InSight in the Apple TV app links you to actors and music à la X-Ray on Prime Video
InSight in the Apple TV app on iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and tvOS 18 brings dynamic info about actors and music in the current TV show or movie scene.
Apple announced InSight at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June, but the feature won’t be publicly available until Apple publicly releases required updates this fall. If InSight sounds similar to X-Ray on Prime Video, that’s because it is.
With X-Ray, Amazon users can view cast information, bonus content and even trivia while watching a show. With the video paused, X-Ray automatically brings up information about the actors in the current scene, the song playing in the background, and so forth. InSight works in much the same fashion.
How to use InSight in the Apple TV app
To use InSight, your iPhone, iPad and Apple TV must run iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and tvOS 18.0 or later. Start watching an Apple Original film or TV show in the TV app, then swipe up to reveal the scrubber and select InSight between Info and Up Next.
You’ll see links a list of actor names and an Apple Music link for the song playing in the scene. These details automatically update as the scene changes. You can optionally add the song to an Apple Music playlist, named “Saved Songs.”
For now, InSight is limited to recent Apple TV+ shows and movies, but Apple will expand the feature to include older videos over time.
InSight as a second-screen experience
InSight is even better when using your iPhone as an Apple TV remote because relevant information appears right on your iPhone.
It’s like a second-screen experience, where you watch on your TV while browsing information about actors, characters and music in the iPhone’s Remote app.
Insight on your iPhone
You can also use InSight directly in the TV app on your iPhone and iPad, and it works just like the Apple TV version with a few design differences.
For example, selecting an actor in InSight on your iPhone minimizes the current video to a picture-in-picture window to display other films and shows the actor stars.
How does the InSight feature work?
InSight combines technologies like artificial intelligence, deep learning and big data. A video is analyzed to identify music (Apple already does this in its operating system thanks to its purchase of Shazam). Actors are identified by their faces to figure out who’s speaking, linking them to bio and filmography pages.
The whole thing runs on auto-pilot, in real-time, without any intervention on your part required. InSight is limited to Apple TV+ Original films and shows, with only a handful of them supporting the feature at the moment. More shows will gain InSight stats as we inch closer to the release. Apple hasn’t said whether it plans to enable the feature for third-party video apps down the line to make InSight even more useful.
tvOS is the operating system that powers Apple’s smart home devices: the HomePod speakers and the Apple TV streaming boxes. tvOS18 brings other improvements like spatial audio support for AirPlay, automatic subtitles and more.
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