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The Top Shelf
About 1 minute to set up
Put Theatrium in the top row of the Apple TV home screen and the shelf above it shows today's weather, your next appointment, your steps and more, before you even open the app.
What this is
On the Apple TV home screen, whichever app sits highlighted in the top row gets a wide strip above it. Apple calls it the Top Shelf. Theatrium fills its strip with live tiles drawn in your theme's colors: the weather where you are, sunrise and sunset, the next appointment, today's steps, rain on the way, the markets, your commute, the headlines, the song that is playing, and a warning when something at home needs attention, such as a door left open or a low battery.
The tiles are a glance, not a control. Press one and Theatrium opens.
Setting it up
- On the Apple TV home screen, move the highlight to the Theatrium icon. Press and hold the center of the pad until the icons start to wobble.
Hold the center on the Theatrium icon until the icons wobble. - Move the icon into the top row with the edges of the pad, then press the center to drop it there. Press Back if the icons are still wobbling.
- Highlight Theatrium. The shelf above it fills with tiles. Press the top edge of the pad to move up onto the shelf, then left and right to read along it.
Press up from the Theatrium icon to move onto the shelf. - Press the center on any tile to open Theatrium.
Good to know
- Nothing to set up inside Theatrium. Which tiles appear depends on what you use: a calendar gives you an agenda tile, an appointments calendar gives you the appointment tile, a music source gives you the song, and so on.
- The tiles refresh while Theatrium runs and for a while after you leave it. A tile that no longer applies, like this morning's appointment once it has started, comes off the shelf by itself. A tile that has not been refreshed for twelve hours is taken down rather than left stale.
- The tiles follow your theme. Change the theme and the shelf changes with it the next time it refreshes.