Apple TV 4K Screensaver causes media to start

Ever since the update yesterday to tvOS 18.0 I’m having an issue with YouTube. I’ll pause a video and do something for a bit, and then when the Apple TV screensaver starts after the 5 mins I have it set to, my video will be unpaused and start to play. The screensaver remains on the screen, but the video will play in the background and I’ll hear the audio from it playing. I haven’t checked this on other apps, but it’s very annoying, I’ll leave the room while a video is paused, come back, and it will be finished. Is anyone else experiencing this issue since the latest update?

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Posted on Sep 27, 2024 4:10 PM

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Posted on Nov 4, 2024 4:29 PM

Fixed!!


After updating to iOS 18.1, I opened the App Store, which triggered a YouTube update and this problem is resolved.


For some reason YouTube was not updating until the “What’s New” screen was cleared in the App Store.

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Oct 22, 2024 2:01 PM in response to visi0nize

Same in here !

YouTube application is working in a completely erratic way, I sometimes have to launch one, two, three times a video before it actually may work, otherwise I have a black screen and only sound or It’s just trying to adjust the format so black screen then first image of the video then black screen again and so on and on until I eventually succeed to launch, the video and if I haven’t been kicked out in the middle of the process from the app, finding myself on the login screen, I don’t think it’s strictly Dolby Vision related as my TV (a recent 4K Phillips ambilight model that doesn’t support it 🫤) though it’s supporting 4K HDR10 and could even support HDR10+ if I had the Apple TV 4K third edition but sadly only have the second.

Also quite often it’s not starting at the beginning of the video as if I already had watched a portion the video before which I’m sure I have not ! Then, last, but not least it also systematically unpause the video when the screensaver starts, videos not showing up in the history which is even more upsetting if the bugs pushes me to switch on the iPad or iPhone/screen mirroring to try to get a better experience !

It’s a lot of bugs, especially considering it seems that we, the paying subscribers, are apparently more touched by these bugs !!! (or maybe we have a paying subscription because we are heavier users)

I don’t know if it’s that YT responsibility or iOS, I would guess a mix of the two but anyway YouTube and Apple have to make a quick fix this situation as it’s completely insane how many bugs appeared since the new updates.

Thank you for those reading me.

Oct 23, 2024 12:35 PM in response to visi0nize

Having the same, funny thing is I first faced this before i even update to 18. And I confirm this is not only for youtube, also noticed while playing video, it randomly press play button twice and cause video to stop and continue quickly. So it’s like commander randomly press play button itself… I tried all the solutions above and nothing worked for me. I guess we all will wait

Sep 29, 2024 2:52 PM in response to visi0nize

This is happening with the YouTube App, I don’t subscribe to YouTube TV. I’m also noticing that I will play a video I have never watched before, and rather than starting from the beginning, it will start from somewhere in the middle or near the end. And on top of all that, the app has been crashing and kicking me

out a lot. I use YouTube more than any other app, I really hope Apple fixes this soon.

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