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Ambient

When nobody’s looking, a screen shows the time, the date, the temperature, the next event and the wake time over a picture, with its credit.

AmbientWall panel · the clock and the day over a NASA picture, then a LOOK UP card for an ISS passRecorded from the real app (sample data)

Still, Animated or Live

  • Still (the default): a picture from NASA’s libraries or the day’s launch.
  • Animated: the same picture drifting slowly. Reduce Motion stops the drift.
  • Live: a muted live stream when there is one, otherwise “no live stream right now · animated meanwhile”. Apple TV offers a LIVE · Watch button instead.

Set it per screen in Settings › Ambient, or Settings › Screens.

When it starts

After 5 idle minutes on the wall panel and TVs (Settings › Ambient: never, or 1 to 30 minutes), 5 minutes on Apple TV and 10 minutes on an iPad on the wall. Near a featured launch, Flight Director takes over. At night and during the alarm, Ambient stays out of the way.

Leave Ambient

Touch the screen or press any key. On a TV, Play/Pause turns Ambient on and off.

When something plays in another room, Ambient names only the source and the room, never the title.