use your iOS device’s onscreen keyboard to enter text. Later updates to the Remote app added iPad support and a nice touchscreen-remote mode for navigating the Apple TV’s own menus.

Probably top of the list is the fact that entering passwords and search terms using the trackpad and the onscreen keyboard ... Apple TV, as we demonstrate on the next slide. The infrared remote ...

When Apple released the fourth-generation Apple TV in 2015, it also included a new Siri Remote with the set-top box (although in some regions Apple kept the original name "Apple TV Remote" due to ...

Also, the dictation capabilities of the Apple TV remote are decent. Rather than fight with the on-screen keyboard, just hold down the microphone button and say what you want to type. For password ...

There is a certain level of disdain for Apple TV's Siri Remote. Between its glass design, unintuitive orientation, and high replacement cost, it has left many Apple TV users looking for alternatives.

you’re probably aware of how cumbersome the alternative — the Apple TV remote for iOS — can frequently be. It lacks a proper keyboard, for one — you have to hunt and peck for letters using ...

And you can replace the Siri remote with a Bluetooth keyboard, if you so wish. Just put the device in pairing mode, then visit the Bluetooth section in the Apple TV settings to finish the pairing ...

This means that the Apple TV remote is much harder to actually lose, and less likely to slide between the cracks of my sofa. Plus, its tail-like wrist strap makes it easier to see. That said ...

I don’t expect to need to control my Mac from my Apple TV regularly, but I’m sure there are some of you who may have a Mac media server and would like the ability to control it without getting off the ...