Matisyahu's Blog

I decided to have a quiet Sunday at home – no drama, no going down to the store, just enjoying the vibe and working on my garden. Mum came around to drop off some extra plants which has added some extra greenery to the backyard although I am still working on a bigger project. What I’d like to do is get some railway sleepers and build up a box then inside that box I have a concrete planter that is lifted up for drainage so then it possible to have some sort of hedging growing along where the fence is or maybe grow some tomato plants or something else. The downside is that the location of where the sun comes in I don’t think anything will grow so maybe the artificial hedge would be the better solution which would hide the ugliness of the fence.

I was reading through Arstechnica as a follow up to a post I made regarding the performance of the YouTube app on the Apple TV 4K along with the performance of tvOS 26.2 in general to see whether others have experienced similar issues – it appears that it isn’t an isolated incident. I then am reminded of an issue that was raised recently regarding the CPU hogging nature of the YouTube website (link) because of a service worker in the background. It is interesting though that it has been a week since the issue has appeared and the reason why I was interested is because even with reduced transparency enabled I was still getting stuttering an unresponsive experience so I assumed based on the evidence that maybe something more was going on than just user interface maybe is not as well optimised on the Apple TV 4K as it should be.

I’ve since reenabled transparency on my Apple TV 4K and I haven’t noticed performance issues coming back which makes me wonder Google has done something to the website because the YouTube app I nothing more than a front end to the YouTube TV website so it could be possible that Google has made a change to correct the above issue (as reported on Reddit) which is why it is now working. I’m going to keep an eye on it but it is one of those things with technology given that there are so many moving parts it is difficult to nail it down to one thing that could be causing the problem because there maybe more than one contributing factor. In the case of Apple TV 4K, it could be that the user interface isn’t optimised but the problem is made worse by a framework that the app depends on having a bug or a performance regression.

The fact that here was someone else on Arstechnica pointing out a similar issue with the HBO Max app (which makes use of Webkit) tells me that there is a common thread and maybe what Google did with the YouTube website was work around the problem but a more permanent solution will appear in maybe tvOS 26.3 or 26.4. I’ve had a look at Safari Technology Preview 234 (link) and it appears that some improvements that may make their way into 26.4 which should hopefully improve responsiveness.