Customise the Apple TV Home Screen
You can change the order of apps on the Home Screen and place your favourite apps in the top row.
On the Home Screen, you can also delete apps from the App Store that you no longer use and change the appearance of backgrounds and menus between light and dark.
Rearrange apps
Navigate to an app, press and hold the clickpad centre (Siri Remote 2nd generation or later) or touch surface (Siri Remote 1st generation), then select Edit Home Screen.
Drag the app to a new location on the Home Screen.
Tip: Move your favourite apps to the top row of the Home Screen; when you highlight a top-row app, content shortcuts appear at the top of the screen.
To save the new arrangement, press the clickpad centre (Siri Remote 2nd generation or later) or touch surface (Siri Remote 1st generation).
Create a folder for apps
You can organise related apps into folders. For instance, you can store all your music apps in a Music folder.
Navigate to an app, press and hold the clickpad centre (Siri Remote 2nd generation or later) or touch surface (Siri Remote 1st generation), then select Move to > New Folder.
To change the name of the new folder, select the folder name at the top of the screen, then use the onscreen keyboard or dictation to enter a custom name.
To close the keyboard, do any of the following:
Siri Remote (2nd generation or later): Press the Back button
once to the close the onscreen keyboard, then press the Back button again to return to the Home Screen.Siri Remote (1st generation): Press the
button once to the close the onscreen keyboard, then press the button again to return to the Home Screen.
Rename a folder
Navigate to a folder, press and hold the clickpad centre (Siri Remote 2nd generation or later) or touch surface (Siri Remote 1st generation), then select Rename Folder.
Use the onscreen keyboard or dictation to enter a custom name.
To close the keyboard, do any of the following:
Siri Remote (2nd generation or later): Press the Back button
once to the close the onscreen keyboard, then press the Back button again to return to the Home Screen.Siri Remote (1st generation): Press the
button once to the close the onscreen keyboard, then press the button again to return to the Home Screen.
Delete a folder
To delete a folder, simply move its apps back to the Home Screen.
Navigate to an app in a folder, then press and hold the clickpad centre (Siri Remote 2nd generation or later) or touch surface (Siri Remote 1st generation) and select Move to > Home Screen.
Repeat the above steps for each app in the folder.
The folder is deleted when you remove the last app from it.
To save the new arrangement, press the clickpad centre or touch surface.
To return to the Home Screen, press the Back button
(Siri Remote 2nd generation or later) or button (Siri Remote 1st generation).
Move an app into a folder
Navigate to an app, press and hold the clickpad centre (Siri Remote 2nd generation or later) or touch surface (Siri Remote 1st generation), then select Move to > [name of folder].
To save the new arrangement, press the clickpad centre or touch surface.
To return to the Home Screen, press the Back button
(Siri Remote 2nd generation or later) or button (Siri Remote 1st generation).
Delete or offload an app
Select the app you want to delete, then press and hold the clickpad centre (Siri Remote 2nd generation or later) or touch surface (Siri Remote 1st generation).
Select Delete App, then select Delete or Offload.
Offloading an app removes it from the Home Screen to free up storage, but retains its data in case you install it again.
Deleting an app also deletes its data. You can download any app again that you’ve purchased on the App Store, free of charge, but the data may not be restored.
Change the appearance of Apple TV
Open Settings
on Apple TV.Go to General > Appearance, then select Light, Dark or Automatic.
When set to Automatic, the appearance shifts from Light during daytime hours to Dark during night-time hours.
Keep apps and the Home Screen up to date across multiple Apple TVs
If you have more than one Apple TV associated with the same Apple ID, you can keep the same appearance and apps for each device. This makes it seamless to switch between an Apple TV in the bedroom and one in the living room, for example.
Open Settings
on Apple TV.Go to Users and Accounts > [default user account name] and turn on One Home Screen.