Is the “Show Login Screen” startup behavior working ?

[GlowingBits 11]

I’m confused, should “Show Login Screen” in Settings > Display > Startup Behavior bring up the user login/selection screen *every* time the app is launched, allowing a logged in user to be selected ?

Maybe it is the TestFlight I’m using, but that login/selection screen doesn’t come up each launch. For me it only appears after the app has been force quit and is starting up fresh. I’ve tried resetting the setting, force quitting after, etc. Is this working for people?

[GlowingBits 11]

I’m confused, should “Show Login Screen” in Settings > Display > Startup Behavior bring up the user login/selection screen *every* time the app is launched, allowing a logged in user to be selected ?  

Maybe it is the TestFlight I’m using, but that login/selection screen doesn’t come up each launch. For me it only appears after the app has been force quit and is starting up fresh. I’ve tried resetting the setting, force quitting after, etc. Is this working for people?

[Luke 42261]

hi, if you leave the app and are gone for at least 10 minutes, then on returning you should get the login screen again.

[GlowingBits 11]

Interesting... We have 6 Apple TVs around the house each setup with Emby and "Show Login Screen" set with a couple users logged in.  However after testing, only 1 seems to show the login screen after being exited 10+ mins.  I'll have to remove/reinstall it from one and try some different orders of setup or something.

[kbijvank 58]

Hi @Luke @SamES

It used to work so that when you switched Apple accounts on the Apple TV, the Emby user would switch as well. The system remembered the last Emby user who was logged in for that specific Emby profile on the Apple TV.

Can we bring that back as one of the options?

[GlowingBits 11]

Well there seems to be some sort of issue here.  I ran the following test on a couple Apple TVs:

Apple TV 4K (tried a gen 2 and gen 3)
tvOS 26.4
Emby App 2.0.5 (3) - Testflight

I deleted the Emby app and all data completely, then re-installed a fresh version via TestFlight and:

• Supplied my server address and port (https://emby.mydomain.com:443)
• Logged in as user A
• Went to Settings > Display and set “Show login screen” for Startup Behavior 
• Exited the Emby app and then forced quit it (as it seemed to say some setting changes require it)
• Launched the Emby app and saw the login selector (which I do see after force quitting)
• Verified the that “Show login screen” was still set in settings
• Exited Emby app
• Waited 15 mins (used other apps)
• Launched Emby and was still automatically logged in as user A

So then I thought maybe two users need to be logged in (?) so…

• Chose “Change User" in Settings and logged in as user B
• Exited the Emby app
• Waited 15 mins (used other apps)
• Launched Emby and was still automatically logged in as user B

Not sure if I’m missing something here, or there is some new bug, but I can’t seem to get this to work.  Does it require user PINs are set or something ?