Customize the Apple TV Home screen
You can change the order of apps on the Home screen and place your favorite apps in the top row. When you highlight an app in the top row, you get shortcuts that can take you to content without opening the app first.
On the Home screen, you can also delete apps from the App Store that you no longer use and change the appearance of backgrounds and menus between light and dark.
Rearrange apps
Using the Touch surface on the Siri Remote, highlight an app, then press and hold until the app starts to jiggle.
Swipe to move the app to a new location on the Home screen.
Tip: Move your favorite apps to the top row of the Home screen. When you highlight a top-row app, shortcuts appear at the top of the screen.
Press the Touch surface again to save the new arrangement.
Create a folder for apps
You can organize related apps into folders. For instance, you might store all of your music apps in a Music folder.
Using the Touch surface on the Siri Remote, highlight an app, then press and hold until the app starts to jiggle.
Drag the app over another app until a folder appears, then release.
Press the Touch surface again to save the new arrangement.
To change the name of the new folder, swipe up, then use the onscreen keyboard or dictation to enter a custom name.
Press the
button once to the close the onscreen keyboard, then press the button again to return to the Home screen.
To delete a folder, drag all of its apps back to rows on the Home screen.
Move an app into a folder
Using the Touch surface on the Siri Remote, highlight an app, then press and hold until the app starts to jiggle.
Swipe to move the app over a folder, then release.
Press the Touch surface again to save the new arrangement.
Press the
button to return to the Home screen.
Delete an app
Use the Touch surface on the Siri Remote to select the app you want to delete, then press and hold until the app starts to jiggle.
Press the Play/Pause button
for more options, then choose Delete.Deleting an app also deletes its data. You can download any app again that you’ve purchased on the App Store, free of charge, but the data may not be restored.
Change the appearance of Apple TV
Open Settings
on Apple TV.Go to General > Appearance, then select Light, Dark, or Automatic.
When set to Automatic, the appearance shifts from Light during daytime hours to Dark during nighttime hours.
Keep apps and the Home screen up to date across multiple Apple TVs
If you have more than one Apple TV associated with the same iCloud account, you can keep the same appearance and apps for each device. This makes it seamless to switch between an Apple TV in the bedroom and one in the living room, for example.
Open Settings
on Apple TV.Go to Users and Accounts > iCloud and turn on One Home Screen.