{"id":3030,"date":"2026-06-11T00:25:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/apple-google-add-support-for-thread-1-4\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T00:25:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:25:46","slug":"apple-google-add-support-for-thread-1-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/apple-google-add-support-for-thread-1-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple, Google add support for Thread 1.4"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"The Google TV Streamer has been updated to Thread 1.4, allowing you to access a way to manually share its Thread credentials. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy \/ The Verge\" data-portal-copyright=\"Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy \/ The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/IMG_7137.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tThe Google TV Streamer has been updated to Thread 1.4, allowing you to access a way to manually share its Thread credentials. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy \/ The Verge\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Apple and Google are updating their smart home streaming devices to Thread 1.4. As first spotted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matteralpha.com\/industry-news\/ios-27-apple-home-thread-1-4-4k-energy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Matter Alpha<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/06\/10\/google-tv-streamers-new-update-turns-it-into-a-better-smart-home-device\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>9to5 Google<\/em><\/a>, the latest spec has arrived on compatible Apple TVs in the tvOS 27 developer beta and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/9\/23\/24250684\/google-tv-streamer-4k-review-smart-home-hub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google TV Streamer<\/a> through a software update.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">This lays the groundwork for these devices, which<span> serve as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/7\/19\/23269460\/thread-1-3-0-matter-border-routers-homepod-mini-echo-nest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thread Border Routers<\/a>, to implement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/1\/8\/24028203\/thread-group-fix-credential-sharing-thread-border-router\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thread credential sharing<\/a>, enabling<\/span> them to connect more easily to an existing Thread network <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23820078\/matters-biggest-problem-apple-google-thread-border-router-interoperability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rather than creating their own.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23165855\/thread-smart-home-protocol-matter-apple-google-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thread<\/a> is one of the connectivity protocols the interoperability standard Matter runs on. The original plan was for Thread Border Routers to all work seamlessly \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/947888\/apple-google-add-support-for-thread-1-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Google TV Streamer has been updated to Thread 1.4, allowing you to access a way to manually share its [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}