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Apps tvStorage App - Now Available
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Apple tv is showing that I used about 10gb of storage which I know is not true. I don't have that many apps and there small in size. Is there any way of knowing how much those aerial videos are using? I know it says 600mb for each but I had mine set to change daily. Ive look through the apple tv from top to bottom and theres no way I'm using that much storage. The only thing I can think of is maybe all those aerial videos must be stored some where?
Also Itunes tv shows don't get stored on the device right its all in the cloud?
Also Itunes tv shows don't get stored on the device right its all in the cloud?
Apple does not allow developers to access data for other apps on the device. There is no way for me to tell you what's taking the space.
I personally I have 3 apple TVs and I have one as well that's showing more usage than the rest but there really isn't anyway for me to know what's causing it. It's probably temporary related.
I think I just found out where all my storage was going. It looks like Apple music is storing cache on the device somewhere. I signed out of my iTunes account, went to apple music to make sure i was signed out. Then restarted the Apple tv checked storage and now I'm only using 3gb of storage instead of 10gb lol. Apple music was eating up a lot of my storage.
So this is interesting to know for the sake of curiosity, but I'm wondering if attempting to "free up" storage isn't a bit misguided - under TVOS essentially everything on the new AppleTV is cached - music / movies from iTunes, apps from the App Store, app data from iCloud. A situation in which having lots of "free space" (a good strategy in many other places like iOS and OS X) instead simply demonstrates an ineffective use of caching, since a greater percentage of the things you might want to look next at will require re-downloading (behind the scenes), rather than playing straight from cache.
This is exactly right. having a lot of used storage on Apple TV should not cause the same alarm as on other devices. The apple TV will free up that space as needed.
The new Apple TV is a fantastic device that kills everything else out there IMHO. Do we have all the content we want? Not yet. But thats just a matter of time.
Version 1.6 now available:
o New Settings screen
o New postal code screen to enter your location.
o New 'Current Location' option that tries to find your zip code for you.
o Few minor under-the-hood stuff tweaks.
o New Settings screen
o New postal code screen to enter your location.
o New 'Current Location' option that tries to find your zip code for you.
o Few minor under-the-hood stuff tweaks.
Yes, perfectly fine, thanks. I only was wondering if you stopped the development or planning to add more features.
Glad to hear it. Probably wont do much with it right now, i mean it does what it does, ya know?
Hi again,
I don’t know if it’s because of the beta but since I’ve updated to tvOS 13 this app does weird things like turning the background into black, the text into blue and the storage bar into yellow. And sometimes when I open it, it glitches a bit and then back to normal.
Let’s see if with the next beta it fixes or maybe it’s about compatibility between tvOS 13 and the app itself.
I don’t know if it’s because of the beta but since I’ve updated to tvOS 13 this app does weird things like turning the background into black, the text into blue and the storage bar into yellow. And sometimes when I open it, it glitches a bit and then back to normal.
Let’s see if with the next beta it fixes or maybe it’s about compatibility between tvOS 13 and the app itself.
I wont do anything about it now but when iOS 13 official releases in a few months if its still broke ill definitely fix it.