“Apple’s latest beta of iOS 6 for the Apple TV allows users to customize and reorder the layout of application icons, just like on the iPhone and iPad,” Sam Oliver reports for AppleInsider.
“Similar to the long press used to move icons on the iPhone and iPad, users simply hold down the select button on Apple’s remote while an icon is selected,” Oliver reports. “Once this is done, the selected will begin to wiggle, and it can be dragged to a custom location on the TV screen.”
Oliver reports, “In current, public builds of the Apple TV operating system, holding down the select button will put the device to sleep. Icons on the screen are also displayed in a static grid and cannot be moved.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lava_Head_UK” for the heads up.]
In current, public builds of the Apple TV operating system, holding down the select button will put the device to sleep.
Doh! And here I was always selecting “Sleep Now” from the Settings menu!
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What I’d really like to see is the ability to reorder icons en masse by criteria, most used or recently added, for example.
I want to be able to reorder my apps alphabetically.
Hmm… could downloadable apps be on the way?
Either way, this will be a great addition so I can move things we use frequently and put things like MLB.TV and NHL down at the bottom.
Steve finally cracked the TV problem! Movable icons!
Talk about stupidity and waste of time.
I really like my AppleTV but the interface is hard to use even with my ipad. It would be so much better if ipad could do reverse mirror of the commands and menus and then allow the user to interact with it using usual swipes up/down, left/righ, pinch in/out.
Common Apple think outside the box.
Waiting for the integrated “iTV”.
In the mean time APTV great and improvements to interface are always welcome
Too bad you can’t hide all the icons as well. Parental controls works for some, but not all.
Nice to see some development though, especially in terms of user customization.