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Q: apple tv screen saver reverting to National Geographic

As of May 3, my TV is reverting to showing pictures from the National Geographic set instead of the selected album on my local network computer.  If I return to preferences, it still lists the correct album from the computer, and selecting Preview begins a slideshow from the correct album.  The next time based activation of screensaver then shows the correct album for about 2 minutes, then it fades to black momentarily and begins a slideshow from the Nat Geo photos.  Subsequent screensaver activations are then all Nat Geo.  Unless I repeat the procedure with preferences.

 

The computer in question has had the Yosemite update including the Photos app installed (on release day), but this activity did not begin until yesterday, many days later.  That computer has not been migrated to using Photos, is still using iPhoto, and no changes were made in iTunes. 

 

Given my parents are having a very similar issue with just showing a library sideshow on one of their macs from the Photos library on that Mac, I suspect this is is all related to the rollout of Photos and it's integration with other devices, and I'll be waiting for Apple to get it together.

 

Any other suggestions?

Posted on May 4, 2015 8:03 AM

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  • by mdfrombenodpur,

    mdfrombenodpur mdfrombenodpur May 4, 2015 10:30 AM in response to AppleDin
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    May 4, 2015 10:30 AM in response to AppleDin

    NO

  • by AppleDin,

    AppleDin AppleDin May 4, 2015 10:34 AM in response to mdfrombenodpur
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    May 4, 2015 10:34 AM in response to mdfrombenodpur

    Wow.  Thanks.

  • by Doomstare,

    Doomstare Doomstare May 5, 2015 3:45 PM in response to AppleDin
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    May 5, 2015 3:45 PM in response to AppleDin

    I've been having this same problem too but for quite a while. I use one of my iCloud shared albums for the screen saver. I don't know if this problem has something to do with the number of pictures in the album. The album I use has just over 1000 photos.

  • by dmunier,

    dmunier dmunier Jan 1, 2016 4:01 PM in response to AppleDin
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    Jan 1, 2016 4:01 PM in response to AppleDin

    I've been having this problem for quite a long time now.  The Apple TV shows the photo stream as a screensaver slideshow for a couple of minutes and then switches back to the National Geographic slideshow, as if the Nat Geo slideshow is a screensaver for my screensaver.  Has anyone solved this over the past year it's been happening?

  • by esanders64,

    esanders64 esanders64 Aug 27, 2016 4:52 PM in response to AppleDin
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    Aug 27, 2016 4:52 PM in response to AppleDin

    I was having the same problem as reported, and I may have a solution.  The iCloud album I was using as my screen saver had over 1000 photos in it.  The problem went away after I decreased the number of photos to under 1000.

     

    My symptoms were similar to the reports.  Sometimes only the National Geographic photos would show.  Sometimes my album photos would show for a few moments, and then switch to National Geo.

     

    Hope this helps.