tvOS developer beeta five, released.. there are terminology changes in this beta. users and accounts is renamed to 'profile and accounts.' Airplay is now 'airplay and Apple Home. Thehey fixt a bug I reported where the network list wasn't showing with VoiceOver.
By Daniel Angus MacDonald, 6 August, 2025
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focus fixed?
i have just acquired a new Apple Tv 4k 3rd generation and the Netflix experience is dreadful it repeats everything all of the time as navigating and how do people interact with Netflix to change Audio settings etc. as just keeps reading focus when paused etc.
how can people say the Apple Tv is a smooth experience, is all of this nonsense fixed with Tv Os 26?
maybe i should use the remote feature of my iphone to control it not the physical one but doesn't that defeat the point of voiceover on the product?
So sorry to rant but the interface seems quite accessible itself but when playing content, regrettably not.
It's the best of the bunch…
It's the best of the bunch but certainly not perfect.
Not tried the beta but the repeating titles is a known bug. I believe it is fixed in the new OS but can't be certain.
thank you
Oliver thank you for this, much appreciated.
How do i try the beta, as have nothing to lose? i have the latest public release available as of last night, setting it up kept throwing up an error when i typed in my password. but seems be sorted now eloquence reading but the remote just so sensitive going try the iphone way but i assume it easy when signed in to just say to the remotd remote, play a show and it just finds and plays it.
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to try betas out on tvOS, you first need to register in either the developer or public betas. for public, go to beta.apple.com, and for developer go to developer.apple.com. then head to settings>system. under maintenence, go to software update. then under software update, go to beta updates. what shows up depends on the beta registered for. . go back a screen to software update, and then the beta will show up. you get more frequent updates on developer. the repeating titles are fixt as of developer beta 2. good luck! the developer betas are less stable than public betas, but developer betas are usually on a byweekely skedual, while the public betas are vetted by Apple for sirious bugs. they as well come out hours after WWDC, while public betas usually come out in July. always promote beta testing, and love your enthusiasm for the beta testing process. to submit feedback for tvOS, there is no feedback assistant app on the Apple TV itself. instead, submitting is done on iOS. for testing, you as well need to put the beta on iOS, as without doing so, you cannot submit feedback for tvOS
Beta updates aren’t required to be unable to use feedback
In Safari, navigate to
applefeedback://in your browser.You can even navigate to
applefeedback://newto create a new feedback.was unaaware of this
was unaware of this. thanks.
was unaware
thanks for informing the community.
space?
i will be feeding back that the punctuation "space" is anounced a lot during navigation of Tv Os but yes the repeating of titles seems to be gone; now if it could stop anouncing how long left on a program be great, but i am sure all this can be ironed out.