Apple Removes iTunes Movies and TV Shows Apps in tvOS 26.4

With tvOS 26.4, Apple has removed the dedicated iTunes Movies and iTunes TV Shows apps that listed contented disposable for purchase. Buying movies and TV shows tin beryllium done done the Apple TV app instead.


Apple started phasing out the iTunes Movies and iTunes TV Shows apps backmost successful 2023, redirecting users to the ‌Apple TV‌ app for purchases. The apps remained disposable until present to supply customers with instructions connected wherever to find their content, and to supply entree to the iTunes Wish List.

Apple removed the TV Shows and Movies conception successful the iPhone and iPad TV app with the motorboat of iOS 17.2 and iPadOS 17.2, and eliminated iTunes wishlists successful those updates. tvOS 17.2 besides got escaped of privation lists. After lawsuit complaints, wishlist options were returned, but Apple again started warning astir the extremity of wishlists past week.

Customers that inactive person an iTunes Wish List with movies and TV shows person received emails letting them cognize the diagnostic is being removed. The emails see links to migrate those lists to the ‌Apple TV‌ watchlist diagnostic arsenic an alternative.



Apple has been moving to consolidate each movie and TV amusement viewing and buying to the TV app, truthful it's each successful 1 place. There is nary longer immoderate iTunes-related app connected the ‌Apple TV‌, but the ‌iPhone‌ inactive has an iTunes Store enactment for purchasing music.

Apple has besides updated the ‌Apple TV‌ Audio Format settings successful tvOS 26.4. Dolby Atmos immersive audio has been replaced with Spatial Audio, and determination is an enactment to person to Dolby Digital 5.1, prime Stereo Only, oregon crook connected Auto mode. There's besides a Continuous Audio Connection enactment for HDMI output.

tvOS 26.4 is disposable to developers and nationalist beta testers astatine the existent time, with a merchandise planned for spring.

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