![]() Try your Apple TV Remote again after you try any of these steps or keep moving down the list until it’s fixed □: Apple TV Remote not working? 6 ways to fix it If you have a 2nd or 3rd gen Apple TV – sold between 20 – you may have the old aluminum Apple TV Remote that uses a coin cell battery (all of the steps below won’t apply to that one but the first three steps will). The latter comes with either a Lightning or USB-C port for charging with the older black remote using Lightning to recharge. It's an order of magnitude better than the AppleTV remote.Is your Apple TV Remote not working? Whether you’re seeing issues intermittently, all the time, or just having trouble with volume buttons, follow along for 6 solutions to fix your Apple TV Remote.ĭepending on what Apple TV you purchased, you’ll probably have the older black Siri Remote or the modern aluminum Siri Remote. It works like a laser pointer, with a cursor on-screen and a physical scroll wheel. I have a LG TV, and the remote for it is *brilliant*. Means a lot of the games that worked on the Apple TV with the original touch remote no longer work, all for the sake of $0.50. The cheapening of it by removing the accelerometer though is absurd. The back button for example sometimes takes you to the top menu, sometimes back one level in the app, sometimes takes you home. ![]() Apple *loves* overloading physical buttons with too many functions, which makes your intended action finicky and likely to trigger the wrong thing. ![]() The remote needs more buttons in general. I find the touch surface too small (and I have small hands) so scrolling a large list takes a lot of repeated scrubs (though I think you can maybe do the rotate to scroll thing? not tried). The touch-and-hold-and-spin thing to scrub through video seems to be supported in a minimal number of apps, so I barely ever use that. I never use Siri because it's utterly useless so the siri button isn't a concern for me, but the added power button is useful. Maybe start poaching some Logitech designers? They envision these little things ending up on display at the Museum of Modern Art, but by forgetting about human factors and usability they more often end up in the junk drawer, or the trash, at least when practical and fully functional replacements are available. They seem to lean too heavy on aesthetics and in doing so lose touch with practicality, simplicity, and ease of use. I don’t know why Apple struggles so much with things like remotes and mice. Is it better than the previous version? In some ways yes, but it also brings along its own set of new problems through self inflicted stupid design mistakes. In a competition between the added value of the mute button versus the absurdity of having the Siri button on the side, I’d have to say that the Siri button stupidity (SBS) outweighs the mute button improvement (MBI). Last, and absolutely the least, having the Siri button on the SIDE of the remote is a totally boneheaded move. The remote periodically loses and reacquires connection to the ATV unit. If you disable the trackpad functionality the buttons-only mode is too laggy. Yes, it is a little larger than the previous version but the buttons + micro trackpad functionality is way too sensitive and not well proportioned to adult sized fingers. However, I have to say that the new style Apple TV Remote has been a serious disappointment for me. A textured red silicone case solved the “missing remote” issue for me.
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