Screen saver broke

Please report this behavior as something to be fixed for an upcoming update.

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I have the same problem. But I believe tvOS15 as a flaw in it's programing. Until Apple comes up with a fix I believe I have found a way around this problem. Set up your music to play as you always do. Make sure all the boxes are checked. Start your music. Leave your music playing, return Apple TV to the home page. Your pictures should start after what ever you set for a time delay.

same thing happens on my Apple TV 4K. Just updated the TV iOS, and guess what,, it still doesn’t work. Have reported it for the 4th time. Getting a bit fed up having to go back to Home Screen and force the screen saver to come on.

I have also upgraded to TVOS 15.2 and confirm that it STILL doesn’t work. I have tried different photo albums, Ariel and different styles but NOTHING WORKS. How can Apple not successfully implement something as simple as a Screensaver, especially when it worked perfectly under TVOS 14?

I have just spoken to someone in Apple Support who has tried to be helpful by finding out whether it is a known issue or not and any associated resolution plan. However what he tells me is that a change has been made in TVOS 15 such that the only screen saver that will be displayed while music is playing is the album art, not any photos. He wasn’t able to answer my point that this effectively makes the setup options for screensaver in the user interface pointless - though he did say that he understood my point. So, the bottom line is that it’s not a fault, it’s doing what TVOS 15 is supposed to do. He is going to feedback internally re the frustration that customers will feel about this. We can raise enhancement / development requests to reintroduce what we used to have.

Hello everybody. Just to clarify the position. Reporting it as a bug will probably be ignored because they are saying that it’s working as TVOS is now supposed to. Unless after my rant at someone today and that person’s internal feedback sparks a change of mind at some point, then our best way to potentially get the functionality back is to raise an enhancement request, not a big report. Hope that helps.

I have a similar problem, screen saver no longer works automatically for anything. Sleep mode does not work automatically either.

Yes that does seem to work, thanks. Unfortunately it’s another example of something that worked before an upgrade that doesn’t afterwards.

Have done, but the real point is that it worked fine before TVOS15 update and the it didn’t after the update. One of the great frustrations of being an Apple Customer.

and/or when you get to the home screen just hit the back arrow on the remote, and it'll kick into screensaver immediately.

After updating to TVOS 15.2 this doesn’t now seem to work for me. After the allotted time it just reverts back to the Apple Music app.

See my update today. They say there is nothing to be fixed, it’s meant not to work with music now.

Just makes it more annoying now. Saying that it’s not supposed to show the screen saver during music playback, but yet the option to have it is still in settings. Hopefully Apple will sort it.