Apple TV 4: Siri is disabled and greyed out?

One small omission. It has been stated in these posts that Apple TV uses the language where the Apple TV was purchased. “The language setting has to match the region setting for the region you bought your Apple TV in and it has to be a supported region and language per the above information.” In fact that is incorrect. I purchased mine in the UK. My iTunes store account is in France.Had the same problem with the combination of English/France. Changed the combination to French/France and it worked. Siri understands French but only a few english words, probably because they are the same in both languages. Quote from a post above, "System language, Region format and iTunes Store account Location must all be set to English to be able to use Siri in English." or All must be set to the same country for Siri to work.

Silly that you cant use English in France as all the languages must be in the box because it doesn't matter in which country you purchased the Apple TV.

Ahhhh This is such BS Apple!!!
Siri understands English... if you set your language to english, it should work... why do you have to match your region?

I am in Italy I brought my apple TV is from UK, I set it up as:
Apple TV Language: English UK
Region Format: United Kingdom

..Siri is still grayed out.

p.s. I made an Italian Apple ID, and now I can't even get Hulu... and spotify isnt even an app...Italian Tax is 44% so here the Apple TV costs almost double, and you get None of the good features.
I consider it to be a very unwise purchase in Italy. even with a proxy, you sill need an international apple ID.

TheAlikA wrote:

p.s. I made an Italian Apple ID, and now I can't even get Hulu... and spotify isnt even an app...Italian Tax is 44% so here the Apple TV costs almost double, and you get None of the good features.
I consider it to be a very unwise purchase in Italy. even with a proxy, you sill need an international apple ID.

There is no such thing as an "international Apple ID". In order to have an Apple ID for a particular country, you need to 1) have a valid billing address in that country, 2) have a credit card build to that address or an iTunes card purchased in that country and 3) be physically located in that country at the time of purchase.

Also, using a proxy server to access services such as Hulu from countries where they don't offer service is a violation of Hulu's Terms of Use.

i live in germany and in order to have some german available apps i switched to the german store.

but my tv is in english, becuase its my preferred language.

2 problems:

1. my itunes movie description are in german now... i cannot read that.

2. siri cannot work.

location has nothing to do with language! please fix that.

Same problem for me.

I'm french, living in France, but I want my Apple TV in english.

When I try to change the langage, I lost Siri.

And I don't want to change my iTunes Store region : I want to be able to keep the France region, but with an english UI (like we can do in iOS)

I think your problem may be due to the ATV Siri using local servers linked to the local iTunes. So you cannot mix and match language from one region with iTunes in another. You should try suggesting this at https://www.apple.com/feedback/appletv.html, but it might not have much effect, since it seems to be fundamental to the design.

By the way complaining here has no effect, since this is just a user forum. Apple doesn't look for improvements here.

Thanks! Did work perfectly

Yeah, I was wondering about the same thing. I live in Latvia, I'm using Latvian region for AppStore and I still can use english Siri on my iPhone. So why the **** Siri is not available on my Apple TV? Especially if tvOS is esentialy the same iOS just for the "10-foot user interface".