PRESS RELEASE October 18, 2022
The strongest Apple TV yet features the A15 Bionic chip, adds HDR10+, and brings the champion of Apple to the biggest surface successful the location — each astatine a caller starting price
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple contiguous announced the adjacent procreation of Apple TV 4K — much powerful, entertaining, and affordable than ever, and offering awesome cinematic quality. Driven by the A15 Bionic spot that delivers faster show and much fluid gameplay, the caller Apple TV 4K features endless amusement options for everyone to bask connected the biggest surface successful the home. HDR10+ enactment joins Dolby Vision connected Apple TV 4K, truthful users tin ticker their favourite movies and TV shows successful the champion prime imaginable crossed much TVs.1 Running tvOS, the almighty and intuitive OS for the surviving room, and featuring the fashionable Siri Remote, Apple TV 4K simplifies the mode users observe and bask their favourite content. Its seamless integration with different Apple devices and services magically transforms the surviving country successful antithetic ways for the full family, portion besides adding convenience arsenic a astute location hub.
The caller Apple TV 4K is disposable successful 2 configurations: Apple TV 4K (Wi-Fi), which offers 64GB of storage; and Apple TV 4K (Wi-Fi + Ethernet), which offers enactment for Gigabit Ethernet for accelerated networking and streaming, Thread mesh networking protocol to link adjacent much astute location accessories, and doubly the retention for apps and games (128GB). Customers tin bid the caller Apple TV 4K with Siri Remote contiguous astatine a caller starting terms of $129, with availability opening Friday, November 4.
“Apple TV 4K is the eventual mode for Apple users to bask their favourite amusement connected the biggest surface successful the home, and present it is much almighty than ever,” said Bob Borchers, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “The caller Apple TV 4K is dissimilar thing other retired there, fixed its seamless transportation to different Apple devices, easiness of use, and entree to astonishing Apple content. It offers thing for everyone successful the household to love.”
A Cinematic Home Theater Experience
The adjacent procreation of Apple TV 4K is an amusement powerhouse, bringing the champion video and audio capabilities to the biggest surface successful the home. At the bosom of the caller Apple TV 4K is A15 Bionic, making the instrumentality adjacent much almighty and vigor efficient. CPU show is present up to 50 percent faster than the erstwhile generation, delivering greater responsiveness, faster navigation, and snappier UI animations. GPU show is present up to 30 percent faster than the erstwhile procreation for adjacent smoother gameplay.
Apple TV 4K present supports HDR10+, successful summation to Dolby Vision, expanding affluent ocular prime crossed much TVs, producing the eye-popping details and vibrant colors intended by contented creators. Users tin besides bask a location theatre acquisition with Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital 7.1, oregon Dolby Digital 5.1 situation dependable for immersive audio.2
With the Siri Remote, users bask a touch-enabled clickpad that provides speed, fluidity, and precise power to easy navigate the simple, elegant idiosyncratic interface of Apple TV.3 On the Apple TV app, customers tin entree award-winning bid and films connected Apple TV+, arsenic good arsenic implicit 100,000 movies and bid to bargain oregon rent, and nonstop premium subscriptions to fashionable streaming services.
Seamless Integration with the Apple Ecosystem
Apple TV 4K works seamlessly with different Apple devices, starting with a magical setup process with iPhone and effortless power astatine immoderate clip with the Apple TV Remote successful Control Center. The heavy integration of Apple hardware, software, and services with Apple TV 4K unlocks an unparalleled acquisition that brings the champion of the Apple ecosystem to the surviving room.4
- Apple Music offers entree to a catalog of implicit 100 cardinal songs, expertly curated playlists, and euphony videos done Apple TV 4K. With archetypal contented from the astir respected and beloved radical successful music, autoplay, time-synced lyrics, lossless audio, and immersive Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos, Apple Music offers the world’s champion listening experience.
- Apple TV+ is the location of premium play and drama series, diagnostic films, documentaries, and kids and household entertainment, including this year’s Oscar Best Picture winner, “CODA”; record-breaking Emmy Award victor “Ted Lasso”; deed play “Severance”; “Shantaram,” based connected the bestselling novel; and acclaimed bid “Bad Sisters,” “Mythic Quest,” “Pachinko,” and galore more. Viewers tin besides bask films specified arsenic “Sidney,” a documentary honoring the legendary Sidney Poitier; “Causeway,” starring and produced by Academy Award victor Jennifer Lawrence; and the vacation communicative “Spirited,” starring Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds, and Octavia Spencer. Apple TV+ besides offers unrecorded sports, including “Friday Night Baseball,” and Major League Soccer matches coming successful aboriginal 2023.
- Apple Arcade connected Apple TV 4K features award-winning premium games, with caller titles and large contented updates added weekly, each without ads oregon in-app purchases. Players tin brace fashionable crippled controllers to bask deed titles similar “NBA 2K23 Arcade Edition” and “Jetpack Joyride 2,” on with longtime favorites similar “Sneaky Sasquatch,” arsenic good arsenic “Warped Kart Racers” with a caller multiuser mode.
- Apple Fitness+ is an award-winning fittingness and wellness work designed to beryllium welcoming to each users, wherever they are connected their journey, and assistance them unrecorded a healthier day. Apple TV 4K users tin bask the largest room of workout contented successful 4K Ultra High Definition with implicit 3,000 studio-style workouts and meditations, each led by a divers and inclusive squad of trainers. This fall, iPhone users tin subscribe to and bask Fitness+ successful the 21 countries and regions wherever it is available, adjacent if they don’t person an Apple Watch. Users only request an iPhone to motion up, and tin past acquisition Fitness+ connected Apple TV, iPhone, and iPad with onscreen trainer guidance and interval timing, and estimated calories burned volition beryllium utilized to marque advancement connected their Move ring. Fitness+ users with Apple Watch tin instrumentality their information to the adjacent level with personalized real-time metrics that show connected Apple TV, iPhone, and iPad.
tvOS
This fall, caller features coming to the Apple TV acquisition with tvOS 16 see updates to Siri that volition marque it adjacent easier for customers to usage their dependable to power Apple TV and interact with the results.5 Siri connected Apple TV features a implicit redesign, and volition beryllium capable to admit each user’s voice, truthful they tin easy entree their movies, shows, music, games, and apps, and prime up wherever they near off. By utilizing the Siri Remote and asking “What should I watch?” users tin get tailored recommendations.
When wearing AirPods, users tin accidental “Hey Siri” to hunt and bask a hands-free mode to power Apple TV. Siri enactment connected Apple TV has expanded to Chile, Finland, and South Africa, and volition motorboat successful Denmark, Luxembourg, and Singapore aboriginal this year, bringing Siri connected Apple TV to 30 countries and regions.
With iCloud Shared Photo Library connected Apple TV, everyone successful the household volition beryllium capable to bask everyone’s photos unneurotic connected the large screen. Cross-device connectivity connected Apple TV 4K volition alteration developers to integrate personalized experiences betwixt their iPhone and Apple Watch apps with Apple TV.
Users tin proceed to bask SharePlay by starting a FaceTime league connected iPhone oregon iPad and watching a TV amusement oregon movie connected Apple TV to enactment wholly successful sync — ensuring everyone catches a movie’s melodramatic uncover oregon a show’s punchline astatine the aforesaid moment. With shared playback controls, including utilizing the Siri Remote, anyone successful the SharePlay league tin play, pause, oregon leap ahead.
Apple TV 4K arsenic a Smart Home Hub
As a location hub, Apple TV 4K securely connects to compatible astute location accessories, including HomeKit cameras, lights, shades, and more; allows the idiosyncratic to acceptable scenes and power their astute location portion away; and ensures that accessories tin tally automatically. Apple TV 4K is besides an indispensable gathering artifact for Matter, the caller astute location connectivity modular that enables a wide assortment of accessories to enactment unneurotic seamlessly crossed platforms, helping to fulfill the existent imaginativeness of a astute home.
When viewing a HomeKit camera, Apple TV users tin power adjacent accessories — specified arsenic turning connected the outdoor lights — oregon show aggregate cameras astatine the aforesaid clip connected the TV surface for a much implicit view. In addition, HomeKit Secure Video uses the on-device quality of Apple TV 4K to privately analyse the video to observe people, animals, cars, and bundle deliveries.6
With Thread networking support, Apple TV 4K (Wi-Fi + Ethernet) connects compatible Thread-based astute location accessories reliably and securely.
Apple TV 4K and the Environment
The caller Apple TV 4K is designed to minimize its interaction connected the environment, utilizing astir 30 percent little powerfulness than the erstwhile procreation portion achieving much almighty performance.7 The ratio gains of A15 Bionic destruct the request for an interior fan, resulting successful a much compact plan and contributing to a 25 percent simplification successful c footprint implicit the erstwhile generation.
In a archetypal for Apple TV, Apple TV 4K features 100 percent recycled golden successful the plating of aggregate printed circuit boards, which besides include 100 percent recycled tin successful the solder. The thermal module is made with 80 percent recycled aluminum, while the enclosure of the Siri Remote includes 100 percent recycled aluminum. Redesigned packaging removes the outer integrative wrap, and over 90 percent of packaging is fibre based, bringing Apple person to its extremity of wholly removing integrative from each packaging by 2025. The Apple TV 4K lineup is escaped of mercury, BFRs, PVC, and beryllium.
Today, Apple is c neutral for planetary firm operations, and by 2030, plans to beryllium 100 percent c neutral crossed the full manufacturing proviso chains and each merchandise beingness cycles. This means that each Apple instrumentality sold, from constituent manufacturing, assembly, transport, lawsuit use, charging, each the mode done recycling and worldly recovery, volition person net-zero clime impact.
Pricing and Availability
- The caller Apple TV 4K with Siri Remote volition beryllium disposable starting astatine $129 (US) from apple.com/store, successful the Apple Store app, and astatine Apple Store locations. Apple TV 4K is besides disposable done Apple Authorized Resellers and prime wage TV providers.
- Customers tin bid the caller Apple TV 4K opening today, with availability starting Friday, November 4, successful much than 30 countries and regions, including the US.
- The Siri Remote has the aforesaid beloved plan and functionality arsenic the erstwhile generation, and adopts USB-C for charging. It is included with the caller Apple TV 4K, oregon tin beryllium purchased separately for $59 (US) starting today, and is compatible with each generations of Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD.
- AppleCare+ volition beryllium disposable for Apple TV, providing 3 years of method enactment and further hardware coverage, including unlimited incidents of accidental harm protection.
- Customers tin effort retired the caller Apple TV 4K astatine an Apple Store and person their questions answered successful person. Before their visit, customers are encouraged to cheque apple.com/retail for accusation connected opening hours and disposable services astatine their chosen store.
- For a constricted time, eligible customers who acquisition a caller iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, oregon Mac tin bask 3 months of Apple TV+ and Apple Arcade for free.
- HDR10+ and Dolby Vision enactment works with compatible contented successful supported apps. Not each contented is disposable successful 4K, 4K HDR, HDR10+, oregon Dolby Vision. 4K solution requires a 4K-capable TV.
- Accessing Dolby Atmos features requires Dolby Atmos-capable devices. Not each contented is disposable successful 5.1 and 7.1 situation dependable oregon Dolby Atmos audio. Playback prime volition beryllium connected hardware and net connection.
- Siri is not disposable successful each countries and regions.
- Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and Apple Fitness+ necessitate a subscription.
- Some features volition beryllium disposable aboriginal this twelvemonth with a tvOS update.
- HomeKit Secure Video requires a supported iCloud+ program and a location hub, specified arsenic Apple TV oregon HomePod mini.
- Testing was done nether the information of streaming 4K movies played connected Apple TV 4K with the Siri Remote from the Apple TV app.