Your dive log,
on the biggest screen in the house.
Most dive logs end at your phone screen. A phone is fine for logging a dive. It's the wrong place to relive one. DeepSix Dive Log on Apple TV is a native tvOS app that turns your dive history into a cinematic experience — globe flyovers to your dive destinations, trip summary cards with stats, photo slideshows with Ken Burns pans, all the photos you've curated across iOS and Mac, streaming from your CloudKit account.
It's also an ambient display. Leave your Apple TV alone for three minutes and DeepSix takes over — the globe starts rotating, the camera flies to your last trip, and photos from your dive history fade in one after another while the rest of the room goes quiet.
No other dive log does this. We checked.
A globe, a theater,
and an idle state that earns its keep.
Globe view
The main menu is a rotating 3D globe with every dive destination you've ever logged marked as a point of light. Rotate the globe with your Siri Remote, select a destination, and the camera flies in.
The fly-in uses Van Wijk smooth zoom — the same camera math that makes good map transitions feel like flight instead of teleportation. You see the globe, then the region, then the specific reef or wreck site, and the whole sequence feels deliberate because it is.
Dive theater
Pick a dive from the globe and you land in the dive theater — hero photo background, profile chart, metadata strip, map, critter gallery. Big-screen friendly typography. Every part of the view earns the square footage of a 65" OLED.
The profile chart is the same Swift Charts rendering you see on iOS and Mac, but at TV scale. Depth curve, deco ceiling visualization, NDL line, photo markers — all visible at a glance from across the room. The tvOS version is a display, not an interaction: the scrubber, hover, and edit controls stay on the devices where touch or cursor input makes sense.
Wreck browser
Browse Wrecks from the globe home opens a map and sidebar over the bundled catalog of 2,300-odd wrecks — the full set alphabetically, or type a name and it filters, offline. Focus a row and the camera flies there; select it and the dossier opens: the same story your phone tells, scaled for the room.
Near a dive site lists your own coordinate-bearing sites; pick one and the wrecks within 200 km line up nearest-first, pinned on the map.
Ambient slideshow
The slideshow isn't a screensaver — it's a deliberate mode you launch when you want to watch your dive history scroll past. Crossfade transitions, slow Ken Burns pan and zoom, overlay text with dive site name, country, date, max depth, and any species you identified.
Run it while you're cooking dinner. Run it at a dive club meeting. Run it for a partner who wants to know what Palau was like.
Globe screensaver
Leave your Apple TV idle for three minutes and the globe screensaver takes over automatically. It picks trips from your history, flies the camera to each destination, and lingers there for twelve seconds with a trip summary card — trip name, country, date range, total dives, sites visited, max depth, water temperature, bottom time, species count. Then it walks the trip dive by dive, in date order, showing every photo of each dive before the camera moves on to the next destination.
Settings on the TV
Press play/pause on the globe and a Settings panel opens right on the TV: choose which diver's dives to show, which trips this Apple TV includes, whether the screensaver runs, and whether the map loads at full resolution. Trip changes apply instantly, so the TV in the living room can show a different slice of your history than the one at the dive club.
About and Acknowledgements sit at the end of the same panel, with the version and credits for what the TV shows.
The photos aren't random. Each trip picks its best images through a scoring pass:
- Favourites get the top weight
- Hero photos you curated by hand come next
- Auto-curated photos from the aesthetics scorer follow
- Photos with identified species get a small bonus
- Maximum two photos from any single dive so the slideshow spreads across the trip instead of fixating on one good dive
The result is a slideshow that looks curated because it is, without you having to curate it. If you did curate it — if you marked favourites, if you picked hero photos — the screensaver notices and gives those images priority.
Apple TV can't see
your iCloud Photos library.
This is a question anyone who's thought about tvOS apps will ask, so here's the answer up front: Apple TV cannot read your iCloud Photos library directly. tvOS has no Photos framework. It can't enumerate photos the way iOS can.
DeepSix Dive Log works around this with a dedicated CloudKit zone for curated photos. When you mark a photo as a favourite, set it as a hero image, or run the auto-curation pass on iOS or Mac, DeepSix uploads a compressed version (2048px, 85% JPEG quality) to CloudKit. Your Apple TV reads from that zone. No PhotoKit, no cross-platform photo plumbing, no surprises.
A typical dive uses approximately 1.5MB of CloudKit storage for curated photos (up to 5 photos at 2048px / 85% JPEG, averaging ~300KB each). That works out to roughly 150MB for 100 dives or 750MB for 500 dives. Most users fit comfortably inside the CloudKit free tier. Heavy users with iCloud+ have plenty of headroom.
If you've already imported a large dive history and haven't curated any photos, there's a maintenance action in iOS Settings that runs hero photo curation and Zone 2 upload for every uncurated dive in one pass. Tap once, go get a coffee, come back to an Apple TV experience that works.
A viewer.
Deliberately.
Be explicit about this, because "native tvOS app" can suggest more than it should:
DeepSix Dive Log on Apple TV is a viewer. A deliberately cinematic one. Everything else happens on the devices where editing makes sense.
- Apple TV 4K (2nd generation) or later
- tvOS 27 or later
- iCloud signed in to the same account as your iPhone, iPad, or Mac running DeepSix Dive Log
- At least one dive with a curated photo (run "Prepare for Apple TV" in iOS Settings if you're starting from a fresh import)
Get it on your Apple TV
DeepSix Dive Log on Apple TV ships alongside iOS, iPadOS, and Mac from the same App Store listing — install it on your Apple TV, sign in to the same iCloud account, and run "Prepare for Apple TV" from iOS Settings to seed the photo zone for your existing dive history. Detailed setup lives in the in-app help under DeepSix on Apple TV.
Download on the App Store → Testers: TestFlight →Questions? Discord or [email protected].
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