I’ve been using the new Apple TV for a few days now, and like many of the early reviewers I’ve seen, I wholeheartedly agree that the device is teeming with potential. Though long considered a hobby within the company, the fourth-gen Apple TV finally appears ready to make the leap into a full-fledged product and meaningful contributor to Apple’s bottom line.
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@felixcervantes Hey @AppleSupport, latest version of Apple TV 7.6 is very buggy on 3rd gen units. Crashes constantly, takes several attempt to log on to Wi-Fi, YouTube app crashes all the time. 7.5 was a lot better, never had these issues. If you are experiencing issues with your Apple TV, try one of these easy fixes for five common problems. If you are experiencing issues with your Apple TV, try one of these easy fixes for five.
At the same time, the Apple TV does have a number of kinks that Apple will hopefully address sooner rather than later. While these gripes don’t necessarily rise to the level of being deal-breakers, they do unfortunately dampen the overall user experience.
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1. No Bluetooth keyboard or Remote app support
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Without question, this seems to be the number one complaint most people have about the new Apple TV. Want to enter in your Netflix credentials? Well good luck slowly entering in your username and password with a poorly designed virtual keyboard that’s painfully slow to use. Equally frustrating is that Apple hasn’t yet updated its iOS Remote app to work with the new Apple TV. Even with the Apple TV 3, users could use the Remote app to enter text via the virtual keyboard on their iPhone. It’s bizarre that Apple, as a company that prides itself on the user experience, hasn’t yet updated its Remote app to work with the new Apple TV.
2. Siri is great, but limited
My experience with Siri thus far has been mostly positive. While the software does a great job of understanding queries along with the names of TV shows and movies, Siri functionality remains somewhat stunted. As it stands now, it’s not possible to use Siri to look up musicians or applications, forcing users to clumsily type in searches via the Apple TV remote.
3. App discovery is non-existent
Though there are already over 1,000 apps on the tvOS App Store, finding a specific app has proven to be an exercise in frustration. While Apple does offer a list of the top paid and free apps, there is no breakdown of apps across different categories. And again, there’s no way to use Siri to search for apps. Frustratingly, the only way to search for an app that isn’t featured on the Apple TV splash screen is to slowly type in its name via the onscreen keyboard, one painstaking letter at a time.
4. The remote could be better
The Apple TV 4 remote is the best we’ve seen yet from Apple, but that’s not to say it couldn’t be improved. If all you’re planning to do is watch media content with your Apple TV, it’ll do just fine. But if you’re looking to do any gaming, even casual gaming, the remote is marginally useful at best. I’ve played a few games on the new Apple TV with the Siri remote and the user experience is far from optimal. The remote is simply too light and awkward to use as a controller for an extended period of time. Using it for more than 8-10 minutes is borderline uncomfortable. It may be ergonomically friendly as a standard media remote, but as a gaming remote, it falls flat.
What’s more, in designing the Apple TV 4 remote, Apple may have opted for style over substance. As Nilay Patel of The Verge writes: “I will say that the touchpad can be more flashy than useful — there isn’t a single part of the main interface that actually requires it, and you can get around just fine using a universal remote with a D-Pad.”
All told, the Apple TV remains an exciting new product from Apple. Still, we’re surprised that some of the problems we’ve seen thus far are arguably indicative of a beta release.
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Having problems getting your TV to receive digital broadcast stations using your antenna? You’ve come to the right place. Find solutions to your antenna problems below.
My TV isn’t doing anything when I hook up the antenna
- Are you sure your TV is capable of receiving digital TV signals? (Is it a digital TV and was it made after 2006? If not, you’ll need a converter box).
- Did you change your TV mode to “ANT” or “Antenna”?
- Did you set up your TV to scan for digital channels?
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My TV is not finding any channels when I do a scan
- Did you use the Station Finder on the front page of this site to see if there are any channels in your area? If you have at least five green channels, it is worth trying to get broadcast digital channels.
- Did you securely attach the antenna cable? (It has a collar that has to be screwed in.)
- The most fragile part of many antennas like the Mohu Leaf is the cheap cable it comes with. Check for kinks, twists, or sharp bends in the cable which might have broken it. If you have an Ohm meter, check to make sure the cable is still good. If your cable is an RG59 cable (like the one that comes with the Leaf), I recommend replacing it with RG6 cable. See links on this page.
I’ve lost a channel that I used to get or I lose channels at certain times of day
This could be caused by a variety of reasons. See this article for some possibilities.
There is static in the picture
If you are seeing snow or static type of interference, it’s probably not a digital signal. That’s probably an analog signal. When you are getting a weak digital signal, the distortion looks blocky and the picture and sound will cut in and out. There is no snow or static. Boom 2: the best audio enhancement app 1 4. Go to the previous item and make sure there are digital channels in your area.
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I am having trouble getting all of the available channels in any one antenna orientation
Getting good reception for all channels is like playing “whack-a-mole”. When you adjust your antenna to get good reception for one channel, you lose another channel. Cleanmymac 3 9 9 clean and tidy on your mac. Here are the steps I use to get the best reception.
- Start by setting up your antenna in or near a window as a starting point. You can just tape it up for now, because you’ll probably need to move it. See photo above.
- Now put your TV in scan mode and go do something else for 30 minutes (or you can stay and watch the progress). When it’s done, step through all of the channels using your remote, and write down all of the channels it found.
- Pick a channel that is coming in intermittently and adjust the antenna until it comes in consistently. Re-check your other channels to make sure they are still OK. Then do a re-scan to see if you TV can find more channels. If so, record them.
- Repeat steps 2-3 a few times (until you don’t get any new channels). At the end, you should have a master list of all available channels in your location.
- Now go to your TV’s setup menu and manually add any channels you got before that are missing from the latest scan, so that your TV now has all available channels (even though not all of them are being received solidly). Do not do anymore re-scans after this, because that will blow away all of the channels you just entered.
- Here is where the fun begins. Based on your previous experience and further experimentation, place the antenna where you seem to get the most channels. This is somewhat of a magical, mysterious process. I can’t give much help other than to say the best locations are usually around the perimter of your house (i.e., outwardly-facing walls). Sometimes leaning your antenna against a wall or window is best. Sometimes hanging it is best. Heck, right now, my best reception is with the antenna facing down on the floor, which is totally unexpected! Try a bunch of locations and go through all of the channels until you find a location that gets you the most.
- Let’s say you’re through and you have a few channels that you just can’t get in your current orientation. Leave those channels in your TV. Don’t erase them. Often atmospheric conditions will change and you might be able to get those channels later. Also, TV stations can increase power so that really does happen from time to time. I’d say, every 3 to 6 months I see some change in my stations. Just recently, two PBS stations that seemed dead magically started coming in, probably due to some change at the transmitter.
If you’re interested in my final antenna setup, check out this article.
For more tips on how to get the best reception and most channels with your antenna, check out my blog article, Top Tips for Better Reception with Your Indoor Antenna.