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tvOS 15.5 Public

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About this appearance

tvOS 15.5 reached the public channel on May 16, 2022 as a maintenance release with general performance and stability work and a broad version-specific security update.

Date
May 16, 2022
Availability
available
Revision
No

Release notes

What changed

Original editorial synthesis. Linked references appear with the claims they support and in the source ledger.

Public release

Apple released tvOS 15.5 on May 16, 2022. Its consumer update entry is intentionally nonspecific, recording general performance and stability improvements without naming a feature.[1][2]

Documented security and source gap

The advisory identifies fixes in AppleAVD, AuthKit, video and image processing, the kernel, signature validation, WebKit, and Wi-Fi; Apple said one AppleAVD issue may have been actively exploited. No undocumented consumer claim is added.[3][2]

Source ledger

References

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

  1. About the security content of tvOS 15.5

    Apple Support · Apple · 2022-05-16T00:00:00.000Z · Released May 16, 2022

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  2. About Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD software updates

    Apple Support · Apple · 2026-07-29 · tvOS 15.5

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  3. About the security content of tvOS 15.5

    Apple Support · Apple · 2022-05-16T00:00:00.000Z · AppleAVD; AuthKit; AVEVideoEncoder; ImageIO; Kernel; Security; WebKit; Wi-Fi

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Release changes

Changed in this release

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

security · fixed

tvOS 15.5 security repairs

documentedconfirmed

Apple documented a broad security update and said a patched AppleAVD out-of-bounds write issue may have been actively exploited.

  1. [1] About the security content of tvOS 15.5 · AppleAVD; AuthKit; AVEVideoEncoder; ImageIO; Kernel; Security; WebKit; Wi-Fi

enhancement · changed

General performance and stability improvements

documentedconfirmed

The consumer note establishes maintenance work but does not provide enough first-party detail to split it into narrower changes.

  1. [1] About Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD software updates · tvOS 15.5