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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

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OccasionalFable

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Posted on Oct 8, 2022 11:26 AM

So this cured mine. I did this using my Mac laptop; I'm not sure how you do it if you don't have a Mac computer.

Switch on home sharing from your Mac (from preferences: sharing)
From photos on your Mac, add the photos you want to a new shared album (using the square with an arrow icon at the top)
From your TV, when choosing the screensaver, choose 'home sharing' instead of 'my photos'
Choose the shared album you want.

This now shows all my photos in random order, not just the first 125.

I'm sorry I don't know how to do this if you don't have a desktop/laptop Mac.

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