Apple TV suddenly forcing sports into my feed

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Apple TV suddenly forcing sports into my feed

I don’t watch sports and am not interested in starting. I have turned off every setting I can find in Apple TV that has to do with sports l, sports scores, etc but after 3 years of using Apple products and never having an issue I am suddenly inundated with sports updates. Like 10x in the past 3 hours. It keeps pushing notifications to my phone and it keeps putting the same game back in my Up Next section on Apple TV. I don’t want this. Don’t try to force content on me Apple. I have turned it all of and it continues to show up.

Posted on Mar 19, 2024 7:17 PM

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LeVeau

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Apr 12, 2024 12:11 PM in response to Charm8er

This is happening to me as well. Latest version of tvOS, 17.4, on 2021 Apple TV 4K. Sports events show up in Up Next when they are happening, even though I have turned this off in settings.

It began after I installed on my iPhone Apple's new Sports app and selected some teams as my favorites to follow. As soon as I did that, I started getting these thumbnails for their games in Up Next. I have going into the app and removing those teams as favorites, but that doesn't fix the problem. I have even deleted the app, and all its data - no luck.

Yes, I can manually go in and remove each thumbnail when it appears in Up Next, but I'd rather they didn't appear at all.

I've submitted this as a bug at feedback.apple.com. Others who have this same issue might want do the same.

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LeVeau

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Apr 12, 2024 1:32 PM in response to LeVeau

I should add that there are multiple references to sports in the TV app settings in tvOS, and all of them are off.

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Apple TV suddenly forcing sports into my feed

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