iCreate - UK (2020-04)

Apple TV

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Timeneeded

Developer

Apple,Inc

Difficulty

If you care not for Apple’s Top Shelf

recommendations then you can ditch them

See what’s Up Next

on Apple TV

Use the Home screen banner to display content from the

shows that you’re currently watching

W

hen Apple decided to

revamp the Home screen

interface of Apple TV with

tvOS 13, it opted to make its own

recommendations a key feature of

the app’s Top Shelf. This allowed it

to promote shows that it wanted to

give a little nudge and bring to viewer

attention. But it came at the expense

of ‘Up Next’ which was a list of

shows that you had been watching or

had decided to add for later.

With the release of tvOS 13.3,

Apple has made amends and allowed

the setting to be changed back.

It’s perhaps something most users

will want to do because it makes it

easier to launch shows you’re already

invested in straight from the Home

screen, thereby negating the need

to launch the Apple TV app first. You

can still see suggested shows by

launching the Apple TV app.

1

Check the status

With tvOS 13 installed on Apple TV, the

Home screen banner which runs along the top

part of the screen recommends programmes

to watch whenever you select the TV app.

2

Open Settings app

If you’d prefer this banner to display the

shows you are currently watching instead by

showing what’s coming up next, then you’ll

have to change it by delving into Settings.

3

Navigate to Apps

You do this by altering an option within

the Apple TV app so, once you’re in the

Settings app, use the Siri Remote to navigate

down the screen and select the ‘Apps’ option.

Step-by-step Alter Apple TV’s Home screen banner