You can make a difference in the Apple Support Community!

When you sign up with your Apple Account, you can provide valuable feedback to other community members by upvoting helpful replies and User Tips.

Looks like no one’s replied in a while. To start the conversation again, simply ask a new question.

Apple TV photo screensaver not showing all photos in tvOS 16

We have our Apple TV’s screensaver set up to randomly display pictures from my iCloud Photo Library (specially the favourites album). This album currently has 1,350 photos but is always increasing as we do stuff.


We love this feature as the TV is then a digital photo album of great memories.


However since upgrading to the latest tvOS we have noticed that it is now only randomly displaying the oldest 125 or so photos from this album.


I tried restarting the Apple TV with no success so I then tried signing in and out of iCloud (no success) and then finally tried reseting the Apple TV and starting again however it is still not working as it did.


Oddly enough when I reset the Apple TV it initially started displaying more recent pictures but then went back to the same bug of only displaying the oldest 125 or so.


I’m imagining it is some caching issue.


Has anyone else come across this issue?

Apple TV 4K, tvOS 16

Posted on Oct 3, 2022 6:24 AM

Reply
Question marked as Top-ranking reply

Posted on Oct 5, 2022 11:00 PM

Same here, feature worked flawlessly for over a year. Then after upgrading to TVOS16 I only see pictures of the eighties!


So the screensaver really limits itself to a small number of oldest “favorites”.


Please fix this bug… as said, this feature was an awesome “set and forget” way to see all your favorite shots / memories pass by.

Similar questions

65 replies
Sort By: 

Apple TV photo screensaver not showing all photos in tvOS 16

Welcome to Apple Support Community
A forum where Apple customers help each other with their products. Get started with your Apple Account.