Delivery #1 just arrived, I have paired a new Siri remote to my living room AppleTV 4K.
Working well with Channels, feels great in the hand 
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Anyone else having issues with left and right button seeking on new remote?
Seems ok in other apps but channels has a hard time recognising the seek jumps.
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Yes. Skip seems to work on Hulu Netflix etc. but not on Channels.
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Got mine today. My first ever AppleTV but I’ve used a iPhone for years. So far I’m impressed. Navigation is very smooth compared to my FireTV. I like that I can change where the home button takes you. It defaults to the AppleTV app but you can change it to go home. Calibration works and and seemed to make a slight difference. Imported media seems to play better, especially MKV’s. I was pleased to find that Siri dictation works in search — I was prepared to be disappointed but it works well and is more elegantly deployed than Alexa on the FireTV. Will be nice when the skip function is worked out but I know it will so I’m not stressing over it. In the meantime, fast forward is actually usable on AppleTV. I found it to be absolutely useless on FireTV.
Just a few thoughts.
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the SKIP works now on the new remove (as of the latest beta a 5.21.2135 few minutes ago)
JOG is the part I am hoping for!
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Is the jog gesture working in any other app? I couldn't get it to work in TV+
EDIT: Figured it out. You have to tap-and-hold for a second for the jog control to show up. This is something that's built-in to the system player, so its not going to work in Channels unless we recreate it from scratch.
So … how long to recreate it from scratch? Can you be done by morning? 
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I can’t seem to figure out the jog (in general not channels). What is it that you click?
I figured it out. I think I might have a hardware issue with mine. If I make a full circular motion it goes back and forth. Like the bottom sense is mounted backwards.
You have to pause, hold until the cursor on the screen turns into a little circle.
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I’m jogging on channels right now. Pause without holding, and jog from 6 o’clock to 9 o’clock to jog left and job from 6 to 3 o’clock to job to the right.
I understand it’s like a pause swipe, but it’s a jog!
Finally got it to work. For some reason my little jog circle wasn’t coming up. Now it suddenly works flawlessly without changing anything I’m doing.
I have found that I have to touch-and-hold the left/right of the new remote before the jumps will work. I cannot just click the left or right of the new remote, that will do nothing. Is it possible to get the click to immediately react with a jump and not need the touch-and-hold gesture first?
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It works in the beta. Not in the official app yet.
v4.5.5 will be available from the App Store with the fix shortly.
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Leaving this here in case anyone has a similar issue: with my older Apple TV 4K paired with the new remote, I needed a complete restart before the left/right buttons worked in Channels even with the latest beta.
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Ah yes thank you. Restart makes it work for me now.
Official update now available for me
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Very weird, a restart fixed it at first but after a while they stopped working. I restarted again and the side clicks work again. I think I'm on a tvOS beta, not sure if that affects it. I submitted diagnostics.
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I’m on standard tvOS. Seems ok today anyway
Just got the update. Works perfectly. Very pleased. Two thumbs up. Five stars. WAF is safe. Very pleased.
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I’m running the latest DVR App, rebooted the ATV 4Kv2, and still have a mixed level of success with the left and right clicks on the new remote. MOST of the time they do absolutely nothing and on rare occasion they work properly.
Anyone else? Any suggestions? And diagnostic data I can provide?
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