AppleTV Home Sharing Music from Mac Shuts Off Due To Sleep After Setting
Apparently streaming music from your Mac to AppleTV via Home Sharing isn't considered an activity because the Sleep After setting shuts the Apple TV off in the middle of streaming music. It didn't used to do this, it started a few update ago (tvOS 16?) and has been this way for almost a year now. We discovered it last Thanksgiving when I was trying to stream music during dinner and it kept shutting off. This doesn't happen when streaming movies via Home Sharing, just music. If Sleep After is set to 15 min, the AppleTV shuts off after 15 min of music. If set to 5 min it shuts off after 5 min of music. If set to 1 hour, it shuts off after 1 hour. If you stream music to your AppleTV regularly the only workaround is to set it to Sleep Never, but that is not an acceptable solution. It also turns on the screen saver during music even though I have that turned off too. I am not sure why Apple hasn't noticed or fixed this issue, I have seen other reports of it too. With every tvOS update I test to see if it is fixed and as of today, it is still a bug. A very irritating bug.
Apple TV 4K, tvOS 18