Apple TV setup issue with iCloud and Apple Account

The legacy model Apple TV (3rd generation) may need two-factor authentication.

If you have an Apple TV (2nd or 3rd generation) and two-factor authentication for your Apple ID, then you may be asked to type your password followed by the six-digit verification code directly into the password field. Additionally, there is a time limit, after which the code becomes invalid.

Try this: First enter the characters of your password (do not submit yet), then manually request a new verification code, then append that code to the password (no spaces or other separating characters), and then submit. That should help you get past the time limit.

Let us know if that still works in 2024.

Additionally, the Apple TV (3rd generation) doesn’t support iCloud services anymore. You may use other services on this model device, including iTunes Store, but iCloud has changed, and the legacy system software hasn’t changed with it, so now isn’t compatible anymore.

Also see: discussions.apple.com/thread/255664587.

I have an old Apple TV to connect to my iCloud in it. You don’t have a iCloud I have iCloud, but it let me show you.