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Arranging the app

Theme, True Black, card size, which tab opens, the showcase, and the order of your tabs, rows and libraries.

Everything about the shape of the app is in Settings ▸ General, in seven sections. With Pro, all of it follows you to your other devices.

The General page on Apple TV: Theme, True Black and Card Size under Appearance, then Opening Tab, Showcase and Showcase Shows under Navigation, with Tab Order below.

Appearance

ThemeSystem, Light or Dark.
True BlackSwitches pixels off on an OLED display instead of drawing dark grey.
Card SizeCompact, Standard or Large. It sets how dense every wall and rail in the app is, in one place.
A library wall on Apple TV, showing how many cards a row carries at the standard card size.
Opening TabWhich tab the app lands on when you open it.
ShowcaseThe band across the top of Home. Turning it off gives Home to the rows.
Showcase ShowsWhat the showcase draws from: Curated, your server’s own pick, or any one of your Home rows.

A showcase pointed at a row moves through that row every few seconds until you swipe.

The three lists

Each of these is a list you reorder with the arrows beside each row.

Tab OrderThe order the tabs appear in. A tab only exists while it has a source behind it, so removing your last subscription takes the Live TV tab with it.
Home RowsThe order of the rows on Home, and a switch to hide any of them. Hiding a row removes it from Home only.
LibrariesThe order of your shelves, and a switch to turn one off. Turning a library off removes it from the whole app, so Home and Search stop offering it too.

Spoilers

Hide Episode Spoilers blurs the still image on an episode you have not started. An episode you are part way through is not blurred.

What syncs and what does not

With Pro, the settings on this page describe you rather than a machine, so they follow your Apple Account to your other devices. Settings about one machine — Wi-Fi-only downloads, blacking out other displays, preventing display sleep — stay where they are set.

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