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I used to be able to play a slideshow on my Apple TV of all of the photos in my Photos app on the desktop. Now, when I try to do that, it circles forever, and in fact I have to cut the power to the Apple TV to get it to quit. I can select an album and slideshow that, but what I really want is to randomly slide all of the photos. I have a lot of photos (38k or so). Is there an upper limit?
This stopped working a couple of OS's ago.
Hello Jim,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities. We understand that you would like to shuffle all photos in all of your albums in a slideshow on Apple TV. Right?
Currently, you will need to select an album to play a slideshow from. If you see the album "All Photos" that may help you to achieve the result you're looking for. Check out Create a slideshow on Apple TV.
Take care.
Jim,
Got it. It looks like you should still have the option to select all photos or particular albums. Make sure you're trying the steps from View photos from your Mac on Apple TV.
You might also be using Home Sharing. In that case, Stream content with Home Sharing on Apple TV might help further.
Have a great day!
Jim,
Try the following steps.
Make sure that your Apple TV and iMac are up-to-date.
Then, sign out of Home Sharing on iMac, Apple TV and any other devices.
Deauthorize your iMac using the guidance from Authorize or deauthorize your computer for iTunes Store purchases.
Power cycle both your iMac and Apple TV. Confirm they are both connected to the same Wi-Fi network.
Sign in to Home Sharing on your iMac, then your Apple TV.
Cheers
Jim,
Since the same issue continues after those steps, it may be best to contact Apple Support for further assistance. You can reach out from Get Support or using the direct phone number for your region from Contact Apple for support and service.
Best of luck.
Not exactly. I am trying to stream photos shared from my desktop to my Apple TV via the Computers app. I can successfully play music through this connection, and I can view individual albums of photos, but if I click on "Photos" it just circles forever. I have not loaded any photos to the Apple TV itself, but stream them from my desktop (iMac 27", 2017).
This used to work but a recent update seems to have broken it.
I am using Home Sharing and it works fine, but there is some kind of an issue with the amount of data being streamed. I set up a smart album of a year's worth of photos, with around 4000 photos, and it worked fine. In the next year's album there were 8000 photos, and it took several minutes before the thumbnails showed up. When I try to view my entire photo library, it just circles.
I am using wi-fi via Eero. It is very fast.
This may have something to do with the sheer volume of data. I use RAW and the file sizes can be very large.
Completed. No difference.
Apple TV no longer plays a slideshow of all photos on my desktop
