Zuno Remote

Zuno Remote turns your iPhone or iPad into a full second-screen controller for your Apple TV. When something is playing on the Apple TV in Zuno, your phone notices and shows a Playing on Apple TV pill. Tap it and you get proper controls: play and pause, scrubbing, skip forward and back, audio and subtitle tracks, playback speed, skip intro and credits, and what’s up next.

What Zuno Remote does

It’s a real remote, not just a play/pause widget. Once your phone is connected to your Apple TV you can:

Play, pause, scrub and skip through what’s on screen.
Switch audio and subtitle tracks without getting up.
Change the playback speed.
Skip the intro or the credits when a title has them.
See what’s up next and send the next episode straight to the TV.

It works the same whether your Apple TV is playing from Plex, Jellyfin, Emby or a local server. There’s nothing different to learn per setup.

Before you start

Three things need to be true:

Both devices are signed in to Zuno and you’re on Pro.
Both devices are on the same Wi-Fi network. Zuno Remote works over your home network, the same as an ordinary TV remote works in the same room.
Zuno can find devices on your local network. The first time it needs this, iOS asks for permission. If you tap Don’t Allow, the remote can’t see your Apple TV at all. See If something’s not working below to switch it back on.

Pairing your Apple TV

The first time your phone connects to a particular Apple TV, you confirm they belong together. This is a one-time step, just like pairing to a speaker.

Start playing something on your Apple TV, then open Zuno on your phone. The Playing on Apple TV pill appears.
Tap it and choose to pair. A short numeric code shows on the TV.
Check the same code is shown on your phone, and confirm.

That’s it. From then on your phone connects to that Apple TV automatically whenever they’re on the same network, with no code needed. You only pair again if you reinstall Zuno on the Apple TV.

Controlling playback

While something is playing on the Apple TV, the Playing on Apple TV pill sits at the bottom of the phone app, showing the artwork and title. Tap it to open the full remote.

Transport: play, pause, scrub the timeline, and skip forward or back.
Tracks: pick a different audio or subtitle track from the ones the title has.
Speed: change how fast it plays.
Skip intro / Skip credits: shown when the current title has those markers.
Up Next: the next episode, with a Play on Apple TV button to jump to it on the big screen.

Some controls only appear when they apply. If a title can’t switch subtitles on the fly, for example, that control is greyed out rather than failing silently.

Playing something on your Apple TV

You don’t have to start playback on the TV first. When you tap Play on the phone and a paired Apple TV is nearby, Zuno asks where you’d like to watch:

Play on Apple TV: the title starts on the TV, picking up from where you left off.
Play Here: it plays on your phone as normal.

If there’s no paired Apple TV around, Play just plays on your phone with no extra question.

Live TV over the remote

If your Apple TV is on a Zuno Live channel, the remote adapts to it. Instead of a scrubber it shows the channel and the current programme, with a progress bar for how far through the programme you are, and play and pause. There’s no seeking, skipping or up-next list, because live TV doesn’t have a fixed timeline.

More than one Apple TV

If you have several Apple TVs, the remote shows the name of the one you’re controlling at the top of the sheet with a chevron. Tap it to pick a different one. The remote controls a single Apple TV at a time.

Tips

Leave the phone app open while you watch and the pill stays there, so the remote is always one tap away.
Use Up Next at the end of an episode to send the next one to the TV without reaching for the Apple TV remote.
More than one person can control the same Apple TV. If two phones send a command at once, the most recent one wins.

If something’s not working

The pill never appears. Check the basics first: both devices on Pro, signed in, and on the same Wi-Fi network. Zuno Remote only notices playback while the phone app is open, so bring Zuno to the foreground.

Zuno can’t find your Apple TV. This is almost always the local network permission. On your iPhone or iPad, go to Settings › Zuno and turn on Local Network. Do the same in Settings › Zuno on the Apple TV. Without it, the remote can’t discover or control anything.

It says “reconnecting” or the pill disappears. The remote works over Wi-Fi, so a weak signal or leaving the network drops the connection. It tries to reconnect on its own; if the Apple TV has genuinely stopped playing, the pill clears.

The code on the TV doesn’t match. Only confirm if the numbers match on both screens. A mismatch means you’re looking at a different device, so cancel and try again with the right Apple TV.

You reinstalled Zuno on the Apple TV. The old pairing no longer matches, so you’ll be asked to pair once more with a fresh code. This is expected.

Up Next is empty. The next-episode list is fetched using your phone’s sign-in to that server. If your phone isn’t signed in to the same server the Apple TV is playing from, Up Next has nothing to show.

You want to control a different app on the Apple TV. Zuno Remote controls Zuno on the Apple TV. It can’t drive a separate Plex or Jellyfin app.