{"id":48022,"date":"2025-06-10T16:18:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T20:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=48022"},"modified":"2025-06-29T16:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T20:30:09","slug":"tvos-26-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/10\/tvos-26-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"tvOS 26 Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2025\/06\/apple-tv-brings-a-beautiful-redesign-and-enhanced-home-entertainment-experience\/\">Apple<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2025\/06\/apple-tv-brings-a-beautiful-redesign-and-enhanced-home-entertainment-experience\/\">\n<p>Featuring a stunning new design with Liquid Glass, tvOS 26 is designed to keep the focus on what&rsquo;s playing so users never miss a moment. The Apple TV app also now showcases cinematic poster art that makes it fun and easy to discover what to play next. Enhancements to profile-switching and a streamlined way to log in to apps make it easier than ever to access entertainment, while updates to Apple Music Sing bring users new ways to enjoy singing along with friends using iPhone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bzamayo\/status\/1932189691761070468\">Benjamin Mayo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bzamayo\/status\/1932189691761070468\">\n<p>tvOS 26 adds a non-deletable home screen icon for Apple Music Sing; it&rsquo;s just a shortcut to a section of the Music app. As I have no other choice, I guess I&rsquo;ll bury it in a folder.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/10\/wwdc-2025-keynote\/\">WWDC 2025 Keynote<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/10\/liquid-glass\/\">Liquid Glass<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/10\/tvos-18-announced\/\">tvOS 18 Announced<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"tvos-26-announced-update-2025-06-11\">Update (<a href=\"#tvos-26-announced-update-2025-06-11\">2025-06-11<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/06\/09\/tvos-26-liquid-glass-redesign-older-models\/\">Tim Hardwick<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/06\/09\/tvos-26-liquid-glass-redesign-older-models\/\"><p>Apple&rsquo;s tvOS 26 announced at WWDC requires second-generation Apple TV 4K devices and later, which means the company is excluding older hardware from the update&rsquo;s major visual overhaul.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joe-steel.com\/2025-06-10-WWDC-2025-Keynote.html\">Joe Rosensteel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/joe-steel.com\/2025-06-10-WWDC-2025-Keynote.html\">\n<p>What tvOS needs is a comprehensive overhaul of the concept of the home screen. For years there have been two competing home screens: the original app-based home screen, and the newer <s>Apple TV+<\/s> content-based TV app. Real nerds, like me, know the TV app sucks and use the app-based home screen. The TV app has not been improved in terms of personalization or customization at all.<\/p>\n<p>The sign-on feature once again requires adoption by streaming apps in order to work, and it&rsquo;s tied to your Apple ID. Good luck with that getting widely adopted over QR codes and authorization URLs.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>For some reason Apple decided to buck industry trends and all the show art tiles are movie posters now. I get it, it seems <em>cinematic<\/em> to evoke movie posters, but the interface is on a 16:9 screen. Use your noodles. This means that you get to see one row clearly. To make up for that, the show text is overlaid on top of the poster art with stylized fonts, like Photos Memories, making the shows <em>harder to read<\/em>. This change needs to be reverted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/news\/tvos-26-the-macstories-overview\/\">Sigmund Judge<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p id=\"tvos-26-announced-update-2025-06-16\">Update (<a href=\"#tvos-26-announced-update-2025-06-16\">2025-06-16<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/06\/13\/tvos-26-automatic-sign-in\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/06\/13\/tvos-26-automatic-sign-in\/\"><p>Apple this week <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/tvos\/whats-new\/\">introduced<\/a> a new <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/automaticsigninapi\">Automatic Sign-In API<\/a>, which will make it easier to sign in to apps across multiple Apple devices.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Apple says this feature will eliminate the need to re-enter usernames and passwords across its software platforms, by linking app logins to a user&rsquo;s Apple Account.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As someone who doesn&rsquo;t follow tvOS that closely, it seems like Apple keeps introducing what sounds like the same feature, and I keep having to enter my usernames and passwords using the TV remote.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple: Featuring a stunning new design with Liquid Glass, tvOS 26 is designed to keep the focus on what&rsquo;s playing so users never miss a moment. The Apple TV app also now showcases cinematic poster art that makes it fun and easy to discover what to play next. 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