Photos App - missing album folder on Apple TV

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Photos App - missing album folder on Apple TV

I used the Photos-App for all my pictures. To sort them, I create albums and they are classified in the appropriate folder I create e.g. Adventures 2016--> contains all travels of 2016. On iPhone & iMac as well iCloud-website, I see all the folders in Photos an can see therein all the albums an pictures.

My new Apple TV (4th gen) shows me all the pictures by the pictures tab chronological. At the albums-tab they will show me the standard-albums and my albums, but only, while they are not in an folder. If an album was placed in a folder, the folder and the album are not be displayed.

I called Apple support a few minutes ago. The staff-member told me, this ist correct an folders are not displayed by AppleTV.

Is there someone how knows the problem and have an idea, how folders can be visible on Apple TV Photos app.

Thanks!

Apple TV, tvOS 9.2.2, AppleTV 4th gen.

Posted on Jul 31, 2016 4:47 AM

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Answer 1

Aug 2, 2016 10:43 AM in response to MasterChiefSiegen

Photos on the Apple TV does not support nested folders, you will need to view your nested albums from the computers app.

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Answer 2

Jul 31, 2016 5:39 AM in response to Winston Churchill

Thanks for responding.

But this cannot be the sense of the photos App on Apple TV. I sorted my pictures in all these albums and collect them into meaningful folders. To show some pictures for friends and family, I have to tear apart my folders and split them, only for looking at AppleTV.

Is there no way, to use folders or propose Apple to implement the missing feature?

thx

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Answer 3

Aug 2, 2016 10:43 AM in response to MasterChiefSiegen

As I said there is no way to use the folders you have created using the photos app. You can either use the computers app as already suggested or move all your albums out of folders.

If you have any suggestions that you think might enhance the Apple TV you can send Apple your feedback here

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Answer 4

David Das

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104 points

Dec 4, 2016 12:13 PM in response to MasterChiefSiegen

I've found the same thing and it's frustrating because a simple and fundamental feature in the macOS Photos app isn't supported by the AppleTV. I've spent a lot of time organizing my photos into albums and wish they wold improve this in a future version of AppleTV.

Apple has a feedback form for this, and I will be sending them a note.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/appletv.html

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Answer 5

z4steve

Level 1

20 points

Mar 28, 2017 3:43 PM in response to MasterChiefSiegen

Just installed tvOS 10.2 - still no folder support. I wish the Apple TV programmers would talk to the iOS and macOS programmers so they can learn how to "walk" a directory tree.

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Answer 6

Applegan

Level 1

8 points

Jul 13, 2017 10:34 PM in response to Winston Churchill

AGREE 100%

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