Apple tvOS

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tvOS (formerly Apple TV Software) is an operating system developed by Apple Inc. for the Apple TV, a digital media player. In the first-generation Apple TV, Apple TV Software was based on Mac OS X. Starting with the second generation, the software is based on the iOS operating system and has many similar frameworks, technologies, and concepts.

Release Released Service Status Latest
18 3 months and 4 weeks ago
(16 Sep 2024)
 Yes 18.2
(11 Dec 2024)
17 1 year and 3 months ago
(18 Sep 2023)
 Ended 3 months and 4 weeks ago
(16 Sep 2024)
 17.6.1
(19 Aug 2024)
16 2 years and 4 months ago
(12 Sep 2022)
 Ended 1 year and 3 months ago
(18 Sep 2023)
 16.6
(24 Jul 2023)
15 3 years ago
(20 Sep 2021)
 Ended 2 years and 4 months ago
(12 Sep 2022)
 15.6
(20 Jul 2022)
14 4 years ago
(16 Sep 2020)
 Ended 3 years ago
(20 Sep 2021)
 14.7
(19 Jul 2021)
13 5 years ago
(24 Sep 2019)
 Ended 4 years ago
(16 Sep 2020)
 13.4.8
(15 Jul 2020)
12 6 years ago
(17 Sep 2018)
 Ended 5 years ago
(24 Sep 2019)
 12.4.1
(26 Aug 2019)
11 7 years ago
(19 Sep 2017)
 Ended 6 years ago
(17 Sep 2018)
 11.4.1
(09 Jul 2018)
10 8 years ago
(13 Sep 2016)
 Ended 7 years ago
(19 Sep 2017)
 10.2.2
(19 Jul 2017)
9 9 years ago
(29 Oct 2015)
 Ended 8 years ago
(13 Sep 2016)
 9.2.2
(18 Jul 2016)

Major versions of tvOS are released annually, with the previous major version losing support.

A Compatibility Table for supported combinations of tvOS, and, Apple TV generations is available.

More information is available on the Apple tvOS website.

You should be running one of the supported release numbers listed above in the rightmost column.

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A JSON version of this page is available at /api/tvos.json. See the API Documentation for more information. You can subscribe to the iCalendar feed at /calendar/tvos.ics.