I heard that the AT4 would automatically play the next eisode of a tv show, but it isn't doing that on ours. I didn't change any settings. We started at Season 3 and selected the first episode from the ribbon- but that shouldn't have mattered because it would have been awfully stupid of Apple to finally add binge watching and then only letting it work under special circumstances. please help/
Apple TV (4th generation)
what did they say after calling them?
I think I am going to call Apple tomorrow I have purchased a fourth generation Apple TV and a 4K Apple TV. I own many many shows I have purchased on iTunes but I have always throwing my hands up in the air because Apple refuses it seems to allow binge watching automatically which really *****. So I bought every Apple TV under the moon let’s see if it’s capable of advancing myshows. I own so much content.
I purchased ATV 4 and 4K and still no advancing of the many shows/series I own. Very frustrated. Barely use Apple content due to this. My problem is far from stopping ATV to advance ! Cannot believe seem as problem
For others. I’ll need to call Apple. No setting I can find on ATV. ‘S
Have you found a solution for this yet? Playing 1 episode at a time is annoying!
Before the update I could have my daughters cartoon play each episode sequentially. I just started from the beginning and as soon as an episode ended it would automatically play the next one. As soon as we had the update it really screwed things up. And now it won't play the next episode which makes it very difficult for me when I am using it to occupy my daughter so I can clean.
Since it switched from video app to TV app it doesn't work.
This featured vanished from tvOS 9.2 to 10. I used to be able to play episode after episode via my Home Sharing until then. I actually had to restore to 9.2.2 to get this feature back, but now with 10.1 you cannot restore it anymore.
Not really sure why Apple would make a default with ATV 4 and then yank it out. Very stupid on their part. At least make it an option to turn it off/on depending on what the user wants/likes. Even Netflix allows you to make the choice.
Generally this is how NetFlix, Hulu and every other streaming service works. Seems odd that iTunes does not do this on the AT4 by default. Have had mine for a few months and it's an annoying feature, or lack there of.
SilverQ73 wrote:
Generally this is how NetFlix, Hulu and every other streaming service works. Seems odd that iTunes does not do this on the AT4 by default. Have had mine for a few months and it's an annoying feature, or lack there of.
So, did you submit feedback?
I did. However the common trend on Apple Support seems to be that something "isn't an issue" until they decide they want to do something about it. No amounts amount of chatter changes that even on the support forums. How many YEARS did it take to address the issue of text from iPhone users no longer working if a former iPhone user changed to a new non iPhone. Somehow it was this huge issue with page after page on support forums with no response whatsoever, other than those who refuse to ever believe there can be any kind of issue.
SilverQ73 wrote:
I did. However the common trend on Apple Support seems to be that something "isn't an issue" until they decide they want to do something about it. No amounts amount of chatter changes that even on the support forums. How many YEARS did it take to address the issue of text from iPhone users no longer working if a former iPhone user changed to a new non iPhone. Somehow it was this huge issue with page after page on support forums with no response whatsoever, other than those who refuse to ever believe there can be any kind of issue.
Apple isn't reading here so, this thread could go on forever and it wouldn't effect change. That's why submitting feedack is so important.
Text from iPhone users to former iPhone users was only ever a problem if the person forgot to sign out of iMessage before changing phones. And, it usually resolved, on its own in a couple of days.To the best of my knowledge, that's still the case. Apple did add the de-registration page.
Recommend sending feedback to the apps your referring. Other than iTunes apps, Apple does not have any direction as to how the apps are developed or function. The ATV can do what your asking (Netflix app does) but content owners need to add that functionality...
http://www.apple.com/feedback/
To be clear, I am not using any 3rd party apps. I am using iTunes to stream purchased TV shows. All this hype about finally being able to binge-watch properly and it doesn't actually work. The only reason I upgraded to gen 4! And it doesn't work.
Interesting. Binge mode is available on the ATv4 iTunes app. Most of the feedback is how to disable the functionality - yours is the first post I have seen saying its unavailable...
How to turn off continuous play of tv episodes from iTunes library
It does this when playing TV shows over home sharing, I'm wondering if it doesn't does this from the internet to protect against you falling a sleep and using up all your allowance.
How do you get the AT4 play the next episode of a TV show automatically?
