How to Access and Use Control Center on your Apple TV with tvOS 13

Along with iOS 13 and iOS 13.1, Apple has also launched something new for Apple TV users, and it is tvOS 13. This time, Apple has included a lot of new features and functions from a whole new home screen to gaming controllers support. Not just these, for the first time Apple has brought Control Center for the Apple TV. Just like iPhones and iPads, users can also use the Control Center on their Apple TV. This makes controlling the TV much more comfortable than earlier. Users can switch profiles, view and control playing media, sleep their TV, adjust audio outputs, and much more using their TV’s Control Center. If you’ve also upgraded your Apple TV to tvOS 13 but didn’t know where to access Control Center or confused about using it, then don’t stop reading. You’ll get all your answers in this article.

How to access Control Center in your Apple TV

Accessing Control Center is just as simple as starting your TV. But this time, you’ll have to use the ‘TV’ button instead of ‘Power’. Here is how.

1. Start your Apple TV.
2. Now, locate the ‘TV’ button (a round button with a TV symbol) on your Siri remote and press it for a few seconds.

Your Apple TV’s Control Center will appear on the screen. It will show you the time and date at the top, User profiles, Sleep option, Search button, and more.

How to use Control Center in your Apple TV

Now, you need to select an option from the Control Center with your Siri Remote to use it. You can choose ‘Sleep’ to put your TV into sleep mode, choose a user profile to switch to it or select ‘Search’ to find anything, and so on. Here is how to use the Control Center of tvOS 13.

Switching users profile using Control Center

To switch between the user profiles on your Apple TV:

1. Start your Apple TV.
2. Access the ‘Control Center’ by pressing and holding the ‘TV’ button on your Sir remote. You’ll now see all the available user profiles just below the time.
3. Move to the profile you want to switch to and select it using your remote.

Putting your Apple TV into sleep mode using Control Center

To activate the sleep mode on your Apple TV,

1. Access the ‘Control Center’ by pressing and holding the ‘TV’ button on your Sir remote.
2. Now, move and highlight the ‘Sleep’ button given in the Control Center menu.
3. And, select it to activate sleep mode.

Doing so, put your TV instantly into the sleep mode without asking for any confirmation.

Changing the audio output of your Apple TV using Control Center

1. Access the ‘Control Center’ by pressing and holding the ‘TV’ button on your Sir remote.
2. Now, move and highlight the ‘AirPlay’ button given in the Control Center menu at the bottom left side.
3. Select the ‘AirPlay’ button to view available audio outputs.
4. Now, highlight and select the new audio output you want to use with your Apple TV.

Search anything in your Apple TV from Control Center

To find anything in your Apple TV easily:

1. Access the ‘Control Center’ by pressing and holding the ‘TV’ button on your Sir remote.
2. Move and highlight the ‘Search’ button given in the Control Center menu at the bottom right side.
3. Select the ‘Search’ button to get the search field with the screen keyboard.
4. Now, type what you want to search using your Siri remote or any other method. You can use Siri dictation to speak and search, connected keyboard or an iOS device to type in.

You’ll see one or more results for your search, highlight and select the movie or show you want to play. With this all, tvOS 13’s Control Center also displays the title of the currently playing music or videos.

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