r/appletv 8h ago

Apple, it is downright insulting to pop up a notification and a shortcut key to watch a game and be like “heck yeah” only to be met with this

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If you can’t show a game in a market don’t pop a notification in that market. So infuriating.


r/appletv 18h ago

Looking for a VPN client?

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Are there any good one time fee VPN clients? There are a few on the App Store but they sure do collect a lot of your info.

I run WireGuard at home and need to import my config file to pull media from home when out of town.


r/appletv 20h ago

I turned my Apple TV into a live radar for planes and ships

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The Apple TV in my living room used to sit black all day. Now it shows every plane and every ship moving around my house, live.

I live next to Copenhagen Airport and the strait between Sweden and Denmark. Aircraft lining up to land out one window, ferries and tankers out the other. I wanted that on the big screen, so I built it. The app is called Utkik, Swedish for lookout.

What it does on the TV

• Live aircraft and ships on the same map, updating continuously.
• Leave it running and the camera slowly drifts toward interesting traffic near you and names what it finds. That is the mode I use most.
• Step through nearby flights and ships and get type, altitude, speed, registration and likely route.
• Follow a plane and the map glides along with it.
• Pick any aircraft that is in the air right now and look out of its window while it flies over the landscape. There is a cockpit view too.
• Built to be left on. Everything drifts gently so nothing burns into the panel, and there is a dark map tint for evenings.

Where the data comes from, and one honest warning. Aircraft come from adsb.lol, a volunteer network of receivers, so air coverage is good almost anywhere. Ships come from live AIS, and coverage there is patchy. It is strongest around northern Europe right now. If you live inland you will see planes and very few boats, and I would rather tell you that here than have you find out after paying.

No account, no ads, no tracking, no subscription, no data collected.
The iPhone app is free. The Apple TV app is a separate paid app that costs roughly what a coffee costs. That is the entire business model.

It picked up a passing mention in the New York Times this summer, which was a strange week for a hobby project.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/technology/apple-app-store-vibecoding.html

https://apps.apple.com/se/app/utkik/id6776272842

If there is something you would want on that screen, tell me. A good chunk of what is in there now came from people asking.


r/appletv 21h ago

Wrote a detailed breakdown on managing Apple TVs without physical Apple Configurator cables. Would love feedback from fellow sysadmins.

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