February 18, 2016 - 13:42 AMT
Apple TV now lets users preview apps before downloading

Apple on Wednesday, February 17 announced that the App Store can now display app previews — short videos demonstrating an application’s capability — in listings for tvOS apps for the latest version of the Apple TV, VentureBeat reports.

An app preview can help Apple TV users better understand the utility of an app and thereby feel more compelled to download it, as Apple pointed out in a blog post.

These videos are available in the App Store for iOS apps, but it never did exist for Apple TV. Now that’s changing.

All app developers have to do is connect a Mac to an Apple TV running the tvOS operating system and then record the app with QuickTime in landscape mode after selecting the Apple TV as the device to record.

The App Store for Mac OS X still does not support these app previews.