Android phones getting built-in Android TV remote this year — no more password hell

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Android phones getting built-in Android TV remote this year — no more password hell

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Google will before long build Android TV remote-control features directly into your Android phone, saving you the many hours spent searching for your remote under the couch or time spent typing in long passwords to unlock apps through your Tv set remote.

Rolling out afterward this twelvemonth, the news comes straight from the Google I/O 2021 keynote and was announced by Sameer Samat, VP of Production Management for Android at Google.

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Can't discover your remote? No problem. With your Android phone safely in hand, you volition soon be able to manage what yous want to lookout man from the interfaces of the best Android phones. You'll be able to easily flick between your favorite shows for those late-dark binges.

Co-ordinate to the appear info — and it's still scarce — the built-in remote control on Android phones will work seamlessly with Android TV Bone devices, including Google Idiot box-enabled ones, like the Chromecast with Google Television.

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If you're getting the eerily familiar tinges of déjà vu, and so information technology's probably for good reason. Google has long offered an Android TV Remote Control app through the Google Play Shop. The app lets you hook upwardly your Android phone to your TV to perform a like set of functions as your actual remote.

However, the Android TV Remote Control application has become significantly outdated. Information technology's bereft of any update since 2017, and information technology increasingly feels a role of a bygone era before Android Boob tube started to shift to Google TV.

Google'southward plan to bake remote-control functionality straight into your Android telephone should brand things a whole lot smoother when sitting downwardly in front of the Tv set.

We also think that the company has earmarked ane of the more frustrating problems with TV remote controls and smart apps — that of the fiddly process of plugging in a password. Hopefully, this news goes some way to helping that process along.

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Luke is a Trainee News Writer at T3 and contributor to Tom's Guide, having graduated from the DMU/Channel 4 Journalism School with an MA in Investigative Journalism. Before switching careers, he worked for Mindshare WW. When not indoors messing around with gadgets, he'due south a disc golf enthusiast, peachy jogger, and addicted of all things outdoors.

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