How To Control Apple TV Using iOS 7 Remote App

In this Episode, How To Use The Apple TV Remote App To Control The Apple TV Using Your iOS 7 Devices and also perform Voice Search without the need of turning on Home Sharing.

TRANSCRIPT:

Welcome back to episode 3 from Series 1 of How To Get The Best Experience From an Apple TV 3rd generation.

In Summary, Episode 1 show the 3 Options that you can use to setup the Apple TV 3rd generation, Episode 2 showed how to update the Apple TV.
In this episode, how to use the Apple TV Remote App to control the Apple TV using your iOS 7 devices with voice search without the need of turning on Home Sharing.

So….Let’s Get Started.

I personally find that getting the best experience using the Apple TV involves using the iOS 7 Remote App on your iDevices.

Firstly; to control the Apple TV using your iPhone and iPad, the Apple TV and iDevices has to be on the same network and you will need to download the Remote App from the iOS App store.

As shown I have already downloaded version 4.2.

Once downloaded you can press the open button here or launching the Remote App from the iOS 7 screen as shown.

I’ll first pair the iPhone to the Apple TV by pressing Add a Device, where a 4-digits pairing ID is automatically generated for you.

Using the Apple Remote, scroll to and select Settings, then select General and scroll down and select Remotes. and finally Scroll to the name of your iPhone, which in my case is “MacStudioA’s iPhone” and press select, now enter the 4 digits pairing ID. The MacStudioA’s iPhone is now activated and paired with the Apple TV.

Repeat for the iPad, but now instead of using the Apple Remote to enter the pairing ID, you are prompted to enter the pairing ID from the iPhone…now that’s neat.

Pressing the Question Mark symbol on the Remote App, shows how to use gestures to control the Apple TV, as shown here.

The Remote App also allows for voice search as demonstrated here.

"Steve McQueen"

"Elvis"

If you prefer, you can type your search query.

Going to settings and selecting Main Menu allows you to choose what channels you want shown or hidden on the Home Screen.

When Pressing the Options Symbol on an icon from the Home screen, it will begin to jiggle, now just drag to a new position. By the way, the message that says Press Play Pause for more options does not seem to work.

To fully appreciate the ease of use of the Remote App, you have to give it a try for yourself.

I should mention or my major pet peeve when using the Apple Remote or the Remote App on your iOS 7 devices, and that is, NO VOLUME Controls. Now this just drives me up the wall, having to use two remotes, one for navigation control and your TV remote for volume control just doesn't work for me…please Apple…Fix this issue. Just had to get that off my chest.

And that’s all there is to it, using the Remote App in my opinion delivers a better experience than using the Apple Remote, let me know what you think if you have an Apple TV.

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