Samsung Tizen guides

Samsung smart TVs running Tizen are the easiest sets on a home network to find and among the easiest to control. A Tizen TV advertises itself over Bonjour, which is the discovery mechanism iOS is best at, so a Samsung normally appears in a remote app's device list within a second or two of the app opening — noticeably faster than most other brands.

What Samsung asks for in return is a permission step you cannot skip: the first time an app opens a remote connection, the TV puts a prompt on screen asking whether to allow the device. Nothing works until someone picks up the plastic remote and says yes. That single prompt is behind most of the "it found my TV but the buttons do nothing" reports in this category.

Start with how to control a Samsung TV with your iPhone for the full walkthrough, or go straight to the allow-this-device prompt if the TV is already asking you something and you want to know what it means.