Home screen
Home screen: Watch full screen previews for new movies, hit music, top-rated games, and more as you highlight apps on the top row. Swipe up to hear audio and make selections.
Major OS release · tvOS
tvOS 13
Software history
Defining features
Feature summaries are anchored to the cited Apple first-party source.
Multiuser
Multiuser: Get a tailored Apple TV experience with your own Up Next list in the Apple TV app, playlists in Apple Music, and more. Invite users with your Apple TV or the Home app to get started.
Control Center
Control Center: Hold the TV button on the Siri Remote to switch users, change audio sources, access music, and put Apple TV to sleep.
Apple Arcade
Apple Arcade: Enjoy unlimited access to 100+ new games on your Apple devices. From immersive new worlds to earth-shattering sound effects, the experience is all too real on your big screen with Apple TV.
Game controllers
Game controllers: Play games with popular controllers, like PlayStation DualShock 4 and the Xbox Wireless Controller with Bluetooth.
Apple Music
Apple Music: Listen to your favorite music with perfectly timed lyrics. Swipe through the lyrics and jump to any verse in the song with a click.
Screen savers
Screen savers: Enjoy stunning new videos of underwater seascapes from bodies of water all over the globe. Tap the Siri Remote to see the location, or swipe to see the next one.
Apple TV Software / tvOS
Device support
Archive-product links show the canonical products represented by this project. The full device-name list preserves the broader structured support evidence, including hardware refreshes that do not have their own archive node.
Supported archive products2 mapped products
Full device coverage2 device names
- Apple TV 4K (1st generation)
- Apple TV HD (4th generation)
Support dropped at this major
No mapped archive product was fully dropped when this major version arrived.
Public releases
Public release history
Every canonical public release assigned to this major version, including the initial release and later point updates.
2019
- 13.0Initial major release
- 13.2Point update
- 13.3Point update
2020
- 13.3.1Point update
- 13.4Point update
- 13.4.5Point update
- 13.4.6Point update
- 13.4.8Point update