iOS 16 pasting to Apple TV
Since updating my iPhone to iOS 16 I am no longer able to paste text from my phone to Apple TV. Is this a known error? Is there a fix?
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This is still an ongoing problem. I dont have any evidence to suggest it is (or is not) iOS 16 related, however.
Undesired behavior:
Pasting into the keyboard input on iOS (via prompt on iOS from ATV) does not appear as input in the ATV’s text input field.
Expected behavior:
The text field on the ATV should populate with the characters of the content that was pasted into the keyboard prompt on the networked iOS device.
Extra observations:
- The pasted text does appear in the iOS field, but not in the ATV field.
- Manually typed characters do populate in both.
- Typing then pasting populates only the typed characters on the ATV while showing both on the iOS. This behavior is consistent with all sorts of cut/pasting/typing combinations including emojis or other languages.
- Device-to-device pasting works as expected (iOS-MBP, iOS-iPad). Albeit, slower than I recall.
- Doesn’t seem to be network related. Rather, it appears as if the pasted characters aren’t being registered as keystrokes by the iOS interface and therefore not sent to the ATV.
Hardware:
iPhone 13 (iOS 16.0) and A1842 Apple TV 4K (tvOS 15.6). ATV is connected to both Ethernet and Wi-Fi, though this issue does not appear to be network related.
Attempts to resolve:
❌ Restarted both devices
❌ Changed length of paste (1, 20, 50)
❌ Changed type of paste (plaintext, emoji, rich text, etc.)
❌ Changed the app that launched the keyboard (on ATV)
❌ Updated ATV to tvOS 16.0
❌ Disconnected iPhone as connected remote/device from ATV settings
⚠️ The feature behaves as expected when using MTFN2LL iPad Pro (iPadOS 15.6.1). Fully functional pastes.
⚠️ Expected behavior still occurs with iPad even after updating to iPadOS 15.7.
The evidence now suggests it is iOS related.
others have pre ios16 reported the issue
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Please report this bug to Apple, to help prioritize a fix for this.
Feedback - iPhone - Apple (as it seems to be an iOS 16 issue).
Looks like similar issues others have had upon updating their iOS at various times in the past. Mine has only started now. There doesn’t appear to be any solution for anyone. I was hoping a bug fix would be issued soon but it seems less likely now that isn’t exclusively an iOS 16 issue.
Since updating my iPhone to iOS 16 I am no longer able to paste text/ url links from my phone to Apple TV by my iPhone remote. which is pretty annoying , it makes me to manually type the words, than easily select, copy & paste the content from my iPhone's safari to my Apple TV ! Is this a known error? Is there a fix? it has been a useful feature , hope apple can fix it asap .
the last entry in the first link sort of sound like he may have found a fix
Please read the reply above your post. This hasn’t changed yet in the last month.
iOS 16 pasting to Apple TV