On November 1, 2019 Apple joined the ranks of Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney+ with its personal unique streaming service. Apple TV includes a large assortment of exhibits and many extra within the pipeline funded by Apple’s mountainous money pile.
Under, you’ll discover a compendium of every thing we learn about Apple’s streaming platform.
Up to date October 17, 2025: Apple has formally modified the title of Apple TV+ to simply Apple TV.
How do I entry Apple TV?
You possibly can join and watch Apple TV content material by the TV app, which is accessible on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and the Mac. It’s additionally obtainable on many recreation consoles, sensible TVs, Roku, and Hearth TV gadgets. You too can watch Apple TV on a browser at television.apple.com.
The expertise of the TV app, although, varies from system to system. On a Roku, sensible TV, recreation console, or in a browser, you’ll solely see Apple’s personal content material. That features Apple TV content material in addition to Apple TV Channels and any motion pictures or TV exhibits you’ve bought by iTunes or the TV app.
On iPhone, iPad, or Apple TV {hardware}, you’ll additionally see exhibits from different streaming companies like Hulu, Paramount Plus, HBO, or Amazon Prime. The TV app aggregates content material from supporting third-party apps working on the system. Netflix doesn’t assist the characteristic, sadly.
Can I watch Apple TV exhibits on non-Apple gadgets?
Sure! You possibly can watch Apple TV by the TV app, which is accessible on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and the Mac, in addition to many recreation consoles, sensible TVs, and different streaming gadgets. You probably have a brand new set from Samsung, LG, Sony, or Vizio, you must also be capable of use AirPlay 2 to broadcast content material straight out of your iPhone or iPad to the set.
You too can watch on the internet utilizing Safari, Chrome, or Firefox by heading to television.apple.com. See: AirPlay suitable TVs which have Apple TV construct in: Information.
How a lot does Apple TV price?
Apple has raised the worth of Apple TV a number of occasions because it’s preliminary value of simply $4.99 a month. It at present prices $12.99/£9.99 a month. There should not a number of “tiers” of Apple TV subscriptions—you at all times get the perfect video and audio high quality, Household Sharing, and all options.
You possibly can renew your subscription for one 12 months for $99/£89, which basically offers you two months free annually. Alternatively, you’ll be able to cancel at any time and simply pay for a month while you need to watch a selected present.
Apple TV can also be included in all three tiers of the Apple One companies bundle, which ranges from $19.95/£18.95 per thirty days to $37.95/£36.95 per thirty days.
Does Apple TV have a free trial?
Sure, nevertheless it solely lasts for seven days, however there are methods to get an extended trial. Learn: Tips on how to get Apple TV totally free.
The U.Okay. and South Africa are exceptions—Apple affords no free trial there.
Is something on Apple TV free?
Some persons are understandably confused when having paid for an Apple TV subscription, or purchased an Apple TV set prime field, they discover that solely Apple unique exhibits are included of their subscription. Apple showcasing exhibits from different companies, and permitting leases and purchases of different exhibits and flicks in all probability doesn’t assist this confusion.
There may be some content material you’ll be able to watch totally free even with out an Apple TV subscription although. You possibly can watch the primary episodes of many exhibits, which might a minimum of inform you whether or not or to not subscribe to finish the season. Typically Apple makes exhibits obtainable totally free, for instance, sure Charlie Brown episodes and a few motion pictures.
Learn: What’s free on Apple TV?
Do Apple TV exhibits have advertisements?
No. Although you’ll typically see a trailer for one more Apple TV present earlier than the one you propose to look at. That is just like many different streaming companies, and it’s skippable.
What exhibits and flicks can be found proper now?
Subscribing to Apple TV offers you entry to a library of unique content material, somewhat than entry to an enormous back-catalog of TV exhibits or motion pictures, so there’s not as a lot obtainable as on another companies. That stated, through the years the content material has elevated.
We keep an in depth listing of all of the at present obtainable content material Apple TV.
Isn’t it referred to as Apple TV+?
In the midst of October, 2025, Apple quietly eliminated the “+” from all mentions of the service, and even from the app icon. It’s now simply referred to as Apple TV, which inserts higher with what most individuals appeared to name it anyway, however provides much more confusion between the service and the Apple TV {hardware}.
What exhibits and flicks are coming sooner or later?
Apple has nothing if not deep pockets and a want to win. The corporate has spent a small fortune buying unique exhibits and flicks from different manufacturing firms and has even began its personal (Apple Studios) to provide its personal.
It’s protected to say there’s rather a lot on the best way, however the tempo of recent releases pales compared to rivals like Netflix.
We keep an inventory of all of the exhibits, sequence, and flicks coming to Apple TV.
Does Apple launch episodes as soon as per week or drop whole seasons without delay?
Apple’s strategy varies. With brand-new exhibits, Apple will typically launch the primary three episodes without delay, with the remainder of the season coming at a charge of 1 episode per week. Second seasons and later could begin off at only one per week, and a few restricted sequence (particularly documentary sequence) make all of the episodes obtainable without delay.
New releases to Apple TV sometimes occur on Friday at midnight (so you’ll be able to watch the most recent episode of Ted Lasso at 9pm on Thursday evening, Pacific Time).
Can I obtain exhibits for offline viewing?
Sure, with a few caveats. Apple seems to position no limits on downloads of the identical content material throughout iPhones, iPads, and Macs owned by the identical account. For instance, we downloaded the identical episode of Servant on all three of those gadgets by the TV app with no hassle.
However that’s the place the liberty ends. Apple doesn’t mean you can obtain Apple TV content material on the Apple TV, nor does it permit for it on different streaming gadgets, sensible TVs, or when watching exhibits on a browser.
Reveals you obtain to your iPhone, iPad, or Mac will likely be obtainable for 30 days, after which your gadgets will routinely take away them. You too can manually delete them by the TV app.
Does Apple TV permit simultaneous streaming?
Apple TV permits for six simultaneous streams without delay, which is greater than you’ll get from another on-demand streaming service in the marketplace. A number of relations with Household Sharing can all stream their very own content material without delay.
How do I modify the streaming high quality so I don’t burn by my information?
A single episode of an Apple TV present like See can use over 2GB of your cellular information. You possibly can stop Apple’s service from hogging a lot information in your iPhone or iPad by going to Settings > TV. You’ll see choices to make use of mobile information or not, can change between Automated and Excessive High quality streaming, and might change the standard of downloads over mobile.
Can you employ Household Sharing with Apple TV?
Sure. A single Apple TV subscription could be shared with as much as 5 extra relations.
Every member of the family has their very own watch historical past and suggestions—it’s as if they’d their very own particular person subscription.
Are all Apple TV exhibits obtainable in 4K?
Sure. Early on, Apple introduced that each one exhibits could be obtainable in 4K HDR/Dolby Imaginative and prescient and that “most” exhibits would have Dolby Atmos sound, nevertheless it didn’t say simply how good it will be. In line with FlatplanelsHD’s Rasmus Larsen, Apple TV affords the perfect 4K streaming high quality of any service in the marketplace. It’s so good, actually, that the 4K bitrates are higher than what you’ll see in some iTunes motion pictures.
When Larsen wrote his submit in November of 2019, See had the very best bitrate of any Apple TV present, with a median bitrate of 29Mbps and a peak of 41Mbps. Snoopy in Area averaged 13Mbps, which is spectacular for a cartoon. Netflix’s 4K bitrates, by comparability, are likely to peak at round 16Mbps.