tvOS 17 Finally Brings New Features! - Everything New

**Exploring tvOS 17: What's New in Apple TV**

With the release of tvOS 17, Apple has introduced a host of new features and improvements designed to enhance your viewing experience. This update, alongside iOS 17 and other ecosystem updates, was unveiled during WWDC 2023, offering developers and users alike a glimpse into the future of Apple TV.

### Introduction to tvOS 17

tvOS 17 is now available in beta form for developers, with plans for public release later this fall, typically aligning with the launch of new iPhones. This update supports both the Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD models, ensuring compatibility across a range of devices.

### Home Screen Enhancements

One of the most noticeable changes is the updated home screen. Previously featuring five apps, it now boasts six apps across the display, offering more space for your frequently used applications. This adjustment provides a cleaner interface and easier navigation.

### Control Center Improvements

The introduction of a new control center allows users to manage various settings directly from their remote. By pressing and holding the button on the Siri remote, you access options like power off, Wi-Fi, Focus mode, and more. A standout feature is profile switching: using the Remote app on an iPhone to wake up your Apple TV automatically logs you into the corresponding profile, whether it's yours or your child's.

### Enhanced Audio Options

With tvOS 17, audio settings have been expanded, particularly with support for AirPods Pro 2. Users can now enjoy noise control modes, transparency, and adaptive features. Additionally, a shared audio option allows for synchronized viewing experiences, perfect for group watching.

### FaceTime and Continuity Camera Integration

tvOS 17 introduces a dedicated FaceTime app, enhancing communication capabilities. The continuity camera feature connects your iPhone to Apple TV, enabling video calls. Placing your iPhone in front of the TV recognizes it as a continuity camera, offering options like Center Stage for portrait mode and reactions during calls.

### Apple Music Sing Feature

The update brings Karaoke capabilities to Apple TV with the new "Apple Music Sing" feature. When using compatible cameras, lyrics appear on screen, allowing users to sing along. Various filters enhance this experience, from background removal to creative effects.

### Enhanced Dialogue for HomePod and Dolby Vision Support

tvOS 17 works seamlessly with the second-generation HomePod, offering enhanced dialogue clarity by isolating speech from background noise. Additionally, Dolby Vision 8.1 support brings more vibrant and dynamic video experiences to Apple TV 4K users.

### Third-Party VPNs and Fitness+ Updates

Security is bolstered with third-party VPN app support for Apple TV, allowing users to connect to preferred networks. In the fitness realm, tvOS 17 integrates with Fitness+, offering custom workout plans and audio focus modes that prioritize either the trainer's voice or music.

### New Screen Savers and Future Features

Apple has announced new aerial screen savers featuring stunning locations like Monument Valley and coastal redwoods. While these haven't been downloaded yet, users can look forward to them soon. Additionally, a future update will enable locating the Siri remote using U1 chip technology for precise direction guidance.

### Conclusion

tvOS 17 marks a significant leap in functionality and user experience, with features catering to entertainment, communication, and fitness enthusiasts. As we await the arrival of new screen savers and further updates, users can look forward to an enriched smart TV experience. We'd love to hear your thoughts on tvOS 17; feel free to share in the comments below!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and tvos 17 was released to developers this past week along with all of the other updates that were shown at WWDC 2023 so they released this along with iOS 17 beta 1 iPad OS 17 beta 1 watch West 10 beta 1 and Mac OS Sonoma beta 1. I have videos on every single one of those so if you want to check them out they'll be linked in the description now this particular update many of you have been asking what's new in tvos 17. if we scroll down the supported devices still continue for quite some time for older devices as you can see here it says Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD so those are the supported devices and this should be available later this fall usually in September around the time of the launch of iOS 17 and the next iPhone now let's go ahead and take a look at what's new as far as tvos 17. now on the home screen here you can see it looks a little bit different in the upper right the time is there and also you can see that there are six apps across the overall display this time before there were only five now we have six separate apps there's also a new control center so if you press and hold the button on the control on the Siri remote you'll see that we have a control center we have my profile picture on the right if I move over to that we have different profiles and one of the nice things is is if you use the remote app on the iPhone here and then you go ahead and wake up your Apple TV using that remote it will log into the profile that's actually assigned to the iPhone so if it's me logging in it will log into my profile if it's one of my kids logging in it will log into theirs so it's a nice little feature that they've added with this update now also if we go back over you can see here we have different options of course we have power off our Wi-Fi our Focus mode or do not disturb in this case sleep timer audio options and then here we have search we have some restriction options as well as accessibility and even game modes or game control dollars and as you can see here if we go to audio if we go we can see different options here whether that's a homepod or something else and if I connect maybe airpods Pro 2 we have those new modes so we'll give it a second to connect here there we go I have a new Option at the Top If I go over to audio we have different options for the specific headphones now I'm currently on the beta for the headphones so we have noise control with transparency and the new adaptive mode that's available as well as conversational awareness you can turn that on or off and you can also share the audio so if you want to watch with someone together we can also go back here let me disconnect the airpods back in the control center if we move over one we have the option for our different setups as far as our home controls so the home app is here with different scenes our cameras and more so if you want to actually change different lighting scenes or look at your home cameras if you have those set up it's available here there's some nice really simple options that they've added to the control center also one thing you've already probably noticed is if we scroll down here we have FaceTime there's a FaceTime option now so if I click on this you'll see I have the option for users with the option for other if I go to my iPhone and I click on my name here for the user immediately it pops up and says continuity camera office Apple TV would like to use this iPhone as a continuity camera so let me do that one more time as it sort of failed there because I didn't hit accept in time we'll tap accept and it immediately connects now I need to set it up to actually use it as a camera so you can see Place iPhone to continue now I have the iPhone placed it recognizes that and says iPhone is ready it will expand to full screen and then give me options of who I can actually contact so it's super simple that way we can either contact people or we can go down here and you'll see Center Stage we have the option for portrait which doesn't seem to work all of the time and we also have the option for reactions we can turn that on or off where it will actually allow us to give maybe a thumbs up you'll see there it doesn't seem to work maybe it has to be connected to a call but you have thumbs up it will give reactions and Center Stage so if I turn that off you'll see it's not centered turn it back on it centers right to where I'm at depending on where I'm sitting in the frame if I move around it will follow me so you have that option and also you can use continuity camera for one more feature if we go to the home screen and we go over to music within music if maybe I go to a song Here let me find a recent artist or recently played if we go here and you find one that has Apple music sing we'll play a song here so we'll hit play and then if we go over on our options here you'll see that I've already got this turned on but in our options for our actual lyrics it will automatically turn on Apple music sing if you have the camera connected so if I turn this on you've got the volume of course and then we have options for the camera itself so we have none we have filter we'll give it a second it may or may not work and of course it's locked up in an awkward place there we go so we have some options in the background for karaoke where it puts the lyrics over the top of you as you're speaking you've got a different filter other ones here where you can have it just use AI to sort of remove the background around you and we've got filter five so these are all different options if you want to use apple music sing now when you're done with it with continuity camera just tap disconnect on the iPhone and it will disconnect from the Apple TV now also there's a new option that seemingly is coming later that I wasn't able to find yet and that has to do with the Siri remote you'll be able to locate this using your control center in the future updates so if we scroll down we have our controller here but there should be an option in the future to actually locate it this is according to Apple and they give an example here on their Newsroom press release where you would be able to locate the actual Siri remote using the U1 chip and sort of the ultra wide band to locate the direction it's in so as we get closer hopefully it uses that and points Us in the direction but this should work on the Siri remote second generation or later so as users get closer to the remote and on-screen Circle grows in size to guide their movement I don't see an option for this just yet I looked and find mine in other places if it's showing for you let me know in the comments below but I wasn't able to locate it I tried everywhere to do that and wasn't able to find it now we also have some new screen savers that will be here so let's see if it's actually downloaded them within settings if we go up to General here with in general if we go to screen saver there's going to be new aerial screen savers and what Apple says is they're going to feature stunning new locations including Arizona's Monument Valley and California's coastal redwoods now I have Aerials selected let's go back and see if it actually works so I haven't seen any new ones just yet let's scroll through here it doesn't seem like there's any new ones downloaded yet but in the future we should have some new ones if you're seeing that I'd love to hear from you in the comments below I've actually given this a day to actually download and I haven't seen anything at all but hopefully we'll see those very very soon now another feature is if you have a home pod and you've got the new second generation homepod there's something called enhanced dialogue according to Apple it lets users more clearly hear what is being said over the effects action in music and movies or TV shows on Apple TV 4K paired with that new home pod it separates the dialogue from the background noise and brings it forward to the center channel there will also be Dolby Vision 8.1 support on Apple TV 4K and also third-party VPN support apple says that developers can actually create VPN apps for the Apple TV allowing you to connect to those additionally there's some updates in apple Fitness plus if we go into the fitness app we'll connect here connect on my phone just for now for an example and if we scroll down you'll see we have the option for custom plans this is something new that's in iOS 17 as well and basically it's a new way for you to use Fitness Plus and put workouts back to back Apple actually suggests workouts and meditations back to back seamlessly and then also there's an audio focus mode which gives you an ability to actually prioritize the volume of music or the trainer's voice so if you're using this for a workout you'll have more options let's go into this one and within a workout if we go over to our audio selection we have an audio focus mode where it says trainer or music so depending on what we care more about we want to hear the trainer more clearly it will emphasize that voice or you can switch it to music and so that's everything so far in TV OS 17. of course there may be a few more things I can't wait to see what those new screen savers look like but if you've found anything else in TV OS 17 I'd love to hear from you in the comments below of course I'll link this wallpaper in the description like I normally do and if you haven't subscribed already please subscribe and if you enjoyed the video please give it a like as always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next timehi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and tvos 17 was released to developers this past week along with all of the other updates that were shown at WWDC 2023 so they released this along with iOS 17 beta 1 iPad OS 17 beta 1 watch West 10 beta 1 and Mac OS Sonoma beta 1. I have videos on every single one of those so if you want to check them out they'll be linked in the description now this particular update many of you have been asking what's new in tvos 17. if we scroll down the supported devices still continue for quite some time for older devices as you can see here it says Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD so those are the supported devices and this should be available later this fall usually in September around the time of the launch of iOS 17 and the next iPhone now let's go ahead and take a look at what's new as far as tvos 17. now on the home screen here you can see it looks a little bit different in the upper right the time is there and also you can see that there are six apps across the overall display this time before there were only five now we have six separate apps there's also a new control center so if you press and hold the button on the control on the Siri remote you'll see that we have a control center we have my profile picture on the right if I move over to that we have different profiles and one of the nice things is is if you use the remote app on the iPhone here and then you go ahead and wake up your Apple TV using that remote it will log into the profile that's actually assigned to the iPhone so if it's me logging in it will log into my profile if it's one of my kids logging in it will log into theirs so it's a nice little feature that they've added with this update now also if we go back over you can see here we have different options of course we have power off our Wi-Fi our Focus mode or do not disturb in this case sleep timer audio options and then here we have search we have some restriction options as well as accessibility and even game modes or game control dollars and as you can see here if we go to audio if we go we can see different options here whether that's a homepod or something else and if I connect maybe airpods Pro 2 we have those new modes so we'll give it a second to connect here there we go I have a new Option at the Top If I go over to audio we have different options for the specific headphones now I'm currently on the beta for the headphones so we have noise control with transparency and the new adaptive mode that's available as well as conversational awareness you can turn that on or off and you can also share the audio so if you want to watch with someone together we can also go back here let me disconnect the airpods back in the control center if we move over one we have the option for our different setups as far as our home controls so the home app is here with different scenes our cameras and more so if you want to actually change different lighting scenes or look at your home cameras if you have those set up it's available here there's some nice really simple options that they've added to the control center also one thing you've already probably noticed is if we scroll down here we have FaceTime there's a FaceTime option now so if I click on this you'll see I have the option for users with the option for other if I go to my iPhone and I click on my name here for the user immediately it pops up and says continuity camera office Apple TV would like to use this iPhone as a continuity camera so let me do that one more time as it sort of failed there because I didn't hit accept in time we'll tap accept and it immediately connects now I need to set it up to actually use it as a camera so you can see Place iPhone to continue now I have the iPhone placed it recognizes that and says iPhone is ready it will expand to full screen and then give me options of who I can actually contact so it's super simple that way we can either contact people or we can go down here and you'll see Center Stage we have the option for portrait which doesn't seem to work all of the time and we also have the option for reactions we can turn that on or off where it will actually allow us to give maybe a thumbs up you'll see there it doesn't seem to work maybe it has to be connected to a call but you have thumbs up it will give reactions and Center Stage so if I turn that off you'll see it's not centered turn it back on it centers right to where I'm at depending on where I'm sitting in the frame if I move around it will follow me so you have that option and also you can use continuity camera for one more feature if we go to the home screen and we go over to music within music if maybe I go to a song Here let me find a recent artist or recently played if we go here and you find one that has Apple music sing we'll play a song here so we'll hit play and then if we go over on our options here you'll see that I've already got this turned on but in our options for our actual lyrics it will automatically turn on Apple music sing if you have the camera connected so if I turn this on you've got the volume of course and then we have options for the camera itself so we have none we have filter we'll give it a second it may or may not work and of course it's locked up in an awkward place there we go so we have some options in the background for karaoke where it puts the lyrics over the top of you as you're speaking you've got a different filter other ones here where you can have it just use AI to sort of remove the background around you and we've got filter five so these are all different options if you want to use apple music sing now when you're done with it with continuity camera just tap disconnect on the iPhone and it will disconnect from the Apple TV now also there's a new option that seemingly is coming later that I wasn't able to find yet and that has to do with the Siri remote you'll be able to locate this using your control center in the future updates so if we scroll down we have our controller here but there should be an option in the future to actually locate it this is according to Apple and they give an example here on their Newsroom press release where you would be able to locate the actual Siri remote using the U1 chip and sort of the ultra wide band to locate the direction it's in so as we get closer hopefully it uses that and points Us in the direction but this should work on the Siri remote second generation or later so as users get closer to the remote and on-screen Circle grows in size to guide their movement I don't see an option for this just yet I looked and find mine in other places if it's showing for you let me know in the comments below but I wasn't able to locate it I tried everywhere to do that and wasn't able to find it now we also have some new screen savers that will be here so let's see if it's actually downloaded them within settings if we go up to General here with in general if we go to screen saver there's going to be new aerial screen savers and what Apple says is they're going to feature stunning new locations including Arizona's Monument Valley and California's coastal redwoods now I have Aerials selected let's go back and see if it actually works so I haven't seen any new ones just yet let's scroll through here it doesn't seem like there's any new ones downloaded yet but in the future we should have some new ones if you're seeing that I'd love to hear from you in the comments below I've actually given this a day to actually download and I haven't seen anything at all but hopefully we'll see those very very soon now another feature is if you have a home pod and you've got the new second generation homepod there's something called enhanced dialogue according to Apple it lets users more clearly hear what is being said over the effects action in music and movies or TV shows on Apple TV 4K paired with that new home pod it separates the dialogue from the background noise and brings it forward to the center channel there will also be Dolby Vision 8.1 support on Apple TV 4K and also third-party VPN support apple says that developers can actually create VPN apps for the Apple TV allowing you to connect to those additionally there's some updates in apple Fitness plus if we go into the fitness app we'll connect here connect on my phone just for now for an example and if we scroll down you'll see we have the option for custom plans this is something new that's in iOS 17 as well and basically it's a new way for you to use Fitness Plus and put workouts back to back Apple actually suggests workouts and meditations back to back seamlessly and then also there's an audio focus mode which gives you an ability to actually prioritize the volume of music or the trainer's voice so if you're using this for a workout you'll have more options let's go into this one and within a workout if we go over to our audio selection we have an audio focus mode where it says trainer or music so depending on what we care more about we want to hear the trainer more clearly it will emphasize that voice or you can switch it to music and so that's everything so far in TV OS 17. of course there may be a few more things I can't wait to see what those new screen savers look like but if you've found anything else in TV OS 17 I'd love to hear from you in the comments below of course I'll link this wallpaper in the description like I normally do and if you haven't subscribed already please subscribe and if you enjoyed the video please give it a like as always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time\n"