In case you assume your Google TV homescreen is wanting a little bit completely different, you’re not going mad.
Starting final week (through 9to5Google), Google has been making its new redesign obtainable to customers. This week, homeowners of tech from manufacturers reminiscent of TCL and Walmart Onn have seen the replace go reside. This is without doubt one of the greatest adjustments to the homepage for the reason that OS rebranded in 2020.
The principle adjustments of the redesign are to the highest navigation bar, and customers who’ve commented on-line appear fairly sad with one main alteration: the Library tab has been eliminated.
It means there isn’t a fast navigation choice on the primary web page for accessing movies and TV reveals you’ve downloaded. As an alternative, you’ll must click on on the profile image (situated on the left of the display screen) to drag up a drop-down menu, which incorporates entry to the Library, together with Watchlist, Your Companies and Content material Companies.
Within the new high menu, you’ll now discover that the For You tab has been renamed as Dwelling, which sits alongside the Stay and Apps tabs. In the meantime, Settings and Screensaver choices are in a second field.
You may see the redesign beneath, in a screengrab from an advert exhibiting off Gemini AI options on the TV OS:
And for reference, that is what the outdated (or present, relying in your mannequin) homepage appeared like – full with the Library tab. Be aware that within the US, the Stay tab was on this bar beforehand, too.
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These adjustments are confirmed to be rolling out throughout the US, however we’ve not but heard about them in different nations. On Tech Advisor’s Google TV Streamer unit within the UK, the outdated dwelling display screen format nonetheless seems, even after an replace.
As this new format hasn’t been formally introduced by Google past being current in some adverts, there’s an opportunity that the corporate should still be tweaking and finalising it over the following few weeks.
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