Apple tv + - viewing photo library?

[BERGS2]

Kinda stumped by this

Have an iphone 11 & a roku box with apple tv plus subscription and a 2018 LG oled tele.

In the olden days - my now defunct apple tv 2 could both stream stuff and allow airplay (either off the phone/laptop or ipad)

Now i have a library of stuff (ie personal pics & videos) on the phone that i would like to view on the TV.

Is it the case that a new piece of hardware is needed?

Would be super-frustrating if it is (& explain why apple revenues are so stratospheric!)

Are there any workarounds to this?

At the moment any videos that i want to access big screen are needing to be uploaded to youtube & played on the app on the TV
- which seems a super inefficient crossing of the Apple/google divide

Can anyone help?

Seems a bit of a stitch up!

[JonChalk]

Think the only way is an Apple TV box.

Sadly.

I already had Amazon Prime & a Firestick, so duplicate everything to Amazon Photos (which is free and unlimited for photos) and use that, because I don't want to buy an Apple TV box as well (not enough HDMI ports, either!).

[Carbon Sasquatch]

I've not found a way to display photos from my phone - however, airplay from my MacBook works seamlessly, so I can do a slide show from that onto the TV.

[Carbon Sasquatch]

I've just been playing around with mine & found that I can share with my phone

Mines a new one, not sure if it's the same on a 2018, but on my iPhone I went to the quick menu thing - swipe up from the bottom & there's a screen mirroring option there. I pressed that & the TV came up on the list - then share & go into photos

[JonChalk]

..you must be lucky enough to have one of these Airplay compatible TVs, it won't work for the rest of us

https://www.apple.com/uk/ios/home/accessories/#sec...

[Daveb257]

I’ve just left the Apple TV2 connected to a spare HDMI port & select that source/ input when wanted - dead easy

[Carbon Sasquatch]

JonChalk said:

..you must be lucky enough to have one of these Airplay compatible TVs, it won't work for the rest of us

https://www.apple.com/uk/ios/home/accessories/#sec...

You're right - I just went to check our other LG OLED and despite it being just over a year old, it seems there's no option on that one