THUMBNAILS FOR FLV AND OTHER OLDER FORMATS Videos in .flv and similar formats now show a picture on their tile instead of a blank placeholder. THE DATE COLUMN GOES WHERE YOU PICK Press OK on a month in the date column on the Timeline and the grid jumps to that month. Press OK on the month you are already in to see every year. The column now keeps going up until the newest month, and pressing up at the top stays put instead of jumping to the tabs. BACK TAKES YOU TO THE TABS On the Timeline, Back from any video or photo now goes straight up to the Timeline tab. WEB PAGE OFF MEANS OFF With the web page set to Off in Settings > Network, your Apple TV no longer answers on your network. A video you share with a QR code still opens. SHARE STATUS THAT CATCHES UP On the Network tab, a share marked Unreachable switches back to Online on its own when it is reachable again. ORIENTATION FILTER THAT KNOWS MORE Horizontal and Vertical on the Timeline learn a video's shape as soon as its thumbnail shows up, so a phone video filmed upright stops appearing under Horizontal.

PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Videos at least five minutes long can remember where you stopped. Reopen one to resume, or choose "Play from start" in History. Short clips always start from the beginning. SEARCH FROM YOUR PHONE The page your Apple TV hosts on your network has a search box. Type a file name, a folder or a month on your phone. Open a result and tap "Play on TV" to watch it on the big screen. YOUR SKIP, YOUR SLIDESHOW Settings > Player lets you choose how far LEFT and RIGHT skip while the controls are hidden (10, 30 or 60 seconds) and how long each photo stays in a slideshow (5 seconds to 5 minutes, only counting once the photo is fully loaded). SEE HOW MUCH IS LEFT Skipping with the controls hidden now brings up a progress bar along the bottom, with the time played and the time remaining. It appears with the skip amount and goes away with it. FILTER BY TYPE ANYWHERE Open something from a network share or a folder and the media-type filter is there in the controls, the same one the Timeline has: videos, photos, both, or audio. Each list remembers its own choice. BACK TO THE TOP IN ONE PRESS On the Timeline, pressing DOWN from the last row wraps to the first tile. FAVOURITES THAT LIVE IN THEIR FOLDER Favourite something while browsing a network share and it is pinned to that folder, in a "Folder favorites" row at the top of it, instead of going to the Favorites tab. Each folder keeps its own. The Favorites tab stays what you saved from the Timeline. A HEART ON WHAT YOU SAVED Favourited items now show a heart in the top-right corner of their tile, everywhere you browse. Nothing is drawn on the ones you have not saved. A BAD CACHED FILE NO LONGER STICKS If a downloaded copy of a video will not open, the app now throws that copy away and fetches it again, instead of retrying the same broken file and skipping the video. FAVOURITES THAT COME BACK Your favourites are now kept in iCloud as well as on the Apple TV, so they return when you reinstall the app. You need to be signed in to iCloud on the TV. Removing an item still removes it everywhere. FAVOURITES, TIDIED Remove an item from Favourites using its menu in the Favourites tab. Empty and error screens give clearer guidance about your network shares. EASIER NAVIGATION Next now sits beside Play/Pause in the video, audio and photo controls. The controls wrap horizontally, Settings navigation is improved, and text is easier to read in Light appearance.

Stability Fixes a crash that could end a session without warning while browsing or playing media over SMB. The app no longer terminates when a network connection is closed mid-transfer, which was most likely to happen with large 4K files. Timeline A date rail runs down the left edge. Move onto it, pick a month or a year, and press select to jump to that month's first item. The marker follows whatever you have selected in the grid, and walking the grid into another year opens that year and closes the previous one. Months now draw a preview and open in blocks instead of loading everything at once, so a month with thousands of items is fast to reach. Coming back from the player returns you to the item you were watching, not to the top.

Your phone and your laptop, as a second screen. WATCH FROM A BROWSER ON YOUR NETWORK The page Archive hosts on your Apple TV now opens the file you picked right away, instead of showing a black screen while it built the rest of the list behind it. Video plays in the browser now too: the TV had been answering a request for part of a file with the whole file, so playback never started. THE CONTROLS YOU ALREADY KNOW The browser player has the same playback scopes, file badges and transport row as the Apple TV, laid out to fit a phone, plus a stats panel if you want to see what is actually playing. Archive's own fullscreen button is gone: your browser's control does that job, and ours did not. MUSIC UNDER YOUR PHOTOS Backfill music no longer needs fullscreen to start, it moves on to the next song instead of stopping after one, and it stays quiet while you are only looking at thumbnails. WHEN A FILE TAKES A MOMENT TO FIND Opening a link to a file the Apple TV has not indexed yet now says it is still looking and keeps trying, rather than reporting the file as gone. And leaving that screen leaves it, instead of pulling you back a few seconds later. REFRESH REPORTS ITS OWN RESULT The automatic check that runs when you return to the app could close the refresh you started and show its own count instead of yours.

Refresh now tells you what it is doing. The button spins while it works, names the share it is checking, and finishes with the result, so you are never left guessing whether anything happened. Refresh also now rechecks every share you have added, not just the active one. If you dropped new files into any share, they show up. The playback info card moved to the top right of the screen.

Stability and navigation. FIXED A PLAYBACK CRASH Archive could crash while streaming from an SMB share, during the teardown that happens every time one file hands over to the next. The cause was a memory bug in the SMB library Archive builds on: it released a pending request and then used it again. It is now repaired, and verified on an Apple TV 4K across repeated playback with no crashes. FOCUS RETURNS WHERE YOU LEFT IT Leaving the player now puts the selection back on the file you were actually watching, with the grid scrolled to it — including when you moved to a different file inside the player. Previously the selection jumped back to the top of the list. This applies both to Folders and to browsing a computer from the Network tab. A SMALLER DOWNLOAD The bundled demo clips were re-encoded at high quality, cutting roughly a third off the app's download size with no visible difference on screen.

Fixes a crash that could end playback while moving through a folder, and a case where the previous video's audio could keep playing underneath a photo instead of the background music. Favorites and History gain a media-type button in the player, so you can watch only the videos in a list if you want. Leaving the player now returns you to the item that was playing, not the one you opened. Large libraries page in as you scroll.

Fixes a crash that could happen while playing through a folder that also holds files which are not media. Some source-code files use the same ".ts" extension as a video format and were being opened as videos; those are now recognised and skipped, and a file that genuinely cannot be played now says so plainly instead of being retried.