Customise your Android TV home screen

On your Android TV home screen, you can browse for shows and movies to watch. You’ll find your shows and movies that you’ve started, suggested videos and personalised recommendations. You can change some of these options.

Important: Not all Android TVs have these settings.

Change home screen settings

Add, remove and reorder channel rows

Add or remove rows

1. On your Android TV, go to the home screen. At the top, select Settings.
2. Select Device preferences Home screen.
3. Choose Customise channels.
4. Select a channel to turn on or off.

Reorder rows

1. On the Home tab, scroll down to the row that you want to move.
2. On your remote, use the D-pad to scroll to the left twice.
3. Select Reorder .
4. Move the row where you want it, then press the centre D-pad button.

Control suggested shows and movies

Important: On the Home tab, you’ll find suggestions of movies and shows to watch. These suggestions are based on trending content or sponsored by media partners and can’t be turned off.

Get better suggestions

1. On a phone or computer, go to google.com.
2. At the top right, make sure that you're signed in to the same account that you use on your Android TV.
3. Search for What to watch. 
4. At the top of the search results, click Services.
5. Select your subscriptions from the list. You'll get suggestions from these services in your Google Play staff picks and in other Google products. Find out about TV and movie recommendations.
6. Click Save

Turn off audio or video previews

1. On your Android TV, go to the home screen. At the top, select Settings.
2. Select Device preferences Home screen.
3. Turn off Enable video previews or Enable audio previews.

Learn more about sponsored suggestions

1. Navigate to the ad that you want to learn more about. 
2. On your remote, press and hold Select.
3. Select Why this ad?

Tip: Learn more about ads on Android TV.

Control personalised recommendations

Important: Under Discover, you’ll find personalised recommendations based on the services that you use, your watch activity, watchlist and more. Learn more about movie and TV recommendations.

Set up personalised recommendations

1. Navigate to Discover.
2. Select Get started.
3. Sign in to your Google Account. Recommendations will be based on this account’s activity.
4. When you see 'Turn on Web & App Activity', select Turn on. Learn more about Web & App Activity.
5. Select the services that you use to watch movies and shows Confirm.
   • Some services are selected by default, including services linked to your account.

Turn off personalised recommendations

1. On your Android TV, go to the home screen. At the top, select Settings.
2. Select Device preferences Home screen.
3. Under 'Discover', select Sign out Yes, sign out.

Manage your watchlist

You can add shows or movies that you want to watch later to your watchlist. These titles show up as a row in the Discover tab.

1. From the Discover tab, browse for the title you want to add to your watchlist.
2. Open the title’s details page.
3. Select watchlist .

Tip: When you add content to your watchlist, you can find it on any device where you log in.

Add and find apps

On the Apps tab, you’ll find all the apps that you’ve installed. To choose an app, use the D-pad on your remote and then select it. Find out how to get and manage apps.

What’s on your home screen

At the top, you’ll find several tabs that you can navigate to:

• Search: Speak or type your search. Learn more about Google Assistant on Android TV.
• Home: Quickly find suggested content, apps that you’ve downloaded and movies and shows that you haven’t finished yet.
• Discover: Get personalised recommendations based on watch history, interests and new trends.
• Apps: Find all the apps that you’ve downloaded and suggested apps. Learn how to download apps.
• Settings: Change settings for your account or your device.