tvOS 26.4 beta 1 arrived this week, and it confirmed what Apple recently hinted at: the Movies and TV Shows apps for iTunes have been entirely removed.
Legacy iTunes apps for Movies and TV Shows missing from tvOS 26.4
Last week, Apple began notifying users of the iTunes Store that its ‘Wish List’ feature would be discontinued soon.
iTunes Wish List lets users save media items for potential purchase later. But since iTunes has long been in decline, the move came as no surprise.
Apple’s advice to users who will miss the iTunes Wish List is to save those titles inside the TV app’s Watchlist.
The timing of the move seemed odd, since Apple has long been pushing users to the TV app already for purchased content.
But now it seems intentionally coordinated with the first tvOS 26.4 beta.
That’s because tvOS 26.4 officially removes the standalone Movies and TV Shows iTunes apps on Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD (via Aaron Perris).
The functionality of these apps is almost entirely replicated in Apple’s TV app. And it has been for years, with the exception of the Wish List.
You can still access your Wish List items in iOS 26.4 beta 1, but that may change in a future beta.
If you’re on Apple TV though, access to your old iTunes Wish List has been removed in tvOS 26.4.
Will you miss the dedicated Movies and TV Shows apps on Apple TV? Let us know in the comments.
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