The new Apple TV profiles released on 26.2 offer the ability to create a profile that is not bound to any Apple account. That means the profile is under the management of the Apple account that created the profile. The purpose of this is to do things like have a “home” profile or more likely a “kids” profile.
When opening up Infuse in this profile, Infuse is unable to recognize the manager’s Apple account attached to the profile, which means it has no access to the shares or synced metadata. In fact, Infuse shows that there’s no “iCloud account detected,” or something along those lines.
All this to say, shouldn’t we want Infuse to still detect the managing account’s iCloud account, but then Infuse itself will apply age filters to the content inside the library based on indicators that the Apple TV might provide? This is how Apple is doing it when the Apple TV app is opened.
Note that I’m saying this without knowing whether Infuse does this latter bit or not, so if that’s being done, do correct me.
Each profile on the Apple TV is completely separate from one another. If the profile has an iCloud account attached to it then Infuse will be able to use it, otherwise the data will be kept locally on the device and not synced with other devices.
Even without an iCloud account attached you can use the Cloud Backup feature for that profile to help keep things running smoothly if/when the Apple TV decides it’s time to clean up local storage space.
Some general info on using profiles can be found here.
Okay, my understanding from Apple’s tvOS implementation of profiles without Apple Accounts (as of 26.2) is that the manager of the account ultimately serves as the base for this new profile and gives the same access to the content from the manager profile but with some filters applied, such as in the case of a kids profile with content restrictions.
I guess my expectation would be that Infuse would potentially do the same for a profile that does not itself have an Apple Account. In that sense, the content already made available by the managing profile would then have restrictions applied to the content before the users of the new profile see anything.
I’d still say that this latest change by Apple does add some nuance to how Infuse originally created profiles. Even the Infuse documentation states each profile can have its own iCloud accounts, which as of 26.2’s addition of Managed Profiles in tvOS, this is no longer a given. If tvOS still provides access to the managing profile’s Apple Account, then I’d say using it for a managed profile in Infuse would make the functionality closer to the functionality that the Apple TV app provides. The expectation for this would then be that all content not matching the content restrictions would then be unavailable to the managed profile in Infuse, but would save the need to set everything up for this profile.
