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Q: Apple TV 4 - photo stream issueo

HI,

 

i have the latest and great Apple TV 4. Everything is working just perfect, with exception of photo stream. icloud connected, I can see my albums and some thumb nails of photos but but in my albums a lot of the images do not appear. I leave it for a while and slowly some start to appear but it's painfully slow despite high speed internet.

 

GIven the much larger hard drive and  improvements to the system itself it seems inadequate and so slow to use, waiting for images to load, making it hopeless as a way to view photos. In fact it's the biggest disappointment of Apple TV overall.

 

I would be expect the very least it could download a cache the thumbnails of the images but it doesn't. It would be better if it actually downloaded all the photos in the background and like apple Watch you could allocate how much space you wanted photos to use up.

 

however, in its current state I just can't use photos which is bitterly disappointing.

 

Has anyone else noticed this poor experience?

Apple TV (4th generation), Other OS

Posted on Oct 30, 2015 2:40 PM

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  • by Obelix Apple,

    Obelix Apple Obelix Apple Dec 28, 2015 8:11 AM in response to macuser916
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    Dec 28, 2015 8:11 AM in response to macuser916

    I got off the phone with Apple Support a minute ago.

     

    AppleTV will not show all photos in your iCloud photo stream.  It will only show photos shot from other iOS devices.  If you are trying to use AppleTV to show your photos, the only solution is to turn on home sharing and navigating to photos from Computes - Library - Photos.

     

    Also, with iCloud sharing, AppleTV only remembers the last 1,000 photos and deletes them after 30 days.

     

    Reason #995 why Apple doesn't get anything related to cloud.

  • by Antonio iMac,

    Antonio iMac Antonio iMac Feb 3, 2016 12:38 AM in response to Obelix Apple
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    Feb 3, 2016 12:38 AM in response to Obelix Apple

    I do not use iCloud photo stream but have the same issue. I only use shared photo streams from other IOS devices (iphone and ipad) and also from photos.app in OSX Yosemite. Apple TV is only showing a few photos from each stream and just hangs there with spinning icon trying to load the rest, which never appear.

     

    Apple TV4 has been my single worst Apple product experience. They really didn't test properly this before going to market. The photos app is basically useless at the moment.

  • by csii,

    csii csii Feb 5, 2016 1:22 PM in response to Antonio iMac
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    Feb 5, 2016 1:22 PM in response to Antonio iMac

    same here, have a familiy shared folder.. the pics that Apple TVs shows are very old and already deleted a few weeks ago. the thumbnails are not refreshing..  really bad bug apple!!

  • by Miguel Sobrevia,

    Miguel Sobrevia Miguel Sobrevia Apr 13, 2016 5:39 AM in response to Balls5645654
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    Apr 13, 2016 5:39 AM in response to Balls5645654

    Maybe because they're stored in the cloud? perhaps if you check iCloud.com?

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