The Facebook Watch App No Longer Works on Apple TV

Being in a position to watch movies out of your Facebook associates on Apple TV is outwardly not a factor. Facebook has seemingly discontinued its Facebook Watch app from Apple TV, with customers not having the ability to entry the video app on tvOS, 9to5Mac first reported on Sunday.

The Facebook Watch app allowed customers to play movies and livestream from the social community on their TV, the movies may vary from ones shared by associates on Facebook, authentic reveals, trending movies, or reside streams. The app first premiered on Samsung sensible TV earlier than making its debut on Apple TV in 2017. Users would log into their Facebook account by means of their Apple TV as a way to entry the movies.

But now, when customers attempt to entry the Facebook Watch app, they obtain a message that reads, “The Facebook Watch TV app is no longer available, but you can still find lots of videos on Facebook at www.facebook.com/watch.” The app seemingly disappeared following its newest replace, though it’s nonetheless accessible on the TV app retailer itself. Apple TV can be nonetheless listed as one of many platforms that assist the Facebook Watch app. So it’s nonetheless not totally clear whether or not the Facebook Watch app could later resurface on Apple Tv. For now, since Apple TV doesn’t assist net browsers, customers with the machine wanting to observe Facebook movies on their tv screens can use airplay from their telephone gadgets.

Apple TV+, Apple’s streaming complement to its TV machine, has been falling behind on reputation amongst different streaming platforms. In the fourth quarter of 2020, Apple TV+ had solely 3% of market share within the U.S. in comparison with Netflix, Disney+, and even Peacock, 9to5Mac reported. The firm has been flooding the platform with new films and reveals, however it’s nonetheless one of many least common streaming platforms.