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This has two solutions:

1. Devs incorporate an OAuth code based flow. Many apps do this. Passwords should rarely need to exist on a TV device.

2. Paste using the remote app if you have an iPhone.

The first is caused by dev laziness (and possibly better for rare scenarios where there isn't a second device) and the second is perhaps a cost thing (do you have an iphone?)


I do wish the first was more widely adopted.

The typing experience on AppleTV is actively user hostile - the password is masked (you cannot reveal it) so if you even think you've made a mistake in one of your 25 characters, you need to start over.

The second doesn't work for me: we only have Android devices. It's unclear why our 3 MacBooks aren't sufficient for this purpose; I didn't have any suspicion that this would be the case.

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