Apple TV keeps turning itself on after being put to sleep

I'm having this problem a lot. My apple tv 4 is connected to my sharp tv's. The remote will be sitting on a nightstand or table and all of a sudden, the tv and apple tv will be on. It's happening in the middle of the night and waking us up, so it's a bit of a problem. I can go back to 2 remotes, but having one remote is ideal.

I was thinking it would be some type of app update that was causing it, but I'm just guessing.

Anyone have a solution rather than resetting them all? This is a big annoyance.

Thanks

Diana.McCall wrote:

Hi havinabubble. First, it is clear that tvOS 10.2 has changed how Apple TV responds to external stimuli. But since these are not universal issues, it's not clear that Apple will choose to fix them. So affected users may need to find their own work-arounds. Second, do you have WiFi that Apple TV could connect to? Removing the ethernet cable causes it to try connecting to WiFi. Finally, if your problem is actually caused by the HDMI link, have you tried any steps to change that? Try a different HDMI port on the TV. Turn off HDMI-CEC on the TV and on Apple TV.

Diana.McCall good news 🙂

the release of 10.2.1 DID NOT resolve the issue.... 😟

however turning off SIMPLINK (LG's name for HMDI-CEC) worked on my setup! 🙂 thankyou for the suggestion.

Figuring out how to turn it off on my parents LG is another matter... but I'll get there (older LG TV)

frustrated that things where fine until Apple released 10.2,

but at least we have a solution to the Apple TV insomnia

Thanks again.

I was able to solve this problem by putting the device to sleep pushing, and holding, the button on the remove that looks like a TV, and then selecting Sleep Now, instead of via the settings icon on the TV screen. Hope this helps.

My TV is Sony. I only use apply TV for airplay iphone. So my apple TV has no apps other than the default from factory. I usually turns on airplay and the TV will turn on. After finish using apps, I stop airplay from iphone then use the apple TV remote to put TV into sleep. At first the TV would turn on itself randomly, so I update the apple TV software to the latest and turn off anything that might seem to do this in the setting. it would stop for a few weeks, then it will start happen frequently again. The apple TV home screen would indicate "remotely connected" sign on it. As I said I never installed any single app, so I refuse to believe it's getting hacked by malware. But I seem to have to unplug the Ethernet cable from the apple TV to resolve this. This is troublesome if I have to do this every time. My software is the latest and I have tried using all different hdmi ports on TV but no use. What do we do? Thanks

Hi Diana, it's apple TV4 and version tvos 11.1. So in the network if other devices are running certain apps, there might be a chance to cause apple tv to turn on false airplay? The network only have some PC connected and some smart phones through wifi. There are also some smart TV but I have their wifi disabled. I don't have any of the apps mentioned in your post. But I guess I have youtube running on some phones although they are just installed but I hardly ever played it. I also play music that are played by web browser page on PC run by youtube. That's all.

When I saw the "remotely connected" sign, I thought other people in my neighborhood tried to connect their iphone into my apple TV. So I tried to change the setting in the network to allow connection only to my network instead of the default to everyone. But this change does not work because my iphone on the same network cannot find apple tv any more. So I changed back to everyone and figured they might not be able to connect anyway 'cause they need my apple id. But if someone else nearby just try to connect into my apple tv, would it cause tv to wake already? Thanks

Welcome to the Apple Community.

Were you using any other remotes when this happened.

Then I'm not really sure, but my initial guess would be that it is something that is happening on the network that is causing this to happen.

Hi

Before you turn off your TV select another output like normal TV .

Cheers

Brian

I've been having the same problem. My Apple TV (4) is connected to a Vizio E470i, and it has been turning the TV back on after being put to sleep via HDMI CEC. It's quite irritating at night, since the TV is so bright.

The solution is simple. I spent 2 minutes closing all 42 open applications. Then I put it to sleep and it stayed that way.

Or, I could have used my TV remote and hit the off button!

Thanks Apple........ for making my life easier......

Mine has started doing the same thing, but after a few days. It just started doing it randomly after a week of use. It has worked fine for a week, but last night every time I switched the Apple TV to sleep (and the TV would shut off), they would both turn on again randomly after about 5 minutes. I had to unplug both from power to stop it. Seems like a recent glitch.

Same issue here. Very annoying. Hope they fix this soon.

I began having this issue last night. I'd put the Apple TV to sleep and it would come back on, waking my Samsung HDMI-CEC-enabled TV with it. It did this 3 or 4 times.

Fortunately, I was able to get it to stop by going to Settings > System > Restart. That seemed to fix the problem.

I also charged the Siri Remote, just in case, though there was no sign that it was running low.

I just had this problem 10 minutes ago. The apple tv turned itself on, but I thought I had bumped the remote. Then I turned it off again, and it turned back on. This repeated 3 times, each time it turns on my receiver and tv. I finally unplugged it and plugged it back in, put it to sleep and it stayed asleep.