{"id":46822,"date":"2025-02-24T16:21:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T21:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=46822"},"modified":"2025-02-27T07:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T12:26:09","slug":"seeing-the-location-name-in-apple-tvs-aerial-screensaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/24\/seeing-the-location-name-in-apple-tvs-aerial-screensaver\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the Location Name in Apple TV&rsquo;s Aerial Screensaver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/106002\">Apple<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/106002\">\n<p>Ever wonder what location you&rsquo;re watching in an Aerial screen saver? While the location is playing, just tap the Touch surface on your Apple TV Remote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Unfortunately, this doesn&rsquo;t work if, like me, you&rsquo;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/appletv\/comments\/17yf85w\/do_you_keep_the_touch_surface_tracking_enabled_on\/\">turned off<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/guide\/tv\/adjust-remote-settings-atvb267f9798\/tvos\">the touch surface<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/21\/05\/03\/compared-apples-second-generation-siri-remote-versus-its-predecessors\">the remote<\/a> because it causes unwanted inputs. It used to be possible to see the location name by pressing the Up button, but Apple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/appletv\/comments\/1fzxlzv\/how_do_i_see_the_name_of_aerial_screensaver\/\">changed that in tvOS 18<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/13\/this-remote-has-me-questioning-everything\/\">This Remote Has Me Questioning Everything<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"seeing-the-location-name-in-apple-tvs-aerial-screensaver-update-2025-02-26\">Update (2025-02-26): <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/24\/seeing-the-location-name-in-apple-tvs-aerial-screensaver\/#comment-4233748\">Martyn Arnold<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/tvos-18-screensaver-control-change.2439238\/?post=33630118#post-33630118\">IT Troll<\/a> have the unintuitive and undocumented answer: you press the <em>Down<\/em> button on the remote.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple: Ever wonder what location you&rsquo;re watching in an Aerial screen saver? While the location is playing, just tap the Touch surface on your Apple TV Remote. Unfortunately, this doesn&rsquo;t work if, like me, you&rsquo;ve turned off the touch surface of the remote because it causes unwanted inputs. It used to be possible to see [&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":"2025-02-24T21:21:27Z","apple_news_api_id":"c5d9af55-bd98-4ea5-8908-47e83d997cae","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-02-27T12:26:12Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AxdmvVb2YTqWJCEfoPZl8rg","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":[930,615,1917,1558,2600],"class_list":["post-46822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-accessibility","tag-apple-tv","tag-screensaver","tag-tvos","tag-tvos-18"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46822","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=46822"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46868,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46822\/revisions\/46868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}