Mastodawn

As someone who just helped my elderly parents switch from cable boxes to Apple TV, here are my two biggest gripes for Apple about this device:

1 - It is RIDICULOUS that the TV button on the remote defaults to the tv app. It should absolutely default to the Home screen (you should change this in settings>remotes).

My mantra for them is: "whenever you get confused, hit the TV button and it will take you back to the home screen."

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Todd Vaziri Oct 26

2 - Apple absolutely has to rethink the remote - not necessarily to add more buttons, but to redesign it with the thought that all the buttons do not have to be of equal size/shape. For example, PLEASE make Play/Pause larger and more prominent.

http://fxrant.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-apple-tv-siri-remote-but-gooderer.html

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Mini

@tvaziri “Slow motion and jog” – oh my god, yes! I know VCR tapes were linear and often slow, but it should be possible to hover through digital videos without buffering freezes or accidentally jumping to completely different positions.