Apple releases its new TV Remote app for iPhone

You can put down that awkward Siri remote. Apple just launched a new way to navigate around Apple TV.

Flagged at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in June, the Apple TV Remote app is one of a suite of recent products designed to improve the user experience of Apple TV. Released Monday, the app, which does everything the Siri remote can do, lets you select programs and play games from your iPhone.

Simplifying text entry, the Apple TV Remote app helpfully allows you to enter show names, usernames and passwords with your phone's keyboard. It also employs game mode to make use of the smartphone's accelerometer and gyroscope, and lets you ask Siri to help you track down new TV shows. Read more...