pairing Samsung tv remote to Apple TV box

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I found a resolution for this issue. Apparently the device can unregister itself without notice and needs to be re-registered. Here is a link to the Samsung page where you find instructions on how to re-register the remote. Once I did this, my remote worked with the Apple TV again. Finally. Hope this helps those having issues with using a Samsung remote with your Apple TV.

https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00089902/

Has anyone found a resolution for this yet? I am having the same issue. My Samsung TV Remote worked great with my Apple TV until 2 days ago. Nothing changed, it just quit working. I changed batteries, tried to repair, but nothing works.

This worked 100%, hit the link and follow instructions on your tv, it works

lesaseibert,

You, my friend, are a GENIUS!

I've been dealing with this problem for the past month or so, and finally decide TODAY to check the forums for possible solutions, and what do I find? You posting a solution to this extremely frustrating problem just YESTERDAY.

I cannot thank you enough! Cheers!

I couldn't get it connected at all and this worked for me, maybe it was a new setting on the tv. Under the tv settings go to Connection-->External Device Manager-->Input Signal Plus-->Turn off whatever HDMI port your Apple TV is connected to.

Regrettably this solution did not work for me. Called Samsung, and the guy told me my (brand New) TV would not work with the AppleTV box - despite it working bofore. This seems like call-centre BS, because it already worked for a bit. How to solve this???

I have a solution that worked for me after MANY hours of struggle. You have to reset your Apple TV entirely, back to factory settings. Then when you first connect via HDMI to Samsung, you have to try not to set it up. Just connect it and it will hopefully recognize and work. I do have HDMI CEC active and input signal plus selected for the port but not sure if that makes a difference. The real difference was working on the Apple TV device and leaving Samsung alone. Resetting does make you have to log in to all your apps again, but to get the Samsung remote to work with ATV was worth it. Good luck!

FOUND THE SOLUTION ON HOW TO PAIR TV REMOTE TO APPLE TV:

on the Apple TV go to settings:

click on remotes, click learn remote, follow steps it asks with tv remote you want to pair, name the remote, then it’s finished and paired.

I’ve been searching for this because sometimes my tv will automatically pair my samsung tv remote where I can use it in place of my Apple TV remote and sometimes when my Apple TV gets unplugged and plugged back in, the tv remotes stops working as an Apple TV remote. No forums I googled sound an answer and the link provided in this solution didn’t help either however I searched this on YouTube and was able to fix the issue. I’ll also link the YouTube video that fixed it:

https://youtu.be/CL6zXybAXKY?si=rs-_S6qmyY4G6vEk

hope that will help others as well ☺️

Did you ever find a solution for this??? I have the exact same issue.

None of this worked for me. Obviously Apple is once again making it impossible to exist outside of their universe.

I found a resolution for this issue. Apparently the device can unregister itself without notice and needs to be re-registered. Here is a link to the Samsung page where you find instructions on how to re-register the remote. Once I did this, my remote worked with the Apple TV again. Finally. Hope this helps those having issues with using a Samsung remote with your Apple TV.

https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00089902/

Here you go.

I found a resolution for this issue. Apparently, the device can unregister itself without notice and needs to be re-registered. Here is a link to the Samsung page where you find instructions on how to re-register the remote. Once I did this, my remote worked with the Apple TV again. Finally. Hope this helps those having issues with using a Samsung remote with your Apple TV.

https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00089902/

Unfortunately this fix didn’t work for me. I got up to the part where it asks if the test turns my Apple TV on or off but it didn’t. I tried it 20 times. I even tried looking up my Apple model # on the next screen but it wouldn’t come up. Any other ideas?

Had the same issue, but these solutions didn’t work here. The fix for me was simply unplugging the HDMI from the tv, plugging it back in and letting the TV register the device once again. My remote instantly worked. Hope this helps anybody.

I had the same issue. For some reason my samsung universal remote stopped working on my apple tv 4k.

I just simply RESTARTED the apple tv then after that, the samsung universal remote did work again.

I hope this is helpful if you encounter the same issue and get really frustrated.