of, then hold down the select button/touchpad on the remote until the icon starts vibrating, and press Play/Pause to access a new menu. If you just want to get rid of an app altogether, you can delete it. Just hover one icon over the top of another and watch it create a folder automatically. Like iPhone, if you want create a folder of many apps or folders to declutter your home screen, you can do that too. With Apple TV, the software is loosely based on iOS, and so you can actually load up the recent apps view, which shows you stacked thumbnails/cards of previous or recent apps you've used. We're used to go to our multitasking or recent apps views on our smartphones, but probably not on our TVs. Switch between apps quickly, or kill background apps Now you can avoid getting the dreaded thumb-cramp. The menu button or back button, actually. Have you ever found yourself clicking through stuff to watch and realised you were 30 menus deep? Well, you're not alone, but instead of clicking the menu button or back button on the remote a bunch of times to get back to the Apple TV home screen (like most people do), just long-press a single button. The menu button is replaced with a back button and there is a mute button as well as the volume rocker, play/pause button and Apple TV button. For the 2021 model, the Siri button is on the side of the remote. ![]()
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