The double-press on Right or Left has been standard in Channels to skip to the next/prev commercial marker.
Yep. Doesnāt answer my question about if double click up and down will work though.
No it will not work in "Click only" mode. One challenge is that our app doesn't know what mode you have configured in the OS.
This has existed for ages for remotes that donāt have a touch pad, the harmony remote for example.
Itās not emulating a swipe gesture as much as that specific interaction supports a double click up.
Too bad. I hate giving up features with the touchpad but will live with it. I canāt stand reaching for the remote and accidentally swiping something on the remote with no idea what I did. My wife hates it even more. Deal breaker. Itās just good you can turn it off. There are only seven navigation buttons on the new AppleTV remote. Maybe it will be worth exploring other double click actions in the future.
Channel Surfing with this new feature is working great on my new AppleTV 4K v2 with the new Siri remote. Fast and seamless.
Itās NOT working on my AppleTV 4K v1 however, even though Iām using a new Siri remote v2 with that box too. Pressing up and down while watching live TV doesnāt do anything,
Does this feature require a new Siri remote AND v2 of the 4K AppleTV? I hope not. Both of my devices have the new Siri remote, itās working great on both with everything else, and both are running tvOS 14.7 (18M5523d)
Iāve double-confirmed the settings and they're identical. Is there anything else I can try?
Thanks for adding this feature though. Folks are gonna love it!
Iām curious, why not use the āSkip Buttonā option under Settings > Playback > Commercial Skipping? Wouldnāt that produce the same result, just with a center click instead of a right double-click?
Further if you are always skipping them, why not just choose āautomatic?ā
Just wondering what Iām missing here.
Simple reason. Commercial marking is not perfect. Probably never will be. Manual skipping gives me the illusion of control. Also, my family already knows how to skip manually. A button to push or a sudden skip forward just leads to confusion for my crew. Everyoneās different.
This is weird. I literally WROTE the feature with this configuration. A gen 1 Apple TV 4K paired with the new remote.
OK, glad to get confirmation that it works on the previous 4K box.
I thought it might have something to do with the tvOS 14.7 public beta.
Anyway, on the v1 AppleTV 4K where it wasn't working, I deleted the Channels beta app, and re-downloaded from Test Flight. Went through all the settings to confirm. And now Channel Surfing is working!
Apologies for the false alarm.
Thank you! Noticed it in the TestFlight release notes before I even checked back here and it works just like I wanted to.
This seems to default to all channels even when the quick guide is set to something else eg. favourites
There is a separate setting for Channel Surfing collection
Wow!
This new feature is great, we're loving it over here. One idea to consider, please. A client setting to optionally reverse the commands as DOWN/UP instead. Because we use the guide a lot, and then when we're channel surfing it feels unintuitive to press UP, in order to go down (in list of channels we just saw the guide,) and DOWN, in order to go up.
Kind of like macOS' Scroll Direction: Natural setting. Or not 
Totally agree!
I agree, this would be great to have as a toggle in settings.
Yes, got my vote for this as well.
The double-press on Right or Left has been standard in Channels to skip to the next/prev commercial marker.
I am not able to get this to work ? ON latest beta build?
I checked again and noticed it works if it is at the point to where it is going to skip the commercials then it works, but it will not skip if it is in the middle of a show like it does with my IR remote ?
IR Remote allows me to skip commercials at any point when playing a show in the middle or at any point, it will skip forward or backward ?