{"id":10554,"date":"2026-11-14T03:48:29","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T03:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=10554"},"modified":"2026-11-14T03:48:29","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T03:48:29","slug":"apple-tv-4k-youtube-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=10554","title":{"rendered":"The new Apple TV has a YouTube problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">People who received the brand new Apple TV 4k today saw some strange error messages as soon as they opened the YouTube app. As the first units arrived, the app was initially only showing a black screen with a QR code and an error message saying \u201cYouTube is not yet available on this device.\u201d In some cases the app was functional, but had a transparent red bar stuck at the bottom of the screen saying, \u201cYouTube app is approved for device testing only and not for production use.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Installing the new tvOS 27.2 update and rebooting wasn\u2019t enough to resolve the issue <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tomwarren\/status\/2121217790145159299?a=XliTuDbv2h_lJp3ee5U&amp;s=20\">for <em>The Verge<\/em>\u2019s Tom Warren<\/a>, he also had to uninstall and reinstall the app.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\"><em>The Verge<\/em>\u2019s John Higgins said in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/1031633\/apple-tv-4k-4th-gen-review\">review of the new Apple TV 4K<\/a> that it\u2019s \u201cone of the best streaming devices available,\u201d but expensive compared to other streaming boxes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/1033076\/apple-tv-4k-youtube-error\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who received the brand new Apple TV 4k today saw some strange error messages as soon as they opened the YouTube app. As the first units arrived, the app was initially only showing a black screen with a QR code and an error message saying \u201cYouTube is not yet available on this device.\u201d In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[345,46,68,34,160],"class_list":["post-10554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-apple","tag-news","tag-streaming","tag-tech","tag-youtube"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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