diff --git a/ipn/ipnstate/ipnstate.go b/ipn/ipnstate/ipnstate.go
index 97eb78032..3a464c9be 100644
--- a/ipn/ipnstate/ipnstate.go
+++ b/ipn/ipnstate/ipnstate.go
@@ -588,6 +588,8 @@ func osEmoji(os string) string {
 		return "🖥️"
 	case "iOS":
 		return "📱"
+	case "tvOS":
+		return "🍎📺"
 	case "android":
 		return "🤖"
 	case "freebsd":
diff --git a/version/prop.go b/version/prop.go
index a6cc124c6..386fcd64e 100644
--- a/version/prop.go
+++ b/version/prop.go
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ func OS() string {
 	// differentiate them. Then a later Go release added GOOS=ios as a separate
 	// platform, but by then the "iOS" and "macOS" values we'd picked, with that
 	// exact capitalization, were already baked into databases.
+	if IsAppleTV() {
+		return "tvOS"
+	}
 	if runtime.GOOS == "ios" {
 		return "iOS"
 	}
@@ -76,6 +79,19 @@ func IsMacSysExt() bool {
 	})
 }
 
+var isAppleTV lazy.SyncValue[bool]
+
+// IsAppleTV reports whether this binary is part of the Tailscale network extension for tvOS.
+// Needed because runtime.GOOS returns "ios" otherwise.
+func IsAppleTV() bool {
+	if runtime.GOOS != "ios" {
+		return false
+	}
+	return isAppleTV.Get(func() bool {
+		return strings.EqualFold(os.Getenv("XPC_SERVICE_NAME"), "io.tailscale.ipn.tvos.network-extension")
+	})
+}
+
 var isWindowsGUI lazy.SyncValue[bool]
 
 // IsWindowsGUI reports whether the current process is the Windows GUI.