Swiftfin tvOS - Status Update #1294
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So this is the reason why I still see Swiftfin 1.0.1 on tvOS? I really hoped when I saw the change log for Swiftfin 1.2 it would also be available on tvOS. |
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Please respect the wishes of the maintainers. You may consider this a gentle warning. |
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I don't get why your mind went there. Anyone who disregards our rules (like "remember the human") can and will be blocked from the organization. We are not a business, we do not owe people anything least of all letting them harass us.
We understand your frustrations, but you need to turn it into something constructive instead of acting out in entitlement. Anyone is free to use a different client, fork the code or build something on their own. This is just not the place to advertise it and we want you to respect that.
This does not compute. Your comment comes off as entitled and lacking understanding. As I said, write your own clients, make non-vibe coded PRs (no self-respecting maintainer wants that BS) or use something else. That is realistic. Anyway, this has gone too far. Keep it on-topic and respect our wishes. |
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Firstly, I just want to thank you for all the hard work here, I think we are alot of TVOS users that are quite existed about the prospect of this update. With that said, I really would plead for you to bump the prioritisation of "Reactive Home Screen". As my understanding is, the "Up next" bug is going to be As somebody that watches a lot of series, I'd go so far to say that not having to manually browse for the next episode of a TV series, every time I want to continue watching, represents the biggest quality of life improvement I can think of in the currently client (which otherwise works fairly well for me). |
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The feature is important to us, and we’ll include it in the next release if timing allows. However, our focus is getting the many improvements we’ve already completed into tvOS as quickly as we can. It’s on our radar, and we want to see it done, but we won’t hold up the release if it’s not ready in time. That's all I mean by our "Nice to Have" section. |
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There is also always Infuse as the alternative for the whole Apple ecosystem which is feature complete with jellyfin including the latest skip intro feature while also supporting dolby vision and atmos. The latter won't be properly supported by this app for a long time or probably never. |
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So, I just wanted to jump back to this because I was looking at this on my end. It looks like the reactive home screen work is already done on the development branch. I can't really tie it back to an exact PR when it was changed, but it does appear to be working appropriately. So, this should be in the next release! |
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Why do you say that, never? |
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You have to pay Dolby labs for a license to decode Atmos, could be $1,000 could be 10,000 - they will have to look at you first. And you can do that only with product where you have controlled distribution, like for money in the App Store, when you know how many customers you have and pay $5 to Dolby for each sale. With free product they will not even talk to you. What seem to be possible is passthrough. You don't have to license or pay, because that burden is on your receiver/tv - the device that will be decoding. |
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I know I've been saying "I want to help out" and haven't pulled through, mostly because my 2018 MBP was crapping out and I was waiting for the M4 release. I have a new MBP now so I'd like to [finally] jump in! Since tvOS has been one of the biggest asks from the community I want to focus there, could I get a bit of an explanation (or be pointed to previous discussions) of what needs to be done for the items in the Not Started section? |
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I think actually the most impactful changes would be to fix/finish the user sign in/selection views, which can supersede #1113. I haven't been in that area for a bit to see what's missing, but it should have mostly matching functionality of the iOS by the end. |
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Sounds good, I'll take a look at the iOS sign-in and work on getting tvOS up to date. |
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It looks like PIN codes were removed from the server side and web earlier in the year, how do you feel about that being removed from Swiftfin? |
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Those are pin codes to log in and potentially get an auth token. The way I've implemented it is solely for local device access, users still require going through full user server authentication. Although, I'm less worried about tvOS immediately receiving that feature, if that slows down development. |
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@chickdan just as a heads up I touched the sign-in flow just a little bit on the iOS side: #1357. The only impact should be localizations! |
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I don't want to "inject" too much noise here, so, sorry for "moaning" about this, but please don't forget about the letter picker, if one uses the current tvOS version and one has a lot of entries under movies, it is impossible to navigating quickly (yes I know about search, but thats not "navigating quickly") with the letter picker Thanks again to the devs for your work ! |
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I have a functioning version of this done but there's a wider discussion that needs to take place:
So, I'd love to say it's in the work but we need to make sure we have our UI and design down for this first. If we dive into this too ad hoc we'll likely end up having to rework it a couple of times so planning it first will be a priority. You can follow from the PRs I listed above. |
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Indeed I have been looking at the PR. To be honest, releasing an update, even one with "just" the media part and current updates would help, I understand that you might want to hold off and polish the tvOS version a bit more, but it's a double edged sword, releasing, even calling it an alpha/beta, as you did with the current version, also gives feedback and finds bugs etc. Thanks for your work, wish I could help, but I'm afraid i'm not an Apple dev and I try to stick in my lane... |
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Many of the playback issues mentioned in the "Solve these issues" section were solved with the device profile builder refactor in #519. (And then IIRC the opus ones subsequently when you did the refactor of device profiles.) Which is to say that not all those open issues need work, but they haven't been closed because they still occur in the latest released build - which is outdated. |
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That is correct. "This Should Improve/Solve These Issues" was the title I chose as I believe many of these issues are resolved by #519 but we'll want to validate as that change makes its way into tvOS. My guess is that ~95% of these will be resolved by that original refactor but we want to make sure we don't close out anything related to these until #519 is available on both platforms. |
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Ah I understood it to mean "This should [be] improve[d]" instead of "This should improve [based on already-committed changes]." Gotcha! |
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Ah! That's on me, I worded that poorly. I've updated my verbiage to more accurately describe what I meant! |
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is there any rough timeline or release date for the coming tvos version? really can't wait for it! |
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Or can we get an invite to TestFlight version for Apple TV if there is one? |
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New ios versions are also expected. I even visit github often. |
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Just due to the nature of being a volunteer driven project, it's always difficult to give estimates. Especially with the holiday, it's hard to lock down that person X will be able to get done with Y since there are a lot of other obligations this time of year. This being said, I can give you a rough roadmap of where what needs to be done to get this ready. From there, following individual tasks should help with estimating the 'progress' we have towards release. Please note, everything being worked on is being done by volunteers. Please direct any questions about our tvOS release to this discussion as reaching out / pinging developers directly only adds additional overhead to their existing work.
Once we have these 4 wrapped up, we should be in the area to look at releasing a TestFlight for this version but, depending on timing of the other items, we may hold off if there are any other tvOS features close to completion when the 4 big items wrap up. But please remember, this is a rough estimate and these items are subject to change. EDIT: Crossed off two items that are done. If we find anything weird with those before the release, we may revisit those changes. For now, I am marking them of the list! |
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Hi, |
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Currently, tvOS 17 is our targeted version. |
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is it possible to join the testflight for this? |
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At this time, there is no TestFlight for tvOS as our tvOS build is in a non-shippable state. Our current TestFlight is for iOS/iPadOS 1.3 only. When we have a TestFlight available for tvOS, we will make sure to update this post to announce it. |
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It's possible to install it yourself from the sources, but it's complicated (you need a Mac and a membership to the Apple Developer Program). |
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I would love to jump in and help get the tvOS application up to date. Are you looking for contributors? |
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I've added a couple of the Quality of Life items to this original post. Pickings are a bit slim right now since we're approaching the next release. I think most new features rely on #1203 as a blocker so it's best to hold off on some of the more 'major' changes until that is completed. The items I added above should be good standalone QoL changes. I think the biggest impact item is related to the That being said, that's a lot more technical of an item so I don't really expect anyone to work on that. If you are familiar with UIKit it's a great place to make an impact but if you're more on the SwiftUI side, it would make more sense to focus on the other QoL changes I added as well! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions! |
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Thanks I have a working tvOS build now. I will admit UIKit is not something I dabble in a heap but more than happy to take a look at this issue. Let me digest it and I will reach out if I have any questions |
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I didn't want to open an issue for this but have a question, whenever I try to add a local package version of CollectionVGrid I get a bunch of errors for tvOS (see below) 
Is there anything happening in the Xcode project that may be getting over written by changing out the package dependency here? |
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Sorry to have led you astray! I would say the other QOL items in the main post would be a better place to work for now. I haven't had a chance to specifically look into that but since it's "outside" Swiftfin the configuration / testing isn't going to be documented the same. I can look into that but I'm traveling this week so I don't want to leave you waiting for me to find some downtime haha |
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haha nah that's alright. I will take a look at some of the other things and go from there. if it is any help I was trying to test the removal of this line as the docs read to me like it was removing all of the data from the collectionView so it might when you take a look |
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This one would be good to have. I haven't been able to reliably recreate it so if we have steps documented for that it would be helpful.
Anything player related is expected and part of why there is a lag between iOS and tvOS. The player UI in on the list but after #1203. No ticket required this should fall under that + #818
We have that in a TODO under
Which settings? All of the grid/library ones are live updating: #1408. But I don't think much has touched the previous settings so there's a good chance those need some love.
That's more on the API side so I'm hesitant to touch it until after #1463. That being said, it's worth an issue to document but hopefully 10.10 gets us more in line with expectations.
That deserves an issue but I know there is a grander
That interaction is because the But I can confirm and look at making sure that package is the latest version. Thank you for testing and the feedback!! |
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Done, #1477
OK, Let's ignore this for now. On the note of a player, I did see there is a VLCKit alpha buuld for 4.0! Once it exists alpha it's probably worth update as IIRC there are some security issues in the currently used version.
Done, #1478
e.g. 'Show recently added' (for sure), I think the Poster/Horizontal toggles too but will test those again next time.
Is it the result of the query? Or does the UI expect more than 1 item but there is just one in my case?
I noticed 2 points sort of got merged so I did one for both, not sure which of the two you wantend but the response can technically apply to both.
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Thank you for making those issues!
Gotcha. That will need to be part of the broader
We don't really touch the queries that get returned from Jellyfin. I'm not saying it's the API's fault or this is desired behavior. More just, I don't want to touch the API and what gets returned until after we update the API to 10.10. Where possible, it's best to avoid working on the same item twice haha.
Unfortunately, VLCKit 4.0 has been in alpha for about 2 years now. I hope they're close to a release but from what I have seen the API can still change pretty dramatically between alpha versions so it would be tough for us to target. If there is a formal release, it can be looked at but for now targeting alpha would be fairly tedious to maintain. |
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Found another one that is 100% requiring a restart, checked it while testing the crash fix Edit: Oh no! I just tried again and this time Edit: Heh... after another full reset,
Oh bummer, I saw 3 alpha release this year so I assumed they were close. |
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Well... I think the settings don't show any effect because it looks like the Home tab is not refreshing at all. I watched some stuff on my phone but the home in swiftfin tvos is still showing the old up next. Force restarting refreshes. |
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Hi guys! First of all, thank you for all the time and effort you put into this project as a volunteer. Since there are a lot of changes after 1.0.1, is it even helping you guys opening new issues based on that "old" AppStore version? |
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Unfortunately, the App Store version and our current version are almost two different apps. When 1.0.1 came out, we had less than 500 entries. Today, we just broke 1,500! Now, not all of those made it into Swiftfin and not all of them ended up impacting tvOS but the point stands: things have changed a lot! You are welcome to build our Main branch and test our changes there but that is a more involved process than TestFlight. Our main branch is also still missing some crucial changes so a TestFlight is still out of the question. I'm still working a guide for helping new folks contribute to Swiftfin. I'm hoping to knock that out before May but no promises. Until then, here are some more evergreen opportunities we're always looking for help with: Do you know a second language? Please help us translate Swiftfin! Are you technical or a good problem solver? Please help our other Jellyfin users on our Forum! Are you a good writer? Or, are you very comfortable using Swiftfin? We'd love to expand out our documentation to help people better use the app. Finally, at the time of writing this, we have 192 open issues. Every night I try to go through one or two of those to check if they are still valid or if they can be closed out. I've already gone through and tagged all of the playback issues, which don't need any further testing since we have a pretty big playback change on the way that will likely resolve a lot of of these. But, it's a great help to confirm that issues are still issues and, if not provided, what steps need to be performed to recreate these issues. For any issues/documentation, we are primarily looking at iOS/iPadOS right now. Otherwise, we hope to have a TestFlight out in the not so distant future. We won't commit to a firm date, or even use the word "soon", but I'll make sure to put an announcement on this discussion when the TestFlight becomes available. |
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Look at that! It's still before May! Please find a more in-depth guide here: |
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Maybe as a suggestion to the otherwise excellent updates, both in the thread and at the start, is to list the "still missing crucial changes before TestFlight" so the "impatient ones (yes, guilty)" have an indication of what is still left to do... Thanks for the work done ! |
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All of the items are listed in the task section of my main post. I'll reiterate below for clarity. Video Player manager needs to be completed so we can complete the player UI. Those are the biggest two items but the player manager is essentially THE feature of Swiftfin so it's important to do it correctly. These things take time so please continue your patience as we work on this. |
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There are two outstanding items that need to be resolved before this can be released. Please see the list in the main post for more details. Additionally, the "Edits" section of the main post is updated as things change. Please find my last update on May 19th with similar information. As we approach a release, I will update this post with more detail. |
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There are two outstanding items that need to be resolved before this can be released. As a result, 1.3 is not available for tvOS. My unofficial goal would be to be ready by 1.4 but this primarily hinges on our 2 outstanding tasks. So, if #1203 requires more time to do properly, it may need to wait until after 1.4. Let's say 1.4 for now and I'll make a post if it looks like we'd need to wait longer. Please see the list in the main post for more details and the 2 items that we still need to complete. Additionally, the "Edits" section of the main post is updated as things change. Please find my last update on May 19th with similar information. As we approach a release, I will update this post with more detail. Edit: I've updated the main post to make this more front and center. |
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aaaaah, I woke up seeing the release email, and I'm like, praise the heavens! But it was just a prank for tvOS 😂 |
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Please take your time - I don't like to think strangers are spending less time with their families and friends to update an app that is one of several options for Apple TV users. That said, I'm excited for when it's done. Currently using Infuse for TV viewing, and I'd love to have nothing but FOSS from server to client. |
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Thank you for the link. When the time comes we can look into this but for now we will be using TestFlight and the AppStore as those pipelines are already built. Adding MarketplaceKit would take some additional effort so this won't be on the table for a while as we're working on getting through our existing backlog. Please note that MarketplaceKit appears to only be for iOS and iPadOS so this (for now) cannot be used for tvOS. |
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For feature requests please create an Issue and tag it as an Enhancement. This thread is just for communicating our next release so any posts or comments end up notifying a lot of people. For this item, I believe we have this in our development branch. Currently, our App Store release sorts Home Screen shows by the date the show was added not by episode release date. As a result, new episodes currently don't get reflected on the Home Screen. This fix is included in our next tvOS release. If this is not what you meant, please create an issue and we can discuss this there! |
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Hi All, I wanted to make a comment to give a quick notification and update on where we stand now. I've updated our main discussion to reflect the completion of #1581. This is a huge milestone for Swiftfin and I want to applaud @LePips for the absolute insane amount of time, effort, and work that went into this feature! In addition to the existing improvements, this change opens a lot of doors for us and helps us move quicker towards future features. For the next tvOS release, there is some cleanup post-1581 that's in the works right now and we need to make a tvOS specific UI to put on top of the new media player. Finally, tvOS 26 appears to have broken some our navigation so this will need to be tackled as well. This being said, we're in the end stages now! We appreciate everyone's patience and all of the volunteers who have worked on making Swiftfin a reality. I will update this post with any additional information as it becomes available. You can find our current status in the main section of this discussion now up-to-date! |
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Just to clarify (and maybe spell it out for less technical users) the issue around Logout Between Sessions is due to CoreData being cleared when Apple TV is low on storage. So in theory - a temporary workaround could be making sure there is plenty of free space on Apple TV, although there is no hard or fast rules around what parameters trigger this to happen? |
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Yes. On the issue thread, I explained it a little more in detail but, if you limit the amount of data that is stored on your Apple TV, it will reduce/eliminate the number of times you are logged out on Swiftfin. This being said, that's not really a great solution, but it does work in the interim. Anecdotally, disabling screensavers and photos, I have not been logged out in over 3 years on my living room. As a final note, I believe data that hasn't been touched in a while is wiped as well. I use Swiftfin often so I assume that helps a well. I would guess leaving it unused for an extended period would result in a wipe/logout regardless of storage. Edit: Just to clarify, we don't consider "use less storage" as a permanent solution. Just a finding as a user, Swiftfin data is wiped as storage is consumed. Reducing the usage of your storage will result in less logouts. A more permanent solution will be a rework of how we store information. That being said, we may have to reduce some of the data that we are storing. Currently, with the structured data that exists, we consume a little over 500 KB on a fresh installation. This exceeds the 500KB limit Apple applies. CoreData is structured so there is some overhead so we're very likely under 500KB but it's still an important consideration for tvOS. Edit: Re-ordering a bit to group relevant info better |
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I don't want to drag out the debate, but I would like to comment briefly on this. My family and I like the screensavers and the photo function and use them regularly, so it would be "difficult" for me as a workaound. Wouldn't it be possible to save only the login and the “customized” settings? That should fit into the 500kb space or is that not possible? I'm fine with everything else being reloaded from the backend when I open the app. But having to log out every week or sometimes multiple times per week (in my case) is really annoying. |
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Apologies, I think I'm doing a bad job of explaining this. The current issue is: The location we store data exists in a persistent place on iOS but, on tvOS, that same spot is purgeable by the OS when storage is low. This is purely talking about settings and customizations. Caches and images are a different system that we are comfortable being temporary for both platforms. Having free storage reduces the logouts by preventing tvOS from purging data but the underlying issue is something we need to resolve after we get the next tvOS release completed. Priority one is getting a release out there. The spot Apple recommends we move data has a 500KB limit. This isn't an issue right now but something we need to consider for any future solutions. Since our current system is a little more structured in a database (additional overhead), we don't have a clean 1:1 size comparison. I'd guess it would be smaller but I don't know exactly how large a typical install would be at this time. For future discussion, let's please move to the issue to avoid notifying everyone subscribed for tvOS updates: #776 |
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@JPKribs and team thank you for all your efforts!! I appreciate all the time and work you and the team have put into this. I am happy to see progress. The release will happen when it will happen and it will be a great release! |
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Thanks for your hard work! If you weren’t already aware, the sheet behaviour in tvOS 26 seems to be unintended by Apple. It is listed as a known issue in the 26.1 beta. Maybe it’s one less thing for you to worry about or is this something you would still need to address in the meantime? https://developer.apple.com/documentation/tvos-release-notes/tvos-26_1-release-notes |
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No, that's great news! Thank you for the link, I've been dreading that work haha. |
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they fixed it in 26.1 beta 4 |
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https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/faq/#when-will-release-x-happen-when-will-feature-x-be-available It will be ready when it's ready. I know that's not helpful and can it frustrating but there's just a handful of us working on this in our free time. Committing to a date adds pressure and can lead to pushing incomplete or unfinished features for the sake of hitting deadlines. We'd all love to just buckle down and knock this out but we all have other commitments. Anecdotally, I just scrapped a lot of the Swiftfin work I was trying to get done because my position at work has changed a lot in recent weeks and I won't have a lot of free time until the holiday. I mention this as a reminder that we're all people, with other commitments, so plans/timelines can change rapidly. This being said, I CAN say that we're in the final stretch. As soon as I have an idea of a timeline, I'll be sure to include this in our post. But for now, that's as detailed as I can be. I ask we please be respectful of our volunteers and I will let everyone know when more information is available! If anyone is interested in helping us get this over the finish line, please see my post here for contributing: |
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Hi Team, Thanks for much for all your work on Swiftfin. The next tvOS update looks very exciting! I'm looking for a little guidance on upgrading Jellyfin to 10.11. Do we need to wait until #1772 is pushed to both the iOS and tvOS apps before we upgrade the server? Will functionality fully or partially break if we upgrade to 10.11 before the respective apps? I'm bringing this up in the tvOS specific thread because traditionally tvOS updates have taken longer than iOS, so if waiting is required it may be more relevant to folks paying specific attention to this thread. |
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I already installed 10.11.0 and I didn’t find any problem on tvOS. I only tested a movie. |
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Thanks for all the hard work on getting this update ready. I’m really hoping we can get this update out soon cause I use HomePod stereo pair for tv audio and have been forced to use the Android TV app due to the audio sync bug for the last few months, and would love to set my tv back to “Basic TV Mode”. |
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I appreciate the kind words and the offer! If you would like to contribute to Swiftfin, please see our discussion here: For tvOS, I believe we have 3 items left before our release. All of them are already underway with draft PRs where progress can be followed. While these aren't all big tasks in terms of size, they are more technical where a solid understanding of Swift is required. So the limiting factor is availability of time for our more experienced developer. I've recently picked up some of the work to try and carry more of the load so hopefully that should get us over the finish line sooner. If you're interested in learning Swift and contributing, I would be more than happy to help you in that Help Wanted discussion linked above. |
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How can the current version of the project be 1.4.0 if even 1.1.0 was never released? That's a very weird way to version the project. Also, 1.0.1 is completely broken on AppleTV 26. Will the current app (1.4) work if I do the build myself? |
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iOS and tvOS are versioned separately as they are technically different apps; it's one project with one code base but Apple splits it on their side.
Building locally will also have some issues but I think it's at least not completely broken. |
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Hey guys, I really want to be able to contribute but am not proficient in Swift or iOS/tvOS development. So I wanted to instead ask if I could donate money that would be used to pay developers to work on this tvOS release and hopefully speed up its progress? I noticed this repo links to Jellyfin's OpenCollective donation page and on there the Jellyfin team has made a post asking people to stop donating since they have enough money in the bank to run development for the next 3 years. Seems like these donations are only going to the Jellyfin media server developers and not to client makers like the developers of Swiftfin? Have you considered creating your own donation page and linking to it? I am at least willing to provide a couple hundred bucks. Really appreciate your efforts and I will keep on patiently waiting for another tvOS release. |
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Jellyfin has the donation links for specific developers listed here. For Swiftfin, LePips is our project lead who should be included in the links there! I've linked this to our README as well |
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Got it, thanks. I just completed making a small donation to him and will follow up with more once a new tvOS release is out! Again, thanks for your effort guys. 👍 |
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Thanks for all the hard work. The UI already looks great. Can't wait for more functionality on the system. Is there anyway to provide help for this project? |
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Thank you for the kind words! If you are interesting is contributing code, localizations, or documentation, please see: I'd be happy to chat with you more on that thread. If you are interesting in financially supporting our development, please see our 💜 Supporting Development section in our README. Ethan (LePips) is our seasoned developer for Swiftfin and the only reason anything gets done around here. His information for support can be found on that list. |
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Last Updated | 2026-01-12
Currently, Swiftfin for tvOS is not yet ready for TestFlight. Some delays are due to shared components between iOS/iPadOS and tvOS (such as the Video Player Manager), while others stem from challenges unique to tvOS. Developing for tvOS tends to introduce quirks that make progress slower, such as more limited support for SwiftUI on tvOS, cursor focus management, and a more complex process to test builds on real hardware than with iOS.
That said, we are actively working to get the next version of Swiftfin for tvOS ready for testing. Below is an outline of our progress, detailing both what has been achieved and what remains to be done.
tvOS Release Timeline
Required Work
There are 3 outstanding items that we need to resolve before Swiftfin is ready for its next tvOS Release. Two of these items are tvOS specific and one is shared between tvOS and iOS:
1. Media Item Overhaul
2. Media Player UI
3. tvOS Storage Rework
Ongoing Work
While our required items are being worked on, there is also some refactoring to help us better unify iOS and tvOS for ease of development. We currently have shared
ViewModels, that call the APIs and perform data actions. This let's us reuse all "Business logic" between iOS and tvOS without issue. Moving forwards, we'd like to have shared views that can be used between each platform. Previously, this wasn't possible to do cleanly but, as SwiftUI has developed, this is a much more manageable task. The goal of this refactor is to allow us to build the UI for tvOS and iOS from a single location. If something on tvOS/iOS requires special considerations, we can add logic there as well. But, for the majority of our views, tvOS and iOS have enough overlap this saves us from having to do this in 2 locations. This work was originally started here:Statefulmacro #1714 (comment)But, for some examples of what this looks like:
ErrorViewCleanup #1798SplitFormWindowView&LearnMoreTypes #1838This is not a requirement for our tvOS release but completing this should expedite future development and help us keep parity between platforms. Unofficially, this will also naturally result in a macOS client as our unified logic should work more cleanly there as well.
Completed
Please find our new milestone for tracking tvOS items below:
https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin/milestone/3
There are some items and features that are missing from this list, but this milestone helps make updating & tracking changes to tvOS easier. As items are completed, they will automatically be updated there.
Disclaimer
Please note that we have no firm release date and won’t commit to one. Swiftfin development is volunteer-driven by individuals who have other commitments. Updates will be posted here as available. We ask that you please be respectful of those dedicating their free time to make Swiftfin a reality.
At this time, there is no tvOS TestFlight or beta available for testing.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments, and I'll answer as best I can!
We will update this post with any updates as they occur along with a timestamp of the last update.
Post Updates
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2024-11-04: Added all tvOS PR's currently merged into Main
2024-11-12: Added episode card changes
2024-12-08: Reorder for readability and adding new tvOS items
2024-12-11: Clarity on the PRs included and the issues potentially resolved
2024-12-12: Move
Sign-In Flowfrom 'Not Started' to 'In-Progress'2024-12-18: Move
Home Screentasks from 'Nice to Have' to 'Not Started'. Break out tasks to be more descriptive for new potential contributors.2024-12-19:
Sign-In Flow - General Polishcompleted.2024-12-31:
Sign-In Flow - Delete Userscompleted.2025-01-02: Added a note clarifying that there is currently no TestFlight available for tvOS. Also included more details in the post to address common questions, such as progress updates. Started:
Home View - State / Error / Empty Handling&Sign-In Flow - User Local Authentication.2025-01-05: Included:
Home View - Manual Refresh Buttonto PR #1382. Subject to change.2025-01-09: Completed:
Sign-In Flow - User Local Authentication. Included:Home View - Reactive Changesto PR #1382. Subject to change/feedback on PR.2025-01-10: Completed:
Home View - Reactive Changes. This was already completed by earlier changes from an earlier PR to theHomeView.2025-01-11: Moved back to 'Not Started':
Home View - Manual Refresh Button&Home View - State / Error / Empty Handling. More discussion is needed for tvOS design and this PR was not the correct route. Pulling in favor of a more built-out solution later.2025-01-23: Created & Set as In-Progress:
Library View - Reload Settingsas a continuation of PR #1213. This is needed as a precursor to Filters / Letter Picker conversations. Those items are not a requirement for this release and will require a discussion on UX/UI prior to their development. Finally, added PR #1403 to the general polish for the login flow.2025-01-24: Created & Set as In-Progress:
Enable ItemType Filtering. Completed:Library View - Reload Settings. Both are preparation for tvOS library filtering.2025-01-26: Completed:
Enable ItemType Filtering.2025-01-29: Set as In-Progress:
Home View - Error Handling. Cleaned up some of the completed PRs and tied back some related PRs to completed tasks. Broke out Home View tasks intoError Handlingvs the broader restructure mentioned here: [tvOS] HomeView - Error Handling & Refreshing #1382 (comment)2025-02-03: Set as In-Progress:
Sign-In Flow - Sign-In Options. Also, removedItemType Filterssince it should all now be covered fromLibraryViewModelso only one configuration is required.2025-02-06: Completed:
Sign-In Flow - User Auto Sign-Out&Sign-In Flow - Sign-In Options. Created a new task forSign-In Flow - User Auto Time-Outwhich will handle the "Log out after X period of inactivity" asUser Auto Sign-Outhandles logout on close.2025-02-15: Completed:
Home View - Error Handling. AddedMultiple Version Support. Set as In-Progress:Multiple Version Support,Episode Selector, andSign-In Flow - Handle Duplicate Users. Re-ordered the "Nice to Have / Low Priority" section to better reflect the items that are less likely for the final build. Updated the PRs that will be included in this next release with all new PRs since I last updated it.Episode Selector's work is the first PR of likely a few.2025-02-20: Completed:
Multiple Version Support.2025-02-23: Expanded
Episode Selector - State / Error / Empty & Focus Handlingto include Focus Handling.2025-02-25: Included the new fix for [iOS] Grid in UserSelectView gets cut off with more than one user #1425.
2025-03-02: Set as In-Progress:
Library Filters & Letter Picker. This is subject to change based on feedback. If this filter layout is not desirable I will reset this back to Lower Priority.2025-03-03: Completed:
Episode Selector - State / Error / Empty & Focus Handling.2025-03-04: Set as In-Progress:
Sign-In Flow - User Auto Time-Out. Re-opened:Episode Selector - State / Error / Empty & Focus Handling2025-03-12: Completed:
Episode Selector - State / Error / Empty & Focus Handling. Now with some scrolling/focus fixes. Appropriately linkedSign-In Flow - User Auto Time-Outto the review ready PR. RemovedItem View - State / Error / Empty Handlingas an item this appears to already beStateful. Additionally, theHome View - Error Handlingcovered theItemViewError state as well. SeparatedLibrary Filters & Letter Pickerout from the rest of "In-Progress" as it likely will not be polished in time for the tvOS release.2025-03-14: Completed:
User Auto Time-Out. With this, our sign-in logic should be roughly at feature parity with iOS 🎉.2025-03-21: Completed:
Menu Button Cleanup&Video Ranges. AddedTrailers & ActionButton Cleanup&Accent Color & tvOS ColorPickerViewto in-progress. None of these are mission critical but they are some good QOL cleanup while theVideoPlayerManagerrefactor is ongoing.2025-04-01: Set as In-Progress:
Select User View - Move the AddUserButton to the Bottom Bar2025-04-05: Completed:
Item View - Trailer Support & ActionButton Cleanup.2025-04-06: Added:
App Crash on First Login. Set as In-Progress:App Crash on First Login. Completed:App Crash on First Login,Select User View - Move the AddUserButton to the Bottom Bar, &Developer - Update SDK to 10.10. RenamedAddUserButtonto mirror other Sign-In Flow items. Updated other PRs included and moved some other issues around in terms of priority.2025-04-15: Cleanup PRs and active items.
2025-04-16: Moved all QOL items to a more generic Help Wanted Post
2025-05-19: LePips has resolved the
PagingLibraryViewfocus issue in their CollectionVGrid repository. This should be bumped in our next tvOS PR that makes it's way. I am going to create a single PR just to bump this version. This should be our last major item required outside of the Video Player Manager which can be followed from Video Player Manager Refactor #1203. Cleaned up open items to better reflect our current outstanding needs for our next release.2025-06-12: Added an update to get in front of some of the 1.3 tvOS questions.
2025-06-15: Added an PR for the Video Player.
2025-07-20: Removed the long list of PRs for the next release as this was taking some effort to maintain and didn't really add much to the conversation. Instead, I will focus on keeping the Completed task list up-to-date with the more key/high profile items. Removed no longer in-progress items from the list and added the resolution for Logged Out Between Sessions [TVOS] #776 to the completed items.
2025-09-19: Cleanup notes post Media Player #1581. New tvOS 26 issues are present that need to be squashed.
2025-10-06: Linking [tvOS] tvOS 26 Fixes for Navigation & Updated Linting #1715 and updating to better reflect the source of the issue as an Apple Bug. This workaround should be minimally invasion and we should be able to reverse this easily when Apple patches this. Mark
Video Player Cleanupas resolved.2025-10-22: Added and Sorted outstanding tasks. Cleanup to refill Help Wanted! #1503.
2025-10-24: Marks
.sheetfix and SDK changes as complete. Clean up and move to a Milestone instead of manually updating this list.2025-11-17: Cleanup issues. Trailers now resolved for tvOS. Majority of tracking should now be on the Milestone.
2026-01-02: Cleanup Edits to be collapsible. Create a more narrative 1, 2, 3... gameplan for our next release.
2026-01-05: Bolding and formatting changes to make this more readable.
2026-01-12: 2026 NOT 2025...
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