Now that the remote app is in control centre it loses connection to tv every time your phone screen goes to sleep and there is no way to reconnect but to close and reopen control centre to reconnect……. Terrible update please fix

The update is a disgrace. Why must Apple

take something that is working well, TV Remote, and make it unworkable? Apple TV in Control Center is an unmitigated fail. It doesn’t work. It’s not as easy to access. It fails constantly. Why are you breaking something that doesn’t need fixing? 😡

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If you want to tell Apple something, you might want to actually tell them where they'll see it. Which isn't here. You were told that when you agreed to the terms of service for these forums. Use one of the Feedback links on the https://www.apple.com/contact/ page.

The control panel remote on all of my devices remembers the last Apple TV I controlled with it, every time, as long as it can find it by its advertised network name. Apple products use Bonjour (multicast DNS) to advertise their name and available services on the network. If anything on your network interferes with multicast UDP packets, it can wreak havoc with Bonjour. I've found that many routers mess up multicast DNS.

Turning off Bluetooth also hinders your device's ability to connect to a nearby Apple TV.

edclange wrote:

If you want to tell Apple something, you might want to actually tell them where they'll see it. Which isn't here. You were told that when you agreed to the terms of service for these forums. Use one of the Feedback links on the https://www.apple.com/contact/ page.

Here is the link to the Feedback page:

Product Feedback - Apple

You can use Shortcuts to create an icon and/or widget that opens the Remote and connects it to a specific Apple TV.

When I access the remote from Control Center, it always connects to the last device I used.

So I now have to do extra work and create a shortcut or widget so that a basic function that was included in the app works properly on the new remote? Cool, makes total sense…

Also they removed the Siri function so another fail there.

I too am having this issue. I’ve tried on both my phone, my iPad and my wife’s iPad. The only device that maintains connection consistently appears to be the first one that we used. Is this an explanation?

Very frustrating.

This is the worst update ever everything has moved for no reason. The Apple tv remote doesn’t control the apple tv anymore and can only press “enter”.

@apple PLEASE FIX ASAP. AND STOP MAKING US UPDATE FOR NO REASONS AND MAKING OUR PHONES DYSFUNCTIONAL

For family members not able to connect problem, you can simply added them as an user in Apple TV settings. It resolved the issue in our home. I have captured the fix in my blog.

(Not sure it is okay to share them here. Moderators can remove them if needed. thanks)

https://raptor.in/2021/12/06/apple-tv-remote-connectivity-issue-it-stopped-working-after-ios-15-1-update-for-family-members/

Apple - Start testing your updates properly. Every single update breaks something else. I don’t WANT to go to Control Center to control my Apple TV. It’s another step. And it forced me to go there because you also killed the app! So I’m now back to using the Apple TV remote like I did THREE YEARS ago! Fix it!!!!

It would be fine if the remote app stayed active. Why the H does the phone have to go to sleep when using the Remote app. No reason for sleep. Change the code to keep the remote active or allow user to set that feature

Apple does not actively monitor these forums.

In order to "fix" it, it would need to be a widespread problem. The control center remote in my devices always immediately reconnects to the last Apple TV I controlled, every single time. It has worked perfectly for me since the first iOS release that moved it to the control center. I suspect that this is the case for the vast majority of users.

A router or switch that messes with multicast LAN packets, specifically Multicast DNS, can break the service discovery protocol that makes it work. A lot of home WiFi routers get multicast wrong.

Same issue for me on all devices. Two silly work arounds....1) Turn on airplane mode for about 10 seconds, then off. Leave bluetooth on. Or 2) go to settings/Display and Brightness/Auto-Lock /Set to "Never".

Apple released a feature called wireless privacy, turning off this feature seems to fix this issue. Likely that Apple will need to make an adjustment to the remote app or appletv networking for compatibility.

Apple has dropped the ball on this. They recently botched the Siri functionality within remote. When you first initiate, the microphone icon hovers in the upper right corner, indicating the lock button is now responsible for this function. When the lock button is pressed, the phone locks. Long hold and the remote screen closes, going to system Siri. Why mess with something that worked before? How did this iteration even survive development?