Probably the greatest options of the Apple TV is its strong assortment of Aerial display savers. When your Apple TV sits idle for a couple of minutes, tvOS switches to those soothing Aerial movies whereas it awaits your return.
YouTube, nevertheless, thinks you’d somewhat see random slideshows of photos and video thumbnails as an alternative…
‘YouTube’s Display screen Stealer’
Joe Rosensteel has a very good rationalization of the scenario in a weblog put up, writing:
Yesterday, I had the YouTube app open on my Apple TV in my workplace. I went to do one thing else, and after I seemed again it wasn’t the Apple TV aerial screensaver, however a YouTube app “display saver” with a slideshow of closely compressed nonetheless photos.
The Apple TV in my front room had an older model of the YouTube app (presumably from April 2nd if the dates within the model names are to be believed.) That model didn’t attempt to override my screensaver just like the one in my workplace.
Sure, the YouTube app hijacks your Apple TV’s display saver with its personal interpretation of a “display saver.” As Joe explains, there are two completely different belongings you would possibly see. When you don’t have a video paused, your display saver shall be a “slideshow of generic nonetheless photos taken from movies.”
When you’re actively watching a video, then pause it lengthy sufficient for the YouTube app’s display saver to kick in, you’ll see “a slideshow of the YouTube thumbnail artwork endlessly zooming in, fading to black, and beginning over.”
Not perfect. A far cry from Apple’s stunning Aerial display savers.
The query, after all, is what comes subsequent. As of proper now, YouTube isn’t displaying advertisements or different promotional content material on these display savers. My guess is it will change, possible sooner somewhat than later, and the YouTube app’s display saver will present at the least some type of promotional messaging. YouTube has additionally made the similar change on Android TV.
A workaround
There may be, nevertheless, a easy workaround that may forestall the YouTube app from efficiently hijacking your Apple TV’s screensaver. The YouTube app seems to begin its display saver after round 4–5 minutes.
- Go to the Settings app in your Apple TV
- Select “Basic”
- Select “Display screen Saver”
- Select “Begin After”
- Choose the “2 minutes” possibility
Doing it will be certain that the Apple TV’s default, stunning, high-resolution display savers will start earlier than YouTube has the possibility to hijack your TV. For now, at the least.
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