Remove Apple TV ‘now playing’ control panel shown on lock screen. iPhone 14 pro max

Open "Control Center" by swiping from top right. Press and hold "Now Playing" widget, click bottom "Control Other Speakers & TVs" Click the top "iPhone Not Playing". Exit and it should be gone from your Lock Screen now.

Exactly - This is the real issue. My phone displays what my kids are listening to in their room or what my wife is watching on TV while I'm working in my office. It's driving me insane! I've never hated anything more about Apple than something like this that takes over everyone's phones.

This is a huge violation of privacy. Any app can bypass all settings and configurations by placing content into the dynamic island. Without a way of restricting this content, I am seriously thinking of switching back to Android. The violation of my right to decide what content is on my screen, is egregious and unacceptable.

It is the most annoying sync. I hate that it automatically connects to my Apple TV volume. So if I am browsing videos on my phone and raise the volume, it raises the TV. Arrrrrggggg.....so annoying.

Open Control Center, expand the Now Playing widget and click “control other speakers and TVs” at the bottom. There is an option to select your iPhone which releases control of the AppleTV. That will remove the widget.

Correct , this doesn't work for me. I should have mentioned I have my apple home pod mini as the speaker source for my Apple TV. I never had this issue before until this new iPhone 15pro or maybe the iOS? when the Apple TV and accompanying, home pod is playing as the speaker for said Apple tv it shows on my iPhone, on Locked Screen, I DO NOT WANT that.

help anyone?

george.zed wrote:

For anyone interested I contacted Apple support and after being sent to level two, I was told this is how it's designed, and iOS 17 will be fixing it.

The “architect” that designed it in such way must live alone or under a rock.

Once again… it shouldn’t be that complicated to dismiss such feature with a toggle control under settings unless the implementation is a mess….

Anyways…

thx. Never is already set .still the same sorry but doesn't work

on my iPhone it shows what is playing from one of my apple tv's in another room.

I don't want to see this .

Either this or turning Bluetooth off on your iPhone… which again is not a solution.

As a software engineer I can’t believe how quality control has diminished over the years.

This is just one of many many many examples of how the quality of iOS has deteriorated over the last few years.

If I’m in another room on Instagram on my phone and I try to turn up the volume on my iPhone, the TV in the living room starts blaring. It’s the most useless and annoying feature ever.

you should only be able to control TV volume if you actively select it or are in the remote app.

how many times have we had Major releases of iOS with very few new features as they were intended as “quality and bug fix releases”, yet here we are on 17 and it’s even worse.

another infuriating example - disconnecting from CarPlay and the Music widget is still on my Lock Screen even though the music app isn’t open. Only way to dismiss it is to unlock phone, open music, swipe up and close music. It’s insane.

iOS needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.

I think they have added an option to dismiss this. Settings > General > Air drop & Handoff > Automatically AirPlay

Select “Never”

If there was a control panel shown before applying this setting, just change the device under “Control Other Speakers & TV’s”.

From now on, you shouldn’t see what’s playing on your Apple TV

On 17.1.1 and this isn’t fixed. Come on Apple!

Paulette, the issue started for me immediately after setting up new Homepod paired speakers for my Apple TV. Good times.

Swipe to remove works, but it come right back the next time the Lock Screen shows