Apple began adding several new app categories to its Apple TV App Store on Thursday. As noted by Afterpad, the new categories are being rolled out to Apple TV 4 owners at a staggered pace, so they may not be available to everyone just yet.
The new categories include Catalogs and Utilities, and should help ease what has been a pain point for early ATV 4 adopters. Since the device launched last fall, App Store browsing and discovery has been a prominent complaint among users.
Here are the new categories:
- Business Apps
- Weather Apps
- Utilities
- Travel Apps
- Social Networking Apps
- Reference Apps
- Productivity Apps
- Music Apps
- Finance Apps
- Book Apps
- Medical Apps
- Catalogs
If you’re not seeing the new categories, check out the Purchased tab—we’re seeing them there on our own ATVs, and it seems like this is a prelude for seeing them in the App Store. If you’re not seeing them anywhere, try restarting your Apple TV.
Source: Afterpad