{"id":30304,"date":"2020-09-30T16:52:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T20:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=30304"},"modified":"2024-06-04T14:10:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T18:10:22","slug":"third-generation-apple-tvs-suffering-from-software-update-7-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/30\/third-generation-apple-tvs-suffering-from-software-update-7-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Third-Generation Apple TVs Suffering From Software Update 7.6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2020\/09\/28\/third-generation-apple-tvs-suffering-from-apple-tv-software-update-7-6\/\">Adam Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2020\/09\/28\/third-generation-apple-tvs-suffering-from-apple-tv-software-update-7-6\/\"><p>Third-generation Apple TV users are now experiencing <a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/251813632\">crashes when pausing YouTube videos<\/a>, and others are having <a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/251788456\">intermittent AirPlay problems<\/a> that include freezing and audio-only over a blank screen. The only workarounds are to wait 90 seconds for the Apple TV to time out and reload the Home screen, or to restart the Apple TV either by pressing the Menu and Down buttons on the remote simultaneously or by power-cycling the unit. There are also problems with loading Apple TV+ shows promoted in the What to Watch area at the top of the Home screen, though they load fine when accessed from within the Apple TV app.<\/p><p>It&rsquo;s apparently possible to <a href=\"https:\/\/kubadownload.com\/news\/downgrade-apple-tv-3\/\">downgrade a third-generation Apple TV<\/a>, but it requires some potentially iffy software downloads and connecting the Apple TV to your Mac.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>And the Remote app has been broken with 3rd-generation Apple TVs for years.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/19\/two-factor-authentication-for-old-apple-tvs\/\">Two-factor Authentication for Old Apple TVs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"third-generation-apple-tvs-suffering-from-software-update-7-6-update-2024-06-04\">Update (2024-06-04): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2024\/06\/04\/netflix-end-support-2nd-3rd-gen-apple-tv\/\">Tim Hardwick<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=40574537\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2024\/06\/04\/netflix-end-support-2nd-3rd-gen-apple-tv\/\">\n<p>Netflix will no longer support second-generation and third-generation Apple TV models from July 31, 2024, the company has announced in an email to some subscribers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Engst: Third-generation Apple TV users are now experiencing crashes when pausing YouTube videos, and others are having intermittent AirPlay problems that include freezing and audio-only over a blank screen. The only workarounds are to wait 90 seconds for the Apple TV to time out and reload the Home screen, or to restart the Apple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-09-30T20:52:20Z","apple_news_api_id":"1eda849d-f927-42b7-bba0-407659d6685b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-06-04T18:10:25Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AHtqEnfknQre7oEB2WdZoWw","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":[222,615,1789,131,31,1667,227,1693,555],"class_list":["post-30304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-airplay","tag-apple-tv","tag-apple-tv-plus","tag-bug","tag-ios","tag-ios-13","tag-netflix","tag-remote-app","tag-youtube"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30304","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=30304"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43502,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30304\/revisions\/43502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}