Have you ever wanted to show friends and family your photos on your Apple TV? You could use AirPlay to stream them from your iPad, iPhone or Mac, but now, if you’re a CC user, you can also download the Lightroom app from the App Store (fourth generation Apple TV only).
To install the app, navigate to the App Store and search for Lightroom, then tap Install.
When Lightroom opens, click Sign In.
Lightroom asks you to open http://lightroom.adobe.com/tv in a web browser on another device, sign in with your Adobe ID and then type in the code displayed on your TV, which is much easier than trying to use the Apple TV onscreen keyboard.
Once you’re signed in, Lightroom downloads your collections. You can navigate around the photos using the touchpad on the remote. Swipe up to access the menu at the top, then left or right to select the Collections view, All Photos view or Settings.
In the Collections view or Grid view, swipe up/down to scroll through the thumbnails. Swiping left and right allows you to navigate around the thumbnails. The highlighted thumbnail enlarges in size, and you can tap to select the photo to view it in full screen view. Any gray cells are just waiting to download.
In Loupe view, swiping down/up shows/hides the Filmstrip at the top of the screen. The menu button acts as a ‘back’ button, and the Play button plays a slideshow.
It’s a first release, so there’s no filtering yet, which is the one feature I miss. However, with a little forethought in creating collections, the Apple TV app is a convenient option for sharing photos with friends and family.
That will be great when the next version of Apple TV can support 4K! I will wait for that. Now I can see my pictures with 4K resolution on my fabulous LG OLED TV set via USB-memory.
Can I ask do you mean any image I wish to see on TV I must use Adobe cloud storage please
Yes, it requires syncing the Lightroom collections that you want to see on the TV to the Lightroom Sync cloud, which is included with a CC subscription.
Why not just use airplay?
Yup, that would work too.
My Apple TV app insists on showing my 2015 collections only. I’ve gone into settings and reloaded it several times with no result. Any suggestions on how to get it to show this year’s collections? Thanks in advance.
First port of call – go to http://lightroom.adobe.com and double check they’re definitely synced to the cloud.