Since IOS 18 on iPhone, Apple TV remote constantly open on my Home Screen

Same here, can only get read of it by restarting my phone. Keeps getting back though.

Same here. Have to restart my Phone to get rid of it for a couple of hours.

I’m having this same issue after updating to iOS 18.

I used to be able to fix this by opening the “Control Other Speakers & TVs” section from the Control Center, and selecting my iPhone. However now the only way I can get it to go away is by restarting my phone. Which works, but obviously this is annoyingly inconvenient and not the expected behavior. Definitely seems like a bug to me.

Same for me. Can‘t use the remote because it won‘t connect. Also, it keeps showing up on my home screen, even when I close the remote app and/or shut down my Apple TV. Only solution is a device restart.

Also experiencing this. Here are some more details nobody else has yet mentioned:

1. My wife’s iPhone (iPhone 14) doesn’t have the problem—maybe unique to Pro and Pro Max?
2. The problem persisted for me across 2 iPhones—my former iPhone 15 Pro Max and my new iPhone 16 Pro Max—both of them 1TB variants
3. The issue seems to manifest after restarts again after I’ve opened the remote app, successfully used it, and then locked the screen.
4. The device selector at the top of the remote app cannot be interacted with as soon as the bug manifests.

Will be experimenting to find other ways to resolve it—hopefully permanently.

Will post back here if I learn anything new.

I found a solution to this (that worked for me). Here’s what I did to get rid of the issue.

1. Unpair the remote app in Apple TV settings.
2. Open spotlight search, type “Remote” sans quotes.
3. long press on the second of two nearly identical (but not exactly identical) app icons returned with the same name, and select “delete” (the one you don’t want to delete will actually not have a delete option. If you’re using dark mode then the icon will have an off-white background.
4. Hard restart your iPhone (tap and release up-volume, tap and release down-volume, hold down the side button until you see the Apple logo pop up a second time, letting go when you see it).

After doing that I’ve not had the issue reemerge (so far so good after ~4 different sessions over the last 18 hours or so).

Hope this works for you all too. Cheers!!!

Thanks. Forgive what may be a dumb question on my part, but have you tried restarting your iPhone?

I have the same issue and found that restarting phone seems to resolve this. I’m sure if enough people report, Apple will get on an update.

Same here, restarting only works temporary. Hope it will get fixed soon, its rather annoying.

Same issue here! Please fix this 🙃

Can you post a screen shot of what you're seeing?

I have been experiencing the same thing. So far with no success. Thankfully I have an old iPhone that has an older os.

Thanks believe it or not, this advice worked... thanks!