Apple TV gets new universal search options in US, Canada, many other countries
Apple has significantly expanded the universal search options present on the Apple TV and Apple TV 4K, improving coverage in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and elsewhere.
In the U.S., searching for movie and TV show titles will now yield results from Classix, Oxygen, and BBC America, as long as those apps are installed. New Canadian listings include Classix, Treehouse, FXNOW Canada, ICI Tou.tv, and most significantly CBC TV, the country's national broadcaster.
Australians will see results for 9Now, SBS, and Tenplay. In Norway and Sweden, Viaplay has been added.
Apple has also expanded the number of countries with Apple Music search beyond the U.S., covering Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the U.K.
The company has sometimes drawn fire for favoring the U.S. in Apple TV improvements. In terms of universal search, the U.S. is still vastly better supported than any other country.
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Adding support for Plex would be a game changer.
I'd settle for being able to search my own content!
Ditto! Can not believe it can't search content from home sharing :(
let’s say you have a bunch of various .avi movie files in your home library — who enters all the meta tags for them for the universal search to read? you’d have to manually go thru every one of your movies and input the cast, director, genre, etc.