Facebook Watch is a dedicated app for watching Facebook videos and live streaming on TVs. However, Apple TV users will no longer have access to the platform as Facebook appears to have ended support for the Facebook Watch app for tvOS.
As users note and also confirms, the Facebook Watch app no longer works on Apple TV. It looks like Facebook has shut down the tvOS app with its latest update, which interestingly also changed the app’s icon with a new logo. However, the app is still available on the App Store.
Users now receive a message when they try to access Facebook Watch on tvOS that the app is “no longer available” and that the video can be viewed on the Facebook website. Of course, since tvOS doesn’t have a web browser, there’s no other way to watch Facebook videos on Apple TV other than using AirPlay from another device.
Facebook announced its dedicated app for watching videos on Apple TV in 2017. Users could log into their Facebook accounts to watch videos from their friends, accounts they follow, and even offer videos and live streams.
This is how the company describes the app on their website:
On Facebook Watch, you can find videos and original shows on topics like sports, news, beauty, food, and entertainment. To watch these videos on your TV, you can download the Facebook Watch TV app or stream to your TV from the Facebook mobile app. Learn more about streaming video from the Facebook mobile app to your TV.
Apparently, only the tvOS app has been discontinued, as Facebook Watch is still available and works on smart TVs.
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Unfortunately, the end of Facebook Watch for Apple TV didn’t come as a surprise. Like watchOS, tvOS has been losing a few apps lately as developers don’t seem to care about the platform. After all, unlike the iPhone and iPad, Apple TV is not exactly a popular device.
At the same time, the tvOS SDK is quite limited – which is why you also don’t see many popular games available on the Apple TV, despite its reasonable hardware. Even Apple doesn’t seem to care about Apple TV anymore as tvOS updates become less significant every year.
Unfortunately, if Apple doesn’t rethink its Apple TV strategy, we could lose other important tvOS apps in the future.
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Canvas/T: Ahmad Kishani.
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