June 9, 2025
UPDATE
Apple TV brings a good overhaul and an improved entertainment experience at home
TVOS 26 raises Apple TV design with liquid glass, as well as updates to sing in Apple Music with iPhone
Apple announced today TVOS 26Make Apple TV even more immersive, pleasant and practical. With a new amazing design with liquid glass, TVOS 26 is designed to keep the emphasis on what plays so that users never miss a moment. The Apple TV application also highlights the art of cinematographic poster which makes fun and easy to discover what to play afterwards. Profile switching improvements and a rationalized way of connecting to applications facilitate that ever access to entertainment, while Apple Music Sing updates provide new ways of singing with friends using iPhone.
Liquid glass arrives on the largest screen of the house
The new design presents a new material called Liquid Glass.1 It brings a dynamic look to Apple TV, offering a fresh and expressive design which reflects and refracts its environment magnificently using real -time rendering. Interactions with the Apple TV application are also improved to create a more delicious and engaging experience while watching shows and films. The new design maintains the content at the heart of the vision experience while being downstream or rewinding, starting a sleep timer, adjusting the audio or defining a scene of “cinema” in the control center.
Easily access entertainment
The Apple TV application is redesigned with a beautiful new poster that incorporates liquid glass and allows you to display more emissions and movies, improving the way users discover entertainment.
To quickly find personalized visualization recommendations, users will now have the choice to automatically display profiles when Apple TV wakes up, allowing them to quickly return to their recommendations and monitoring lists in the TV application and the reading lists in Apple Music.
In addition, TVOS 26 introduces a new API for developers that connect applications to an Apple account, which effortlessly makes users connect to their favorite applications, emissions and films when configuring a new device.
Take the microphone with Sing in Apple Music
The singing sessions reach a new level of pleasure with TVOS 26, allowing users to transform the iPhone into a portable microphone for Apple TV and to make an amplified voice with regard to their favorite songs.2 Start the party with friends, because everyone can jump in the use of their own iPhone to queue of songs or react with emoji on the screen. Accompanied by words and visual effects in real time that light up the big screen, singing in Apple music is more engaging than ever, and with the translation and pronunciation of words, users can follow and sing an even wider variety of songs, even if they do not know the language.3
Stay connected with FaceTime
With TVOS 26, users can enjoy a more personalized facetime experience in accordance with iOS. The contact posters on Apple TV facilitates and more personal by displaying the personalized photo and name of a contact when starting a facetime call on Apple TV. Live legends extend to include French, German, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin and Spanish, allowing Apple TV to use disk on disc to display live legends for Conversations Facetime, so that users can follow what is said in even more languages. In addition, audio notifications and on the facetime phone calls will appear on the screen for the active profile, allowing users to respond to connected homepod speakers or their iPhone, and to ensure that communication with relatives remains at the forefront.
Additional updates to come on Apple TV:
- Enjoy breathtaking landscapes with new Air screen savings Captured through India, including Goa and Kerala.
- Personalize the experience of screen saving by choosing a specific urban landscape, land, landscape or submarine Antennas To display – or hide.
- Designate everything Difficulty-Portive compatible as Apple TV permanent speaker.
Availability
All these features are available for tests from today via the Apple developer program to developer.apple.comand a public beta version will be available via Apple Beta software next month at Beta.apple.com. New software features will be available this fall as an update of free software. For more information, visit Apple.com/tv-home And Apple.com/apple-tv-4k/#whats-new. The features are likely to change. Some features may not be available in all languages or regions, and availability may vary due to local laws and regulations. For more information on availability, visit Apple.com.
- Available on Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later).
- Available on iPhone 11 and later with Apple TV 4K (3rd generation) running the last operating system software.
- Words translation available for certain songs in the following languages: English in Chinese (simplified), English in Japanese, Korean in Chinese (simplified), Korean in English, Korean in Japanese and Spanish in English. Pronunciation words available for certain songs in the following scripts: Cantonese in Jyutping, Chinese (simplified) in Pinyin, Chinese (traditional) in Pinyin, Hindi in Romanized Hindi, Japanese with Japanese Romanized, Korean in Katakana, Korean in Romanized Korean and Punjabi in Romanized Punjabi.
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