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Jamey Saldana
The Apple TV 4K remote will not continuously fast forward when I hold down right arrow nor will it continuously rewind when I hold down the left arrow. The show will just say paused. I will have to repeatedly click to rewind or fast forward 10 seconds per click. The remote will fast forward or rewind if I use the touch bar, but I personally like to keep the touch bar off.
Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows how I can access the rewind and fast forward functions in Netflix on an Apple TV. Like the ones in the iOS app where I can fast forward or rewind 10 seconds, and the track position slider.
Any help would be great,
Cheers,
Hubert
Hi there!
Unfortunately, it's not that easy to rewind and fastforward with Netflix. I have found it sometimes works to hold down the select button and drag your finger left or right. Let it wait for a couple seconds, and press the play/pause button. This usually rewinds it about ten seconds or so, though it's not consistent. I have struggled with the same thing for awhile now. I hope this helps somewhat anyway.
Hey,
I don't know how you call the buttons on the remote but......
From the track-pad, the button on the left, the one before the Siri button brings up the controls to fast forward, play and such. Then you flick your finger right to fast-forward, and left to rewind.
The more you flick, the faster it goes. Voice Over tells you how fast its going. You can flick back to slow down the rewinding or fast forwarding, until it says play. That's when you stop moving your finger on the track-pad and wait a few seconds for it to catch up and start playing. If it doesn't play, then you can press the play button.
Today I was playing, pressing and holding the microphone/Siri button and saying "Skip forward 3 minutes"; "Skip back 23 seconds"; "Go to the beginning", etc., and to my surprise and amazement it worked!
I was initially told that the Spectrum App functions much the same way the boxes do, so we returned them yesterday. Excited we might actually save money and get TV for a reasonable cost, I learned today that we can't pause, fast forward, or rewind live TV. This has to be some sort of cruel joke!
How is it that Netflix, Prime, Max, Apple TV, etc., can all pause, fast-forward, and rewind, but Spectrum, which is, by the way, much more expensive than all the other apps, can't perform these simple functions? And after reading this forum, I see there are no plans to add the functionality!
New Spectrum user here, And I came here looking for the same answers....... NOT being able to pause live TV is a huge disappointment for me as well. I had no idea prior to switching over that it was not available. I wish there was some compatible DVR with a physical HD that we could use for streaming, Since it seems like "cable boxes" are soon to be dinasours.
Skip backward or forward 10 seconds: Press left or right on the clickpad ring (Siri Remote 2nd generation or later) or rest your finger on the touch surface, then press left or right (Siri Remote 1st generation). Press again to skip another 10 seconds.
Continuously rewind or fast-forward: Press and hold left or right on the clickpad ring (Siri Remote 2nd generation or later) or touch surface (Siri Remote 1st generation). Press left or right repeatedly to cycle through rewind or fast-forward speed options (2x, 3x, 4x). Press the clickpad center or the Play/Pause button to resume playback.
Siri Remote (2nd generation or later): Press down on the clickpad ring to go directly to the Info tab, or rest your finger on the clickpad to show playback controls, then swipe down to show the Info and Up Next tabs.
Swap audio from the larger to the smaller picture: Press the TV button on the Siri Remote. To swap audio back to the larger picture, press the Back button (Siri Remote 2nd generation or later) or button (Siri Remote 1st generation).
Move the viewer to any corner of the screen: Press the TV button on the Siri Remote, then select the onscreen move button to relocate the viewer to a new corner. Select again to move it to the next corner, and so on.
I was watching a replay of the new Chris Rock special (Selective Outrage). The original had been a live stream, and the UX was slightly different from a typical recorded program. When I tried to rewind, the scrub bar would show up and count the time code backwards normally, as if I was rewinding. But when I pressed play, nothing happened. It would just stay there. There was no way to make it respond. If I pressed the back button, it would just start playing again where it had originally been before the rewind attempt.
Seems like an annoying bug to not be able to rewind or fast forward a special like this. But even if they're going to not allow those functions, they should say so when you attempt it, and not show the counter rewinding. Hope this isn't the case for all formerly live events.
Have you tried removing the affected channel Netflix and then re-install again? If not, we suggest starting there. In some cases, removing the affected channel and then re-installing it may help. Restart your device before re-adding the channel back in to ensure the process is successful. We recommend doing this through the Settings menu by navigating to Settings > System > Power (If there is no Power submenu, proceed to the next step.) > System restart.
Same thing happens to me as well. It will fast forward or rewind but the play button doesn't work. It only starts again, still at the original point if I press the down arrow. I fell asleep watching and now I have to watch it all over again. Very annoying..
Unclear if that's a joke, or if serious what makes you think that. Makes no sense, as it only happens on Roku and not Apple TV. Unless you're saying Chris Rock hates Roku. I can understand disabling fast forward, as is common on PPV. But there is no good reason I can think of to disable rewind.
Further, I've never seen it done where it pretends to be rewinding and then just doesn't play. When it's disabled by design, it usually causes a pop-up saying the feature is disabled. Or just doesn't respond when you try. This is not that.
Was this just shooting from the hip?
Just the one program (the Chris Rock special) on the one channel (Netflix). It was Netflix's first live event. So somehow encoded differently. The scroll bar looks different from other Netflix programs.
But it's a Roku-only problem. This behavior doesn't happen on my Apple TV. It rewinds fine there. Also, when viewing on Roku, the pre-show and after show aren't available. But those both appear on Apple TV,
There are definitely other streaming players that are offering FF and REW on the show. So it's not meant that way due to Netflix or the producers. Apple TV and Chrome offer the functions. Seems like yet another case where the Roku functionality is poorer than other players. Same is true for ESPN, where Roku's app is much worse than most others, offering no preview when you REW and FF.
For more information about that channel's content and functionality, you'll want to contact the Netflix channel support directly to inquire further. Many channels on Roku are developed and maintained by the channel provider themselves.
I have an iPhone SE3 running iOS 16.2. For several iOS versions now, the scrubber for media, (what VoiceOver sees as a track position slider), can only fast forward or rewind by four or five seconds max when I swipe it up and down. It used to jump by 10% increments, which is what I prefer. I can go quickly by holding and dragigng the scrubber instead, but it's not very accessible to fine-tune where I want to go, so it tends to jump much farther than I'd like. This is the case with all kinds of apps where I play media--Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Netflix, OneDrive, etc. I have uninstalled and reinstalled them to no avail. The skip forward and backward buttons work as expected, but the max increment for those is a minute, so they aren't viable as a workaround for long files.
I'm worried that I'll have to do a clean reinstall without restoring from my backup, as something in there might be the issue. Any other ideas or suggestions would be great. I'm getting tired of inching through my media. Thanks.
This is the response from apple:
Thank you for your email. We were able to reproduce this behavior within several different audio apps and have passed this information along to the appropriate team for further review.
So it seems it is a bug, but as yet, has not been fixed.
But I think the more people who report it e better.
My AppleTV 4K "Siri" Bluetooth remote forwards the configured 30s/click and backs up 7s/click on Channels Plus viewing app as it should. That touch screen remote, however, requires considerable focus to use so I prefer a Channelmaster CM7000 Apple compatible remote. Its fast forward and reverse behave as is to be expected on Netflix, Prime, and other apps, but erratically on CP. There's no indication of how far its forwarding or reversing and it often doesn't unless I'm careful to tap the key very, very quickly. The CM remote is IR rather than BT. It's sending NEC codes on those keys followed by almost instantaneous 0xFFFF repeat frames unless I'm careful to tap that key very rapidly. An old IR-based AppleTV remote sends a different code on that key but requires a long keypress to send a repeat, so it works perfectly. Do you have the ability to ignore consecutive repeat frames? NEC IR code has no other end-of-frame indication, so some timing assumptions are probably required.
You can go into the atv remote settings and turn off the touch pad function and it will just use directional tap. This makes the remote far less touchy and for some a more pleasant experience with the native atv remote.
Thanks! I know I've been there before, but maybe my A1962 remote is too old? With tvOS 16.0 (20J373] and remote f/w 0x118, the only choices available for touch surface tracking are fast, medium, and slow. There doesn't seem to be a down tactile key either.
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