Improvements to your Google TV Experience

Over the course of two years, we have released many updates to the Google TV experience based on your feedback. In this post, we will highlight some of the latest improvements including freeing up storage space, speeding up devices, and creating a smoother experience when navigating your Google TV.  

Storage 

We are introducing new ways to reduce the amount of storage space utilized on your Google TV by reducing app sizes and hibernating background apps. 

App Hibernation is a new feature that will automatically force apps to hibernate when not used for over 30 days (on Android S and above devices). We also leveraged Android App Bundles for Google TV reducing the size of the apps by roughly 25%. This frees up space on your device to download even more apps and to watch your preferred programs without worry.

Best of all, both of these features have already rolled out to your devices and require no action from you.

We have made updates to both your devices and remotes to eliminate wait time. We reduced the time it takes to wake up your Google TV, the response time between your TV and button clicks on your remote, and the amount of time you see the loading animation when rebooting your device. These improvements are already rolling out to your devices and will help you get to your content faster.

A few months ago, we also introduced multiple changes to the Google TV homescreen. The new navigation and content pages introduced in the U.S. have improved the Google TV homescreen performance, creating a smoother experience across the board.

We’re committed to always improving your Google TV experience and have more updates to come later this year. Please continue to share your feedback as we hope to make your Google TV journey better than ever!