Video: Apple’s Awesomely Improved iPhone Remote App
I like the Apple TV as a device, but it’s remote is awful. It’s the same little dinky white one that used to come with all Apple computers a few years ago. While it’s pretty good for using the FrontRow feature on a computer, your computer also has a keyboard for things like searching — the Apple TV does not. And this remote is painfully slow for manually entering letters in searches. But with an update to both the Apple TV and its Remote app available for the iPhone and iPod touch, Apple has changed all of that.
Watch the videos below to see it in action, but to say this is improved is beyond an understatement. Not only can you use various gestures to control navigation of the Apple TV’s menu, it works in movies and music as well. But most importantly, when you go to do a search on the Apple TV now using the Remote app, it will pop up a screen on your iPhone for you to type on.
Find the updated Remote app in the App Store here, it’s a free download and will work with iTunes on your computer as well.
Source: www.techcrunch.com
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