Apple recently unveiled a refresh to the Apple TV 4K, complete with a new Siri remote and new features. Among these new features is a color balance setting that claims to make the colors on your TV look as good as they can be. So if you bought a new Apple TV 4K or updated an old Apple TV to tvOS 14.5, follow these steps to enable and use Apple TV’s new iPhone-based color balance feature.
How Does The Feature Work?
Before we look at how you can use the new color balance feature, let’s see what the new feature is and how it works.
- How Does The Feature Work?
- List of iPhones Compatible with Apple TV’s Color Balance Feature
- How to Use Apple TV’s iPhone-based Color Balance Feature?
To use this new feature, you will need a compatible iPhone running iOS 14.5 or above. Here are the iPhone models that you can use for color balancing your Apple TV.
- iPhone X
- iPhone XR
- iPhone XS
- iPhone XS Max
- iPhone 11
- iPhone 11 Pro
- iPhone 11 Pro Max
- iPhone 12 mini
- iPhone 12
- iPhone 12 Pro
- iPhone 12 Pro Max
Also, it is important to know that you should be using Apple TV (2015) or later, and tvOS 14.5 or later to use the color balance feature. Apple also advises users to turn off highly saturated picture modes, such as vivid or sports, on their TV before the test.
- On your Apple TV, go to Settings -> Video and Audio -> Color Balance under the Calibration section.
