Is it possible to hide "top movies" on Apple TV

This is a must have for Apple TV's especially when they are used in schools! Apple PLEASE give this option to hide the top icons "Movies, TV Show, Music and Radio!

Having these items show is an issue in schools!

Settings > General > Restrictions > Purchases & Rentals > off, will do the job

Turning the Purchases & Rentals off DOES NOT remove the music icon, it only removes the Movie and TV Show icons....not good enough for classroom settings since my purchased music shows up and I am a fan of Marylin Manson and metal bands and most covers are highly inappropriate. Only the second generation AppleTV remains perfect for classroom use (as well as being rock-solid: no crash, no loss of wifi...)

I think more than the ability to turn such things off they need to make the featured content respect any parental control settings.

Sex Tape (a comedy I believe) appears prominently in the top row on my AppleTVs this week.

I agree about things like American Horror Story - not kid friendly.

As another poster mentions some of my Marilyn Manson album covers might be a bit much.

The thing is it's not just Apple - Netflix have this issue, and the other day using an Amazon FireTv, looking at new content, right in the middle of some Barbie movies was a lady 'pleasuring' another scantily clad woman in the poster for a female prison sex romp movie - nearly fell off my sofa.

You may want some feedback:

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Laurent Seroude wrote:

....not good enough for classroom settings since my purchased music shows up and I am a fan of Marylin Manson and metal bands and most covers are highly inappropriate.

What do you need your personal library at school for, simply don't log into your iTunes account,

That's a good theory...however, I also teach in an elementary school. We just upgraded 20 of our apple tv's to the 4th gen. Great because airplay actually works now. Not great that there is no way to hide top movies or music. Your apple id has nothing to do with that and neither do the restrictions. I would rather not wait another 2 years for apple to fix this like they did the airplay problem in schools.

I was wrong! 😊 I just found a way to move the movie and music icons on the 4th gen.

Great! Thanks for sharing!

How? I need to know for my elementary classrooms. The process for my older Apple TVs doesn't work on the new 4th gen I set up yesterday...

It works like an iphone or ipad. You hold down the app you want to move until the icons toggle, then move it where you want it. I've put "search" as the first icon so it's basically a blank screen when you pull up your apple tv.

I would like to hide both the 'top' movies and music recommendations, for movies I would prefer to just see specific genres I am interested in, not recommendations based on what other people thinks is popular, why should I care? For music I just want to see what I own and have added to AppleMusic, and possibly again preferred genres, but certainly not a list of rubbish pop music that I'm currently seeing.

Just to be clear, we're talking about the banner at the top of the home screen (as in this picture: https://goo.gl/0g6lKw)?

Yes.

When you start ATV the top left icon is selected which is movies by default. For this icon the banner displays top picks.

As you select other apps, the banner changes - music like movies displays popular choices. Other apps display a static screen.

By moving the movie app out of the first row you eliminate it from being selected when the ATV starts and showing top picks.

Move all the apps you use to the first couple of rows and place something like settings or search in the left corner so you get a nice static screen on startup.

Read this: http://help.apple.com/appletv/#/atvbad14dc6a

Perfect. Thanks! Makes sense now.