Home Sharing Removal from Apple TV

Thanks for posting in the Apple Support Communities tritonm_,

We understand you have questions about Home Sharing. The feature remains available, including for Apple TV. Check out the "Use Home Sharing on your Apple TV" section of the following page for more info: Use Home Sharing to share media from a computer to other devices

As mentioned there, the option will appear on Apple TV, when you're signed in with the same Apple ID as the computer and connected to the same Wi-Fi Network, so be sure to review those settings.

Should you need further assistance, contact Apple Support.

Cheers!

See Use Home Sharing to share media from a computer to other devices - Apple Support. The computers app is still present in tvOS 15.

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I solved it. Unlike the instructions that say use the MUSIC app - don't.

Use the TV app instead.

It also doesn't tell you that you how to add external files into your library. While the process does not reveal the "my library" drop down shown by Apple above - it does fix it.

While there still seems to be no Home Sharing folder - I was able to drag (location pointer copy only) the files at their locations from my external drive into the "TV" app right hand side window. A dialog appears "copying" the files. The default sees everything as "Home Video" but select all/option allows changing of everything to Movie (in my case) - With Home sharing on now I can again see everything on the Apple TV 4 Computers App. (It's no longer inactive)

Thanks for elaborating tritonm_,

If you're looking for a feature that was available previously, or additional functionality, we recommend providing feedback to Apple. You can do use using the following link: Apple - Product Feedback

Cheers!

I thought it was a MacOS problem - but you're saying the AppleTV OS also eliminated Home Sharing? The "Computers" app on the AppleTV4 seems to be dead.

With iTunes in OS X gone, I'm trying to figure out how to restore the Home Sharing Folder - is it in the Music or TV program in Catalina - or something else? Home Sharing video files used to be available to link to in iTunes and viewable on Apple TV computers/library/localmedia.

My personal media movie/video library is on EXTERNAL HDD (important to note) - the files were never copied to my internal - only linked without copying as they are roughly 4TB of data. We used to be able to just drag link-only-copy from the external and have them show up in iTunes - but this feature is either gone - or hidden. I can not copy them to my 1TB boot SSD. Too much data!!

Can anyone explain the solution to link external video files to play in the new "improved" OS X and across my home sharing network??

I never said the TVOS/Computers app was missing... It currently does nothing however.

As far as OS X Home Sharing - with SystemPrefs/Sharing/MediaSharing OK and HomeSharing ON... Whilst signed in to the account.

There is no My Library, no Home Sharing, No Username Library in the Music Program - no Media Library or Eject either.. Only the following -