As of the latest TestFlight beta, there is now a hard limit of how many navigation items you can apply to the sidebar.
After 15 items, no other items will show.
Does this work on Android clients? I can't get it to show up at all on Android clients. Thanks in advance
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Not yet:
Hopefully soon. I have apple 4k boxes but prefer androids so I'll keep watching for Android support hoping soon as this is a great feature no doubt Thanks for the quick reply brother 
Android development for Personal Sections will not start until the feature is complete for tvOS / iOS, per our usual development process.
I hope everyone keeps posting their Personal Section examples. I get inspired by other folks ideas!
Is there (or will there be) a way to add a single live channel to a Personal Section... or is the best strategy to just make a Channel Collection out of that one channel, and to assign that, instead?
Channels Collections will be the mechanism for getting channels into rows in your Personal Sections.
This may or may not be a bug, but it took me some time to figure out so I thought I'd mention it.
I made a new Library Collection to use as a content row in a Multi Row Personal Collection. However, when I went to add it using the pull down row it wasn't on the list of my Library Collections. After a while I discovered I had to manually reload the Personal Collection page with my browser to get it to show up in the list. Usually these things just automatically show up without having to do that so thought it might be an issue.
If you created the Library Collection in another tab while the Personal Section editor was open, then yes, you would have needed to reload the page for it to know about it.
Can we get templates for "News" and "Sports" sections too? At least as a jumping off point for our own personalized customizations, to replace the built-in ones? I tried to make my own to match the originals but couldn't quite get there.
Just tested creating a Library Collection then immediately going to the Personal Section in the exact same tab, and it's not showing up without a manual reload. Not a big deal if you know, but it did take me a few minutes to try that.
OK thanks, I'll check it out.
No, as these would require a Channel Collection, which wouldn't be in your library.
To duplicate the News section, the rows would consist of:
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On Now: Channel Collection with Genre:News -
On Later: This kind of row is not possible at the moment and it's unclear if it will be in the future. -
Recently Added: Episodes row with Genre:News, Sort:Date Released -
News Programs: TV Shows row with Genre:News, Sort:Date Updated
I assume it's the On Later part that had you stumped.
Yes that’s correct and your answer suits my needs just fine. Thank you!
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I've created this Personal Section as a replacement for the built-in News section, adding button shortcuts for some of our favorite news and weather apps in the 3rd row:
I wanted to add Reuters TV and NewsNation too, but I couldn't figure out their URL Schemes (deep links?) I realize it's possible they don't have one...
I also noticed I'm unable to turn off Channel's built-in News section now, in favor of my new Personal one. Where's that toggle gone?
That’s very odd. I’m not sure why it would be missing.
Push logs and I’ll see if I can see anything. Though I’m not sure it will show me much.
I’ll take a look elsewhere too.
I created a row that shows live items from a personal channel collection but it doesn't show up on any device and on the web it shows as "List of Guide airings"
Hmm. The good news is I got the original "News" section to reappear. First I removed the Global Client setting that enabled it, added it back and then re-enabled it. I also disabled all three of the Personal Sections I'd created from appearing, just to go back to the sidebar's original state. Then I deleted the Channels app (latest TestFlight) and reinstalled it. Upon launch, I now see the original "News" section in the General > Manage Navigation settings.
Unfortunately the bad news is, now when I try to re-enable any one of my three Personal Sections via the same Global Client Settings, the Channels client I'm looking at immediately crashes. I can't add any of them back like I had them before. The client app crashes immediately with every attempt. It's 100% reproducible. Subsequent launch attempts crash immediately too. I have to disable the Personal Section(s) first, and then and only then can I prevent the Channels app from crashing, on launch or otherwise.
I submitted logs just now, hopefully that will help?