tvos-design-guidelines

To design tvOS apps with predictable Siri Remote focus navigation, apply Apple Human Interface Guidelines ensuring visible focus states, predictable movement, focus guides, focus memory, and avoiding focus traps for reliable living-room interactions.

Apple TV 10-foot UI guidelines require minimum typography sizes, high contrast, appropriate spacing, parallax layering (LSR), and adherence to TV-safe areas to ensure content remains comfortable and legible from a 10-foot viewing distance.

Implement Top Shelf extensions for Apple TV by following specific layout guidance for proper sizing and utilizing deep-linking to ensure users can navigate directly to specific media content from the home screen.

Standard media playback behaviors for tvOS include transport control conventions, scrubbing and preroll thumbnails, Picture-in-Picture (PiP), subtitles, and reliable playback position persistence to ensure a consistent viewing experience.

Yes, you can use this Skill to conduct a UX audit for a media app's living-room experience by applying provided evaluation checklists to review focus behavior, Siri Remote interactions, and 10-foot UI compliance.

Your Apple TV app may suffer from focus traps and unexpected Siri Remote behavior if it violates standard focus movement rules, lacks focus memory, or incorrectly implements Menu navigation and Play/Pause semantics.