MLB TV app does not work on Apple Tv

Thanks for that! That work-around worked for me too. I just spent an hour with MLBTV tech support trying various things with to no avail. They’re going to escalate and get back with me in 24 hours. I’ll let them know about your discovery. Thanks again!

Same set up. Same problem. Wish I had found this thread after spending hours working on this myself and then with mlb.tv phone support. Tried everything including full Apple TV reset. Many hours of failed troubleshooting. Ugh. Ultimately I just canceled my subscription and requested a refund. MLB didn't seem very interested in getting it working for me. Oh well.

Now that I see the solution in this thread, it makes complete sense. The audio routing to my HomePod makes complete sense as the culprit. MLB is so nuts about people stealing their content (no Airplay support); you can't even plug an iPad Pro directly to a TV with an HDMI cable to watch. They block that in the MLB app too. That's a bit over the top if you ask me.

Too much hassle. Bye bye MLB.

First, ensure the Apple TV is up to date. Then you can try force quitting the app as well as deleting/reinstalling. If the issue persists then you will need to reach out to MLB so they can investigate.

Oh wow. I filed a bug report on the exact same issue with MLB and they called me last week. They kept trying to get me to factory reset my Apple TV. I stated in no uncertain terms, multiple times that I would not be doing that. Now I know what the culprit was. This is utterly ridiculous.

I’ve had zero issues with every other app. MLB is the only one with a problem. Their coders suck. I’ve had numerous problems with MLB.tv across multiple platforms. Also, every time I try to listen to an MLB radio feed using CarPlay, the stupid app makes me sign in again even though I’m already signed in. Thanks for making me pull over to sign in again just so I can listen to the radio.

1.5 hours on the MLB support line. Unplugged and replugged logged out and logged in. Problem is still there. HomePod fix??? There’s no way in **** that I am going too constantly change my HomePod speaker settings every time I want to watch a game. Netflix, Prime, YouTube, AppleTV, Disney apps all work fine. Except for MLB. So yup ba bye... fix your ****!

Thanks. As someone posted below, if you have your HomePod speakers connected switch to your TV speakers and the issue resolves itself per se and you can live stream the game—although sans HomePod audio.

Actually you get the sound on your HomePod, if you are willing. You just have to start a game with the TV speakers. Once the game is launched do a quick switch over to the Setting app (double click the Home button on your AppleTV remote), switch audio to the HomePod, swipe back over to the MLB app and the game will resume with audio running through your HomePod(s)!

So glad I found this thread!

The workaround doesn’t always work for me. Best of all, I switched to using MLB on my Roku and the Roku MLB app thought it was a different day. Whoever is doing the coding for MLB needs to be fired. The apps are a hot mess across multiple platforms.

I JUST discovered the same thing. If i use TV speakers then mlb tv works on  tv... but if I use homepods as the speakers then MLB TV doesn't work on  tv. Has this been fixed yet? What a weird connection. I was at my wit's end with the mlb tv which did NOT work on my smart tv (not supported on LG for last few years). I have an 84" tv and had to watch my team on my phone!

You saved my sanity. Now though question. How did you switch back to homepods. I have tv 4K. With two original homepods paired. MLB app is only streaming service I have issues with. Since you can’t swipe down in mlb app I had to exit it to go to settings.

work around?

Well I’m going to reply to my own question. Suddenly it occurred to me that I can go on home app from iPad and change output. It worked but geeeeeeeez what a pain……going back and watching scoring innings in a game all fine but go to next game I want to watch……..repeat all over…….sometimes I just want to yell &)**)+&!@*!*^?!£+*$*^?+^?.

You can also double click on the Home button on the AppleTV remote to bring up the swivel of apps currently running on the ATV. Swipe to get to settings to change the output of audio, double click again to swipe back to MLB app and resume watching game!

So they just updated the MLB Tv app and everything was fine. Now my issue is when I click on live stream of game it says unable to verify access. All my other apple devices work fine. Have tried restarting apple tv, deleting app and I reset apple tv and still get the same message unable to verify access. I can watch games that have finished or recap games but no live streaming. Does anyone have suggestions on what else I could be missing? Sucks!!!