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Apple TV Siri Remote missing in Device Hub? (Xcode 27 Beta)
For the life of me, I cannot find how to bring up the Siri Remote in the Apple TV Simulator in Xcode 27 Device Hub (Beta). Is it no longer available? I have always seem to have had issues using the computer's keyboard for navigating my tvOS apps. Maybe it's me, but the Siri Remote always worked perfectly fine. I hope the remote will make a reappearance in the next beta... ?
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tvOS navigation broken in beta 27 (Siri Remote/Device Hub)
Xcode 27.0: Apple TV Simulators fail to navigate to some buttons in a UIViewController via keyboard arrows. Works fine with Xcode 26 (Siri Remote) simulator and also works as expected on an actual Siri Remote for Apple TV device running tvOS 27 Beta. Anyone else experience issues with navigating their app's UI using the Mac keyboard in Device Hub? Any tips for tracking this down?
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tvOS 18.0 Siri back button behavior bug
On testing my app with tvOS 18, I have noticed the Siri Remote back button no longer provides system-provided behavior when interacting with tab bar controller pages. Instead of moving focus back to the tab bar when pressed, the back button will close the app, as if the Home button was pressed. This occurs both on device and in the Simulator. Create tvOS project with a tab bar controller. Create pages/tabs which contain focusable items (ie. buttons) Scroll down to any focusable item (ie. a button or UICollectionView cell) Hit the Siri Remote back button. See expect behavior below: Expected behavior: System-provided behavior should move focus back to the tab bar at the top of the screen. Actual results: App is closed and user is taken back to the Home Screen. Has anyone else noticed this behavior?
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iOS 26 (beta) Nav Bar Item Image Insets bug
I've noticed that in iOS 26, Navigation Bar Items' Image Insets parameters as set in Xcode are not being read correctly. Specifically, it appears that on iOS 26 beta, negative inset numbers are being read as positive. Feedback report FB19838333 includes a sample project demonstrating this bug.
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StoreKit 2 failure on tvOS 18.2
Please help! I have a subscription IAP failing on tvOS 18.2 at: func makePurchase(_ product: Product) async throws { let result = try await product.purchase() //ERROR OCCURS HERE (See error message below) ... Xcode Console message: "Could not get confirmation scene ID for [insert my IAP id here]" The IAP subscription was working fine on 18.1 and earlier, and the same IAP and code is also running fine on iOS 18.2. The tvOS error on 18.2 happens both in production and sandbox. Are there any changes to StoreKit 2 which might cause this error?
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Tab bar for tvOS 18 is positioned too low (bug?)
I've noticed the tab bar in tvOS 18 (beta) is positioned lower on the TV screen than in previous versions. Bug? I see no documentation on this important UI change... If this is not a bug, is there any way to adjust the y coordinate of the tab bar location in tvOS 18? I would really like to restore this to the previous location for my app and avoid having to do OS-conditional constraints for all my views/pages.
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100% CPU - Interface Builder for tvOS
Anyone else getting 100% CPU usage when using Interface Builder for tvOS projects on Xcode 15.0? To reproduce, simply create a new project (Obj C or Swift), select "Storyboard interface" and add a blank UIViewController to the storyboard. Note: Observed launchd_sim and PineBoard processes in Mac Activity Monitor app. Processes will stay at 98-100% until project is closed. (No issue with iOS projects.)
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How to satisfy 192 kbit/s variant requirement for video?
Apple's HLS Authoring Requirements states "Primary playlists that are delivered over cellular networks MUST contain a variant whose peak BANDWIDTH is less than or equal to 192 kbit/s" Note the lowest available bitrate in Compressor is 300 kbps. I realize the one way to achieve a 192 kbps target is to use an audio-only track, but how are folks meeting this requirement for HLS applications which require video?
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Apple TV Siri Remote missing in Device Hub? (Xcode 27 Beta)
For the life of me, I cannot find how to bring up the Siri Remote in the Apple TV Simulator in Xcode 27 Device Hub (Beta). Is it no longer available? I have always seem to have had issues using the computer's keyboard for navigating my tvOS apps. Maybe it's me, but the Siri Remote always worked perfectly fine. I hope the remote will make a reappearance in the next beta... ?
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tvOS navigation broken in beta 27 (Siri Remote/Device Hub)
Xcode 27.0: Apple TV Simulators fail to navigate to some buttons in a UIViewController via keyboard arrows. Works fine with Xcode 26 (Siri Remote) simulator and also works as expected on an actual Siri Remote for Apple TV device running tvOS 27 Beta. Anyone else experience issues with navigating their app's UI using the Mac keyboard in Device Hub? Any tips for tracking this down?
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Auto-generated subtitles not working? (tvOS 27 Beta)
I am testing out the new auto-generated subtitles feature on iOS 27 and tvOS 27. It works on iOS, but not on tvOS. Very same HLS videos. Anyone have any experience with auto-generated subtitles on tvOS 27? AFAICT, there is no special code needed to enable this feature for our apps, correct?
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tvOS 26 file corruption issues?
Has any one come across file corruption issues with tvOS 26? I am tracking an issue where files in my app's NSCachesDirectory are getting corrupted (not deleted) when my app is in the background. The issue is sporadic and very hard to reproduce, but is definitely a new issue with 26.
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Oct ’25
tvOS 18.0 Siri back button behavior bug
On testing my app with tvOS 18, I have noticed the Siri Remote back button no longer provides system-provided behavior when interacting with tab bar controller pages. Instead of moving focus back to the tab bar when pressed, the back button will close the app, as if the Home button was pressed. This occurs both on device and in the Simulator. Create tvOS project with a tab bar controller. Create pages/tabs which contain focusable items (ie. buttons) Scroll down to any focusable item (ie. a button or UICollectionView cell) Hit the Siri Remote back button. See expect behavior below: Expected behavior: System-provided behavior should move focus back to the tab bar at the top of the screen. Actual results: App is closed and user is taken back to the Home Screen. Has anyone else noticed this behavior?
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iOS 26 (beta) Nav Bar Item Image Insets bug
I've noticed that in iOS 26, Navigation Bar Items' Image Insets parameters as set in Xcode are not being read correctly. Specifically, it appears that on iOS 26 beta, negative inset numbers are being read as positive. Feedback report FB19838333 includes a sample project demonstrating this bug.
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StoreKit 2 failure on tvOS 18.2
Please help! I have a subscription IAP failing on tvOS 18.2 at: func makePurchase(_ product: Product) async throws { let result = try await product.purchase() //ERROR OCCURS HERE (See error message below) ... Xcode Console message: "Could not get confirmation scene ID for [insert my IAP id here]" The IAP subscription was working fine on 18.1 and earlier, and the same IAP and code is also running fine on iOS 18.2. The tvOS error on 18.2 happens both in production and sandbox. Are there any changes to StoreKit 2 which might cause this error?
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Tab bar for tvOS 18 is positioned too low (bug?)
I've noticed the tab bar in tvOS 18 (beta) is positioned lower on the TV screen than in previous versions. Bug? I see no documentation on this important UI change... If this is not a bug, is there any way to adjust the y coordinate of the tab bar location in tvOS 18? I would really like to restore this to the previous location for my app and avoid having to do OS-conditional constraints for all my views/pages.
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Aug ’24
100% CPU - Interface Builder for tvOS
Anyone else getting 100% CPU usage when using Interface Builder for tvOS projects on Xcode 15.0? To reproduce, simply create a new project (Obj C or Swift), select "Storyboard interface" and add a blank UIViewController to the storyboard. Note: Observed launchd_sim and PineBoard processes in Mac Activity Monitor app. Processes will stay at 98-100% until project is closed. (No issue with iOS projects.)
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Oct ’23
TSI response from Apple - how long?
I submitted a TSI related to my app's Apple TV support last Wednesday. How long can I expect it to take for Apple to get back to me with a response?
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How to satisfy 192 kbit/s variant requirement for video?
Apple's HLS Authoring Requirements states "Primary playlists that are delivered over cellular networks MUST contain a variant whose peak BANDWIDTH is less than or equal to 192 kbit/s" Note the lowest available bitrate in Compressor is 300 kbps. I realize the one way to achieve a 192 kbps target is to use an audio-only track, but how are folks meeting this requirement for HLS applications which require video?
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