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Only a small portion of photos will be cached. If using the Photos app on ATV it will use the iCloud library to generate, whereas using home sharing will get them from the local computer (which needs to remain active during that process).

Of course there's a cache, but the point of these multiple threads for the same issue is that Apple evidently broke something in TV OS 16.

We're using the user forum in exactly the manner it should be; to identify from user reports when an issue has its genesis not in a unique configuration which can be fixed, but a bug which needs to be addressed. The timing of these reports can also nail down the introduction of the bug to precisely the rollout of TV OS 16.

And so Apple's indeed been notified of this; in the meanwhile, hopefully the effort of those who took the time to write up their experiences will save others from wasting more time trying to fix something than evidently cannot be fixed on our end.

Same issue here, I have around 17000 photos in my iCloud shared library and only the first 200 or so are shown in the screensaver on ATV. So we are always looking at the same old photos. I understand cache but I would expect the cache to refresh so we will regularly see different ones.

It's plainly a new bug, introduced in TV OS 16.

Apple needs to fix it.

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There has always been a select cache used for the photo, which has been 100-200. Anything bigger than that would need to be done using a slideshow.

This is a user forum at any time. You are still free to contact Apple.