Multiuser
Enhancements that make it easier to add profiles for every member of your Family Sharing group, so each person gets their own Up Next watchlist and personalized TV, movies, music, and app recommendations.
Major OS release · tvOS
tvOS 16
Software history
Defining features
Feature summaries are anchored to the cited Apple first-party source.
Spatial Audio
Personalized Spatial Audio uses a personal profile for Spatial Audio created on your iPhone to deliver a more precise and immersive listening experience on Apple TV 4K with AirPods (3rd generation), AirPods Pro (1st and 2nd generation), and AirPods Max.
Keyboard
Multiple keyboard language support enables switching between languages when using the onscreen keyboard.
Siri
Language support for Spanish in Chile, Finnish in Finland, and English in South Africa to help you find shows, music and more using just your voice.
Accessibility
Hover Text support to see onscreen descriptions more clearly.
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 products4 mapped products
Full device coverage4 device names
- Apple TV 4K (1st generation)
- Apple TV 4K (2nd generation)
- Apple TV 4K (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Ethernet
- 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.
2022
- 16.0Initial major release
- 16.1Point update
- 16.1.1Point update
- 16.2Point update
2023
- 16.3Point update
- 16.3.1Point update
- 16.3.2Point update
- 16.3.3Point update
- 16.4Point update
- 16.4.1Point update
- 16.5Point update
- 16.6Point update