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Fixing Kayo playback on Apple TV with NextDNS

Gordon Beeming
Gordon Beeming

I was trying to watch Kayo on my Apple TV. Scanning the QR code opened the Kayo app on my iPhone, but playback on the TV never started. Allowing api3.branch.io and cdn.branch.io in NextDNS fixed it.

I use NextDNS to filter DNS requests on my network. If you're using it too and getting the same behaviour, open the NextDNS configuration used by your devices and add these two domains under Allowlist, one at a time:

Domains to allow in NextDNS
api3.branch.io
cdn.branch.io

Keep the exceptions to those two domains. Once I'd added them, I scanned the QR code again and playback started on the Apple TV.

Gordon Beeming
Gordon Beeming

Father • Husband • Triathlete • SSW Solution Architect

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