New AppleTV+ app on SkyQ boxes is not working correctly....

I have sky Tv on a Sky Q box.

There is an app available called Apple TV+ on the Sky Q box.

I went in to the Apple TV+ app and agreed to signup.

It said to create an Apple ID – I went to the apple website and did so.

and  I set up the payment/billing information etc for apple TV+ on my apple id account.

(I do not have any mobile devices or a smartphone so used my windows PC).

I then went back to the Sky Qbox to load up the Apple TV+

app and was told to sign in via a mobile device or via https://activate.apple.com on my windows

PC.

The activate activate.apple sikte then said it needed the Itunes program on my computer in order to work… and gave me a link to download it – which I did and it installed happily using the apple id and password I had set up originally.

It then accepted the activate.apple info and told me I had two devices registered as able to access apple TV+ - my windows pc and my SkyQ box (showing/using the correct IP and MAC addresses).

However – now everytime I try and watch any program on the SkyQ box AppleTV+ app – it says that I have to activate my device again and log in again (on my PC) and gives me a new four character code to provide to activate.apple.com to allow it to pair with the SkyQbox.

Which is clearly insane and very annoying for a number of reasons – not least that I have to boot up my pc  - log in to the activate.apple.com – provide the “new” four character code and then get a phone call from apple giving me my 6 digit security code….

If this can’t be fixed then I might as well close my new Apple account…

I should mention that there are also apps on the Sky Q box for Netflix, Disney Plus, Amazon Prime, BBC I-player etc on the Sky Q box and they all work perfectly sanely – on first ever use one provides one’s security codes/passwords – some send a hardware link to pair the SkyQbox with one’s account – and that’s it – it’s fully set up and the apps can be loaded and used whenever one wants…  

(PS I also have a smart TV – and checked out the apple TV+ app on them and it seems to work in exactly the same way – ie it doesn’t seem able to remember that the AppleTV+ app has been activated and refuses to remember the hardware device…. meaning I have to "activate" my account via my windows PC every time I want to watch anything....)