Managing galleries

A gallery holds your media and every setting that controls how it looks on screen. This guide covers the day-to-day: adding content, and customising the display.

Adding and ordering media

Open a gallery and use the Media tab. Your content shows as a grid of 16:9 cards.

• Upload images and video with Upload content — drop files in or browse. Photos (including iPhone HEIC) are auto-cropped to 16:9, resized and compressed for fullscreen playback; anything below Full HD gets a warning. See Upload and organise media.
• Reorder by dragging cards. The slideshow plays left to right, top to bottom, then loops.
• Crop, timing and scheduling — hover a card and select Edit to reframe the photo, set how long it shows, or schedule when it appears. See Editing and cropping photos.
• Delete — select one or more cards, then Delete. The screens pick up the change on their next refresh.

The AirPlay panel

The drifting card that shows people how to AirPlay is fully yours to tune, per gallery.

• Description and subtitle — the wording on the card.
• Wi-Fi network — show the exact network name to join, so casting is a two-step, numbered process.
• Tint — apply your brand colour to the panel.
• Opacity — choose how the glass reads:
  • Frosted — the most readable, least transparent. Best over busy images.
  • Medium — balanced transparency, the default.
  • Glass — clear, letting the most of your image through.
• Movement — how the panel drifts around the screen to prevent burn-in.
• Visibility — hide the panel entirely, or hide it only while video is playing.

Use the live preview beside the settings to see how the panel reads over one of your own images before you save.

Clock and notices

• On-screen clock — show the time in the corner, read from the Apple TV's own clock so it's always right.
• Notice — broadcast a short message across the top of every screen on the account. Great for open evenings, closures or reminders. Toggle it on and off in a click, and optionally set start and end times so it only runs for a window. Account-wide notices live under Global settings.

How often screens refresh

Each gallery has a refresh interval, from every few minutes up to weekly. Screens check in on that schedule and pull down any changes you've made, so you rarely need to touch the Apple TV. A shorter interval means changes appear sooner; a longer one means less network traffic on large fleets.

Monitoring your screens

The dashboard shows how many screens are live right now for each gallery, plus the gallery's total media size at a glance. A screen counts as live if it has checked in within the last ten minutes.

Screen limits

Your plan sets how many screens can be live across your whole account at once. If more Apple TVs connect than your plan allows, the earliest-connected screens keep playing normally and any extra screens show a full-screen upgrade message instead of your content. See Plans, billing & screen limits for how this works, and raise the limit any time from the Billing page.

Tips

• Make a gallery per space so each screen shows exactly the right content, and each has its own code.
• Point several Apple TVs at the same code when you want identical content in many places.
• Keep images at Full HD or above (1920×1080 or larger) for the sharpest result.