Watch photo memories on Apple TV
The Memories screen in the Photos app arranges photos and videos from trips, events, and other favorite moments into a short movie that you can watch on the big screen. You can’t create or edit memories on Apple TV, but you can see all the photos and videos in a timeline and skip to your favorite photos or videos during playback.
You can also set memories to appear as a screen saver on Apple TV. See Set up Apple TV screen savers.
Browse and play your photo memories
Go to the Photos app
on Apple TV.Navigate to Memories at the top of the screen.
Browse any of the memories in the Watch Now row, or navigate down to browse Favorites.
Note: If you haven’t added any memories to Favorites, you won’t see a Favorites row. See Add or remove favorite memories.
Select a memory to play it.
During playback, do any of the following:
Pause or play: On your remote, press
, or press the clickpad center or touch surface.Go back to the previous or skip to the next photo or video: Press left or right on the clickpad ring, or swipe left or right on the touch surface.
Skip to a specific photo or video: Pause the memory, then navigate to the timeline of photos and select a photo or video.
Start playback from the beginning: Show playback controls, then select
.Add a memory to Favorites: Show playback controls, then select
.See more info: Show playback controls, then navigate down to see more information such as the music used and total number of items in the memory.
When playback is finished, the next memory in the queue automatically begins playing. You can navigate to another memory in the Watch Next row and select it to begin playing that memory instead.
Note: To change playback settings such as music and duration, see more information about people or locations, or edit the memory, open the memory in Photos on an iPhone, iPad, or Mac signed in to the same Apple Account. Any changes you make are automatically updated on Apple TV.
Add or remove favorite memories
Go to the Photos app
on Apple TV.Navigate to Memories at the top of the screen.
Navigate to a memory, press and hold the clickpad or touch surface on your remote, then select one of the following:
Add to Favorite Memories: Add the memory to your favorite memories across all of your devices. You can also set up a screen saver that plays only your favorite memories.
Remove from Favorite Memories: Remove a memory from your favorite memories across all of your devices.
Delete a memory
Turn memories on or off
Go to Settings
on Apple TV. Go to Users and Accounts > [default user name] > Photos.
Select Show Memories to turn memories on or off in the Photos app.
When memories are turned off, Memories does not appear in the menu bar of the Photos app. Instead, Library is the first screen you see when you open the app.