Everything you need to know about the Apple TV! – AppleTV 4 Jailbreak (appletv4jailbreak.com)
Josh walks you through cables, ports, and setup, and explains how to use gestures and spoken commands with the Siri Remote—yes, you can talk to your TV! He helps you navigate and customize the Home screen, plus describes getting-started settings such as inputting your Apple ID and enabling parental controls.
You’ll learn how to use the TV app (whether on the Apple TV box itself, on a Mac running Catalina, on an iPhone or iPad, or on a third-party smart TV), and how you can best view home movies and TV shows. The book also looks at using an Apple TV to listen to your music or Apple Music, download and play podcasts from Music or iTunes, and browse your photos.
In Take Control of Apple TV you’ll also read about:
- What’s new in tvOS 13 (and what was new in tvOS 12)
- Which Apple TV model to buy—or whether you should get different hardware instead
- Getting the most out of your the Siri Remote
- Alternatives to the Siri Remote
- Using a game controller with Apple TV
- Controlling Apple TV with Shortcuts
- Using AirPlay to beam the display of your Mac or iPhone screen to your TV
- Making Mac or iOS audio play through your TV’s speakers
- Running iTunes Home Sharing to play media from a local computer
- What you can do with Conference Room Display mode
- How to tell whether an iOS app includes a free copy of its Apple TV version
- How to reset or restore an Apple TV—useful for troubleshooting or for handing your device to a new owner
Compatibility? This book covers the fourth-generation Apple TV (now called Apple TV HD) and the newer Apple TV 4K model. It does not cover earlier generations of Apple TV hardware.
What’s New in Version 3.0
This new version of Take Control of Apple TV has been completely overhauled to reflect the media landscape in 2020, including tvOS 13 and the availability of the Apple TV app outside of the Apple ecosystem. While much of the book is new, here are some highlights:
- In “Do You Still Need an Apple TV?”, I tackle the somewhat existential question of whether you even need an Apple TV box, given that AirPlay and the Apple TV app are available on so many other TV platforms now.
- In “Control Your Apple TV,” I’ve added new sections: “Control an Apple TV with Control Center,” “Control Apple TV Media from Control Center and Lock Screen,” “Pair a Game Controller with the Apple TV,” and “Control Your Apple TV with Shortcuts.”
- I explain how to use the Control Center, introduced in tvOS 13. See “Reveal Control Center.”
- You can now AirPlay media with Siri, which I explain in the “Master AirPlay” chapter.
- There is a new chapter, “Decipher the Apple TV App,” that documents Apple’s Apple TV app.
- There’s another new chapter, “Play Content from a Computer,” that centralizes instructions for viewing media from a Mac or Windows PC on your Apple TV.
- I’ve removed coverage of ripping CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray…
