![]() However, by leveraging the camera on the iPhone or iPad, it can take advantage of features like Center Stage, which keeps you in the frame as you move around. In other words, the app is a companion to the FaceTime app you already use, rather than a standalone, native app experience you can use on the Apple TV on its own. To use FaceTime, you’ll place your call on your iPhone and then move it to Apple TV, or you can pick up a call from a friend on your iPhone, then move it to Apple TV. The app will take advantage of Continuity Camera, which means the Apple TV will connect to your iPhone or iPad to use the camera and microphone, while the call itself is then shown on the big screen. The bigger update in terms of family connection, however, is the introduction of FaceTime to Apple TV. You’ll also be able to now select favorite photos as your screensaver featuring “fluid animations and transitions” - a baseline feature other streaming devices, like Roku, already offer. The new control center will help Apple TV owners do things like access their AirPods settings, home cameras, system controls, and user profiles with a touch of the remote. With tvOS 17, Apple is redesigning the control center, bringing the FaceTime app to Apple TV (sorta!), and even helping you find a lost TV remote, among other things. This year, as it turns out, the company did deliver a small set of improvements to tvOS and its Apple TV device, though nothing as big as new hardware. ![]() If you were playing WWDC23 bingo, you’d be missing a key space - the one you could mark if Apple again ignored Apple TV in its keynote address. ![]()
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