The Apple TV, Apple’s wonderful streaming field slash HomeKit good residence hub, has just a few updates coming with tvOS 16. The replace is because of launch this fall, however if you wish to get a jump-start on the brand new options you possibly can obtain the general public beta as we speak.
What are the brand new options on tvOS 16?
As my colleague Chris Welch famous following its announcement in June at Apple’s WWDC convention, the tvOS16 updates are comparatively minor. Though that’s to not say some folks gained’t discover them helpful. Higher cross-device connectivity between your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch may very well be a boon to Apple Health customers, amongst others, and extra sport controller assist — together with Nintendo Pleasure-Cons — will make for some enjoyable household sport nights in my family. There are additionally some enhancements coming to multi-user assist on the AppleTV, in addition to just a few different tweaks and updates.
For customers of Apple’s HomeKit good residence platform, tvOS 16 will convey assist for Matter, though it gained’t go dwell till the usual is formally launched later this yr. Matter is a brand new good residence connectivity protocol that may enable extra units to work within the HomeKit platform and be managed by voice via Siri. You’ll need an Apple TV or HomePod as a HomeKit hub to benefit from Matter in HomeKit. (At the moment, it sounds prefer it gained’t work with an iPad as your private home hub.)
Prior to installing the beta
Be warned that there is no such thing as a going again as soon as you put in the beta. When you’ve got issues, which is all the time doable with beta software program, you’ll have to unenroll from this system and dwell with these issues till the official launch catches up along with your system. When you’ve got an Apple TV HD, you possibly can restore it to its manufacturing unit settings, however that’s not an choice with the Apple TV 4K mannequin.
What units assist tvOS 16?
- Apple TV 4K (2021)
- Apple TV 4K (2017)
- Apple TV HD
obtain tvOS 16 public beta
- Join Apple’s beta program, or check in should you’re an present member
- When you’re signed in, click on on the tvOS tab
- Should you haven’t participated within the beta but, you will have to enroll your Apple TV
- Now go to your Apple TV and entry the settings menu. Go to Accounts, and check in with the identical Apple ID you used to register for the beta program.
- Subsequent, go to Settings > System > Software program Replace and toggle on Get Public Beta Updates
- Replace your Apple TV to the newest beta, and activate Automated Updates (discovered on the identical display) to get the newest beta software program put in because it rolls out.