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Betty Rogers
User level: Level 2 (356 points)

with tvos 27 powering up Apple TV no longer launches the last app used!!

also, after updating the tvos 27, powering on Apple TV, no longer launches into the last app used. THIS IS VERY BAD.

Fix it, Apple or I’ll go to Roku or someone else I can’t believe you did this. I read that you did this on purpose. You need to change that mess back.


yes, I submitted feedback two days ago and I called support today. Support didn’t know anything about it. But I read online and it could be wrong because it was an AI summary that you guys changed this in tvos 27.


Somebody sent me an email. Tell me something? I never would’ve updated if I knew this would happen! You should have warned us. Old people don’t like this “stuff”.

Posted on Sep 25, 2026 3:42 PM

11 replies

Rudegar
User level: Level 10 (187,102 points)

Sep 29, 2026 12:02 AM in response to Betty Rogers

as stated we are not apple


these forums are user helping other users like yourself, it's sort of going to a physical apple store and asking other customers their advice


This is a user helping users with tech questions forum, we are not apple and apple do not read your posts here


You can provide them with feedback using

Product Feedback - Apple

CgyMac
User level: Level 1 (0 points)

Oct 2, 2026 4:23 AM in response to Betty Rogers

I find this new “feature” annoying and wish they’d revert or at least give us a setting for it.


Not sure why others say they never noticed this because it has always been there before - if you powered off the ATV inside an app, that app would auto open on power up. However if you were on the home page and powered off, it would power on back on the home page.

Betty Rogers Author
User level: Level 2 (356 points)

Sep 28, 2026 5:17 PM in response to Betty Rogers

workaround: create a siri shortcut to have app apple tv to open your preferred app.


FIX IT (see original post)

Betty Rogers Author
User level: Level 2 (356 points)

Sep 28, 2026 5:23 PM in response to Betty Rogers

siri shortcut is a workaround.


make it work again, apple

vazandrew
User level: Level 8 (41,662 points)

Sep 26, 2026 10:48 AM in response to Betty Rogers

Again, this is a user forum.


If you have feedback for Apple you need to use the form

Product Feedback - Apple


Johnathan Burger
User level: Level 9 (72,811 points)

Sep 25, 2026 5:19 PM in response to Betty Rogers

Apple is not here.

This is a user to user support forum.


All I can say is my Apple TV has never booted into the last app used.


Buy whatever device suits your needs, threatening to buy something else is meaningless.

Kilgore-Trout
User level: Level 8 (43,363 points)

Sep 26, 2026 12:12 PM in response to Johnathan Burger

Johnathan Burger wrote:
Apple is not here.
This is a user to user support forum.
All I can say is my Apple TV has never booted into the last app used.

Neither has mine, and if it did, I’d be looking for a way to turn the feature off. What a pain in the tush.

johnbock
User level: Level 1 (10 points)

Sep 25, 2026 5:01 PM in response to Betty Rogers

I've been subjected to the same annoying behavior.

Please fix this regression.

Betty Rogers Author
User level: Level 2 (356 points)

Sep 26, 2026 10:42 AM in response to Betty Rogers

Now when tell Siri to turn on the TV… nope… home screen.


this is awful.


FIX IT APPLE.

Betty Rogers Author
User level: Level 2 (356 points)

Sep 26, 2026 1:46 PM in response to Kilgore-Trout

indeed.

please post if you know how to turn such a feature on.

(i find no such setting, as per my first post neither was Apple support)


Apple TV 4k 3rd generation (128gb)

Vancouver22
User level: Level 8 (38,420 points)

Sep 29, 2026 2:39 AM in response to Betty Rogers

I don’t recall it ever opening to the last used app.

You can provide feedback here —-> Feedback - Apple TV - Apple


Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/256365098