June 9, 2025
UPDATE
Apple TV brings a lovely redesign and an enhanced leisure expertise to the house
tvOS 26 elevates the Apple TV design that includes Liquid Glass, together with updates to Sing in Apple Music with iPhone
Apple right this moment introduced tvOS 26, making Apple TV much more immersive, pleasing, and handy. That includes a surprising new design with Liquid Glass, tvOS 26 is designed to maintain the give attention to what’s enjoying so customers by no means miss a second. The Apple TV app additionally now showcases cinematic poster artwork that makes it enjoyable and simple to find what to play subsequent. Enhancements to profile-switching and a streamlined technique to log in to apps make it simpler than ever to entry leisure, whereas updates to Apple Music Sing carry customers new methods to take pleasure in singing together with pals utilizing iPhone.
Liquid Glass Involves the Largest Display screen within the House
The brand new design introduces a brand new materials referred to as Liquid Glass.1 It brings a vibrant look to Apple TV, delivering a recent and expressive design that superbly displays and refracts its environment utilizing real-time rendering. Interactions with the Apple TV app are additionally enhanced to create a extra pleasant and interesting expertise whereas watching exhibits and films. The brand new design retains the content material central to the viewing expertise whereas fast-forwarding or rewinding, beginning a sleep timer, adjusting audio, or setting a “Film evening” scene in Management Middle.
Simply Entry Leisure
The Apple TV app is redesigned with stunning new poster artwork that includes Liquid Glass, and permits extra exhibits and films to be displayed, enhancing how customers uncover leisure.
To shortly discover customized viewing suggestions, customers will now have the selection to mechanically show profiles when Apple TV wakes, permitting them to shortly get again to their suggestions and Watchlist within the TV app and playlists in Apple Music.
Moreover, tvOS 26 introduces a brand new API for builders that hyperlinks app logins to an Apple Account, making it easy for customers to sign up to their favourite apps, exhibits, and films when establishing a brand new system.
Take the Mic with Sing in Apple Music
Sing-along classes attain a brand new degree of enjoyable with tvOS 26, permitting customers to rework iPhone right into a handheld microphone for Apple TV and have their voices amplified as they belt out their favourite songs.2 Get the celebration began with pals, as everybody can soar in utilizing their very own iPhone to queue up songs or react with onscreen emoji. Accompanied by real-time lyrics and visible results that gentle up the large display screen, Sing in Apple Music is extra partaking than ever, and with Lyrics Translation and Pronunciation, customers can comply with and sing alongside to a fair wider number of songs, even when they don’t know the language.3
Keep Linked with FaceTime
With tvOS 26, customers can take pleasure in a extra customized FaceTime expertise that’s according to iOS. Contact Posters on Apple TV make it simpler and extra private by displaying a contact’s custom-made picture and title when beginning a FaceTime name on Apple TV. Stay Captions develop to incorporate French, German, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, and Spanish, enabling Apple TV to make use of on-device intelligence to show Stay Captions for FaceTime conversations, so customers can comply with what’s being mentioned in much more languages. Moreover, FaceTime audio and telephone name notifications will seem onscreen for the lively profile, permitting customers to reply on linked HomePod audio system or their iPhone, and guaranteeing that communication with family members stays on the forefront.
Further updates coming to Apple TV:
- Take pleasure in breathtaking landscapes with new Aerial display screen savers captured throughout India, together with in Goa and Kerala.
- Personalize the display screen saver expertise by selecting particular Cityscape, Earth, Panorama, or Underwater Aerials to show — or cover.
- Designate any AirPlay-enabled speaker because the everlasting speaker for Apple TV.
Availability
All of those options can be found for testing beginning right this moment by means of the Apple Developer Program at developer.apple.com, and a public beta will likely be obtainable by means of the Apple Beta Software program Program subsequent month at beta.apple.com. New software program options will likely be obtainable this fall as a free software program replace. For extra data, go to apple.com/tv-home and apple.com/apple-tv-4k/#whats-new. Options are topic to alter. Some options is probably not obtainable in all languages or areas, and availability might fluctuate as a consequence of native legal guidelines and laws. For extra details about availability, go to apple.com.
- Out there on Apple TV 4K (2nd technology and later).
- Out there on iPhone 11 and later with Apple TV 4K (third technology) working the most recent working system software program.
- Lyrics Translation obtainable for choose songs within the following languages: English to Chinese language (simplified), English to Japanese, Korean to Chinese language (simplified), Korean to English, Korean to Japanese, and Spanish to English. Lyrics Pronunciation obtainable for choose songs within the following scripts: Cantonese to Jyutping, Chinese language (simplified) to Pinyin, Chinese language (conventional) to Pinyin, Hindi to Romanized Hindi, Japanese to Romanized Japanese, Korean to Katakana, Korean to Romanized Korean, and Punjabi to Romanized Punjabi.
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Apple
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