Following up on our earlier article, for those who’re nonetheless having hassle sustaining connectivity between your present Apple TV and its Siri distant, you’re not alone. Despite a rising variety of complaints, Apple has but to publicly acknowledge or problem a repair for the problem.
Apple launched a brand new model of the Apple TV 4K final fall, including a brand new A15 Bionic chip inside, help for HDR 10+, and a brand new Siri Distant with USB-C for charging. Apart from the change to USB-C, the Siri Distant included with the 2022 model of the Apple TV 4K is an identical to the earlier technology.
A variety of threads on Reddit and Apple’s help web site describe ongoing connectivity points between the Apple TV and the Siri Distant.The issues appear unique to the Siri Distant with USB-C, which Apple additionally sells as a standalone accent for customers of previous-generation Apple TV fashions.
Customers have said that the Siri Distant commonly disconnects from the Apple TV with none recognizable sample or rationalization. These customers have said that the Siri Distant will disconnect whereas the Apple TV is taking part in one thing, often minutes after the distant was used to provoke that playback.
Per one Reddit consumer:
“I believed perhaps the distant was useless, so I charged for a couple of hours. Then the distant confirmed within the high nook as “linked” then 30 seconds later it disconnects. This cycled a couple of occasions over the subsequent couple of minutes. I restarted Apple TV after which it reconnected, thought nothing of it. Now two days later, similar factor. It’s requiring a full restart of Apple TV to get it to attach. The entire time, I might use management middle distant on my iPhone no drawback.”
The most recent Apple TV 4K and USB-C Siri Distant have been launched in November. Since then, Apple has launched a number of updates to tvOS 16, together with tvOS 16.1.1, tvOS 16.2, tvOS 16.3, and tvOS 16.3.1. None of those updates, nonetheless, have efficiently solved these issues.
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Through 9to5Mac, Reddit, and help.apple.com
