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Apple TV 4 - photo stream issueo

HI,


i have the latest and great Apple TV 4. Everything is working just perfect, with exception of photo stream. icloud connected, I can see my albums and some thumb nails of photos but but in my albums a lot of the images do not appear. I leave it for a while and slowly some start to appear but it's painfully slow despite high speed internet.


GIven the much larger hard drive and improvements to the system itself it seems inadequate and so slow to use, waiting for images to load, making it hopeless as a way to view photos. In fact it's the biggest disappointment of Apple TV overall.


I would be expect the very least it could download a cache the thumbnails of the images but it doesn't. It would be better if it actually downloaded all the photos in the background and like apple Watch you could allocate how much space you wanted photos to use up.


however, in its current state I just can't use photos which is bitterly disappointing.


Has anyone else noticed this poor experience?

Apple TV (4th generation), Other OS

Posted on Oct 30, 2015 2:40 PM

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Feb 3, 2016 12:38 AM in response to Obelix Apple

I do not use iCloud photo stream but have the same issue. I only use shared photo streams from other IOS devices (iphone and ipad) and also from photos.app in OSX Yosemite. Apple TV is only showing a few photos from each stream and just hangs there with spinning icon trying to load the rest, which never appear.


Apple TV4 has been my single worst Apple product experience. They really didn't test properly this before going to market. The photos app is basically useless at the moment.

Apple TV 4 - photo stream issueo

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