He mentioned a special March Madness app, exclusive to the box, an app called Solar Walk 2, which “turns your living room into a planetarium”, GrubHub, and a few games.
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There’s also improved voice dictation, so Apple TV will better understand what commands you’re uttering, including passwords.
Your Apple TV is out of date.
Cook started off by touting the new Apple TV’s excellent sales and the fact that there are now 5,000 apps available on the platform – neither of which should come as a huge surprise to anyone, considering tvOS has been created to make porting apps over from iOS extremely easy. Just like on your phone, you can now organize your apps in folders.
That proliferation of apps on your homepage?
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Folders do exactly what you think they would. And the app switcher, which lets you choose between running apps, has been redesigned into a sleeker version. As far as the device itself goes, Tom’s Guide reviewed it as a highly competent set-top box, albeit a very expensive one that does not offer 4K video. Apple also finally added access to iCloud photo library, making all photos available on a big screen. The company has been beta testing tvOS 9.2 for several months now, but starting today everyone can download and install it to take advantage of the new features.
