Aside from major new features inApple’s new tvOS 9.2 firmwarefor the fourth-generation Apple TV, which released to the public on Monday, March 21, there’re plenty of under-the-hood improvements to be excited about.
Among them are handy sorting options for the movies in your Wish List and TV shows in your Favorites. In this tutorial, we’ll demonstrate how you can tell your Apple TV to show recent TV episodes first and change sorting options for movies in your Wish List.
With the built-in iTunes Movies and TV Shows apps, it’s easy to add movies that you haven’t yet purchased or rented to your Wish List, or put TV shows in your Favorites.
How to adjust sorting for Wish Lists and Favorites on Apple TV
1)Go toSettings → Apps → iTunes Movies and TV Shows.
2)To change how movies inside your Wish List are sorted, select theSort Movies in Wish Listoption and chooseBy DateorAlphabetically.
3)Likewise, you can change how TV shows added to Favorites are sorted by selectingSort TV Shows in Favorites, then chooseBy DateorAlphabetically.
Tip:You may prefer alphabetical sorting for movies in your Wish List. For TV shows in Favorites, it might make more sense to sort them by date as this will show recent episodes first, which makes more sense.
Managing Wish Lists for Movies on Apple TV
To add a movie you might want to buy or rent later to your Wish List, select theWish Listoption on the movie’s page within the iTunes Movies app.
To remove the item, chooseRemoveon the page.
To view your iTunes Wish List, swipe to theWish Listoption in the menu bar at the top of the screen in the iTunes Movies app.
Managing Favorites for TV shows on Apple TV
Similarly, select theFavoritesoption on any item’s page in the TV Shows app to add it to Favorites. To see your Favorites, swipe to theFavoritesoption in the menu bar at the top.
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If your Favorites or Wish Lists is empty, you won’t see it in the menu bar. Your Apple TV Favorites and Wish Lists currently do not sync with iOS devices or desktop iTunes.
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“Wish Lists on Apple TV sync only with other Apple TVs,” cautions Apple in a support document. “They don’t sync with Wish Lists on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, or PC.”
Best new features in tvOS 9.2
tvOS 9.2 is a significant update that brings a lot of features missing from the original software that shipped with the new Apple TV following its debut.
For example, you can now dictate text, user names and passwords using your voice, use Siri to find apps in the App Store, organize apps in folders, use a wireless keyboard to navigate the tvOS interface and much more.
Here’s a quick video recap of tvOS 9.2’s headlining new features.
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