EVERYTHING New with Apple TV in tvOS 17!

let's go hands on with all the new features to Apple TV with TV OS 17. [Music] Welcome Friends to Apple Insider it is Andrew here and this fall apple is set to release tbus 17. this is the biggest update in some time for the Apple TV there's a lot of new features to check out Apple TV has always been one of my pet platforms that I absolutely love and I think it gets under appreciated among everything else that Apple does I mean iPhone Apple watch Mac it's all very big and fun but the Apple TV seriously I love this set top box so with this update there's a bunch of new stuff and I'm going to show you all of it in this video let's go ahead and grab my Apple TV remote got our Apple TV up and running let's take a look the first thing to note is there's now an additional column of icons you can fit one more row before there was five across now there are six across I know this seems very small but it honestly makes navigating this thing faster because you don't have to go down as much it's really nice to be able to fit just a bit more on your screen at one time so the of course the first thing to talk about is right there on the right side of the screen is that is the new said a FaceTime Apple has added FaceTime and the continuity camera apis to the Apple TV to start a FaceTime call using your Apple TV you have couple options first you can just start it on your iPhone and then transfer it to your Apple TV via handoff and continuity or you can just open the FaceTime app and then choose yourself from the list of users this case we're just gonna choose me because that's who I am it's then going to give me this alert to continue on my iPhone and I have a little alert that popped up here on my iPhone I'm going to tap accept and it's going to go ahead tell me to place my iPhone to continue so I'm going to go ahead take my iPhone and I'm going to mount it onto a little Mount here so that I can better see myself as you can see my iPhone is positioned and it's going to recognize that and pull me up on the Apple TV it's going to first go ahead and zoom in on me keeping me completely in frame within the FaceTime application you're gonna notice this big menu down the left hand side of the screen you can choose from a bunch of recent calls that you may have had people who have called you or facetimed and called you or even who you've been messaging the Apple may want to recommend that you give a call back so recently Kelly had facetimed me I missed that call so I can go ahead and give her a call back right here through the FaceTime app addition there is a plus button so you can search through your contacts and go ahead and start a call that way on the lower right hand corner where the cool need a few neat effects that we can enable so the first one is Center Stage if we go ahead and choose this little bubble here we turn it off it's going to zoom out it's going to turn terrible you can see the desk because it's not focused on me all this stuff here it's not great turn on Center Stage it's going to go ahead and zoom right back up to my face keeping me in frame even as I move so I move to the side it's going to keep kind of following me using the ultra wide camera now aside from Center Stage we have portrait mode which currently is not working this should light up that'll give you that nice background bokeh effect give you more separation from your background if you don't have a pretty background there's a good joke kind of blurring it a little bit a little subtle effect he brings the focus more into you instead of what is around you finally we have these reactions reactions are very cool these are gesture based things that you can do that kind of react on the video so if I give you a two thumbs up that should trigger some fireworks going off there in the background aside from two thumbs up you can give a single thumbs up which should give a little bubble there yep let's try another one on the other side of the screen I don't know how to kind of trigger one side of the screen over the other maybe just where there's more room either way Apple hasn't fully listed all the different uh reactions that you can do with hand gestures hopefully we'll get a full comprehensive list by the time tbus 17 comes out Apple didn't just bring FaceTime to the Apple TV it brought the entire continuity camera EPI and framework for third-party developers to use too we could see this in a bunch of different third-party applications and Cisco by WebEx and zoom have already announced their support coming later this year another nice thing is Apple has split view multitasking with FaceTime so you can jump into a video game or watch a movie together all while in share play and kind of see each other talk to each other laugh together at the same exact time it's a really neat thing so between split screen multitasking to do stuff at the same time third party application support FaceTime it's just a lot of stuff now it's not even just the FaceTime out that Apple has brought if we open the music app you can see we're already in a song and it supports Apple music's lyric feature so the lyrics used to come up on screen and kind of animate through now you can do this using your camera of your iPhone for this really neat karaoke like effect so we play the song the lyrics are gonna start animating up on screen so I can sing along while on the big screen it's really cool so you can turn these lyric features on or off adjust the volume of the background lyrics very nicely let's go ahead and pull up those controls again and we can go over the camera that's you can turn this on or off but we also have these camera effects so let's go ahead and add some of these filters these are going to be applied in real time similarly using that portrait mode the reaction stuff that's going to remove your background and put you in these different environments it feels very much like a karaoke machine at this point look at some of these filters they're pretty neat hopefully we see more of these over time or even third-party applications that do similar stuff but yeah a bunch of different filters here in the Apple music app for Apple music saying so you can sing along to to all of your favorite songs whoa hey I thought you just pop in for a second I need to thank our sponsor for this video VMware and vmware's Fusion Pro so Fusion Pro easily allows you to run Windows applications on your Mac without having to reboot you can easily switch between your native Mac OS applications and your windows applications on the Fly for a near perfect user cross-platform experience Fusion Pro is also tailored to the professional crowd thinking developers it admins QA Engineers that need to run Linux and windows applications on their Mac things like Network simulation for testing latency Jitter or bandwidth restrictions full or linked clones for instantly duplicating virtual machines and remote connectivity for vmware's vsphere and esxi host to enable users to create and manage complex virtual environments if you would like to try out vmware's Fusion Pro for yourself and run your windows and Linux applications right there on your Mac there's a link for it down below in the description go ahead give it a shot and let me know what you think otherwise let's go ahead and get back to our other content the next new feature coming to Apple TV is a redesigned control center you can see it persistently lives in the top right hand corner of your screen you can see new system information such as the time connect accessories like maybe your air pods we can see that the continuity camera is active at the moment and the active profile of whoever is signed in if we tap and hold on the TV button we can bring up the control center we can jump down and control all of these things so we can power everything off we can adjust our Wi-Fi we can enable Do Not Disturb mode which can mute notifications while you're watching something or in a conference call whatever it is on your Apple TV we have new sleep timer a much requested feature if you pull this open we have everything from two hours all the way down to 15 minutes that you can choose then everything will shut off if you watch your TV before bed this is a really handy feature so I'm going to turn things off and then extra episodes don't play it's a whole thing so I love the new sleep sleep timer feature we have the airplay option so you can change the audio output so right now I'm mirroring this and recording it on my Mac but you could choose like your airpods or any AirPlay 2 speakers to send your audio out from your Apple TV we have the little gaming icon you can see any game controllers that are currently connected to your Apple TV here we have then accessibility and restriction options and finally our Universal Spotlight search to go ahead and search anything systemwide TV show movie application whatever it is if we go all the way back to the top we can move over one this pulls up our home kit stuff I can move between all the different cameras we have in our house so there's our doorbell right now the side camera batteries out any of these we can jump between and get live feeds right here on our Apple TV moving down we have some additional scenes that we can choose from all pulling in from home kit so a little bit more powerful home kit support than we had in the past at any time if we want to pull something up click on that camera Bring It full screen it'll give you cards like the accessories that are located in that room that you may want to control you can go to split screen mode and view multiple cameras at once and then finally we can move into picture and picture so you can see what's going on at the same time as you're watching something else back to the top we can currently see our connected continuity cameras so my iPhone is connected here we can see any audio that was going so I can control music anytime just from control center here pulling up that song play pause all of that and of course just the time is listed there at the top off we go to profiles we can choose between the profiles on the Apple TV and if you wake your Apple TV using the remote app on your iPhone that will actually sign you in automatically to your active profile so you won't have to switch profiles if you use your iPhone to wake up your Apple TV really neat little touch there aside from that Apple's also syncing other things with profiles now things like system settings or connected airpods Apple TV now supports vpns vpns are huge so virtual private networks allow you to do a bunch of things to protect your traffic on your Apple TV you could change where your Apple TV is located by running it through a different server which could get you through geoloc things like maybe you're uh blacked out from a certain sports game that you want to watch you can go ahead and say you're in a different city and boom you can get access to it it'll also help for things like schools or businesses that have to run things through vpns so VPN support has been much wanted on Apple TV and it's finally here we should see third-party applications launching this fall to support vpns fully and allow you to completely customize all your VPN options directly on the Apple TV a lot of TV or a lot of TV manufacturers already support vpns a lot of your routers already support them but it's nice to have it just built into the Apple TV itself let's jump back into settings and go down to General and talk about screen savers apple has a few new screen saver options for the Apple TV so first for Ariel these are Apple's kind of high flyover ones Apple's added new locations for Arizona's Monument Valley and California's coastal redwoods neither of these are currently active in the beta so we can't actually show them to you and see how they look but they will be added in a future update by the time this is fully released additionally if we change it to my photos and we want to use memories this is pretty cool so they're actually able to pull memories from your phone your photos app and give you these customized personalized memories curated from your photos so you can see all sorts of memories play back as your screen saver and these work for both your personal album your shared album or both together here's a really cool one of my wife and I back in 2020 so apparently we got some Monument Valley stuff in here because there's Horseshoe Bend out in Arizona so I guess we're going to pull in some of those anyway but uh yeah these curated memories they're super awesome I love these here in tvos 17. let's talk about the Apple TV remote this has been a long time coming if you've ever had any of Apple's remotes you know that they can get lost very easily I actually liked the old remotes a lot the new ones they're just fine I don't have a problem with them but what I do have a problem with is that Apple never added find my support to these so you can never find them using the find my app there's no U1 chip for precision tracking there's no speaker to help them make noise if they fall into a couch cushion nothing at all but apple is somewhat remedying that here with tvos 17. if you have the latest Apple TV 4K and the newest Siri remote the second generation Siri remote you can now use your iPhone to find your remote when you go into control center and open up your remote there there will be a new button that will allow you to find your Apple TV remote basically it'll look similar to the find my app with a big blue bubble kind of expanding as you get closer and closer to your Apple TV remote helping you locate it it's using Bluetooth proximity so it's not as accurate as the U1 but it should help you in finding it in your living room in your couch in a blanket whatever it is if you've got your Apple TV 4K paired with a second generation home pod then you can experience the new enhanced dialogue feature this is really cool though again it's limited to the second generation full sized homepod essentially what this does is pull the audio track out of the mix and brings into the foreground and reducing the background sounds allowing you to more easily hear what people are saying on screen it's a very nice effect and again it only works with those new home pods but I think it's going to help a lot of people in picking up what people are saying honestly I use my homepod minis my bedroom and sometimes the dialogue gets very muddied I really wish it was actually coming to more speakers besides the full-size home pods maybe I'm just going to have to upgrade my bedroom speakers to the full size ones to get that better dialogue experience with tvos 17 apple is supporting Dolby Visions 8.1 profile now 8.1 doesn't have any quality improvements necessarily over the other versions of Dolby Vision but it has one very nice quality of life Improvement and that has automatic fallback to HDR 10. so if you're playing something it doesn't support Dolby Vision or whatever you can fall back to HDR 10 and still get that good quality without that it would just fall back to stronghi dynamic range a standard dynamic range and it won't look as good so by using this it's able to fall back to a higher quality before or going to SDR so if you are watching something with Dolby Vision you're going to get the best video quality even if your TV and everything doesn't fully support it so it's a really nice feature to have at least having some fallback option finally let's go to the fitness app I'm going to go ahead and pair this with my Apple watch choose Apple watch there I'm going to confirm right here now that we're connected let's take a look at the new features coming to Fitness First let's go ahead and start a workout how about a strength with Sam let's go ahead and pull this one up so Apple has created a new feature called audio focus if we go ahead and tap the back button to pull up the on-screen controls I'm going to let the workout resume we're going to move up to the bar and go over to the audio option now you can see we have these audio hints that have been here but we can turn these things on for audio focus you can choose whether you want to focus on the trainer's voice and their direction or on the background music some people just want to listen to the background music and follow along visually you done this workout before and you just want to focus on the task whether you're meditating or whatever you can now focus more on that background track reducing the trainer's volume or you really want to hear what they are saying and focus long listen to them in their motivation so you can switch that folks over to the trainer so it's nice to give you that new option to choose which audio you'd like to hear more of down here at the bottom Apple is giving you two new options to help manage your workouts first is Stacks Stacks allow you to take multiple workouts and put them into one group that you can do back to back to back it's really handy because before you would finish a workout then you'd have to go back to the page or the library find the next one you want to do then start it now you can just group them together and do them continuously with no pause in between or you can pause if you need to then we have these custom plans custom plans they're created on your iPhone when you create one for the first time it'll pop up on your iPhone allowing you just to get started you can add anything you want to for these custom plans so you can choose the days of the week the types of workouts that you want to to do you can filter by trainers and music type and create this custom workout plan that meets your needs you can run it for as long as you need to and then Apple will just give you this plan of these are the workouts you're going to do over this period of time and these days so I've gone ahead and created one now on my iPhone you can see my plan today we have a kickboxing with Jamie Ray up I can also view my plan I can see what I have on set for today I've got a core kickboxing then a meditation there's week one week two week three week four week five that's how long this plan is and all the different content that's been put into it so you can see what I'm going to be doing and when and it can help you stick with it stick with your schedule and what you want to be doing it's really cool I love these workout plans this is going to be huge my wife is already a big fan of this and she can't even use it yet but this is going to be a big game changer for people who are really using Apple Fitness Plus so that covers it those are the new features coming to the Apple TV as part of tvos 17. it'll be available later this year as a free update for Apple TV users let me know what you guys think Down Below in the comments or on Twitter at Andrew underscore OSU and I want to know your favorite new features are you excited for these changes coming to Apple Fitness Plus are you excited to Belt along to your favorite tracks with apple music sync or are you just excited to see cameras coming to the Apple TV for the first time this is all a big deal I'm very excited and let me know what you guys think otherwise I'll catch you in the next video

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Length: 16min 59sec (1019 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 21 2023