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TL;DR
- Android telephones now routinely present a notification for Google TV setup.
- App installs have been improved so you possibly can “begin utilizing your system sooner and fear much less about operating out of storage.”
- You’ll be capable to connect with your private home units extra rapidly.
The time it takes to arrange Google TV isn’t all that lengthy, but it surely may at all times be a bit quicker. To hurry up the method, Google is making some modifications that ought to make the setup quicker and simpler than earlier than.
In a weblog submit, Google introduced just a few methods it’s bettering the Google TV setup course of. The primary change will take away the necessity to obtain an app. As a substitute, Android telephones will routinely present a notification once you begin the TV setup course of. For iPhone house owners, you gained’t get a notification, however a QR code will present up on the display so that you can scan.
Subsequent up, the weblog mentions that app installs have been improved. The Mountain View-based agency doesn’t clarify how app installs have been improved, but it surely does say “you can begin utilizing your system sooner and fear much less about operating out of storage.” This implies that app downloads are smaller and take much less time to put in.

Moreover, it appears to be like such as you’ll be capable to connect with your sensible dwelling units extra rapidly. The corporate mentions utilizing “Google Residence audio system to pause the TV, seek for films or exhibits and management sensible dwelling units.”
This new, quicker setup expertise is arriving first on Hisense’s 2025 U7 sequence and U8 sequence TVs. Nevertheless, Google says it plans to broaden the expertise to all newer Google TV units later this yr, together with Walmart’s Onn streamer. On its help web page, the tech big says you’re Android system will need to have OS model 9.0 or increased, whereas iPhones will should be on iOS 14 or increased.