InSight
InSight for Apple TV+ displays real-time information that complements what you’re watching onscreen. Swipe down when playing an Apple Original movie or show.
Major OS release · tvOS
tvOS 18
Software history
Defining features
Feature summaries are anchored to the cited Apple first-party source.
Screen savers
Portraits—a new category of screen savers—frames your favorite photos with stunning color effects and playful clocks.
Enhance Dialogue
Enhance Dialogue gives you the option to hear speech more clearly over background sounds using real-time audio processing and machine learning. Select Audio Options in Settings to turn on the Enhance Dialogue.
Subtitles
Subtitles appear when you mute audio or when you skip back, up to 30 seconds.
FaceTime
Live Captions turn spoken conversations into text in real time when the Apple TV primary language is set to English (U.S.) or English (Canada) and callers speak English.
Apple Fitness+
New design makes it easier to navigate and find workouts and meditations to stay motivated.
Apple Music
SharePlay lets everyone add their favorite songs and control playback with their iPhone when listening together. Select SharePlay while listening on Apple TV, then scan the QR code that appears.
Siri
Audio from your Siri requests are processed on Apple TV and never leave the device.
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.
2024
- 18.0Initial major release
- 18.1Point update
- 18.2Point update
2025
- 18.2.1Point update
- 18.3Point update
- 18.3.1Point update
- 18.4Point update
- 18.4.1Point update
- 18.5Point update
- 18.6Point update