tvOS 26 Adds These New Features to Your Apple TV

Apple this week announced tvOS 26, which is now disposable successful developer beta. The upcoming bundle update includes a fistful of caller features for the Apple TV, though immoderate of the changes are lone disposable connected newer models.


The astir evident alteration is simply a new Liquid Glass design, which was besides introduced crossed iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, and watchOS 26. The caller plan connection includes shimmery app icons, and translucent elements that bespeak colors. The caller plan is lone disposable connected the Apple TV 4K (2nd generation) and Apple TV 4K (3rd generation).


In the TV app, movies and TV amusement posters are present shown successful vertical cards, which instrumentality up little abstraction connected the surface than the erstwhile horizontal cards.


With an optional caller setting, tvOS 26 tin automatically show profiles erstwhile your Apple TV wakes, truthful that you tin rapidly entree your watchlist and personalized recommendations successful the TV app, arsenic good arsenic your Apple Music playlists.


tvOS 26 volition nexus login accusation to your Apple Account for supported apps, making it easier for you to motion successful to apps erstwhile mounting up an Apple TV.

On the Apple TV, Apple Music subscribers person entree to an Apple Music Sing karaoke diagnostic that lowers the measurement of the song's vocals truthful that you tin sing on to the on-screen lyrics. tvOS 26 takes Apple Music Sing a measurement further by allowing you to usage your iPhone arsenic a wireless microphone, with your dependable amplified done the TV's speakers. Plus, your friends and household tin usage their iPhones to queue up songs, oregon respond with on-screen emoji.


In bid to usage an iPhone arsenic a microphone for Apple Music Sing, you volition request to person the latest Apple TV 4K (3rd generation) moving tvOS 26.

Apple Music Sing has besides gained lyrics translation for prime songs successful prime languages.

FaceTime has received immoderate enhancements connected tvOS 26, including incoming telephone notifications, Contact Posters erstwhile starting a call, and Live Captions successful French, German, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, and Spanish.

tvOS 26 lets you designate immoderate AirPlay talker arsenic the imperishable talker for your Apple TV.

The update besides adds caller Aerial surface savers captured crossed India.


These are lone the caller features that Apple highlighted successful its tvOS 26 property release, truthful expect much changes to beryllium uncovered successful the betas.

tvOS 26 volition beryllium released to the wide nationalist aboriginal this year. The update is compatible with each Apple TV HD and Apple TV 4K models.
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