Sidebar Settings can't be selected when Personal Section added

[GeoffT]

All all my clients are currently Shields but I'm once again trialling an Apple TV as a client as I really want some of the new features that are only available on that.

I have created a Personal Section to test and it does work really well and I can see huge potential for it.

But, I have discovered that when I add the Personal Section to the sidebar menu, it causes the Settings section of the Sidebar menu to become impossible to navigate to. It still appears on the Sidebar list but when I press the down button from the section above it navigates to the last screen selected rather than the settings.

If I remove the Personal Section from the Apple client in the Server WebOS, I can navigate to Settings in the sidebar in the client again, but as soon as I add it back in, I can't.

Am I missing a setting somewhere? I couldn't find any reference to this being a bug anywhere and it seems like a fairly big problem to have gone un-noticed.

I am running 6.1.2

[GeoffT]

After playing around some more this seems to be to do with the length of the Title of the Personal Section.

The test one I created was called "Video on Demand" which caused the problem. When I changed it to "VOD" it worked fine. Experimenting with it, it seems anything up to 13 characters is OK but 14 and above causes the problem.

[maddox]

This was resolved in the latest TestFlight beta:

tvOS/iOS Beta Notes

v2024.11.05.1933 • NEW: You can now view upcoming airings of a show, sport, or movie directly from the context menu in Guide and On Now. • IMPROVED: Context menus for guide items in the Guide Section are now normalized between iOS and tvOS. • FIXED: About section rendered incorrectly in the Sidebar after leaving kiosk mode and coming back. • FIXED: Long Personal Section titles were overflowing the sidebar causing navigation issues.