Recently downloaded latest tvos13
; it’s not populating personal screen savers using photo library.
If I try using Apple Photos or an created album it just goes black and eventually switches to Aerial on its own.
tried restarting to no avail. Anyone else having this issue?
Apple TV 4K
You first have to create this type of screen saver, by making a photo selection. Photo Library Screen saver requires photos in your iCloud Photos library.
Go into you Photos app on Apple TV, select an iCloud Photos album, then click Set as Screen saver.
Then the screen saver will know what to show, when called upon.
Note that for very large albums, the screen saver selection will be a subset.
Note that the screen saver consists of cached copies (thus no live updates of additions/edits).
Thank you, rank. I may give it a try, as again, this is the one most-used function on my Apple TV... but seeing as how I am logged into iCloud on no fewer than 6 devices, and my iCloud Photo Library has 70,000+ pictures/movies, it's not exactly easy.
Apple, this is totally absurd, and completely unacceptable.
P.S. It's amazing how much more consistently helpful "Level 1" users with the same problem are on this forum that the "Level 9" users who come along to copy and paste some knowledge-base article that anybody dealing with this issue has already found, and found useless.
So here’s a question, we are in the Apple forum, does anyone get a response from Apple saying anything! I’m sick and tired of updates that totally screw things up that are working just fine! The screensavers, auto play when watching TV showed you’ve purchased...if it’s not broke don’t fix it! 😡🤬
I don't use Home Sharing (everything is off of my iCloud Photos Library... or would be, if this wasn't totally broken), but everything else you describe sadly looks familiar.
Has Apple just completely stopped supporting the Apple TV, and never informed us, all while they just keep incrementing the version number? Because the amount of bugs and major flaws in this software is utterly mindblowing.
Same deal here. Used to be able to view a folder of hi-res personal photos selected in iTunes > Home Sharing. One of the main reasons I bought an ATV years ago. Now nothing shows up in the "Computer" icon like it used to in "my Library', no matter what I try.
Eastdog says "...I'm sure I'm just going to see yet another "Level 9" "volunteer" trot out with some to insultingly inapplicable link to some perfunctory knowledge base article, or canned advice like "Have you tried restarting your device?" or "Are you logged into iCloud?". How True!!
Apple can build more multi-million dollar campuses, hire thousands of more employees, spend millions on tv shows and movies but they can't give us a product/service that used to work. Unbelievable and disgusting...
Still no solution for this problem? I've had to move my old Apple TV 3 to our living room, which is annoying because the interface is not as intuitive on the old device. But my Apple TV 4 no longer works with Home Sharing, especially not the screen saver function using my photo library. I have over 20,000 photos in my library, and having them display as the screen saver on my Apple TV is one of the major reasons I bought the devices in the first place.
It's frustrating that Apple has not come up with a solution.
Wow, did you just copy and paste my post?!
I feel your pain- and have an older ATV as well in another room. Maybe I’ll move it, too, but what a pain. For such a BASIC function that was there from the beginning.
Maybe there could be a third party (tv manufacturers) solution because Apple doesn’t give a rat’s ***.
NOTHING WORKS -- Apple Techies where are You?
Are the Developers interested in getting this FEATURE up and Running -- would be Marvellous to have this back.
The HOME-SHARING SCREENSAVER was one of the main reasons we purchased the Apple TV ~~~~~ !
Can't believe this is a sync problem, because you can see the photo thumbnails scrolling across the tv screen. But when you select Preview or actually enter screensaver mode, the screen just goes blank. I thought I was going nuts until I saw so many others having the same problem.
Really? What problem is fixed?
Can you get the screensaver running with home sharing photos?
Does the setting remain after ATV goes to sleep or after a reboot/restart or it reverts to Aerial?
The problem remains the same for me after updating to 13.4.
Exactly. Good to know I’m not alone.
Same issue with BOTH Homesharing and Apple photos. Has anyone found a solution?
Same thing. Homesharing in Catalina is on. TV 13.2. I can set everything as it should be, worked for a while, but goes back to Aerial
This worked for me. Thank you!
Sorry, that's "appears to be no longer persistent.
I agree. It’s a kludge but it’s still working.
the ATV has not reverted to Ariel default screensaver and the source file is not pinned to the ATV.
Apple TV screensaver tvOS13
