Hello everyone,
I have an AppleTV 4K (3rd Generation). It comes with the new USB-C Siri Remote, the one in aluminium with black buttons.
The search functionality has always worked fine.* I've always been able to press the "search" button on the side of the remote, and use my voice to give it a search term. Same by selecting and clicking the "search" app in the home screen. That has always opened a tvOS-wide search, returning results from multiple apps. Maybe it has often preferred AppleTV+ content, or from iTunes, but it still could search everything. Most importantly, the results were _videos_.
Now it's searching for anything but videos. The results contain songs, albums and podcasts, mostly. No video content of any kind. If I open an app (for example the AppleTV app, or Netflix, or Amazon Prime Video), then I can still search for video content inside the app, but the tvOS-level search doesn't work for videos anymore.
It's really odd, and very frustrating.
I think it started happening after I upgraded it to tvOS 17. I can't be exactly sure, but it's the only thing that changed recently.
I've tried googling the problem, but I can't find anything useful.
I've looked at the AppleTV settings, but nothing obvious jumps out.
Does anyone have any idea what's happening? Is it normal?
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* "Fine". Well, to be honest there is an issue where sometimes it doesn't start the search but it still records my voice, so that when it actually starts searching, it's as if the "recording buffer" on the remote gets flushed in one go, and everything I said gets entered into the search field. It's actually funny.
I have an AppleTV 4K (3rd Generation). It comes with the new USB-C Siri Remote, the one in aluminium with black buttons.
The search functionality has always worked fine.* I've always been able to press the "search" button on the side of the remote, and use my voice to give it a search term. Same by selecting and clicking the "search" app in the home screen. That has always opened a tvOS-wide search, returning results from multiple apps. Maybe it has often preferred AppleTV+ content, or from iTunes, but it still could search everything. Most importantly, the results were _videos_.
Now it's searching for anything but videos. The results contain songs, albums and podcasts, mostly. No video content of any kind. If I open an app (for example the AppleTV app, or Netflix, or Amazon Prime Video), then I can still search for video content inside the app, but the tvOS-level search doesn't work for videos anymore.
It's really odd, and very frustrating.
I think it started happening after I upgraded it to tvOS 17. I can't be exactly sure, but it's the only thing that changed recently.
I've tried googling the problem, but I can't find anything useful.
I've looked at the AppleTV settings, but nothing obvious jumps out.
Does anyone have any idea what's happening? Is it normal?
---
* "Fine". Well, to be honest there is an issue where sometimes it doesn't start the search but it still records my voice, so that when it actually starts searching, it's as if the "recording buffer" on the remote gets flushed in one go, and everything I said gets entered into the search field. It's actually funny.