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Yea, it's annoying. The reason is that the iPhone doesn't have an IR emitter and that's the way a lot of devices are controlled with the remote. I wish they'd allow devices with CEC to be controlled with the remote app, it's certainly possible. My very rough-around-the-edges desktop Apple TV remote project sends volume up / down commands, but it only changes the volume when a Bluetooth device or HomePod is connected. Source: almost 2 years ago
Oh, I made a project to do that. I use it every single day and it works great (though setup is a little unpolished): https://github.com/bsharper/atv-desktop-remote. Source: about 2 years ago
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