No Siri-remote in Sweden?

It's really disappointing that in a lot of countries just a restricted version (without Siri) of the new ATV will be available. Especially if you live in Switzerland or Austria which are also German spoken countries like Germany! If that really will happen, then I will buy my ATV in Germany!

Other people who lives in an other "unsupported country" they should buy an ATV from a country where the Siri version is available and use it in English!

I have also no idea why Apple with Siri just support these 8 countries!

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rsb79 wrote:

I have also no idea why Apple with Siri just support these 8 countries!

It could be because Siri's voice recognition has to be fine tuned for each language (& dialect) to reliably understand spoken commands.

That makes no sense! Siri on iPhone is available in these countries since years. In Switzerland since day one and it works fine!

Please keep in mind that I have no special info about this -- it is only what I have gathered from watching the keynote & reading articles on the web -- but the way I understand it, this Siri is not quite the same as the Siri on iPhones.

For one thing, it does not rely on sending the captured voice sound to remote servers for processing. Everything is done locally in the ATV 4, which is why there is no lag like there is with an iPhone. For another, it is tweaked to recognize the natural language voice commands & phrases Apple believes will most commonly be used to control the ATV.

I suggest doing the same thing I am for several unanswered questions I have about the product, which is to keep browsing the third party web sites that cover Apple products to see what they will be discovering about it in the coming weeks, both before & after it is released.

A lot of you are missing the point of the original post here.

It is not just that Siri is unavailable for AppleTV in Sweden and many othher countries/languages, but that Apple is actually selling different hardware, which means that a software update cannot enable the functionality at a later date. You will have to buy new hardware should Siri ever be made available in these countries/languages.

This choice is mystifying, and extremely aggravating, and I for one would like a proper explanation from Apple as to why they chose to lock out even the possibility of one of the most heavily marketed features of the new product by going to the extra effort to actually change the hardware to permanently decrease functionality.

From where do you know that there is a different hardware? The remote looks the same, also with the microphone (Siri) button. It has just an other functionality in those countries. Because of that it just depends on the country you choose in the settings. We don't know how it really works but it seems to be too complex for Apple to produce different hardware for different countries. And if they would do this anyway, then the remote does not have that microphone button.

I ordered the new ATV yesterday from the Swiss Store and we will see how it works. But if there will not be a solution to run Siri (in German or English) then I will return the device!

Any update on this? Did you get your Swiss bought Apple TV to run Siri? If so, please confirm what you did. Thanks.

HI. I can not confirm by myself because Apple was not able to deliver the device on time! But there is a confirmation in a swiss forum that it works also with a swiss device if you change the country of the store to Germany or US. And there is also an other one from Japan who confirmed the same. So this is what i thought: The hardware is identical.

Yes, I live in Sweden and just got my Apple TV 4, remote is with a mic button so I really think the hardware is all the same for all countries.

However the Siri function is currently disabled (as for most countries except the 8 selected by Apple: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, the UK and the U.S)

I use Trickbyte with US DNS to get US content on Netflix and that still works fine but it does not work to trick Siri unfortunately...

So the two things that really annoys me with ATV4 right now is:

1. Siri still not working in Sweden (not even if you change store to US or UK)

2. Remote App (for iphone/ipad) not compatible yet with Apple TV 4 (need an extra remote for multi-player gaming on Asphalt!)

Other than that: Great product! When the above is fixed: Fantastic product!

Is there an option in the general settings of ATV4 to change the region format like in ATV3? Maybe changing the region to US or UK will allow Siri to work, can you try that?

I Just bought one this afternoon. I am living in Sydney, Australia however I could not turn on SIRI , after few attempts I realized that I was using my iTunes account in Hong Kong, and after switching back to Australia store, now I can turn Siri on.

What country did you buy youre APTV 4... !?

I'm from Denmark so I do to want the Siri function to work.

It doesn't matter where you buy the ATV. It's always the same hardware, confirmed by Apple its self.

" *Apple TV (4th generation) ships with the same remote everywhere. In countries and regions that support Siri, the remote is called Siri Remote. Elsewhere, it’s called Apple TV Remote. Siri works on either remote as long as your Apple TV (4th generation) is set up with a language and country that supports Siri."

Identify your Apple TV model - Apple Support