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Apple TV has deep customization features almost no one uses

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November 12, 2024

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Apple TV has deep customization features almost no one uses

Key Takeaways

Organize apps into folders for easy navigation and a cleaner home screen.

Customize your screensaver by selecting images or albums you prefer.

Create different profiles to personalize your Apple TV experience for multiple users.

It’s no secret the Apple TV 4K is my favorite streaming device, and that’s despite not even owning another Apple product. It’s fast, and easy to use, and a very underrated feature is its ability to be neatly organized to your liking. If you’re somebody who likes to just plug in a device and start using it, the Apple TV 4K is just fine for that. However, if you want to have some extra customization to make your device feel more like your own, that’s an option too.

You get out as much as you put in, so you don’t have to worry about doing any sort of tweaking if you don’t want to. On the other hand, if you download a bunch of apps, it might be easier to de-clutter your home page into folders and make things easier to find. Here are some tips I have on how to make your Apple TV 4K a little more organized and nice to look at.

Apple TV 4K (2022)

Brand: Apple
Bluetooth codecs: 5.0
Wi-Fi: 6
Ethernet: Gigabit (128GB model only)
Storage and RAM: 64GB, 128GB

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1 Organize your apps into folders

Less time looking around

If you put your apps into specific folders, you can save time scrolling through your home screen and more time doing what you want. As an example, you can put your music streaming apps like Apple Music or Spotify into a music folder and separate your Netflix and Max apps into a streaming folder. The process of making a folder is very simple, and all you have to do is follow these steps.

Go to an app on your Apple TV home screen and hold the click pad or touch surface on your remote.
Choose Move To New Folder.
To change the name of the folder, follow step one again and rename it when the screen pops back up.

This type of organization isn’t needed if you don’t have many apps installed as it’s simple enough to head over to them to click them. If you have a bunch of different stuff installed, then you might be better off putting your apps into folders. It’s a simple task that takes a matter of seconds, and it helps give your home screen a much cleaner look. You can always delete apps you don’t use anymore to free up more screen space too.

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2 Give your Apple TV a screensaver

Pick what you want

A screensaver is nice to have if you don’t like looking through the randomized picture every time you leave your Apple TV 4K inactive for a little bit. Instead of letting Apple choose what you see, and you do see some cool pictures to be fair, you can use your own images. If you have a gallery you want to use for your screensaver, follow these steps.

Go to Settings and select Screen Saver.
Choose Memories & Slideshows, and then pick an album you want to use.

This step assumes you have pictures to use, but if you don’t, there are some other ways you can customize your screen savers. Following the same first step, you can select a variety of different options, including aerial images picked by Apple. You can get a good look at the different options available directly from Apple, so don’t feel like you’re locked into only using your personal images.