BETA: Craft your own experience with Personal Sections on tvOS and iOS

This is resolved in the latest pre-release:

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I assume this is JUST on Personal Sections though right? Have you seen the same issue on the Home section where Up Next was originally?

I mainly see it on the home screen

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Mainly in Personal section. Does it nearly every time. Actual Up Next page, rarely does it.

Can you describe your Personal Sections in more detail where this isn't working? Or push diagnostics from your server, and tell me the section name?

The Up Next issue should be resolved in the latest TestFlight beta. Please report back in detail if your Personal Section is still not updating Up Next correctly:

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The refresh was fixed! Thank you!

Since "recent" shows up in the guide, is there any work being done to see if the "recent" group can show up in the personal sections?

Guide items will only be available by user created Channel Collections.

I'm not totally sure where my problem but I've been using Channels Collections for a while and know the gist of this feature. I built a test Personal Section called "Movies Test" but I do not see the button anywhere in the AppleTV interface.

I learned a long time ago with Channels that if it's not working, it's me but this one has me stumped. Channels Collections are working fine for me. I also tested other, sidebar options like Sports, Kids etc but those don't appear either. Thanks for any help. Some screenshots may help.


You need the latest testflight app on your Apple TV

Ah I missed that need. Thanks!

Got my setup working. Playing with smart rules and if visibility is hidden, the personal section on the server will show the content but the AppleTV will not. I suppose with this new feature, I can just move to personal sections for the family vs my content (labels) but my way of handling that before was make my content hidden and setup collections for my stuff.

See this explanation:

OK that makes sense. This new feature provides a solution to what was sort of a work around before and, for me, this is the more elegant way to go. I really like this feature. Thanks for making it.

When will this be available on the NVidia shield?

As mentioned above and per our normal product development cycle, this will make it to the Android version once it's completed on tvOS/iOS.

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Could you please add to the normal "Video Groups" the ability to sort by Alphabetical.
I only see under Group Options of my various video groups, a toggle to Watch Newest First.

While in Personal Sections, when i add a section for Video Groups, it does have a "Sort" option, but that sort shows the video groups themselves in that personal section in Alphabetical order, not the videos in each group in alphabetical order.

I am able to add a Flow type section, and populate it with a single video group, and that gives me the sort option to show the content of the group alphabetically. But it appears to be the only way to do this.

Use case. I have a crap ton of music videos, set as a Video Group, that i add to randomly. As it stands, in Library and any other section other than a Flow Type personal section, the newest video shows up either at the end of the list, or the beginning. I want them all to display in alphabetical order no matter where I open the Video group from.

This is a specific setting for Video Groups.find the Video Group in your web admin. It's under Manage > Edit Metadata > Sort Recordings By

AH! Thank You. Did not think to look there...