Wall layouts: make one camera large

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Pick a layout.

Grid gives every camera the same size. Spotlight makes one camera large and wraps the rest around its right and bottom. Large + side column puts the large camera on the left with the rest stacked on the right. Large + bottom row puts it on top with the rest in a row below. Each picture is drawn for your own cameras, so what you see on the card is the wall you’ll get. A check marks your choice.

Seeing fewer than four cards? With three or four cameras, Spotlight and the side column draw the same wall, so it’s offered once. With two cameras the choice is Side by side or Stacked.

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Choose the large camera.

Select Large camera under the cards and pick one from the list. Or skip Settings altogether: on the wall, highlight any camera, press and hold Select, and choose Show large. The camera glides into the large tile — and if you were in the grid, the wall switches to Spotlight for you.

To go back, press and hold the large camera and choose Back to grid.

Move or hide a camera, right on the wall

The press-and-hold menu does more than Show large. Highlight any camera on the wall, press and hold Select, and you can rearrange the wall without opening Settings.

Move. A move badge appears on the camera. Press the arrows on your remote and it trades places with the camera next to it — left, right, up or down. Move it into the large tile and it becomes the large camera. Press Select when it’s where you want it. The new order is saved, the same as reordering in Settings.

Hide from wall. The camera leaves this TV’s wall and the others close up around it. It stays connected to your account. To bring it back, open Settings, then Cameras, and show it again.

The same menu also opens the camera in Full screen and its History.

More cameras than fit

A large-camera layout never puts more tiles on screen than your Apple TV can play live at once, so every tile you see is live. If you have more cameras than that, the extras take turns in the last tile or two, a minute each. The large camera always stays put.

Want every camera on screen at the same moment? Stay on Grid, or hide the cameras you don’t need on this TV.

Good to know

The large tile shows the first camera in your wall order until you choose another. Camera fit still decides whether each picture fills its tile or shows its whole frame.

Each TV keeps its own layout, so the kitchen can spotlight the front door while the office stays on the grid. Wall layouts need version 2.6.0 or later of the Apple TV app.