If there’s one unsung function of Apple’s streaming field, it’s the Apple TV app’s Up Subsequent column, which alerts you to new exhibits, unfinished episodes, and sporting occasions without having to leap round to varied apps. Not each app is related—most notably, Netflix is absent—however for those which might be, it’s a superb option to maintain tabs on what you’re watching.

Ever because the TV app arrived in 2016, Up Subsequent has been entrance and middle whenever you launch it on any platform. All that’s about to alter. Quickly, the very first thing you’ll see is a “Featured” row of exhibits or movies you haven’t watched. It’s not promoting per se, in that it seems to solely populate with a personalised checklist from companies you subscribe to, nevertheless it’s no much less annoying.

In truth, on some platforms, together with on the Apple TV itself, you may’t even see the Up Subsequent row until you scroll down. It could be a minor inconvenience, nevertheless it’s a elementary change in how the app works. There’s nothing mistaken with a Featured row—in spite of everything, Apple promotes its personal TV+ exhibits and others everywhere in the app—nevertheless it shouldn’t be the very first thing you see.

Most customers aren’t but seeing this transformation till they replace their working system–to iOS or iPadOS 16.2 beta or tvOS 16.2 beta, and so on. Some Macworld readers identified that there’s a setting to alter it on the house display screen—what exhibits when the app is highlighted—however doesn’t seem to alter it within the app itself.

Apple is following the pattern amongst many streaming platforms, which now present really helpful content material first and your personal checklist of chosen materials second. The intention is to assist within the discovery of recent content material, nevertheless it comes at the price of making it tougher to get to the content material customers have already confirmed they need to watch.