Apple TV screensaver tvOS13

The photo screensaver is why we went with Apple, too. So infuriating!

I am having the same problem.

Have anyone tried contacting Apple about it?

Sorry. Didn’t work for me. Cmon, Apple, get this fixed!!!

my apple tv cant even see my PC itunes for homesharing.... lol latest tvos

This thread is about not being able to use your photos as screensaver. If you have trouble with homesharing using iTunes for Windows, try to turn it off and back on on your PC.

Having the same issue and it's indeed maddening. I have opened iTunes on my laptop and reset the home sharing several times, have also restarted the Apple TV and actually had it work for a day or so but then: like a horror film monster that just won't die... the screensaver kicks in and we are back, once again, at Aerial.

*sigh*

Particularly saddening because I actually dig and use the Earthlapse app (good ambient NASA space video) which the Aerial screensaver is quite similar to, but am now finding myself conditioned to feel undulating ripples of agitation coursing throughout my body every time I see this pop up on the screen...

Not only do I have this issue, the same issue manifests itself with shared albums from Apple Photos.

I've tried completely logging out of all iCloud accounts on both my iMac and my AppleTV, restarting, loggin back in, and encounter the same issues.

Oh, it's just a total mess, like everything about this horrifically-supported product.

I just reset my entire Apple TV. Two things I now notice:

• I'm getting the same error mode (black screen/spinning wheel when selecting Screen Saver preview and just nothing/black... and then eventually drops back into Aerial again when Screen Saver actually starts on its own) with the "Music Library" setting... so it's not just the Photos that's broken
• Something is very wrong with the storage management on the Apple TV with regards to Photos. I've downloaded just one (1) app ("Space Left TV" which totals a whopping 12 megabytes) and zero other media so far since resetting my 32 GB Apple TV 4K; all I've done is simply turn on my iCloud Photo Library, which contains around 80,000 photos and videos, and while it's only still very early in the process of acquiring thumbnails for the library (it's only back to 2017, while the Library starts in 2004), the Apple TV is already 2/3 full (20.69 GB used; 11.15 GB remaining... and rapidly declining!) . My iPhone, with all those thumbnails from the very same iCloud Photo Library already downloaded on there, and many many many of the full files on there as well, only shows 18GB used... and probably far less than half of that is for the library thumbnails. The Apple TV is busting well through this, and it's only got a couple of years worth of thumbnails, tops, and no full-size photos or videos downloaded whatsoever.

Explain this, Apple.

But instead, 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?".

(oh, and while I'm waiting for the whole thumbnail-download process to churn its way through... I was using Photos on my Mac, and it spontaneously crashed... and after re-opening, I'm now I'm facing yet another unmistakable software bug shared by many Apple users for quite some time that Apple seemingly has no intention of addressing. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250731803. It's not just their software that is broken - Apple itself is broken. Steve Jobs is rolling over in his grave.)

Ok .... so the way to get your photo albums to stay up on Apple TV is to use the home sharing version of the method;

switch off the default screensaver - DO NOT LET IT START BY SELECTING “NEVER START” from the Apple screensaver menu

select the PC / computer icon on the Apple TV.

find the photos and let them all start to display in thumb nails.

when most of the selected album is thumb nailed select the photos as the screensaver.

leave the source file open for at least 30 minutes depending on size of file being transferred.

after a length of time sufficient

preview the chosen screensaver to ensure it works as selected.

( I use cascade and have about 50,000 photos)

tune the Apple TV to never turn off.

done

suggestion that worked for me.

goTo Settings>Users and Accounts

log out of all accounts (iCloud and Home Sharing)

on your iMac

goTo System Preference>Sharing>

stop home sharing

shutdown your iMac and your Apple TV

wait a few minutes then restart the iMac then restart Home Sharing

restart the Apple TV then log into your accounts

this will allow your accounts to sync

hadanjm wrote:

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.

Exactly. The data is clearly there, clearly accessible when requested by the Apple TV device. There's just this one highly specific, blindingly obvious, eternally persistent bug that Apple, in all its grand resources... evidently cannot give a bleep about fixing.

Same problem here. Keeps switching back to aerial no matter what selection chosen.

Same problem. Looking at my extensive photo library on the big screen when the screen saver kicks in is a big reason I like Apple TV.

Screensaver via Homesharing has been working for a week now after update to 13.2. So as long as you don't power off your ATV you should be home safe.