tvOS 9.2 now available for Apple TV with features like folders, voice improvements & more
As promised, Apple on Monday released the finished tvOS 9.2 update, making a broad assortment of improvements to the fourth-generation Apple TV.
Users can now, for instance, use the Siri Remote to dictate text into text boxes, including login screens and search fields. Input has also been made easier through support for Bluetooth keyboards.
Elsewhere the software has gained an iOS 9-style app switcher, and support for grouping apps into folders, cutting down on home screen clutter.
Some other enhancements include the ability to ask Siri to "search the App Store," and better video scrubbing. A video must now be paused before scrubbing will work, whereas users could previously bring up the option accidentally simply by touching the Siri Remote's touchpad.
tvOS' Photos app has been hooked into iCloud Photo Library, letting users see photos and videos uploaded from other devices.
Although tvOS can be set to fetch 9.2 automatically, users can also force a download by going into the Settings app and locating Software Updates under Maintenance.
Apple has separately released OS X 10.11.4, iOS 9.3, and watchOS 2.2.
Users can now, for instance, use the Siri Remote to dictate text into text boxes, including login screens and search fields. Input has also been made easier through support for Bluetooth keyboards.
Elsewhere the software has gained an iOS 9-style app switcher, and support for grouping apps into folders, cutting down on home screen clutter.
Some other enhancements include the ability to ask Siri to "search the App Store," and better video scrubbing. A video must now be paused before scrubbing will work, whereas users could previously bring up the option accidentally simply by touching the Siri Remote's touchpad.
tvOS' Photos app has been hooked into iCloud Photo Library, letting users see photos and videos uploaded from other devices.
Although tvOS can be set to fetch 9.2 automatically, users can also force a download by going into the Settings app and locating Software Updates under Maintenance.
Apple has separately released OS X 10.11.4, iOS 9.3, and watchOS 2.2.
Comments
The other improvements in this update are huge. Dictation makes all the difference and really completes the puzzle when it comes to the Siri remote. And the change to the scrubbing behavior with the remote is huge. Not a single user out there that wasn't annoyed by having to delicately pick up the remote to prevent accidental input.
I'm with you, brother.
I was using my old Apple TV remote half the time because I was accidentally scrubbing. About time.
I have spare bluetooth keyboards all over the place. WTF wouldn't I use it?
Sadpanda.
Maybe one day we will get Siri on the TV, Apple News & of course Apple Pay.
1. Dictation, when naming folders, results in all lowercase letters, which is annoying because I like all my folder names to begin with capital letters! Curiously, select words do start with capital letters, such as "New".
2. To move an app into an already-created folder, you can't simply drag and drop it to the folder. Instead, you must hold it down until it wiggles and press the play/pause button and selected from a drop-down menu that lists every folder (in addition to options such as New Folder and Delete which are included on that same list).