Features on Apple TV

Sign in with just your email. There is no password. o3IPTV emails you a one-time code, and your first sign-in creates the account.

On the sign-in screen enter your email with the on-screen keyboard and click “Continue with email”. Type the code and click “Verify code”. If the email does not arrive, choose “Send a new code”.

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Sign a new device in by approving it from a device that is already signed in. It saves typing your email on a TV, a headset or a computer.

The sign-in screen displays a QR code and a short code. Scan the QR code with your phone camera, or in the o3IPTV app on a phone or computer go to Devices > Approve a New Device and enter the code. A declined or expired code is replaced by a fresh one automatically.

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See every device signed in to your account and sign any of them out. One account can be signed in on up to 5 devices at once.

Open Settings > Account > “Manage devices”, which lists “N of M devices”, then “Sign out all other devices” if needed. At the limit a prompt asks which device to remove (“Remove device?”). If this Apple TV was removed, a card explains why.

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Every feature is included from day one. New accounts get 14 days free, no card needed, then you subscribe to keep going.

While your trial runs, Home displays a slim “Free trial” band with the days left and a “Subscribe” button. Click it to open the plans.

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One subscription covers every device on your account and every feature in the app. It never includes media.

Click “Subscribe” in Settings > Account, or open the paywall when playback is blocked. “Choose your plan” lists the App Store prices for monthly, 6 months or yearly, with “Restore purchases” and “Re-check” on the same screen. “Manage subscription” points to Apple TV Settings > Users and Accounts > Subscriptions.

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One place for your subscription, profile, devices, sync and sign-out. Delete account removes your cloud data.

Settings > Account lists who you are signed in as and your subscription state, with “Manage devices”, “Switch profile”, “Manage profiles”, “Sync now”, “Manage subscription”, “Sign out” and “Delete account”. Deleting is finished on a phone or computer.

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Enter your Xtream Codes login and o3IPTV imports your live channels, movies, series and TV guide. o3IPTV is a player and ships no content.

On first run add your first playlist, or go to Settings > Media Sources. Enter the playlist name, server URL, username and password, with an optional custom EPG URL. The app checks the login before anything is saved.

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Keep more than one login and choose which one you are watching.

With two or more playlists a playlist row appears in the sidebar above Settings. Click it to open “Choose a playlist”. Settings > Media Sources also has “Set active”.

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Check what a source holds and when it expires. Refresh it, swap its login or delete it from the same card.

Open Settings > Media Sources. Each card lists status, expiry, connections in use and counts. Choose “Refresh”, “Renew” (new username and password) or “Delete”.

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Use your provider's TV guide or point a source at your own XMLTV address.

In Settings > Media Sources choose the guide option on a playlist. Pick “Provider guide (recommended)” or “Custom XMLTV URL”. “Update guide” runs the update now.

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Exclude whole Live TV, Movie or Series categories from a source. Excluded categories and their content leave the app, and including them again restores them.

In Settings > Media Sources choose “Exclusions” on a playlist. Use the tabs Live TV, Movies and Series. Each category reads Included or Excluded, with “Exclude all” and “Include all”. Apply to refresh. Only the main profile can change exclusions.

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Get told when your provider adds categories, and choose to exclude new ones automatically until you include them.

Home displays a line when the provider adds categories, with Review and Dismiss. The Exclusions dialog has a toggle, “Exclude new categories automatically”, so new categories start excluded until you include them.

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The app tells you when a provider account has expired, so a failing channel does not look like a bug.

Home displays a line, “<name> has expired”, with “Manage Playlist”. Playing offers “Manage Playlist” or “Play Anyway”.

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o3IPTV keeps your channels, movies, series and TV guide fresh without you opening Refresh.

The app refreshes at the first wake after about 4 am, because Apple TV does not run background tasks while the TV sleeps. “Refresh” in Media Sources works any time.

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A large banner at the top of Home with trending movies and shows that match your library.

The banner sits at the top of Home. Swipe or click Left and Right to move through titles, and click to open one. It also offers “Watch Now”, “More info” and a heart.

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Resume movies, episodes, live channels and catch-up where you left off. Positions follow your profile to every device.

It is the first rail on Home. Click resumes a card. Press and hold the clickpad for “Remove from Continue Watching”.

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Ranked rails of what is trending on TMDB, limited to titles you can actually play from your source.

Move down the Home rails to “Top 10 Movies” and “Top 10 TV Shows”. Only titles playable in your playlist appear. Click opens the title.

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Rows picked for you, such as “Because You Watched”, a rotating Smart Discover shelf and hand-picked lists like “Complete Sagas”.

Move down the Home rails. “Because You Watched” follows your history. Smart Discover rotates themed shelves such as “Short Movies for Tonight” or “Korean Thrillers”. Editorial rails include “Complete Sagas” and provider rows.

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See what is new in your source, and jump to major networks from brand cards.

Home has “Recently Added Episodes”, “Recently Added Movies” and “Recently Added Channels”, plus Top TV Channels. Click a brand card to open the channel, or pick from “Choose a Channel” when it has several.

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Twelve genre cards open a screen of movies or series in that genre, matched to your own library.

Find the genre cards near the bottom of Home. A genre opens with Movies and Series tabs and the rows “New releases”, “Popular now” and “Top rated”, plus “Search this genre” and “Search all Movies/Series”.

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Find channels as a logo grid or a list, with sorting and categories. Numbers sort naturally, so ESPN 2 comes before ESPN 11.

Open Live TV in the sidebar. Categories are on the left, channels in the middle, preview and programme details on the right. Swipe or click Right from a category to reach its channels. Sort categories and channels from the browser's sort menu.

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Favorite and recently used categories sit at the top of the list, and categories your provider just added are marked New.

The list starts with Favorites, “Recently watched”, “All channels” and “New”. Star a category (“Add category to favorites”) to move it to the top. Favorite categories sync to your other devices, and pinned and starred rows stay on top when you sort.

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Every channel tile or row names the programme that is on now, taken from the TV guide.

Each channel row names the current programme. Focus a channel to see now, up next, minutes left and the description in the right column. Guide, Favorites and Home rows show it too.

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Preview a live channel inside the list without leaving it.

Click a channel to start a muted preview in the right column. Click the same channel again for full screen. The hint reads “OK Preview”, then “OK Full screen · Hold OK Favorite”. The Guide works the same way.

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Press and hold Select on a channel for quick actions: favorite it, set a reminder or watch it full screen.

In Live TV press and hold the clickpad on a channel. The menu offers “Add to favorites” or “Remove from favorites”, “Remind me” or “Remove reminder”, and “Watch full screen”.

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Logos load from your provider first, then from the o3IPTV logo service, then a clean placeholder. You can set the color behind them.

Open Settings > Customization and pick a swatch for the logo background. A preview shows the result.

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A grid of channels against time with the current programme highlighted. Page earlier or later, filter by category and search.

Left and Right move across programmes, Up and Down across channels. The top bar has the category picker, “Search channels or programs”, “Back to now” and refresh. “Refresh Guide” appears when the guide is empty. The bell opens “Reminders”.

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Open a programme to read about it, watch it, favorite the channel, add it to a list, set a reminder or record it where recording exists.

Press and hold the clickpad on a cell. The menu offers “Add channel to Favorites”, “Add to list…”, “Start Over” when catch-up applies, and “Remind me” or “Remove reminder”.

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Restart the programme that is airing from its beginning, when your provider keeps an archive for the channel.

Press and hold the clickpad on a Guide cell and choose “Start Over”, or use Start over in the live controls. “Go Live” returns you to the live edge.

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Watch past programmes from channels whose provider keeps an archive.

Open Catch Up in the sidebar. Channels with an archive are listed with a day list and “Search programs”. Click a past programme to play it. In the Guide, click a programme that already aired inside the archive window to play it.

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Get a reminder before a programme starts. Reminders sync across your devices and profile.

Press and hold the clickpad on a Guide programme, or on a channel in Live TV, and choose “Remind me”. A banner appears 5 minutes before the start with “Tune in” and “Dismiss”. The bell in the Guide header opens “Reminders”.

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Browse as a grid or a list, with sorting, category filters and search inside the screen.

Open Movies or Series in the sidebar. The toolbar has Category, search, Grid, List and Sort. The default rail is “Recently Added”, or “New Episodes” for series. Tags such as “EN -” are stripped from titles.

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Read about a film before you play it: synopsis, ratings, cast, trailers and similar titles, with artwork and details from TMDB.

Click a movie. Buttons include “Watch Now” or “Resume”, “Start over”, a heart and “Add to list…”. Below are Cast, “Trailers & Clips”, “More Like This” and “Recommendations”. Click an actor to see their other titles “In your library”.

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Pick a season, scan episodes with stills and progress, and resume the next episode in one step.

Seasons and episodes are listed with a rating. “Watch Now S1 E2” plays the next episode, or “Resume S1 E2”. Cast, trailers and more like this sit below.

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Watch a trailer from a title's page.

Click “Trailers & Clips” on a title page. The trailer opens in the YouTube app on Apple TV, and the row is missing if YouTube is not installed.

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See how much of a film series you own, and jump to the next film.

A movie page lists “N of M movies in your library”, “Current movie” and “Next in collection”. “Complete Sagas” rows on Home have one card per saga.

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When your source has several copies of one title, such as other languages or qualities, pick the one you want and see its file size.

“Watch Now” picks a copy by your preferred audio language. Otherwise “Choose a Version” lists copies with the playlist name and size. In the player, Options > “Change Version” swaps copy for movies.

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Near the end of an episode a card offers the next one with a countdown, so a binge needs no clicks.

A card says “UP NEXT” with “Playing in Ns” and “Play now”.

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Open a title you started and choose to carry on or begin again.

Opening a partly watched title asks “Continue watching?” with “Resume” and “Start over”, and says where you left off.

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One search across live channels, movies, series and episodes in your sources, with recent searches and suggestions.

Open Search in the sidebar and type with the system keyboard. Scopes: All, Movies, Series and Channels. A category filter narrows results. Results start with “Top Results”, and “Recent searches” is below.

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Narrow the screen you are on: Live TV, Movies, Series, categories and genres each have their own search.

Live TV has “Search channels”, Movies and Series have their own search, and the Guide reads “Search channels or programs”. In a genre use “Search this genre” or “Search all Movies/Series”.

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Today's matches, what is on next, sports news and highlights for the competitions you follow.

Choose Sports Hub in the sidebar. Use the sport and league filters, then browse “Featured today”, “Next up”, “Latest news”, “Your leagues”, “Coming up” and “Today in sports”.

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A ranked row on Home of the biggest matches today, with the live score or kick-off time. Part of the Sports Hub.

Find the Top 10 Sports Events row on Home. Each card shows a live score or the kick-off time. Click opens the fixture.

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Pick the leagues you care about and see today's matches and upcoming fixtures for just those.

In Sports Hub open “Choose leagues”. The editor has “Search leagues”, “My leagues” and “All leagues”. Your choice syncs to your other devices.

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Follow a whole competition: fixtures, the table, the knockout bracket and top scorers.

Open a competition from Sports Hub. Tabs: Overview, Fixtures, Table, Bracket and Scorers (goals, assists, cards).

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Open a match for the score, stats and goals, then play a channel from your own playlists that carries it.

Open a fixture for the score, match summary, stats and goal timeline. “Match Channels” lists channels from your playlists named after the fixture, with a quality chip on each. Click one to preview or play.

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Browse team and player pages. Heart a team to put it on Home and in Favorites.

Open a team for standings, form, squad, manager, venue, colors and highlights. A player page has age, height and career stats. Choose “Add to favorite teams” to follow it. Teams appear in Favorites and on Home.

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Play, pause, seek, change volume and move between channels or episodes with controls that suit each device.

Click shows the controls. On movies and episodes swipe or click Left and Right to seek 10 seconds, and hold to speed up the scrubber. Play/Pause toggles. Press and hold the clickpad for Options. Back closes overlays.

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Zap to the next or previous channel without going back to a list.

While watching live, swipe or click Up or Down to zap. Hold Up or Down to open the channel list. Click Right to open the full Guide on this channel.

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While you watch live, press Left to open a channel list over the picture. Zap, change group or reach the Live TV browser without stopping the stream.

Click Left while watching live. The list opens on the playing channel, with a “Previous channel” row on top. Click tunes and keeps the list open. Left again opens the groups column, with Favorites and Recents first. Left once more reaches Live TV with the stream still playing. Back closes one level.

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Pause a live channel or step back a little, and on TV see how far behind live you are.

Pause with Play/Pause or go back 10 seconds from the controls. A chip shows how far behind live you are, and “Go Live” returns. The app buffers up to 45 minutes on AVPlayer HLS channels.

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Jump to another episode or season without leaving the player.

Click the “Episodes” button in the controls. A panel lists seasons and episodes, so you can jump without leaving the player.

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Change how the picture fills the screen: Fit, Fill, Stretch, 16:9, 4:3, 21:9 or 1:1. It resets to Fit the next time.

Open Options > Aspect ratio. The choice resets to Fit each time you open the player.

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Pick another audio track when a stream carries several languages or formats.

Open Options > Audio and pick a track.

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Nudge the sound earlier or later when it drifts from the picture.

Open Options > Audio > Audio sync. Earlier and Later move it in 0.1 s steps, with Reset. The range is up to 2.0 s with AetherEngine, and the app labels it “Range with this player”.

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Turn on subtitles from the stream's own tracks, or choose no subtitles.

Open Options > Subtitles and pick an embedded track, or “No subtitles”.

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Download a matching subtitle when the stream has none. A free OpenSubtitles account allows 20 downloads a day.

Sign in at Settings > Playback > OpenSubtitles. In the player choose Options > Subtitles > “Search online” and a language. The app counts “N free subtitle downloads left today”. Sign out “This TV Only” or “Everywhere”.

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Shift subtitles earlier or later when they do not match the speech.

Open Options > Subtitles > Subtitle sync. Earlier and Later move 0.1 s at a time, up to 10 s either way. Reset clears it. It is remembered per title.

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Change the font, text color and background of subtitles, and see a preview first.

Open Settings > Playback > Subtitle style, or Options > Subtitles. Font: Default, Serif or Monospace. Text color: White, Yellow, Cyan, Green or Magenta. Choose a Background. “Subtitles will look like this.” previews it.

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Watch faster or slower than normal.

For movies and episodes open Options > Playback speed and pick a speed.

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Clean up the motion lines on interlaced live channels.

Open Options > Deinterlace on a live channel played with VLC. Switching it retunes the channel.

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See what you are really playing: resolution, frame rate, codec, HDR, audio format and buffer.

A pill in the controls displays the resolution tier, frame rate, codec, Dolby Vision, HDR10+, HDR10 or HLG, and Atmos, 7.1 or 5.1. Options > Info lists Player, Resolution, Frame rate, Video, Dynamic range, Audio and Buffered.

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When a stream stalls, the player enlarges its buffer, retries and tries another format. Plain messages say what went wrong.

Specific cards explain problems: “All connections in use”, “Not supported on this device”, “Title Unavailable at Source” (with “Try Another Version”), “Channel blocked by provider” and “VPN Unreachable”.

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Apple TV can play with AetherEngine, AVPlayer or VLC, and picks the best one for each stream.

Open Settings > Playback > “Player” > “Engine”: Automatic (recommended), AetherEngine, VLC or AVPlayer. It applies to movies, series and catch-up. In the player, Options > “Engine” switches for a movie, and “Open with VLC” tries VLC on a live channel.

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Stop playback by itself after a set time.

Open Options > Sleep timer and pick Off, 15, 30, 45, 60 or 90 minutes. When it runs out the app says “Sleep timer ended playback”.

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Each person gets a profile with their own favorites, Continue Watching, lists and reminders.

With several profiles the picker opens at launch. Later, use the profile row above Search or Settings > Account > “Switch profile”.

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Add, rename and delete profiles, change avatars and mark a profile as Kids.

Open Settings > Account > “Manage profiles”. Add, edit or delete a profile, set its name and use the Kids profile toggle.

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A Kids profile keeps adult titles out of browsing and search for that profile.

Turn on Kids profile in Manage profiles. It hides adult content for that profile.

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Protect a profile with a 4-digit PIN that is asked whenever someone switches into it, on every device.

In Manage profiles set a 4-digit PIN on a profile. Switching to it asks for the PIN. “Forgot PIN?” emails a 6-digit reset code.

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Lock adult channels, movies and series behind a PIN across the whole app.

Open Settings > Parental controls and set a PIN. While locked, adult content is kept out of every list and needs the PIN to play. The lock re-engages every time the app starts. Locked titles read “This title is locked”.

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Keep your favorite channels, movies, series and teams in one place, per profile. Favorites also appear in a row on Home.

Choose Favorites in the sidebar. Rails: Live TV, Movies, Series and Teams. Press and hold the clickpad (or Menu) on a favorite for options.

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One tap on a heart favorites a channel, title or team. The app then offers to add it to a list too.

Use the heart on movies and series, the Guide menu, the Live hold menu and the player. In the player a sheet offers to add it to a list too.

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Group favorites into your own lists, such as Sports, Kids or Documentaries. Lists sync across your devices.

In Favorites pick “New list” (presets or “Custom name…”), then “Add items”. To reorder, click to pick an item up, move it up or down, and click again to drop it. “Add to list…” is on details, the Guide menu and the player.

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Favorites, lists, positions, reminders, exclusions, sources and more follow your account to every device automatically.

Nothing to switch on. Favorites, lists, favorite categories and teams, Continue Watching, reminders, exclusions, profiles, sources (credentials encrypted), VPN profiles and the OpenSubtitles login sync. Settings > Account has “Sync now”.

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Sign in on a fresh device and your sources and preferences come back by themselves.

After you sign in the app displays “Restoring your sources” and “Restoring your library” with progress while catalogs and the TV guide download.

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Send only the video of one source through your own WireGuard VPN. If the VPN drops, playback stops rather than going direct.

Open Settings > Media Sources, choose a playlist, then “Connection”. Paste your provider's WireGuard .conf, or renew it. Provider sign-in is done in the phone or computer app and arrives by sync. If the VPN is down you see “VPN Unreachable”.

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The app speaks 11 languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, French, German, Dutch, Turkish, Italian, Polish and Swedish.

Open Settings > Customization > Language. A change needs the app closed and reopened: press the TV button twice, swipe up on o3IPTV to close it, then open it again.

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Set the languages you want and the app picks matching tracks for you.

Open Settings > Playback and set “Audio Language” and “Subtitle Language”. They apply automatically through the track selector.

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Choose between faster channel changes and fewer stalls.

Open Settings > Playback > Live buffer and pick Low, Balanced or High.

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Find the version, support contact, Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, and the reminder that o3IPTV ships no content.

Open Settings > About. It lists the version, Support, Community, Terms and Privacy by QR code, and “Open source licenses” with license text and source-code QR codes.

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