Screen saver on ATV 4K goes black
I have 4K ATV and all of a sudden, after the upgrade to tvOS 26, my screen saver stopped working. It has worked find for years, and all of a sudden, when the screen saver kicks in........I see the name of the first screen saver pop on the screen, but screen remains blank/black.
Hitting any key returns to Apple TV home screen. Changing the start time of the screen saver for inactivity does not fix this.
Rebooting the the Apple TV does not fix this.
Turning the Apple TV screen saver off and then on again, does not fix this.
If I start the screen saver manually I can see SOME of the screen savers, but some show up black.
I have found MANY threads on this topic with no solution other than a full factory reset of the Apple TV. Anyone have an easier solution, to perhaps force the ATV to update its downloaded photos perhaps.
This occurs with ATV OS 26 and now still there with 26.1. This is with the standard Aerial photos and as mentioned, some of photos seem fine when hit left or right arrows and started manually, but I have yet to see any recently using the screen saver timer. (I have also tried several different time periods, 5, 10, 15 minutes, etc.) (this seems to show me that the ATV is able to successfully show some pics with Dolby Vision in 4K, but for some reason, not others, and seemingly never when the screen saver works by turning on after inactivity)
And please......no links on how to use and turn on a screen saver as I have seen in other threads with this same issue. I know how to turn on and use a screen saver. This is a bug or some sort of corruption of the screen saver data, and I hoping for a fix. Thank you in advance. (all other threads that I have seen for this seem to already be closed.)
Judging from the other threads that I have seen, this similar issue has happened to many others.