![]() And ones that can allow you to attach an AirTag, effectively making it the thing I've been looking for. There are Apple TV remote covers that are large and neon-colored. Having a Find My option would ease my cluttered mind. I don't really care what the solution is, but I would like my remote back. That would mean adding a tiny speaker, and maybe a U1 chip if it were enabled with the type of specific location-tracking that AirTags have. But Apple's missing move is to make that damn remote findable, pingable. There are other ways to control an Apple TV if your remote is lost - you can use your iPhone or Apple Watch as a remote in a pinch, and the built-in apps work fairly well. I liked Apple's larger remote and its more tactile buttons, but it wasn't large enough, I guess. I've learned to track its location like a concerned parent. The thicker remote Apple made last year is less cushion-slidey, but it still ended up under pillows, buried between things, misplaced near the Xbox controllers. The remotes changed, but I still lose them. It slides, friction-free, into cracks in whatever you're sitting on. It can slide into cushion gaps, tuck under books. ![]() The thinner black version, the one I am now reverting back to because the silver one's lost, was always too slim and sleek for its own good. But finding the Apple TV remote, or almost any remote, remains a leap of faith.Īpple, in particular, has never made a remote that's not easy to lose. My keys can beep and I can play find and seek to use an iPhone screen to point to how they're still in the door. ![]() I can make an AirPod beep and tell me it's still in yesterday's pants. I can find my phone by tapping on my watch, and it pings to tell me it's still in the bathroom. And the one thing I can't do is summon it by having my iPhone ping for me. My kid says he left it on the sofa somewhere. I'd show you a picture of the new remote, but I lost it. I bought it because I kept losing the old super-thin Apple TV remote that was always disappearing into another dimension through the sofa cushions. You know, the thicker one with the extra buttons. Last year, I bought a new Apple TV remote. ![]()
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