AppleInsider Staff
Apple on Tuesday issued the very first beta for tvOS 9.1, its new Apple TV operating system, to developers for testing, less than a week after the next-generation set-top box became publicly available.
tvOS 9.1 is now available for developers to download from Apple's developer portal. Accompanying release notes warn that the beta release should only be installed on devices registered with the Apple Developer Program, and attempting to install it on an unauthorized device could render it in an unusable state.
Potential major new features of iOS 9.1 remain unknown, as the release notes accompanying the first beta do not disclose any significant changes. One change is that Explicit Congestion Notiifcation is enabled by default on both Ethernet and Wi-Fi, reducing network delays and packet loss.
Though the Apple TV launched only last Friday, Apple has already made changes to the experience over the air, enabling a list of top applications on the App Store Monday evening.
tvOS is only compatible with the new fourth-generation Apple TV with Siri Remote.
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Wait, 9.1?? They should have started tvOS at 0. Also I'm surprised Its had this many revisions.
tvOS is strongly tied to iOS, so makes sense to sync the major versions up with iOS.
And I'm sure they had a lot of those changes coded when the aTV launched, but they had to freeze the code to get everything ready and the new changes hadn't gone though QA yet.
I'm betting it's going to be compatible with the iOS and WatchOS remote apps. We'll see. I just played with one in the Apple Store for the first time ever today, and was very impressed. Going to be picking one up for sure.
I am a bit disappointed with my new ATV. The app store is a great start but the remote is poor at best and if that was an insult already: the Remote app does not support the new AppleTV OUCHHHHH
OK this might be a stupid question but why is tvOS on version 9 when watchOS started out on version 1?