Release record

tvOS 13.2

Full article

Public release

Recorded milestones: 5
Beta cycle: 26d
Average interval: 7d
Public release: Oct 28, 2019

Release notes

Overview

Editorial synthesis with inline references and a source ledger when citations are available.

Release overview

tvOS 13.2 was released on October 28, 2019. Apple's consumer history lists general performance and stability improvements, while its advisory documents the release's security work.^[1]^[2]

Evidence boundary

No individual consumer feature is named in Apple's 13.2 section. This page retains that evidence boundary and does not convert security-advisory component names into unsupported user-facing feature claims.^[3]^[2]

Source ledger

References

Sources are linked to the claims they support. Publication and access dates are shown when available.

About the security content of tvOS 13.2
Apple Support · Apple · 2019-10-28T00:00:00.000Z · Released October 28, 2019
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About Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD software updates
Apple Support · Apple · 2026-07-29 · tvOS 13.2
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About the security content of tvOS 13.2
Apple Support · Apple · 2019-10-28T00:00:00.000Z · tvOS 13.2 security content
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Documented & observed

Changes in this version

Source-linked features, fixes, known issues, removals, and community-observed behavior recorded across this version’s appearances and verified builds.

Release changes

Changed in this release

Features, fixes, removals, and regressions first observed in this release record.

security · fixed

tvOS 13.2 security repairs

documentedconfirmed

The release repaired vulnerabilities in accounts and App Store authentication, audio and video processing, file-system and kernel boundaries, and WebKit.

Recorded at Public

[1] About the security content of tvOS 13.2 · Accounts; App Store; Audio; AVEVideoEncoder; File System Events; Kernel; WebKit; WebKit Process Model

bugFix · fixed

tvOS 13.2 performance and stability work

documentedconfirmed

Apple documented tvOS 13.2 as a maintenance release and did not provide a more granular consumer-facing list.

Recorded at Public

[1] About Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD software updates · tvOS 13.2

Milestones

Release history

Every recorded channel appearance in chronological order. Open an appearance for any available build, scope, notes, and sources.

Oct 2, 2019
Developer beta
Beta 1
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Oct 10, 2019+8 days
Developer beta
Beta 2
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Oct 16, 2019+6 days
Developer beta
Beta 3
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Oct 23, 2019+7 days
Developer beta
Beta 4
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Oct 28, 2019+5 days
Public release
Public
Full articleEditorially verified
tvOS 13.2 reached the public channel on 2019-10-28. This article records Apple's version-labeled feature or maintenance notes and the accompanying first-party security record.
Availability
available
Sources
4 linked
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Historical context

Cycle comparison

Pace, intervals, and duration compared with earlier releases on the same platform.

Historical avg for .2 releases

54 days, 6.3 milestones

Based on 9 previous tvOS .2 releases

Cycle vs. platform average

26d (avg: 59d)

33 days shorter than the tvOS average

Longest gap in this cycle

8 days

Between Beta 1 and Beta 2

Previous .2 releases (tvOS)

Previous comparable tvOS releases
Version	Year	Cycle	Milestones	Avg. Interval
tvOS 15.2	2021	47d	6	9d
tvOS 14.2	2020	49d	6	10d
tvOS 12.2	2019	60d	7	10d
tvOS 12.1.2	2019	43d	4	14d
tvOS 11.2	2017	35d	7	6d
tvOS 10.2.2	2017	64d	7	11d

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Official release notes