Learn how to update your Apple TV (4th generation) or learn about software updates for earlier models of Apple TV.
Apple TV Software Update 9.2.2
This update includes general performance and stability improvements.
Apple TV Software Update 9.2.1
- Apple TV Remote app for iOS: With your iPhone, navigate your Apple TV though touch gestures, ask Siri to find something great to watch, enter text with the keyboard, and much more.
- Additional: This update also includes general performance and stability improvements.
Apple TV Software Update 9.2
This update includes general software and performance improvements and these features:
- Dictation: Press
on your remote and use your voice to quickly enter text on screen. This feature requires English, French, German, Japanese, or Spanish as the system language.
- Live Tune-in: Tell Siri to go to a live channel in a supported app, like CBS or ESPN.1 This feature is available only in the US.
- Siri for App Store: Search for apps by title, category, or developer.1
- Additional Siri language support:1 Siri now understands Spanish in the US and French in Canada. If English is the language that you use for Siri and you live in Australia, Canada, the UK, or the US, you can choose Australian English, UK English, or US English.
- Photos: Enjoy your iCloud Photo Library, including Live Photos, on the big screen.
- Folders: For easier access, create folders to organize your apps.
- Bluetooth keyboards: Use your Apple Wireless Keyboard to control your Apple TV.
- Conference Room Display: Lock Apple TV in Conference Room Display for business and education environments. Show onscreen instructions for how to use AirPlay.
tvOS 9.2 also includes an update for your Apple TV Remote. This update adds compatibility with Samsung sound bars and improves general performance. Your Apple TV will attempt to update your Apple TV Remote once a day when both devices are idle. After the update completes, the firmware version number in Settings > Remotes and Devices > Remote will read 0x0245.
Apple TV Software Update 9.1.1
- Podcasts app: Enjoy your favorite podcasts on the big screen.
- Additional: This update also includes general performance and stability improvements.
Apple TV Software Update 9.1
This update includes general software and performance improvements and these features:
- Siri for Apple Music: Search, play, and control your music on Apple TV.2
- Remote app for Apple Watch: Use your Apple Watch to navigate Apple TV.
Apple TV Software Update 9.0.1
This update includes general performance and stability improvements.
Apple TV Software Update 9.0
- New user experience: Enjoy a new TV experience, with innovative new ways to use Touch and voice.
- Siri:1 Simply say what movie or show you want to watch.
- App Store: Search, browse, and download apps directly to your Apple TV.
- Music: Enjoy Apple Music2 on the best speakers in your home and get access to your iCloud Music Library and iTunes Match.
- Siri availability and functionality vary by country.
- Apple Music requires a subscription.