Andrew Cunningham
Long-click on a tile to make is start wobbling. One way to create a folder at this point is to press the play/pause button. You can also drag apps on top of one another, but it's less consistent.
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CUPERTINO, Calif.—The new Apple TV and tvOS are mostly superior to the hardware and software they replaced, and they began the work of building the Apple TV into a platform rather than just a streaming box. That platform mostly seems solid, and its biggest problems are mostly the same ones that every streaming box has—battles between content creators and content providers make it hard to get everything you want, when you want, in the way you want it.
At today's product event, Tim Cook announced a free update for tvOS. The tvOS 9.2 update goes a long way toward fixing the problems that are within Apple's ability to fix. These mostly fall into three categories: improving text input and the sign-in/setup experience, decluttering the home screen, and improving navigation. On all three accounts, things have markedly improved.
Text input
This was my single biggest complaint with the Apple TV as it shipped—the new software keyboard required a ton of laborious swiping back and forth on the Siri Remote, and it made signing in to apps and setting the box up a giant pain. Using an old Apple TV remote or universal remote could restore the old software keyboard grid, but it was barely better.
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