Apple TV closes while pandora is playing

Had the same problem. ‘Sleep After’ setting got reset to 15 minutes. Go to Settings>General>Sleep After and change the time. Once I changed it, it stopped turning off automatically.

@Davis0454, try changing the Apple TV's sleep setting. I set it to 5 hours and that solved the problem. Someone upthread reported having to set it to "never." It's looking as if TVOS doesn't recognize Pandora as an active app when it's in the background. Once the screensaver kicks in, it will sleep the TV after however many minutes are specified in Settings.

Update: an update appeared in the atv App Store when I checked an hour ago, and after the update the problem seems to be finally fixed. Ive been listening to pandora for the last hour and my atv is set to 15 mins sleep. Go to town fellas :)

Try uninstalling Pandora and then re-installing it. The app may have gotten corrupted. I had a similar issue with Netflix, and did what I recommended and the re-install fixed my issue.

stvnky has helpfully pointed to the Pandora discussion. It does look like they are working on a fix.

The workaround, as some pointed out above and as discussed in the Pandora thread, is to set the Apple TV sleep timer to never. The timer parameter can be reset once the app is updated.

I wish there was some way to be notified when the app is updated. Any thoughts on that?

WAKE UP APPLE! We need another update! The last update reset the sleep mode to 15 minutes and voila when you're playing Pandora, it goes to sleep! I finally figured it out on my own and then found it posted here when I was going to warn everyone! My wife has been going CRA CRA over this. Just set the sleep mode to 5 hours or never for now. APPLE WAKE UP PLEASE!

Press the tv icon and go to the “Settings” app. Choose “Sleep” and you’ll find for some reason the update put Pandora settings on “After 15 minutes”. Change to, “Never”. Not sure why this happened, but it could be something about opening certain apps that changes the “Sleep” setting. Apple will figure it out (eventually) and release a fix in a future update.

Pandora has acknowledged the issue

https://community.pandora.com/t5/Other-Devices/AppleTV-Sleeps-While-Playing-After-OS-Update/m-p/3085#M209

But then the AppleTV will never shut off. Before this last update, it would not sleep if Pandora was playing just like Apple Music or any TV app.

Now it goes to sleep even if Pandora playing. It’s a bug in either the app or os.

Hey guys this is an update from Pandora

Pandora Update - 11/14/2019: Hi everyone! Thanks for taking the time to report this issue.

Our engineering team has rolled out a fix. Please try again and let us know if the issue has been resolved.

Thanks for your time and patience. Hope to hear from you soon. 🎧

Lets home this will fix it, ill test it later when i get home

Looks like Pandora isn’t telling the Apple aTV that it’s “alive”. Go into Settings > General > Sleep After and change the default to something higher than 15 minutes. Until Pandora fixes this problem, this will work.

Possibly a bug and possibly not, have you restarted or reset the ATV?? If you have not please look over https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202118

Has anybody just straight up uninstalled and reinstalled Pandora? I’m wondering if a reinstallation would put the hooks into the OS properly again...

I’ll try when I get home.

I went into ATV settings and changed the sleep setting to "never" (which is what I originally had it set on before the update changed it to 15 min. It worked!

Interesting, I tested Spotify last week and it was acting the same way as Pandora. Ill try again tonight when i get home and also i would check if the spotify app has been updated recently. I feel like the issue is with permission changes with all the new "privacy" settings in the new OS. Good to know that at least something is working as it should.