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

I have had the same problems since upgrading to Catalina yesterday with photos not appearing in Computers on my Apple TV Gen 3 (which also kept telling me that I needed to enable sharing on the now defunct iTunes!)

So this is how I managed to solve the problem: System Preferences > Sharing > Home sharing > Share photos with Apple TV > Choose > Select albums to share (choose in batches of around 6 folders per time or it will dummy spit). For Macs with old iPhoto Events move folders into Albums in Photos App or it won’t recognise them. 

My 2012 iMac and 2013 MacBookPro are now best mates with the Apple TV App and I hope this solution works for someone else out there.

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.

Hi Jim (RaiderJim),

I confirm you that removing all folders from my library has solved the issue. I moved out all albums from its folders and later I deleted all folders. Now I can see all albums in my ATV.

Because my library has more than 44.000 pictures, the first time to access to the library, ATV took more than 5 minutes to rebuild some kind of index, but now it runs fine and fast.

Thanks for your tip !

It's unacceptable that Apple does not document this issue and fix it. Also an enhancement request should be developed to support folders in ATV. In massive libraries, folders are necessary to organise that amount of pictures.

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

tt2

Ah, have accessed Photos yet? Perhaps it is waiting to update the library before it can be shared using the new method?

tt2

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