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tvOS 9.2

Full article
Public release
Recorded milestones
7
Beta cycle
70d
Average interval
12d
Public release
Mar 21, 2016

Release notes

Overview

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

Release overview

tvOS 9.2 was released on March 21, 2016. Apple's retained first-party record for this archive consists of the dated security index and a detailed version-specific security advisory.[1][2]

Evidence boundary

Apple's current Apple TV consumer-update history begins at tvOS 11, and no retained first-party consumer notes for tvOS 9.2 were found. This page therefore does not reproduce user-interface features commonly attributed to 9.2 by secondary sources.[1][2]

Source ledger

References

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

  1. Apple security updates (2016 to 2017)

    Apple Support · Apple · 2023-11-06T00:00:00.000Z · tvOS 9.2 — 21 Mar 2016

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  2. About the security content of tvOS 9.2

    Apple Support · Apple · 2026-07-30 · tvOS 9.2 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 9.2 security repairs

documentedconfirmed

Apple's advisory records memory-safety, code-signing, certificate, privilege, denial-of-service, web-processing, and network-position attack remediations.

Recorded at Public

  1. [1] About the security content of tvOS 9.2 · FontParser through Wi-Fi security content

Milestones

Release history

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

  2. +14 days
  3. +14 days
  4. +14 days
  5. +8 days
  6. +13 days
  7. +7 days

    Public release

    Public

    Full articleEditorially verified

    tvOS 9.2 reached the public channel on March 21, 2016; Apple's retained evidence supports its chronology and security repairs but not a first-party consumer feature inventory.

    Availability
    available
    Sources
    4 linked
    Open this appearance

Historical context

Cycle comparison

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

Historical avg for .2 releases

49 days, 6.1 milestones

Based on 9 previous tvOS .2 releases

Cycle vs. platform average

70d (avg: 58d)

12 days longer than the tvOS average

Longest gap in this cycle

14 days

Between Beta 1 and Beta 2

Previous .2 releases (tvOS)

Previous comparable tvOS releases
VersionYearCycleMilestonesAvg. Interval
tvOS 15.2202147d69d
tvOS 14.2202049d610d
tvOS 13.2201926d57d
tvOS 12.2201960d710d
tvOS 12.1.2201943d414d
tvOS 11.2201735d76d

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Official release notes