Google TV update tailors your experience with custom profiles and watchlists

(Pocket-lint) - Google has announced it is updating the Google TV experience with caller features that marque it easier for aggregate radical wrong the aforesaid household to find what they specifically privation to watch. It is adding customized profiles, watchlists, and personalised Google Assistant help.

Google TV already supported the quality to motion into aggregate Google Accounts - but lone the superior relationship holder would beryllium capable to entree contented suggestions, a watchlist, and Google Assistant functionality. Now, with idiosyncratic profiles, each idiosyncratic successful a household tin get their ain recommendations and entree their ain watchlist. Plus, going forward, their Google Assistant responses volition beryllium based connected their ain enactment and interests.

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As portion of the caller tailored experience, Google volition present glanceable cards connected ambient mode truthful an idle TV tin show personalised accusation similar weather, news, sports statistics, and adjacent shortcuts for worldly similar podcasts and photos. Downloaded apps and credentials tin beryllium utilized crossed antithetic profiles, too.

Profiles volition rotation retired successful November 2021 to Chromecast with Google TV arsenic good arsenic Sony and TCL Google TVs.

In summation to profiles, the mobile distant app for Google TV, which precocious launched connected Android, is coming to the Google Home app connected Android and iOS.

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 11 October 2021.