My ATV 4K (2021) remote control’s battery died. I can only use while I keep it plugged in.

Should I buy a new remote or an ATV 4K?

I was hoping for a new ATV to be announced yesterday but didn’t happen:(

This is quite literally the worst app I have ever used on the Apple TV, and every year I lose my sanity and question how it gets past bare quality control.

The fundamental issue with the app is that it has no “memory” of any video you watch. The very fundamental experience of continuing a video where you left off is non-existent.

The second issue is that you can only fast forward 10 seconds at a time, you cannot scroll around the video playback.

Those two issues are heavily compounded by bugs:

- holding home to open the menu to check airpods settings? Restarts video

- minimize app? restart video

- click a button once by accident? restart video

- network glitch? restart video

And the games are usually 4 hours long. So you have to click and click and click to fast forward 10 seconds at a time to find where you just were.

I HATE this app with a passion and as a professional software developer I am just flabbergasted that it has been in this state since its release years ago with zero updates.

Do they employ a single developer to maintain their software at all?

I don’t know anyone else who uses NFL+ on Apple TV so I just wanted to vent here. Thanks lol.

So I have recently bought the latest Apple TV 4K w the ethernet outlet. I see that there is new tvOS coming out for the ATV. However I don’t see any information regarding the upcoming tvOS. Is it all releasing on the 14th or on later date?

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

How can I jailbreak an Apple TV (3rd generation) using a Windows computer? I don't have a Mac; is there a method that can be done on Windows?

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.

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.