Yesterday Apple announced a ton of upgrades coming to its various software platforms.While tvOS 26 may not pack as many changes as iOS 26 or iPadOS 26, it does include a new screen saver feature that I’ve always wanted on the Apple TV 4K.tvOS 26 lets you enable or disable individual aerial screen savers If you own an Apple TV 4K, you know that screen savers are one of the device’s best features.
That may sound silly, but for a product that mainly exists to stream video content, it’s the niceties like Apple’s aerial screen savers that set it apart.In tvOS 26, Apple has new aerial screen savers coming that were captured across India.But what excites me most about screen savers in tvOS 26 is a different upgrade.
Now, you can .By navigating to the Screen Saver menu inside Settings, you can open Aerials to find the option: ‘Choose Aerials.’ From here, the four types of aerials are listed: Cityscape Earth Landscape Underwater With tvOS 26, you can enable and disable whichever screen savers you like or don’t like from each category.Essentially, this lets you create a custom Apple TV 4K ‘playlist’ of screen savers that will be cycled through moving forward.
Ever since the Apple TV and tvOS first launched aerial screen savers, there have been some that I loved and others I wasn’t a big fan of.Previously, while you could disable entire categories of aerials, there was never a similar option for individual screen savers.But when tvOS 26 ships this fall, you’ll be able to customize screen savers like never before.
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