Direct movie rentals
Apple TV gained direct iTunes movie rentals, including HD titles with Dolby Digital, without requiring a computer.
Major OS release · tvOS
Apple TV Software 2
Software history
Defining features
Feature summaries are anchored to the cited Apple first-party source.
Computer-free media access
The software expanded direct access to podcasts, photos, YouTube, music, and TV content from the television interface.
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 products1 mapped products
Full device coverage1 device names
- Apple TV (1st 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.
2008
- 2.0Initial major release
- 2.0.1Point update
- 2.0.2Point update
- 2.1Point update
- 2.2Point update
- 2.3Point update
2009
- 2.3.1Point update
- 2.4Point update