Facebook Watch for tvOS seems to have come to an end. As initially reported by 9to5Mac, the app for viewing videos and live streams appears to have been withdrawn from Meta. However, this news only concerns Apple TV, since from the first reports nothing would have changed for the Smart TV platforms on which the service would still be active.
We also tried it on our Apple TV, and actually, once we start the application – complete with a renewed icon, among other things – the message that appears is the following:
The Facebook Watch TV app is no longer available, but you can still find many videos on Facebook at www.facebook.com/watch
The invitation to watch Facebook videos must be translated as ” to watch Facebook videos use your mobile device and turn on AirPlay if you want to view it on TV “. As is known, in fact, at the moment there is no web browser for tvOS.
This could be a sign of imminent abandonment of other apps on Apple TV: after all, the same Cupertino company seems to have put tvOS on the sidelines, as evidenced by the non-announcement of tvOS 16 during the last WWDC.
In other words, the latest version of the operating system is official, but it wasn’t mentioned in the opening keynote. tvOS 16 does exist, however, and its development is currently underway – the beta 2 release dates back to the week that just ended.
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