CNET:
The updated remote control app for the 2015 Apple TV has arrived.
The new app, called Apple TV Remote, is basically a software version of the Apple TV’s tiny remote control: There is a large area at the top for gesture controls, making it easy to navigate around the user interface. Siri has a dedicated button allowing users to ask for a specific show or to use voice to search. And the Game Mode makes use of the accelerometer and gyroscope built into Apple mobile devices. And, like the Apple TV’s forthcoming software update, it also offers a “dark mode” option.
I hate the new Apple TV physical remote so much I can’t wait to try this one out.
I don’t understand why Apple didn’t just update the Remote app with the new functionality, rather than create a whole ‘nother app just for this.
it’s honestly the worst. If it’s not sliding off of the couch or bed, just picking it up skips forwards or backwards on what I’m watching. and for whatever reason it always ends up upside down when I pick it up. They had the right idea but excited it terribly wrong
Why are all the bloggers writing about this as though it’s a new thing – the old remote remote app had all these abilities other than Siri – I’ve been using it for years?
Exactly my issues with it.
Anyone else frustrated that it doesn’t allow you to change the volume?!!! Someone on Twitter wrote that it does in an iOS 10 beta … but betas don’t count.
I haven’t had any problems with it skipping forward or backwards when grabbing it since one of the last TVos update that require for it to be paused to scan through.
Picking it up upside-down is an issue, but it takes a second to flip it and there are much bigger problems in the world right now.
If I could get my wife to quit leaving it on the couch where it gets lost in the cushions or I sit on it, that would be something — but that’s nothing Apple can help with and it happens with all the remotes. 🙂