![]() ![]() Because I had many HDMI cables already laying around the house, and some good 4K UltraHD ones too, I figured I didn’t need to spend another $30 on an additional cable.īut after reading about dozens of people fixing their remote lag issue by simply upgrading their cable, I decided to take the plunge. #Apple remote not working tvWhen you buy an Apple TV 4K from Apple, the company suggests upgrading your HDMI cable to one they carry in stock. Get a better HDMI cableĪn HDMI cable is an HDMI cable, right? Wrong! Although I tried that, and literally spent hours trying to hide the Apple TV in plain sight, it didn’t fix my problem. #Apple remote not working BluetoothIn this case, the issue is likely that the TV set acts as a shield of sort and blocks the Bluetooth connection. Some users in online forums reported that moving the Apple TV from behind the TV itself would sometimes solve the issue. As I mentioned above, all my TV/internet-related electronics are sitting on a shelf, behind the TV. Listen, I’m a minimalist at heart, and the less electronics I see, the more I am at peace. Don’t hide your Apple TV behind the TV itself ![]() Considering I had a modem, router, and Apple TV crammed on top of each other on a shelf hidden behind my TV set, this could have definitely been the root of the issue. But while spacing things out and making sure cables weren’t too much in contact with each other definitely improved my situation, it didn’t fix the issue entirely. If some poorly shielded cables are in contact with each other, they may create interferences, and these interferences would possible jam the Bluetooth signal your remote relies on to talk to your Apple TV. Move cables aroundįirst thing you should do is move cables around a bit. In this post I will share various possible reasons for why you would experience lag with your Apple TV 4K remote, and I will of course share what fixed my issue in this case. Given that the Remote app uses Wi-Fi to connect to the Apple TV but the physical remote itself uses Bluetooth, I imagined this was something to do with interferences of some sorts.Īfter doing a bit of research, I found the culprit. The funny thing was that I didn’t experience any issue if I was using the Remote app from Control Center on my iPhone. Swiping on the trackpad would sometimes take a few seconds to register on the screen, and then all the sudden after a short freeze, navigation would resume, but jump all over the place. As I was navigating any area of the user interface, whether it would be the Home Screen, Settings, or even scrubbing in an app, I would run into a laggy navigation that would create an inconsistent behavior. Specifically, I would experience constant navigation lag when using the trackpad of the Siri remote. After recently switching to a new Apple TV 4K, I encountered an issue that my previous Apple TV didn’t have. ![]()
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