How To Balance The Color of Your Apple TV Output While Making Use of an iPhone
How To Balance The Color of Your Apple TV Output While Making Use of An iPhone
If you really want to bring out the most accurate color reproduction for your Apple TV, you should give a try to the built-in Color Balance feature. As long as you have got a compatible iPhone, you can start using this feature to improve your viewing experience without trying to mess with your TV’s settings.
The Apple TV’s color balance feature will require you to face the front of your iPhone’s camera close to the TV so it can identify ways to improve the set-top box’s video output. Once the calibration of the color is completed, your Apple TV will also display to you what it changed and show you the difference between the balanced version and the original calibration .
It’s very important to note that your Apple TV will not change any of your television’s picture settings. Instead, it is your streaming box that is changing the video in it outputs to your TV to make correction for any color issues your display might have. As such, it is possible that these color corrections will not be present if you want to switch inputs or play video from a source that is other than the Apple TV.
Which of The Apple TV Models is Supporting Color Balance?
Although the the feature of Color Balance was introduced in the year 2021 Apple TV 4K, it is also available on the older Apple TV models.
This is the list of Apple TV supported models:
1. Apple TV HD
2. Apple TV 4K (First Generation)
3. Apple TV 4K (Second Generation)
You should be running the tvOS 14.5 or later to use Color Balance.
Which iPhone is Needed to Use The Color Balance?
You will need an iPhone that comes with a Face ID to enable the Color Balance. Unfortunately, this means that some of the iPhones such as iPhone SE do not have this feature. If you have an iPhone X or a newer version with Face ID, you’re all set to begin.
This feature was introduced first with the iOS 14.5, so you’ll need it or a newer versions of iOS for it to work.
How To Balance the Color of Your Apple TV Using an iPhone
1. Making use the Color Balance, first open the “Settings” on your Apple TV.
2. Select Settings
3. Go to “Video and Audio.”
4. Choose Video and Audio
5. Under Calibration, choose “Color Balance.”
6. Choose Color Balance
7. Now you have to unlock your iPhone. A prompt will be displayed asking if you want to use Color Balance. Click “Continue.”
8. Adjust Color Balance
9. On your TV, you will discover an iPhone-shaped box. You need to hold your iPhone within three inches of this on-screen box and make sure the front camera is facing the TV.
10. Take your iPhone close to the TV. Make sure your front camera is close and facing the TV
11. Your Apple TV will start the Color Balance process.
12. Apple TV Color Balance measurement
13. Let your iPhone be as close to the TV as possible. If you receive a calibration failed error on your first attempt, but if you move your iPhone closer to the screen fixed this problem.
14. Once this calibration is done, your Apple TV will then show a confirmation message. Choose “View Results.”
15. Select View Results
16. The Apple TV will then show you one of its screensavers and also two options at the bottom: Balanced and Original. Making use of the Apple TV remote you can swipe left to preview and see what the original color calibration looked like.
17. Swipe the right to view what the color calibrated screen looks like. Once you are done with comparing, choose “Use Balanced” to finish this process.
18. Select Use Balanced
19. If you are not OK with the changes, you can select “Use Original” to revert to the calibration you had before.
20. Select Use Original
21. The Apple TV will display a warning message asking you to confirm which of the calibration you want to use. If you need to go back to the original settings, just choose the red “Use Original” button.
22. Select Use Original
In case you later changed your mind, you can always choose the “Use Balanced” button to go with the color-calibrated version.
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