Christmas Music & Carols 4K is meant to be switched on and left alone. This page explains how to set it up before guests arrive, how the scenes, clock and countdown behave, and how to send the music to the speakers you already have.
No. All 27 tracks and all 15 scenes are stored in the app. Nothing streams, so a slow or busy connection during a party cannot make the music buffer or cut out.
Instrumental versions of well-known carols - Carol of the Bells, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, O Holy Night, O Come All Ye Faithful, O Little Town of Bethlehem, Jingle Bells, We Wish You a Merry Christmas and more - along with calm piano pieces and cinematic holiday themes. Together they run for about 54 minutes, and every track has its own artwork.
Press Play All on the home screen and the whole collection runs. You can play it in order or shuffle it, and repeat one song or all of them.
A full-screen mode made to be left on. Fifteen 4K Christmas scenes change on their own and drift slowly, so the picture never looks frozen. A large clock, the date and a countdown to Christmas sit in one corner, and the screensaver stays away while Ambient Mode is open.
Swipe left or right on the Siri Remote. To change scenes automatically, choose an interval in Settings, from every 30 seconds to every 5 minutes.
The app is designed to avoid it. The scenes drift slowly rather than standing still, and the clock and countdown move to the other side of the screen with every new scene, so no bright element stays in one place for hours.
It switches to a countdown to New Year's Eve. If you only want the picture, you can hide the countdown, the clock, or both in Settings.
Yes. The current song appears in Control Center on your Apple TV, so you can send it to a HomePod, AirPods or any other speaker you already use with the Apple TV.
No. Music keeps playing when you leave the app, and the Play/Pause button on the Siri Remote works on every screen.
Set it for 15, 30, 60 or 90 minutes. When time is up the music fades out, the screen goes dark, and your Apple TV can then go to sleep on its own schedule.
By default the app keeps the screensaver away while music plays, so your scene stays on the TV. You can switch this off in Settings if you prefer the screensaver to come on as usual.
Yes. Turn on Auto-play on Launch in Settings and the music starts as soon as the app opens. The app also remembers your other settings and opens the way you left it.
Christmas, Winter Blue, Elegant Gold and Northern Lights. Pick one in Settings and it applies straight away.
Full-screen Now Playing puts the track artwork across the whole TV behind the controls. The classic layout shows the cover and the controls side by side.
Yes. Snow and the music-reactive lights each have their own switch under Visual Effects in Settings.
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Any Apple TV running tvOS 17 or later. The scenes are shown in 4K on an Apple TV 4K connected to a 4K television.
27 instrumental carols stored on the device, 15 drifting 4K Christmas scenes, a countdown clock and a sleep timer.
Five minutes before the doorbell, and nobody needs to touch the remote again.
With repeat all on and Ambient Mode open, the scenes, clock and music look after themselves for the whole evening.
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The music keeps playing if you leave the app, so you can switch speakers at any time.
Try this in Christmas Music & Carols 4K →Fall asleep in front of the tree without the music stopping with a jolt.
The Apple TV then sleeps on its own schedule, set in the Apple TV's own Settings.
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Scenes still drift and change, which keeps the screen moving even without the clock.
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The app remembers your theme, layout and other settings too.
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Elegant Gold suits a dinner table; Northern Lights works well late in the evening with the room lights off.
Try this in Christmas Music & Carols 4K →Ambient Mode is designed for hours on screen, and a couple of TV settings help too.
See our article on burn-in and ambient TV apps for what actually causes it and what does not.
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