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Title: How to use iOS 12 to enter passwords on an Apple TV
Post by: HCK on October 02, 2018, 04:05:15 pm
How to use iOS 12 to enter passwords on an Apple TV

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<p>There’s one Apple TV issue that Macworld readers (and me) have dealt with for years: entering passwords! Many tvOS apps rely on a round-trip with a browser instead of a password, providing a code that you enter after using a desktop computer or mobile browser to log into an account. That’s just fine.</p><p>With apps that want actual text entered, it’s been frustrating. A few releases ago, Apple linked tvOS and iOS, so that when a text entry field appeared, you received an alert on iOS devices logged into the same Apple ID, and could at least type in from your iPhone or iPad.</p><p>You could also enter a password by tapping it in with the keyboard or switching to a password manager app in iOS, finding the account and password, copying the password, switching back, and pasting it in.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3306768/streaming-hardware/how-to-use-ios-12-to-enter-passwords-on-an-apple-tv.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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