Anybody with an Apple TV is aware of the frustration of utilizing the on-screen keyboard to seek for one thing (be it a film, present or app) or enter a username or password.
By default, the keyboard is displayed as a linear bar on the prime of the display screen. And it takes perpetually, scrolling backwards and forwards, to pick out letters.
Certain, you should utilize the Siri button in your Apple TV’s distant, however that’s by no means as correct as you’d like, particularly when utilizing it to kind in a posh password for one in all your subscriptions.
(And sure, you should utilize your iPhone to enter passwords in your Apple TV, however that requires dual-wielding your Apple TV distant and iPhone and feels somewhat extra sophisticated than it must be.)
Happily, there’s a simple repair. It takes a second.
A superior Apple TV Search
By default, your Apple TV’s keyboard format is ready to a linear format. Picture by Tucker Bowe for Gear Patrol
Tips on how to change your Keyboard format
You’ll be able to shortly change the keyboard format in order that, as a substitute of a linear bar on the highest of your display screen, it seems as a field on the facet, kind of like a keypad.
- Open the Settings app in your Apple TV.
- Choose Normal.
- Choose Keyboard Format.
- Choose Grid (not Linear).
