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- [Don] Hi, this is Don McAllister,
and welcome to another Screen Casts Online
weekly tip video.
We've already covered the new control centre
in part one of our extensive coverage of iOS 11
over on screencastsonline.com.
So, in this week's tip video, I want to take
a look at the new Apple TV remote
built into iOS 11 control centre.
As I demonstrated in episode 665,
we can now get to the control centre
by swiping up from the bottom of the screen.
Now, if you find that you haven't got
the Apple TV remote installed,
what you're gonna have to do,
if we just come back to the home screen,
go into settings and then you want to find
control centre, and then customise controls.
The top section are the controls currently
included in control centre,
but down here we have more controls,
and there we see Apple TV remote.
So, if I just tap the plus, that's now added
to the include section.
If we come out to the home screen
and then swipe up from the bottom again,
and now we can see the Apple TV remote control.
So, this is my Apple TV, currently displaying
a screensaver.
To come out of the screensaver, if I use
my standard Apple remote, the Apple remote
that's provided with the Apple TV,
if I just press the menu button
it takes me to the top level of my Apple TV.
I've got my Screen Casts Online members app.
I can use the standard remote control
just to scroll down and then scroll back up again.
Okay, let's go across to the iPhone,
and let's have a go at using the iPhone Apple remote.
So, what I would do is swipe up from the bottom,
takes me into the control centre,
tap on the Apple TV remote, and now I'm presented
with the list of Apple TVs to access.
So, I have an Apple TV, one in the living room
and one in the studio.
So, it's the studio one I want, tap on studio.
Now, on the Apple TV, I get a passcode,
an authentication passcode, and here on my iPhone
I need to enter that in.
So, that's 0265.
Right, I'm now in.
So, this is my control on my iPhone,
if I tap menu it takes me back to the screensaver.
If I tap on the touch panel at the top,
takes me back in.
I can swipe across to access the various applications.
I can swipe down, let's swipe back up,
let's go back up to the Screen Casts Online members app,
tap the iPhone once, swipe down, swipe across,
swipe down, swipe across.
So, this is all done using the iPhone.
Now, there are some additional controls
that will appear when we go into, say,
video playback, so if I select the alternative
e-mail clients for Mac Show,
I'll just tap on the main panel on the Apple TV remote.
I'll tap again to watch, okay, I can resume
playing or start from beginning, I'll just
swipe down to start from beginning,
and then, again, we'll just hit play.
Right, so we've got subtitles, so perhaps
we want to take off the subtitles,
I'll just pause, and then to take off subtitles
I'll swipe down from the top, swipe across
to subtitles, swipe down, and swipe to go off,
and then tap remote.
Okay, now you can see I've also got some
additional controls to skip forward
10 seconds at a time, and also to skip back
10 seconds at a time, and then play.
The subtitles have gone, and pause again.
And, obviously, down at the bottom I've got
the screen control and I've also got
the Siri control as well if I need to use
Siri through the Apple TV remote on the iPhone.
Now, if I actually come out of here,
so if I go back to the home screen,
the good thing is, if I go now back into
the Apple TV remote, it remembers the last
connection it made, so I don't have to
go through the authentication process again.
Another neat feature of the Apple remote
is the ability to use a keyboard.
So, while I'm actually in this particular video,
if I want to search for another one,
if I just tap menu to come back out,
menu again to come back out, we'll scroll
up to the top, scroll across to search,
and let's say now I want to search for Safari,
scroll down to the search panel,
and then, well, as you can see on the iPhone,
immediately I have a keyboard, but, if I tap here,
I can then tap on the Siri tap and hold.
Safari, that does a quick search for me.
Now, if I want to get back to the keyboard,
I've got this new keyboard icon,
I can tap on there, and amend the search string.
Even if you're not using your Apple TV remote
built in to iOS 11 to control your Apple TV,
there is still a benefit that comes
from having it on your iPhone.
For instance, if I navigate to the search panel
using my standard Apple TV remote,
you'll see on the iPhone I get this keyboard
input prompt, I can press, and that gives
me the ability now to go straight in
and type on my Apple TV.
So, let's say I want to type for airmail.
So, even if you're not using the Apple TV
remote on your iPhone and you come across
a text entry field, the iPhone will automatically
go into this mode whereby you can use
the iPhone keyboard to enter the text.
Much, much better.
But, that's it for this week, we'll be back
in a couple days with a full video tutorial,
so we'll speak to you then.
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