Fourth-Gen Apple TV Waking Up Spontaneously

We’re sure many of you guys have left your computer on Sleep mode at night, only for it to restart spontaneously due to an update, waking you up in the process. Unfortunately it seems the same thing is happening with the fourth-gen Apple TVs, at least according to various user complaints as well as confirmation by AppleInsider.

The issue here is that when the Apple TV has been put to sleep, for some reason or other, it will just wake itself up and in some cases, will turn on the TV that it is connected to. This could be an issue as there might be sound blasting from your TVs speakers in the dead of the night, or even worse is that there is no sound and you end up wasting a fair bit of electricity in the process.

It has also been suggested that this could impact plasma TV owners the worst as it could result in screen burn-in. No word on why the Apple TVs are suddenly waking themselves up, but there have been fingers pointed at Bluetooth and AirPlay. Some users have found success in closing all apps before putting the Apple TV to sleep.

Others have tried restarting their units and turning off ad tracking. Alternatively disabling HDMI-CEC in tvOS settings could help as well, but safe to say that this is a weird bug and one that we hope Apple will be able to resolve soon. In the meantime any of our readers experiencing this issue with their fourth-gen Apple TVs?

Tyler Lee
Categories: Apple, Gadgets
Tags: Apple TV