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Advanced Television says the Instagram app for Apple TV requires tvOS 26.0 or later. Its TV experience centres on Reels, with channels organised around users’ interests and videos playing automatically.

There are notable omissions: users cannot read or reply to direct messages, and traditional photo feeds, polls and text commenting are unavailable. This is a video-focused version of Instagram, not the familiar app moved wholesale to the television.

Apple TV now joins Google TV, Amazon Fire TV and Samsung TVs in supporting Instagram’s television app. For viewers, the trade-off is a bigger screen for video, but fewer of the features that make Instagram a social network.

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  • Instagram app on Apple TV | Advanced Television: Advanced Television reports that Instagram’s Apple TV app requires tvOS 26.0 or later, centres on Reels with interest-based channels and autoplay, excludes direct messaging, photo feeds, polls and text comments, and joins Google TV, Amazon Fire TV and Samsung TVs as supported platforms.

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