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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I keep wishing that Apple would come up with a good remote app for the iPhone. I don't think they will though.
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I use the iPhone/iPad app for the remote occasionally, but only to type in searches. Otherwise it is too lame and too inconvenient to use. I mostly use it on my iPad because I hate typing on my iPhone XR. Fat fingers on little screen is not a good thing!
My Sony HDMI-CEC remote does a pretty good job with the TV. It doesn't do everything the TV App/Home button does though, and Apple made the remote where the Home button cannot be copied to programmable remote. Mainly the only thing my Sony remote won't do is allow me to drag App icons into another position. So I use the TV Remote to do that. I haven't tried using the iPad app for that yet, but I guess it would work as well. However, I rarely need to rearrange app icons, so it isn't that big of a deal.
Actually there are two things my Sony HDMI-CEC remote won’t do, it won't allow me to use Siri (or Alexa on my Fire TV Cube). No big deal though as I gave up on using either of those with the TV. I get tired of arguing with Alexa, and I get tired of her constantly trying to cram unwanted videos up my backside, so I turned the mic off on the cube. Siri is better behaved and doesn't seem to push too many suggestions at me, but I just don’t like using voice commands. I can usually do what I need quicker using a remote.