Apple TV - 2026.8.0 (1675) TestFlight
NEW:
- Add dimensions to Edit Artwork screen. Requires wifi and mid or high performance device.
- Live TV: Selecting a channel or airing now directly starts playback rather than take you to the Live TV guide screen first.
- Player: support for nerd statistics.
- Show initials as fallback for user profile images that fail to load.
- Update the selected and focus states of the jumpbar on TV.
FIXES:
- After creating or duplicating a list, the user would be returned to the lists screen instead of the list details screen.
- Browse screen jumpbars were broken for folder lists.
- Categories screens were broken for personal media.
- DVR schedule screen remained visible during playback when watching a recorded item.
- Displayed all libraries in the My Libraries menu when no favorites are set.
- Fixed OSD seek bar focus getting lost or delayed
- Fixed a crash on the Discover onboarding screen when the API response is missing UI data.
- Fixed a crash when viewing unmatched library items with no metadata in the server response.
- Fixed playback progress reporting errors during early live TV playback.
- Fixed ultrablur color requests to Luma failing with 401 errors due to missing authentication headers.
- Incorrect focus behavior on Switch User screen.
- Live TV: Improved focus behaviour after selecting a category.
- Live TV: OTA airing details now appear immediately when the guide loads.
- Live TV: Selecting the same previous category did nothing
- Logo shifting on some episode details screens.
- Long username no longer cut off when focused on the user switcher screen.
- Maintain focus in DVR schedule after removing recording.
- Manage would stay open when the app was backgrounded and restored to the user switcher.
- Managed users now see a specific permission error when attempting to cancel a recording made by a different user.
- Movies in collections could fail to load or show a blank screen while loading.
- Moving through episodes causes too many fetches on slow devices.
- Player: Not closing when no next item is available.
- Player: Playback could continue in the background after reaching PostPlay.
- Player: Playback would always resume when returning from the screensaver.
- Player: Subtitle selection and OSD state now carry over correctly when switching FAST channels.
- Skeletons were sometimes showing the incorrect number of titles/subtitles on browse screens.
- Smoother background color transitions when navigating between items.
- Some filters were not being applied correctly on personal media browse screens.
- User switcher now focuses the current user instead of the first user in the list.
