I'm not sure how to upload my pictures from my computer onto apple TV so my photos show up on the screen saver.
You need to use Photo Stream either from a iPhoto or iOS device. Your post suggest none of these. Please tell us what devices you have and what generation Apple TV so we may better assist you.
I have the new apple TV & an airmac. I did see the photo stream icon, do I just go onto that & choose pictures that I want uploaded onto the screen saver? I'm pretty sure all my pictures from my iphone are uploaded onto my computer. I just want to be able to pick which photos I want to see on the aplle tv.
Select the photos you want and drop them in the Photo Stream folder in iPhoto. On the Apple TV go Setting>Screen Saver>Choose Photos>Photo Stream.
Okay thanks for your help 🙂
No problem. Did all go well?
I'm not at home so I'll have to try it later - I'll keep you posted!
We're up & running, thanks so much! Quick question, how do I delete a picture I added to my photo stream folder?
I'm glad to hear you got it all worked out. As to your follow up question about deleting photos from Photo Stream there is a lot to it so I'm going to link you to the support page on the subject. Best of luck.
I think I actually figured it out, I just dragged the picture from the photo stream into the trash, hopefully that was okay. I'll check out the link though & again thanks so much for your help!
Your very welcome. From my understanding of Photo Stream once the photos are uploaded to iCloud they stay there for 30 days so they may still appear on you Apple TV even if you remove them for the Photo Stream folder. I'm not 100% on that one.
Okay, thanks - I'll keep that in mind if they're still showing up on the apple TV 🙂
So now I'm having another issue. For some reason my itunes music is no longer on my apple TV. I'm trying to load my music on it again but it just keeps spiining and saying "loading Tina Fox's library" but nothing is happening.
Here's a few things I would try.
Restart iTunes by quitting the application, iTunes > Quit.
Restart the Apple TV, Setttings > General > Restart.
Restart you Mac, Apple menu > Restart.
Just to note, iTunes needs to be running on your computer to stream its contents.
The problem with Photostream is that it's transient.
If your photos are in your computer in iPhoto, then go to iTunes>Advanced>Choose Photos to Share and select those events you want to dispplay and they'll copy to AppleTV when the computer is on.
Note AppleTV does not permanently store them so powering off/restarts, using it for other things may delete some of the photos on the unit (but not from iPhoto).
AC
Thank you. I didn't know that my computer needs to be on in order for the music & photos to be on my apple TV.
how do I upload pictures from my computer onto my apple TV?
