Swipe up/down no longer functions as expected after pausing the program

Channels Apple TV
#1

With the Siri remote, the swipe up/down should, in my opinion, always do the same thing in the given context you are in. For example, while watching a program, Swipe down shows the program info and audio options while swipe up shows the program playback timeline.

However, if you pause the program, the swipe up and swipe down commands no longer work the same as when you are watching the program. Instead they appear to do the same thing as swipe left and right. Is this correct?

if we can already move the playhead with swipe left/right, why remove functionality to swipe up/down for audio info and timeline view? Its counterintuitive to swipe up or down for FF or RW.

#2

This is a bug

#3

Good to know its not intentional. Thanks for the response!

#4

Just to be thorough, swiping up doesn’t actually reveal the timeline. Tapping the touch pad reveals it. It just happens that it’s registering as a tap when you do that. So you can just tap it to reveal it and tap again to dismiss it and save the swipe :slight_smile:

#5

I recently got the new ATV4k with the new Siri remote. Swiping down when paused just causes the timeline to move rather than bring down the options menus. I hope this is just a bug rather than a feature, since with the new remote it's harder to find the spot I paused at. So far, I'm not a huge fan of the rotational scrub feature.

#6

That's not the behavior I experience. While a swipe down brings down the Quick Guide, swiping left or right brings up the timeline; swiping up does nothing. (A tap, not a swipe, will also bring up or dismiss the timeline.)

While paused, swiping left or right "scrubs" the playhead (which is denoted by a thin vertical purple bar on the timeline; current position is white); there is no "rotational" scrub, merely left or right. Also, while paused swiping down to display the Quick Guide will not work until you dismiss the timeline by first tapping the touch surface.

While not easy to discover how all of these quirks work, once you know and understand them, it does become second-nature.

(Also, clicking left or right will skip, double-clicking moves to the next commercial marker—only while in a commercial break—and click-and-hold will FF/RWD, just as they always did.)

#7

That's what I was missing. You're right, dismissing the timeline allows me to swipe down. Thanks.