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9. Apple Fitness+ If you’re a workout enthusiast who likes what Apple’s Fitness+ service has to offer, you owe it to yourself to get an Apple TV, as it’s by far the easiest and best way to enjoy your workouts at home. Although Apple Fitness+ can be used on an iPhone or iPad, it’s nowhere near the same as following a workout on a larger screen. You can plug your iPhone or iPad into a screen using a cable, or even stream your workout using AirPlay 2, but you won’t get any workout metrics at all doing it this way. Only the Apple TV will let you follow your progress without taking your eyes off the big screen by showing your Activity rings, calories burned, workout time remaining, and burn bars right where you can see them. 8. Apple Arcade Your smart TV or Roku box may be able to stream content from Apple TV+, Apple Music, and all of your other favourite streaming apps, but there’s one thing that an actual Apple TV 4K can do that nothing else can, and that’s get access to the great library of games available through the Apple Arcade subscription gaming service. For $5 a month — or less if you have it as part of an Apple One bundle — you get to play a library of almost 200 games across a wide variety of genres, all entirely free of annoying ads and in-game purchases. While precious few titles are up to the level of what you’ll get on a PS5 or Xbox, there are some incredible gems in the mix, like Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi’s absolutely stunning Fantasian, which was bankrolled by Apple and developed exclusively for Apple Arcade. Apple is also pouring incredible amounts of money into getting quality titles onto