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Diane from West Hartford

Q: How do I  power off apple tv?

How do I power off apple tv so I can watch something on cable?

MacBook Pro, iOS 9.3.1

Posted on Sep 18, 2016 4:34 PM

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Q: How do I  power off apple tv?

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  • by ahanrahan,

    ahanrahan ahanrahan Sep 24, 2016 3:03 PM in response to Diane from West Hartford
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    Sep 24, 2016 3:03 PM in response to Diane from West Hartford

    To manually shut off Apple TV 4th Gen (you can identify this by seeing your remote: if it has a trackpad and a microphone button, it is 4th Gen), you hold down the TV button, and a menu should come up. Select sleep, and the Apple TV will power off. I am not sure about the 1st-3rd Gens.

  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Sep 24, 2016 3:16 PM in response to ahanrahan
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    Sep 24, 2016 3:16 PM in response to ahanrahan

    ahanrahan wrote:

     

    To manually shut off Apple TV 4th Gen (you can identify this by seeing your remote: if it has a trackpad and a microphone button, it is 4th Gen), you hold down the TV button, and a menu should come up. Select sleep, and the Apple TV will power off. I am not sure about the 1st-3rd Gens.

    Just to clarify, as we discussed above, sleep is not power off, it's just sleep (blanks the screen but doesn't turn off the HDMI). To power off you have to disconnect it from the mains. The 'TV' button is the Home button; on models 1 through 3 the same thing is effected with the play/pause button.

  • by D_@_n,

    D_@_n D_@_n Sep 25, 2016 5:21 PM in response to Winston Churchill
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    Sep 25, 2016 5:21 PM in response to Winston Churchill

    When you try that from apple tv (generation 1 and 2) it does not work and used both genuine remote unless using the remote app via OSX. I do understand it works fine from generation 3 ongoing using the aluminum remote. The 3 methods described earlier work however and Rogers version works too only not for all of them. Chances are high no one is using older generation apple TVs so that will still work all right.

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