Among the best options of the Apple TV is its strong assortment of Aerial display savers. When your Apple TV sits idle for a couple of minutes, tvOS switches to those soothing Aerial movies whereas it awaits your return.
YouTube, nevertheless, thinks you’d moderately see random slideshows of photographs and video thumbnails as a substitute…
‘YouTube’s Display Stealer’
Joe Rosensteel has a superb rationalization of the state of affairs in a weblog submit, writing:
Yesterday, I had the YouTube app open on my Apple TV in my workplace. I went to do one thing else, and once I regarded again it wasn’t the Apple TV aerial screensaver, however a YouTube app “display saver” with a slideshow of closely compressed nonetheless photographs.
The Apple TV in my lounge had an older model of the YouTube app (presumably from April 2nd if the dates within the model names are to be believed.) That model didn’t attempt to override my screensaver just like the one in my workplace.
Sure, the YouTube app hijacks your Apple TV’s display saver with its personal interpretation of a “display saver.” As Joe explains, there are two completely different stuff you would possibly see. If you happen to don’t have a video paused, your display saver will probably be a “slideshow of generic nonetheless photographs taken from movies.”
If you happen to’re actively watching a video, then pause it lengthy sufficient for the YouTube app’s display saver to kick in, you’ll see “a slideshow of the YouTube thumbnail artwork endlessly zooming in, fading to black, and beginning over.”
Not ideally suited. A far cry from Apple’s lovely Aerial display savers.
The query, in fact, is what comes subsequent. As of proper now, YouTube isn’t displaying adverts or different promotional content material on these display savers. My guess is this can change, probably sooner moderately than later, and the YouTube app’s display saver will present at the least some form of promotional messaging. YouTube has additionally made the identical change on Android TV.
A workaround
There may be, nevertheless, a easy workaround that may stop the YouTube app from efficiently hijacking your Apple TV’s screensaver. The YouTube app seems to start out its display saver after round 4–5 minutes.
- Go to the Settings app in your Apple TV
- Select “Common”
- Select “Display Saver”
- Select “Begin After”
- Choose the “2 minutes” possibility
Doing this can be sure that the Apple TV’s default, lovely, high-resolution display savers will start earlier than YouTube has the prospect to hijack your TV. For now, at the least.
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