![]() This immediately makes the remote button’s layout clearly asymmetric, and you can feel the top just with your fingers. The new remote features a circular trackpad/button at the top and the other buttons go below. What I am happy about is that Apple preserved the Siri Remote’s best idea - the swipe gesture trackpad - and remodeled it to make it intuitive and accessible to more Apple TV users, rather than scrapping a good idea altogether because of a bad implementation in the first attempt. As such, I didn’t hate it as much as other people, but I could recognize its flaws all the same. I had trained myself to carefully pick it up by its side, in order not to brush against the trackpad surface. Personally, I had learned how to deal with the old remote. The new 2021 Apple TV Siri Remote addresses each of these issues. The main problems with the old Apple TV remote was that the trackpad was easy to touch accidentally, the layout was symmetrical so you didn’t know which way you were holding it, and the overall remote was small and easy to lose. It really does make everyone happy… or at least, my family doesn’t get angry every time they pick it up. The new remote is a combination of the best parts of the fourth-gen trackpad remote and the older silver Infrared button remote that came before it. Unlike with the keyboard situation though, Apple’s new Siri Remote is not merely a step backward into the past. The old Apple TV remote lived in the market about as long as the butterfly keyboard fiasco, garnering about as much frustration. It made people happy, but it was kind of boring. When Apple retraced its steps on the butterfly key decision, it essentially reverted back to the tried-and-tested Magic Keyboard design with almost no tweaks or changes. It’s compatible with any Apple TV that runs tvOS … Everything about the Apple TV is expensive, but fortunately you can buy the remote separately. The differences between the 2017 Apple TV and the new 2021 Apple TV hardware are negligible, but the remote redesign stands on its own as bringing happiness and joy to the living room. It’s worth noting that the app works with LG, Samsung, Hitachi, Toshiba, Sharp, and more Smart TVs.After a month of having the new Apple TV in our household, I can firmly recommend that all Apple TV owners pick up the new generation of Apple TV Siri Remote. The app works with iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. However, in order to unlock some of the features such as themes and widgets, users must subscribe to TV Remote Premium. TV Remote 2 is now available for free on the App Store. Other enhancements coming with this update include new and redesigned home screen widgets, accessibility improvements, and faster TV discovery. This way, you can rearrange the buttons and choose the ones that are most useful to you. ![]() Another new feature allows users to customize the layout of the app. The themes are synchronized with your other Apple devices via iCloud, so you don’t need to recreate the same themes on each of them. There are also options to choose specific colors of the remote control in light and dark mode. You can even create or set a different theme for each TV paired with the app. For instance, it now features theme options so that users can change the appearance of their virtual remote control. With TV Remote 2, the app is more customizable than ever. With the TV Remote app, everything works nearly instantly, and I don’t have to wait a few seconds until the app identifies my TV, which happens every time with the Samsung app for some unknown reason. In my experience using it with a Samsung QLED TV, the TV Remote app has a better and more consistent experience than the official Samsung app provides. Setting up a compatible TV for the first time only takes a few seconds. The main idea of the app is quite simple: the interface replicates the main buttons on your TV remote control, so you can do things like change channels, change the volume, or even access the TV’s home screen without having to pick up your remote control. ![]() This week, the app was updated to version 2, which comes with multiple new features such as theme options, custom layout, widgets, and more. TV Remote was released for iOS last year as an alternative to letting iPhone users control their Smart TVs from an iPhone or iPad. ![]()
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