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I had my iPhone SE and Apple TV see each other and this feature came in very handy when I had to type in long passwords to log in to certain TV streaming Apps. I also get the prompt when we want to search for a certain movie, etc.
but a few days (A week ?) ago I start to get this prompt very often, even when someone is not using the Remote. I keep getting this alert at random times. Even when I go away, as soon as we enter the house, we keep getting this annoying prompt, even before we had a chance to take our shoes off and enter the house. Obviously the Apple TV remote is idle and the Apple TV is probably showing screensavers if I had the TV ON.
What is going on? I did restart the Apple TV and also the iPhone a few days ago. It did not help.
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I also get the prompt when we want to search for a certain movie, etc.
What prompt is that? A password login prompt?
I've been getting an Apple ID login prompt every day for weeks now, and Apple has been unable to solve it at the base level of help. Login, and it goes away for about 12hrs, or the next day, depending on when I respond to the prompt.
Yet nothing seem to be off limits while 'not logged in'. Good luck!
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....same here about the Apple ID prompt.....been getting every day on all Apple devices......Apple TV....iPhone....iPads......etc......even after entering the password.....it keeps popping up.......
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well, maybe I fixed it. Maybe not.
I had to unpair the Apple TV from the App, then I put it back, the prompt came back, but there were 3 letters already typed in form a previous attempt. I remember a few days ago I tried to enter "Direct TV Now" in a particular App, but the Direct TV Now was not listed so I gave up. Somehow DIR remained as a partial text input in some buffer and it showed up. I deleted that, it came back a few more times but now it seems gone for good. I hope. But I think the madness started before I tried to log in to that particular app, so I cannot be completely sure if I got rid of it or not. I need to wait until I can say for sure.
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The more I read of problems like this, the happier I am that I have a computer on the desk and an iphone in my pocket and they don't talk to each other. Sure, it's a bit of inconvenient to have emails go from my phone and not be on the computer but I can live with that for now. And my TV is connected to nothing but the electricity and I only use it to view old DVDs and VCRs (yes i still have a VCR player) and actually haven't turned it on for about six months now.
It's time to watch "Blade Runner" again.
I'm old school, or maybe a dinosaur. Take your pick.
At my age, i have no effs left to give what anyone thinks.
