Apple today released the fourth beta of an upcoming tvOS 16.4 update to developers for testing, with the beta coming a week after the release of the third beta of tvOS 16.4.


Registered developers can download the tvOS 16.4 update by uploading a profile to Apple TV using Xcode.

tvOS updates are generally minor, focusing on internal bug fixes and improvements rather than noticeable externally-facing changes. There’s no word yet on what’s included in the tvOS 16.4 update, but we’ll update this article if we find anything new.

Apple shares information about tvOS versions in its tvOS support documentwhich is updated after each launch of tvOS.

While we don’t often find out what’s new in tvOS during the beta testing process, we do let MacRumors readers know when new updates are available so developers can download them as soon as they are released.

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