UIImageView.overlayContentView is for putting UI styles like borders over top of an image view, but does not help you modify the image view itself. Adding a border to overlayContentView in focused state will solve your problem only if your corner radius is smaller than your border width. Otherwise your image will peek out past your rounded corners. You will also need to set overlayContentView.clipsToBounds = false. I was able to implement larger corner radii for both focused and regular states by generating images with rounded corners baked in using UIGraphicsImageRenderer, then using the tvOS11 UIImageView.masksFocusEffectToContents feature on an image view. The difficulty with combining focus effects with rounded corners is that by default, the shimmer effect you see when panning over an image would go into your transparent corners. masksFocusEffectToContents fixes this, but reduces performance. Another difficulty is if you try to add scaling to your focus effect. An image view always clips to its original, unscaled size, so clipping or adding corners to an image directly will break if you need a scale effect on focus.