{"id":13046,"date":"2015-12-09T16:21:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T21:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=13046"},"modified":"2015-12-09T16:21:56","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T21:21:56","slug":"tvos-9-1-enables-remote-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/09\/tvos-9-1-enables-remote-app\/","title":{"rendered":"tvOS 9.1 Enables Remote App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joe-steel.com\/2015-12-09-Point-One-Better.html\">Joe Rosensteel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/joe-steel.com\/2015-12-09-Point-One-Better.html\">\n<p>For me, the Apple TV was recognized by the Remote app on my iPhone 6 and I was able to use direction, menu, play\/pause, and &mdash;most important of all&mdash; the iPhone&rsquo;s virtual keyboard. This does not cover the full range of features that the Siri Remote can handle, and there are interface bits that the 4th generation Apple TV does not support (the options element does nothing).<\/p>\n<p>There was no update at all to the Remote app.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Presumably this is because of customer feedback because Apple <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/03\/apple-tv-4\/\">previously said<\/a> that there were no plans to support the Remote app. Then there&rsquo;s the announcement of a new remote app coming by June 2016, a year after the Apple TV 4&rsquo;s announcement:.<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/joe-steel.com\/2015-12-09-Point-One-Better.html\"><p>That is a horse of a different color. Was this never part of the plan for the full product? If it was part of the plan, why was it <em>never<\/em> mentioned before now? Why mention it half a year from the release of the app instead of at the unveiling?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So much about this product seems confused.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rosensteel: For me, the Apple TV was recognized by the Remote app on my iPhone 6 and I was able to use direction, menu, play\/pause, and &mdash;most important of all&mdash; the iPhone&rsquo;s virtual keyboard. This does not cover the full range of features that the Siri Remote can handle, and there are interface bits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[615,31,26,423],"class_list":["post-13046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-tv","tag-ios","tag-iosapp","tag-keyboard"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13048,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13046\/revisions\/13048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}