June 5, 2023
PRESS RELEASE
tvOS 17 brings FaceTime and video conferencing to the most important display screen within the house
Apple TV 4K packs infinite leisure and enjoyable into one lounge system, together with motion pictures, reveals, music, video games, health, and now video calls
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple at this time introduced software program updates coming this fall that make Apple TV 4K much more gratifying, 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 in style app on their TV for much more participating conversations with household and associates. 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 the entire hottest streaming apps — in cinematic image and audio high quality — in addition to Apple Music, Apple Health+, and Apple Arcade to the most important display screen within the house. Boasting the highly effective efficiency of the A15 Bionic chip, intuitive controls, and seamless interplay with Apple gadgets and good house equipment, Apple TV 4K is one of the best lounge system. tvOS 17 is on the market as a developer beta at this time, and it is going to be accessible as a free software program replace this fall.
“tvOS 17 transforms the most important display screen within the house with FaceTime and new video conferencing capabilities, giving Apple TV 4K customers the power to simply join with anybody proper from their lounge,” mentioned Bob Borchers, Apple’s vp of Worldwide Product Advertising. “New options and enhancements make Apple TV less complicated to make use of and much more gratifying, reinforcing it as the very best possibility in the lounge for Apple clients.”
Beginning this fall, Apple TV 4K customers can benefit from the brand new FaceTime app on Apple TV and provoke calls instantly 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 assist 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 fingers to generate onscreen results, similar to hearts or fireworks, and add much more enjoyable to the dialog. The introduction of Cut up View for Apple TV lets customers take pleasure in watching reveals or motion pictures with their family members throughout a SharePlay session whereas additionally seeing everybody on the FaceTime name.
Controls on iPhone or iPad make it straightforward to switch a FaceTime name again to these gadgets 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 asking — 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 benefit from 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 characteristic that lets customers sing alongside to their favourite tracks — may also 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 data all through the complete 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 power to find the Siri Distant. Customers can launch the Apple TV distant inside Management Middle on iPhone to seek 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 will likely be mechanically switched to their profile, making certain they’ve entry to their lately watched reveals and personalised suggestions. Extra settings and preferences at the moment are 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 stunning and much more custom-made expertise on Apple TV, as customers can now take pleasure in curated Reminiscences from their private library, shared library, or each on the massive display screen. The broadly in style aerial display screen savers will characteristic a set of beautiful new places, 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 mentioned 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 assist, which affords Apple TV 4K customers a extra cinematic visible expertise with dynamic metadata over a broader vary of flicks 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 sort, and extra; Stacks, which permits customers to pick out a number of exercises and meditations to seamlessly do again to again; and Audio Focus, which provides customers the power to prioritize the amount of the music or the trainers’ voices.
- Third-party VPN assist, which permits builders to create VPN apps for Apple TV. This will profit enterprise and schooling customers desirous to entry content material on their personal networks, permitting Apple TV to be a terrific workplace and convention room answer in much more locations.
Availability
The tvOS developer beta is on the market for Apple Developer Program members at developer.apple.com beginning at this time, and a public beta program will likely be accessible to Apple TV customers subsequent month at beta.apple.com. tvOS 17 will likely be accessible 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 vary. Some options is probably not accessible in all areas or all languages, or on all gadgets. For extra info, go to apple.com/tv-home.
About Apple
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