Lost the remote? Your iPhone is one — and it does things the plastic one never could.
TV Remote controls your television over your own Wi-Fi. Pair once with the six-character code on the screen, and every press lands instantly.
One payment. No ads. No subscription. No in-app purchases. No account.
— TRY IT WITHOUT A TELEVISION —
Demo Mode is on the first screen. A full working remote, no pairing and no TV required, so you can feel how it responds before you set anything up.
— THE REMOTE —
• D-pad with a real click and hold-to-repeat, plus OK, Back and Home
• Touchpad page — swipe to move, tap to select, for menus that scroll forever
• Number keypad for live TV channels
• Volume rocker printed with the television's actual volume number, live from the set
• Power, mute, channel up and down, and playback transport controls
• Pick which page the app opens on
— THINGS A PLASTIC REMOTE CANNOT DO —
• TYPE WITH YOUR OWN KEYBOARD. Search boxes, Wi-Fi passwords, logins — typed on the iPhone and sent straight into the field on screen. Paste works, so your password manager does too.
• SEARCH BY VOICE. Hold the mic and speak. The iPhone turns it into text with Apple's Speech framework and types it into the television.
• APP SHORTCUTS. Four apps on the remote face, chosen and reordered by you. One tap instead of hunting through the launcher.
• CAST YOUR OWN MEDIA. Photos, music and video from your library play on the television, served by the iPhone over your Wi-Fi. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.
• SLEEP TIMER and automations, included.
• DARK, LIGHT AND SYSTEM THEMES, with haptics through the Taptic Engine.
— PAIRS IN ABOUT A MINUTE —
1. Open the app and tap Allow when iOS asks for Local Network access
2. Put the iPhone and the television on the same Wi-Fi network
3. Tap your television in the list, or tap Enter IP address and type it in
4. Type the six-character code shown on the television
5. Press a key. The pairing is saved to the iOS Keychain and reused automatically.
Discovery runs through Apple's own Bonjour service. Adding a television by IP address is always available too, so a fussy router or a declined permission never leaves you stuck.
— MORE THAN ONE TELEVISION —
Save as many televisions as you own — the living room, the bedroom, the box in the office. Each keeps its own pairing, and switching between them takes one tap. There is no limit and no upgrade prompt.
— YOUR PRIVACY IS NOT THE PRODUCT —
No account. No sign-in. No server. No analytics. No advertising SDK, and the App Tracking Transparency prompt never appears, because there is nothing here to track you for. Your televisions, your pairings and every key you press stay on the iPhone.
Compatible television on the same Wi-Fi network.
