Second-gen UWB chip gates the 4th-gen Siri Remote's Precision Finding
A $59 remote on Amazon gains a built-in speaker and Find My support, but the directional Precision Finding feature only activates on phones carrying the second-generation Ultra Wideband chip.
| Apple TV 4K (4th generation) | |
|---|---|
| Chip | A19 |
| CPU performance | up to 50% faster than previous gen |
| GPU performance | up to 2x faster than previous gen |
| Microphones | 3 far-field |
| Storage | 128GB |
| Availability | November 13 |
The 9to5Mac filing of November 10 names the qualifying phones: iPhone 17, 17 Pro (excluding 17e), iPhone Air, iPhone Duo, and iPhone 18 Pro. The remote pairs with any prior Apple TV 4K or Apple TV HD unit.
The dependency sits on the phone, not the remote. A buyer with an iPhone 16 or earlier gets the speaker but loses the directional guidance, and Apple's own October 13 Newsroom release never names the iPhone requirement. The hardware dependency surfaces only in a third-party filing.
For the supply chain, the second-gen UWB chip is now a gating component for a $59 accessory, locking the remote's full utility to a phone generation Apple controls.
The retail price of the Apple TV 4K unit, the Wi-Fi standard, the HDMI version, and the Siri Remote battery life appear in neither the Newsroom release nor the Amazon listing.
The draft repeated the phone-side constraint and the missing-specs list twice each, flattening the piece into a restatement. The rewrite leads with the price as a concrete hook, names the third-party filing that actually carries the dependency, and collapses the duplicated paragraphs into a single pass. The supply-chain sentence is kept because it is the editorial point, but it lands once, late, rather than being previewed and then restated.
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