Hi there -
I have ATV and had my iCloud photostream as my screensaver. For some reason, it isn't displaying any longer. All that shows is a blank screen when I try to preview or it starts. I've tried reloading/re-selecting my iCloud, logging out and in, and turned off the system multiple times. I don't see any new updates and can't figure out what's going on. Anyone know how to resolve this? Much appreciated...
Aslouie
AppleTV 2
Welcome to the Apple Community.
Do you see the iCloud photos in the photos feature.
If you change your screensaver to use another category, do the photos show in the screensaver.
Hi Winston -
I can see my photos in the iCloud photos feature, but when I select slideshow or screensaver, the spinning wheel and "loading" gets displayed with a black blank screen. After a couple minutes, it just goes black altogether (which is what I would guess is the screensaver kicking in on my selected 2-minute start time). Not really sure what's going on here...Thanks for your help.
Aslouie
Have you tried selecting another screensaver to see if it works? Then try switching back to use iCloud photos.
Yes, I tried using one of the defaults that came with the ATV and then went back and selected my iCloud photostream.
You might try resetting or restoring yoiur Apple TV.
I am a Mac Consultant - and I am seeing this happen on not only mine, but all of my clients AppleTv's - I have done restores - it then works for a while. But, just simply logging out of Icloud from Settings on AppleTv (not the store - but Icloud) Fixes the issue temporarily. Yet another Apple feature that is becoming sloppy and non-working in this new era of bug filled updates. Wish I could offer any better solutions to this maddening issue.
Had the same issue. The log out and back in to icloud worked. It's too bad, because the icloud screensavers are a nice feature.
I'm having the SAME annoying problem... is it a bug in APPLE TV??
Same problem here... ***! I've had this ATV3 sitting on a shelf for over a year and I finally decided to use it, and one of the main things I wanted it to do was display photos from our iCloud streams. It just won't work at all. I'll try the log out "fix" and see if it works for a while. But this is extremely disappointing.
Wow you can't even use the acronym of W T F in here? Jeez.
Anyway, I got it working. Turns out that there is a totally SEPARATE setting for iCloud Photos, that is shown under the iCloud menu option. After enabling iCloud Photos from there, my screensaver began actually displaying our photostreams.
This is easy to miss because it looks like everything you need is accessible right from the screensaver menu... after all it shows all your streams and how many photos are in each, right? But it wouldn't work until I did this extra step. Hope it helps someone!
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