When I try to Open a TV show or movie on Apple TV it closes instantly!

It's in the title. -_-

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jul 30, 2021 9:49 AM

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Urquhart1244

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Jul 30, 2021 10:14 AM in response to Mosnar23

Try these general Mac troubleshooting suggestions:

Shut down the Mac for a few minutes. Then start up again. Then try again.
Start up in ‘safe mode’. Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support. This would temporary disable third party startup items and a few other features, and clear certain caches, making sure that those have no influence.
Try to replicate in a different Mac user account. Set up users, guests, and groups on Mac - Apple Support. If it behaves differently for the other ‘user’, the the issue is confined to the user space, probably a Preference file.

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