How to create personalized Apple TV screensavers

Screensavers are one of the most fun features on the Apple TV 4K. Owners of an Apple TV will already know about Apple’s Aerial screensavers, which show up when the device has been idling for an extended period of time. Those video screensavers include 4K flyovers from cities around the world, along with natural landscapes, and underwater dives, as well as shots of Earth from space.

But as beautiful as those video screensavers, the Apple TV also allows users to set up their own personalized screensavers. There are three ways to set up custom screensavers on the Apple TV 4K, two of which use the iCloud photo library, while the third draws its art from Apple Music.

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Memories and slideshows

Create a beautiful photo screensaver

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The most common variety of personalized screensaver on the Apple TV 4K is based on your own photo library in iCloud. This can be done using Apple Photos’ Memories feature, as well as photo albums.

Here’s how to set up your own photo-based Apple TV screensaver:

1. Go to Settings on Apple TV.
2. Go to Screen Saver, and then Memories & Slideshows.
   • Create a screensaver from Memories by selecting Memories, then choose to include all photos, or photos marked as Favorites.
   • Create a screensaver from a photo album by selecting Albums, then select Favorites for favorite photos, Activity for photos from recently shared albums, or scroll down to select a specific shared or personal album.

• Select Style in order to choose the transition style between images.

Using these options is a great way to infuse your Apple TV experience with your favorite memories.

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Apple Music

Create a cool album art screensaver

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Photos are great, but Apple users are also often big music fans, which is why the Apple TV 4K also includes the ability to create a screensaver using album art from Apple Music, personalized to your music library.

Here’s how to set up an album art screensaver:

1. Go to Settings on Apple TV.
2. Go to Screen Saver, and then Memories & Slideshows.
3. Select Music Albums.
   • The screensaver will automatically show random album art from your personal Apple Music library.
4. Select Style in order to choose the transition style between images.

Setting up an album art screensaver is a fun way to add personality to the Apple TV, especially when you’re hosting parties.

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Portraits

Create a screensaver of favorite people, places, and things

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Both the memories and slideshows and album art screensavers are great. But sometimes it’s more fun to focus on specific things, and that’s where the Portraits feature comes in. Using Apple’s intelligent ability to identify faces, pets, cities, and more in photos, you can set up a screensaver that highlights the things they care about most.

Here’s how to set it up:

1. Go to Settings on Apple TV.
2. Go to Screen Saver, and then Portraits.
3. Select whether to show or hide photos of people, pets, nature, and cities.
   • When selecting People, the user can choose to display all people, or only people marked as favorites in Apple Photos.
4. In Update Frequency, select Change Every, and then choose the preferred time interval to set how often each portrait changes.

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