tvOS 17 is the ninth release of tvOS, shipped September 18, 2023. FaceTime came to the television — Continuity Camera borrowing the iPhone as the camera, Center Stage framing the couch — the platform's first genuinely new pillar in years, alongside a redesigned Control Center, a find-my-Siri-Remote feature via iPhone, and Enhance Dialogue's voice-lifting audio processing on the second/third-gen 4K boxes.

FaceTime on TV with Continuity Camera; redesigned Control Center with per-user quick switching; Siri Remote finding; Enhance Dialogue; screensaver-as-app; Dolby Vision 8.1; and VPN app support.

FaceTime's arrival recast the TV as a communication device — the big-screen family call — and Continuity Camera's borrow-the-iPhone pattern showed how the ecosystem fills hardware gaps without new sensors.