How To Find Your Lost Apple TV Remote Using Your iPhone

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No matter how a lot expertise advances, we can not seem to develop a surefire option to hold our small electronics from magically misplacing themselves. People have been dropping the remotes to their TVs for about so long as remotes have been round, letting them slide between the sofa cushions, unconsciously bringing them to the kitchen, dropping them on the ground, and so forth. Thankfully, whereas remotes nonetheless have a nasty behavior of teleporting all over the place, it is no less than a bit of simpler to trace them down now.

For occasion, as an instance you had been to misplace the distant to your Apple TV participant. You need not run to the Apple retailer to purchase a brand new one, thank goodness — all you could do is whip out your iPhone and activate the remote-tracking function. With the ability of iOS 17 and present system connection options, no mischievous Apple TV distant can conceal out of your watchful gaze.

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With the discharge of iOS 17 for the iPhone and tvOS 17 for Apple TVs, there is a new degree of connection between your Apple TV, its paired Siri Remote, and your iPhone. In an analogous vein to the present iOS Find My function used for locating a misplaced cellphone or different Apple system, now you can use Siri to trace down your distant at any time when it goes lacking.

When this function is activated in your iPhone, a radar of kinds seems on the display screen, flashing and pulsing relying on how shut the lacking distant’s sign is. As you get nearer, the blue background turns into bigger and brighter, earlier than lastly filling up your complete display screen once you’re proper on high of the distant. The solely conditions to utilizing this function are an Apple TV 4K up to date to tvOS 17 and an iOS 17 iPhone which you can hyperlink to it.

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In order to find your lacking Siri Remote, you may first must hyperlink your iPhone to your Apple TV. As lengthy as each units are linked to the identical Wi-Fi community, it’s best to be capable to shortly join the iPhone to the Apple TV by way of the Control Center that seems once you drag down from the highest of the iPhone’s display screen. Once they’re linked, you’ll be able to then make the most of the Apple TV Remote function on the iPhone to begin attempting to find the distant.

When you first activate the search perform, your iPhone display screen will show the title of the room that the distant’s paired TV is situated, to offer you an concept of the place to go looking. The radar will start pulsating, informing you whether or not you are transferring in the precise route. As you get nearer to the distant, the message on the display screen will change, advising you to proceed in your present heading. When you are shut, the display screen will flip blue, and the message will inform you to go looking in your fast neighborhood. Once you’ve got discovered the distant, simply faucet the X image on the iPhone to finish search mode.