Picture-in-picture mode has been an choice on Apple’s streaming media machine, the Apple TV, for a few years now. But with the recent tvOS 15.4 update, Apple has made it simpler to view a stay feed from HomeKit cameras in a small window on prime of another content material you’re enjoying in your Apple TV.

This is a helpful characteristic if you wish to control the child’s room when you’re watching a film, or watch over the entrance door for that particular supply throughout a giant recreation.

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Here’s a step-by-step information to enabling and utilizing Apple TV’s picture-in-picture mode to view a stay feed of a HomeKit digicam. For this, we used the Siri Remote second era; it’s additionally doable to make use of the first-generation distant, which makes use of a contact floor as an alternative of a clickpad.

• While you’re watching a present, long-press the TV button on the Apple TV’s Siri Remote to open the Apple TV Control Center.

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• Use the clickpad ring to scroll all the way down to the HomeKit icon.
• Select the icon by urgent on the clickpad and scroll by way of your cameras to decide on the feed you need to view.
• Alternatively, you may press the Siri button on the distant and ask to view the digicam by identify, as in: “Show me the Arlo porch camera.”
• The stay digicam feed will pull up in full display.
• Now, use the clickpad ring to navigate to the picture-in-picture icon within the bottom-right nook of the display.

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• Select the icon, and your digicam will transfer to picture-in-picture mode in entrance of the content material you had been beforehand enjoying.
• To management the mode from the smaller image, press the TV button to point out further controls on the picture-in-picture display.
• Here, you may swap to full display, shut picture-in-picture, or transfer it to one in all 4 corners of the TV display.
• In full-screen mode, you may select to view all of your appropriate cameras and swap to a unique one.
• You may also swap to viewing your digicam in full display and your present in picture-in-picture by swiping up on the clickpad to point out playback controls on the principle display (together with picture-in-picture).