June 5, 2023
PRESS RELEASE
tvOS 17 brings FaceTime and video conferencing to the largest display screen within the dwelling
Apple TV 4K packs countless leisure and enjoyable into one front room system, together with films, reveals, music, video games, health, and now video calls
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple immediately introduced software program updates coming this fall that make Apple TV 4K much more fulfilling, interactive, and enjoyable for the entire family. With tvOS 17, FaceTime involves Apple TV 4K, so customers — for the primary time ever — can benefit from the well-liked app on their TV for much more partaking conversations with household and mates. tvOS 17 additionally introduces an all-new Management Middle, together with different enhancements that present a extra personalised expertise that works even higher with iPhone. Apple TV 4K brings collectively Apple TV+ and all the hottest streaming apps — in cinematic image and audio high quality — in addition to Apple Music, Apple Health+, and Apple Arcade to the largest display screen within the dwelling. Boasting the highly effective efficiency of the A15 Bionic chip, intuitive controls, and seamless interplay with Apple units and good dwelling equipment, Apple TV 4K is one of the best front room system. tvOS 17 is out there as a developer beta immediately, and it is going to be out there as a free software program replace this fall.
“tvOS 17 transforms the largest display screen within the dwelling with FaceTime and new video conferencing capabilities, giving Apple TV 4K customers the flexibility to simply join with anybody proper from their front room,” stated Bob Borchers, Apple’s vp of Worldwide Product Advertising and marketing. “New options and enhancements make Apple TV less complicated to make use of and much more fulfilling, reinforcing it as the best possible choice in the lounge for Apple prospects.”
Beginning this fall, Apple TV 4K customers can make the most of the brand new FaceTime app on Apple TV and provoke calls immediately from Apple TV, or begin calls on iPhone or iPad, and hand them off to Apple TV. FaceTime on Apple TV takes benefit of Continuity Digital camera help to wirelessly hook up with the consumer’s iPhone or iPad, and leverages the system’s digital camera and microphone to carry contributors collectively on the TV.
Middle Stage retains everybody within the room completely framed on the display screen, whilst they transfer round, whereas new gesture-based reactions enable callers to make use of their palms to generate onscreen results, equivalent to hearts or fireworks, and add much more enjoyable to the dialog. The introduction of Cut up View for Apple TV lets customers get pleasure from watching reveals or films with their family members throughout a SharePlay session whereas additionally seeing everybody on the FaceTime name.
Controls on iPhone or iPad make it simple to switch a FaceTime name again to these units as wanted. If one other FaceTime or cellphone name is available in throughout a session, a notification seems on the TV to let the consumer know somebody is looking — with out revealing who the caller is, to protect the consumer’s privateness on a communal system.
Later this yr, video conferencing apps like Webex by Cisco and Zoom will launch on tvOS, bringing their communications capabilities to Apple TV 4K. Builders can make the most of Continuity Digital camera APIs on Apple TV 4K to combine the iPhone or iPad digital camera and microphone into their tvOS app, and create new shared and immersive leisure experiences for the lounge.
Apple Music Sing — a function that lets customers sing alongside to their favourite tracks — can even combine Continuity Digital camera so customers can see themselves onscreen and add entertaining filters.
A Extra Personalised Expertise That Works Even Higher with iPhone
The brand new Management Middle on Apple TV makes it simpler than ever for customers to entry key settings and knowledge all through your entire Apple TV expertise. Management Middle now shows system standing, together with the time and energetic profile, and expands with different useful particulars primarily based on a consumer’s exercise.
tvOS 17 strengthens the seamless integration of Apple TV and iPhone with the flexibility to find the Siri Distant. Customers can launch the Apple TV distant inside Management Middle on iPhone to search out their Siri Distant (2nd technology or later). As customers get nearer to the distant, an onscreen circle grows in dimension to information their motion.
As well as, when utilizing the distant on iPhone to get up and management Apple TV, customers can be robotically switched to their profile, guaranteeing they’ve entry to their lately watched reveals and personalised suggestions. Extra settings and preferences are actually saved for every consumer profile, together with their system language and paired AirPods, delivering an much more personalised expertise.
Display saver enhancements present a extra lovely and much more personalized expertise on Apple TV, as customers can now get pleasure from curated Recollections from their private library, shared library, or each on the large display screen. The broadly well-liked aerial display screen savers will function a set of gorgeous new areas, together with Arizona’s Monument Valley and California’s coastal redwoods.
Extra options coming with tvOS 17 embody:
- Improve Dialogue, which lets customers extra clearly hear what’s being stated over the consequences, motion, and music in a film or TV present on Apple TV 4K paired with HomePod (2nd technology) by separating the dialogue from the background noise and bringing it ahead to the middle channel.
- Dolby Imaginative and prescient 8.1 help, which presents Apple TV 4K customers a extra cinematic visible expertise with dynamic metadata over a broader vary of films and TV reveals.
- Apple Health+ enhancements, together with Customized Plans, a brand new method for Health+ customers to obtain a customized exercise or meditation schedule primarily based on day, period, exercise kind, and extra; Stacks, which permits customers to pick a number of exercises and meditations to seamlessly do again to again; and Audio Focus, which provides customers the flexibility to prioritize the quantity of the music or the trainers’ voices.
- Third-party VPN help, which permits builders to create VPN apps for Apple TV. This may profit enterprise and schooling customers eager to entry content material on their personal networks, permitting Apple TV to be an excellent workplace and convention room answer in much more locations.
Availability
The tvOS developer beta is out there for Apple Developer Program members at developer.apple.com beginning immediately, and a public beta program can be out there to Apple TV customers subsequent month at beta.apple.com. tvOS 17 can be out there this fall as a free software program replace for Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD. For extra info, go to apple.com/tv-home. Options are topic to alter. Some options might not be out there in all areas or all languages, or on all units. For extra info, go to apple.com/tv-home.
About Apple
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