iPad
Multiview on. I can get Multiview to crash (not the whole app) if double click settings then quickly hit it again.
Big asterisk- I am using a touchpad keyboard with iPad so maybe I’m clicking faster than the app was expecting.
Edit- tested it a little more. If I have setting up (from Multiview) and click using the touchpad anywhere out of the expected Multiview Settings popup twice, it kills Multiview. Doesn’t seem to happen with touch
This is running on macOS Channels App:
Roomy Off - The bottom two streams are not filled in.
Roomy On - The layout is overlapping each other.
This is not a macOS app. This is the iPad app running on macOS.
This is likely because the window is free to resize, unlike the target devices of Channels. This isn't something we exactly test on as it's not an official target, we just offer it because it works.
But I can take a look at it. Good catch.
The layout used to work correctly prior to the last update.
Thanks for that info! We did make more use of the screen, so I'll compare the change with before the change and see if we can get this working correctly again.
Got it. It wasn't actually crashing it. It was incorrectly dismissing both the modal and the Multiview. This was actually happening in other parts of the app too. Good catch.
Fixed in the latest TestFlight beta:
Looking at it, it's performing the same way before the changes. So nothing has really changed. It's just as I said.
We'll look more into it if we have time, but as I said, this is not exactly a tested target for us. But with multi-window and resizing on iPad here, we'll have to handle this soon as we get ready for iOS 26 optimizations, and the iPad app running on the Mac will gain any of the improvements made for free.
I have never liked a view where one is covering up any of the other, even if you can move it around. Your view may vary, but I never like that option
also, what is : Roomy Spacing?
Space all the way around the Multiview. If you turn it off in the settings then you will get the entire screen filled with Multiview.
thank you, ill have to delve deeper into the settings
For us, this decision is contextual, based on what specific channel combination is being multi-viewed at the time, and why. In some scenarios it works great, and others the layout is better off with no obstruction. It depends on what the “main event” is, and who's there watching, I suppose. For us, at least.
The two side-by-side views require an awful lot of black space though, and on a big screen that can look a bit silly, to be "wasting" so much of it. And the “picture in picture” layout seems more in line with Apple's native tvOS interface guidelines as well.
Regardless my request for this was not to replace any of the available layouts, but to be offered as an additional option so everyone can choose what works best for them in any scenario. And I’m grateful this request is being considered for future release.
I need to come back to the forum more often. This is awesome! Nice work devs!
Yep, exactly. It could be something as simple as toggling PIP on or off in the multiview settings. But I'm guessing that you wouldn't want more than a couple of channels on screen that way.
Correct. Realistically and practically speaking, such a layout would only be useful to us with TWO channel Multiview, nothing more. And it would be most welcome there on our biggest TV screens. Watching one primary show or event while “just keeping tabs” on another…waiting until the next event starts...
Golly. If we could only pause and buffer the “active” channel on multiview. It would be sports watching Nirvana.
To me this is the only missing piece that on any given Sunday would keep me having to leave multiview mode the whole day.
I tried feeding an hdmi captured stream into multiview from a second Apple TV and then using a different remote to control the source stream.
It’s too bad the buffering latency is so long or one would be able to pause and buffer on one Apple TV or firestick and then use multiview on the main Apple TV to watch games in semi real time, which a ton of people do.
@maddox when a stream in multiview goes down and the triangle appears, can you make it to restart the stream by pressing play again? Only way I see to play it again is to replace the e channel with another and then go back to the original channel. Unless I’m missing something? Thanks.
When I get the triangle, cliicking and holding on
that grid shows a menu with “Reload Channel” as an option:
Hmmm. Must be new. Haven’t seen that before. I’ll check it out. Thanks.
Pressing play again would make sense since that’s the way to do it outside of multiview.
The channel needs to automatically be restarted, it's silly to have to toggle over and restart it manually.
