How To Manage Apple TV Apps On Your HD Television

Most of us can easily download the apple TV apps from the App Store, but to manage these numerous apps on the home screen of your HD TV becomes an irritating task all the times on a daily basis. I can understand the pain involved in finding that one important app you are willing to use out of those hundreds of downloaded apps in your apps list. This is more often called Home Screen Confusion and In this blog, I will make sure to eliminate this super taxing app searching difficulty that comes across on a daily basis to Apple TV users.

One method to find a specific app you want to use is using the Siri remote and voicing the name of the said app. But what about that situation, when you want to search for 5 apps which delivers similar kind of content and you want to select the best out of them ? Also, it will be wiser and good-to-know thing if you could learn about how to move, delete and organize apps. Besides, organizing apps into folders on your Apple TV makes the app usability quite comfortable for the user.

Moving Apps Around On The Apple TV Home Screen

When we download apps on our Apple TV, they usually appear at the bottom of the home screen below the downloaded last app. The apps you mostly use happens to be scattered all over the place on your Apple TV home screen. You would definitely look towards placing all these most used apps on the top of your home screen.

In order to place your most frequently used apps on the top of your Apple Tv home screen, you should follow these simple steps :

• Firstly, select the app which you want to move using your Apple Siri Remote.

• Now, depress the touch surface of your Siri remote or the alternative remote until the app starts to move.

• If your remote is not equipped with touch surface, then simply select the app you want to move and hold down the select button till the time app starts moving.

• Now, you need to move the selected app by swiping it left, right, up or down using your remote’s touch surface or by making use of the directional keys on alternative remotes.

• Now that you have already moved your app to the desired position on your Apple TV screen, you only need to press the touch surface or alternatively, press select once again in order to release the app.

Simply repeat the above steps for each app for which you would like to replace the position on the home screen. This way you will be able to keep your most visited apps like NetFlix etc. always on the top shelf of your apple TV screen.

Deleting Apps That Are Of No Use To You

There is a limited space on your Apple Tv which demands for constantly deleting those unwanted apps that you no longer use.

The two ways of deleting unwanted apps are explained in detail below :

1st Approach

Go to Settings. Follow Settings>General>Manage Storage. The next screen will show you the list of already installed apps. Her, you need to tap on the trash icon provided on the right hand of the app name to delete that particular app. This page is also going to reveal the amount of space a particular app is taking on your Apple TV storage.

2nd Approach

On your Home Screen, select and long hold the app that you would like to delete using your remote control. Once the selected app starts to vibrate, press the play/pause button and now choose Delete from the menu that shows up.

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Creating Folders on Your Apple TV and Using Them To The Best of Your Advantage

By making folders for specific or similar kind of apps so as to access them easily can make your life hassle-free and much more easier. Suppose, you possess a heavy collection of various games on your Apple TV, then making a folder that reads “Games” might help you to find your favourite games on a quick go. The very same thing could be done for arranging various entertainment and fitness related apps.

Making a folder on your Apple TV is quite easy. Let me help you with making your first folder on your Apple TV :

• To do so, follow the instructions for How to Move Apps Around as described above.

• Follow the same steps as stated above for “Moving The Apps Around”.

• Now that you have selected the app you would like to include in the folder, just “drop” the app over another similar app and thus, a new folder will be created automatically.

• You will be asked to name the folder and these two apps will automatically be tucked inside the folder.

Similarly, you can select other similar apps and make them tucked in a folder which constitutes of a specific kind of apps stored in it. Further, you can now store these newly created folders in the top shelf on your Apple TV home screen. Besides, this will also make browsing similar kind of apps much easier for you.

To take out an app from a folder, you simply need to drag that particular app out of the folder.