An Apple TV session had no way to the stats overlay at all. Every other client
cycles it in-stream — Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S on the desktops, a three-finger tap on
touch — and tvOS has neither a keyboard nor a screen to tap, so the only route
was Settings before connecting (or a profile). The docs' own "cycle with" table
simply had no row for it.
Two surfaces, because an Apple TV may have a controller in the room or only the
remote:
- Select + X on a controller, cycling one tier per completion. Built like
Android's mic chord (Select + Y) and deliberately disjoint from the escape
chord — X is none of its four buttons, so reaching for one can never trip the
other. Read off the wire mask like the escape chord, so a Select the
hold-Select gesture has turned into a guide can't cycle the overlay on its way
past. Available on every Apple platform: a controller in both hands is exactly
the case the keyboard combo and the three-finger tap can't serve.
- Hold Play/Pause on the Siri Remote. Its right-click is therefore deferred until
the press resolves — a tap still right-clicks, delivered on release with the
release trailing by TAP_PRESS — because a right button held for half a second
is a context menu on every desktop this streams.
A non-forwarding slot now claims the stats chord's elements too, alongside the
escape chord's: on tvOS an unclaimed button's press stays the system's and the
chord would silently never complete.
Tests pin both chords' masks against their GameController alias lists, that the
two overlap only on Select, and that the claim list covers both without
duplicates — the failure mode is nothing happening, with nothing logged.
The console UI now runs on tvOS through the NATIVE focus engine: carousel
cards and settings rows are focusable Buttons (Siri Remote and pads both
navigate; imperative scrollTo replaces the drop-prone scrollPosition binding),
while iOS/macOS keep the 60 Hz poll untouched - on tvOS it carries only what
focus has no concept of: X/Y screen actions and left/right value adjust with
the poll's dominant-axis feel (onMoveCommand proved input-source-dependent:
keyboard intercepted, pad dpad not -> double steps). Text entry uses the
system fullscreen keyboard (TVTextEntry); pairing + library present as covers
under the launcher; the game library defaults ON; settings values slide a
quiet 14 pt in the step's direction.
Session controls: controller/remote input routes EXCLUSIVELY through
GameController during a stream (GCEventViewController, interaction disabled) -
a pad's B no longer doubles as a UIKit menu press that ended sessions
mid-game. Deliberate exits only: the cross-client escape chord (hold
L1+R1+Start+Select 1.5 s - pf-client-core's contract, now implemented on all
Apple platforms) and holding the remote's Back >= 1 s; the start-of-stream
banner (now also on tvOS) teaches both. The Siri Remote's touch surface
drives the host pointer - press = left click, Play/Pause = right click,
release-tail jumps gated so motion stays truly relative.
tvOS 26 regressions fixed at the root: the app-wide brand tint rendered every
unfocused control as a blank pill (tint dropped on tvOS) and the 17 pt root
font shrank the whole platform (29 pt there), plus 10-foot sizing across host
cards, the gamepad screens, and the stats HUD (whose misleading "Press Menu"
hint is gone). Acknowledgements scrolls by focus-sized chunks and Menu pops
instead of suspending; full-width focusSections make the home actions
reachable from any column. The presenter defaults to stage-3 glass pacing on
tvOS (a 60 Hz panel fed a 60 fps stream is the sticky-FIFO worst case behind
the 50 ms display stage) and is pickable from the gamepad settings; HDR
capability advertises from AVPlayer.eligibleForHDRPlayback instead of the
current mode's EDR headroom, so an SDR home screen no longer hides an HDR TV.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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