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Control Apple TV playback with Siri

When you’re playing a movie, TV show, podcast episode, or music, there are a number of queries you can use to control playback.

Tip: Siri understands a wide variety of phrases and search terms beyond what’s listed below. Try different queries and see what you can find.

Control video playback

Siri: Press and hold on your remote, then say something like:

“What did she just say?”
In this case, Apple TV skips back 10 seconds and temporarily turns on subtitles.
“Pause this”
“Play from the beginning”
“Skip forward 90 seconds”
“Jump back 10 minutes”
“Turn on closed captioning”
“Turn on French subtitles”

Control audio playback

Siri: Press and hold on your remote, then say something like:

“Play from the beginning”
“Skip to the next song”
“Create a radio station based on this song”
“Pause music”

See alsoControl playback on Apple TV Use Siri to search on Apple TV

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