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Comment by pbronez

AppleTV does support multiple users, but it’s terrible.

I have an AppleTV on the main television, with Apple accounts set up for each member of my family. It makes almost no difference which user you have selected.

Now, maybe I just haven’t spent enough time trying to set this up, and I’d be delighted to be wrong, but AFAICT:

All users share the same Home Screen layout

All users share the same screen saver

Third party apps have zero integration with the AppleTV accounts. This means I have 4 users on the AppleTV, then 3-5 users on every single app installed on the Apple TV, and any AppleTV user can use any app user.

All together this means the AppleTV users are useless to me. They don’t help me with parental controls. They don’t help me switch between personalized content collections. They don’t even help me log into third party apps!

This should be so much better than it is.

parent pbronez 17 days ago

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