photos on apple tv

I don't have a Apple TV so I can't give you a definitive answer. However, afaik it uses the same substructure as Photosharing and the Media browser. Many folks have found that Photos is not available there without a re-start, and other folks have found that it needs several hours to become available. But it does not work if iCloud Library is enabled.

Other than that:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Is the route to the Developers for your thoughts.

It can be switched back on from iTunes. With iTunes open got to File > Home sharing and make sure Home Sharing is on using the same apple id on your mac and apple TV.

From the same Home Sharing menu in iTunes select > Choose Photos To share With Apple TV. Check the box to Share photos from the photos app and then select if you want to share all or only some of your albums to apple TV.

Hope that helps.

In iTunes when I select "File > Home Sharing > Choose Photos to Share with Apple TV", all I see is a spinning clock symbol. I never see any choices for which photos to share. Is there some other setting that is required to see photos from the Photos library on my Apple TV?

I've not had that problem. When I select "Choose photos to share with apple TV" This screen opens:

Ticking "Share photos from" allows me to select either "iPhoto" or "Photos"

It sounds obvious but have you tried signing out of Home Sharing on all your devices, making sure all the updates are done and then signing back into Home Sharing?

I turned off Home Sharing on my Mac, the Apple TV, and my iPhone. Then I tunred it back on on the Mac and Apple TV. I still have the same problem. When I select Choose Photos to Share with Apple TV, all I see is a spinning clock symbol. No choices ever show up.

I suggest yu try the Apple TV forum as this is not really an iPhoto question - it is an Apple TV question

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I think it's actually an iTunes question. I already tried that forum.

It feels like it is more iTunes related than appleTV. It could also be related to the wifi/router...... are the rest of home sharing features working properly??

The Apple TV can access the Music and Podcasts on my Mac with no problems, so Home Sharing is working. I even tried using Airplay to see if I could display my iPhone screen on the Apple TV, and that works also. The problem is that the menu option in iTunes to select which photos to share with the Apple TV can't identify either my Photos library or my iPhoto library. It's weird (and annoying).

This worked for me! You just need to restart the Apple TV for the photos option to show up after this settings change. Thanks Nonicknamesleft!

Did not work for me. iTunes still can't see Photos library.

Hi,

I also have this problem. In Itunes it does not allow me to select the library on photos. This is only since the migration from iphotos to phots. When choosing the directory to share with apple tv, the new path is greyed out and cannot be selected?

Any suggestions?

Have you solved this problem. I have the same problem and no solution.

I started this thread and forgot to add a post about what eventually solved the problem. The problem was solved when I upgraded from OS 10.10.3 to OS 10.10.4. I don't know what was causing the problem in the first place.

I too have noticed that a bunch of my photos aren't available on my Apple TV 2 after the Photos upgrade. Original poster didn't which Apple TV he had though. I'm running OS 10.10.5 and whatever the highest available OS is for my Apple TV, OS 6 I think.

Back in iPhoto when I would import a bunch of stuff it would break the images into days or Events. I would just use the events as albums and view them on Apple TV just fine. With my current setup, I just realized that it's not showing the old iPhoto events. I went to iTunes (12.2.2.25) to see what my sharing setup was. Behold, there is no mention of Events or Faces (see image).

Any ideas why I can't see the Events option or see them on an Apple TV?