Cannot get Home Sharing -> Share photos with Apple TV with my Photos library to work in Catalina

Me too!

I have over 1800 photos that for years via "Home Sharing" I could display these photos on my Apple TV and I, my family and visitors all LOVED seeing our photos on my TV via Apple TV when visiting.

Now as the holiday events approach, we can no longer see these photos or other holiday specific photos on our Apple TV.

Just spent the entire afternoon trying to move the 1800 photos to a place where they could be displayed on Catalina/AppleTV, but no luck.

All these posts clearly show that many are having issues.

As many on this thread, I too can no longer see my photos on Apple TV. iCloud photos show, but it is a limited number. Prior to Catalina, home sharing worked just fine, as did iTunes. Music app no longer syncs my playlist correctly either. Ugg!

Same issue. Apple needs to fix otherwise lose more people to Amazon. Photos being shared from my Mac to Apple TV is a family favorite on the screensaver as we listen to music. If this is lost, I lose interest in Apple TV and can easily move to a Amazon Fire. Been a consistent struggle but now seems to be disabled permanently

Come on Apple, you can do better than this. A ton of people leverage your Home Sharing to transport photos and home videos from their Apple computer to the Apple TV in various rooms. Your upgrade clearly didn't look into this functionality at all. Perhaps you are trying to force people to your cloud service, but instead will end up forcing people to Amazon. Very frustrating that a past time I've had with my family of viewing pictures on the TV with music is no disabled. It's honestly been a pain for quite some time, but now completely disabled. I've tried all the steps above and apparently the only solution for pictures is to manually select small folders of pictures because you didn't build it with the capacity to manage the entire Photo library. Now the home videos are also not working...only a small handful are coming through. Enough already, make this more user friendly and functional.

Thx T,

Been there done that...can no longer display all my photos on the ATV

Yup, I too am having issues with the upgrade? to Catalina.

Can no longer see my photos I use for my ATV screen saver.

Amazing how many issues we are having with the upgrade? to Catalina

Same problem for me. I can open the library and see all menus: Music, Movies, Home Videos, Photos. That means that I have access to the library, but if I go into the Photos I see another screen saying: "To choose photos to share, open iTunes on your computer and go to File>Home Sharing."

I wonder if my Apple TV (3rd generation) really supports Catalina Home Sharing... My MacMini runs Catalina 10.15.

Thanks for your reply Jim,

I did some tests.

1- Choosing a folder instead of a library (Pictures folder) runs fine. I can see the pictures on ATV. That means that the setup and communications are fine.

2- I created a new library with only a picture. Without folders. Same name than the default to ensure that is the System Photo Library. It fails. Same error. So, in mi case, it seems not able to read/understand my upgraded photo library. It's a huge library with 40.000 pictures and videos..

I guess there is a kind of bug...

Check the options in System Preferences > Sharing > Media Sharing > Home Sharing > Share photos with Apple TV > Choose...

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