If you have recently noticed how your Smart TV with Google TV does not look as usual, don’t worry: the interface has changed. Although you probably didn’t realize it, since it was not necessary to download any updates. We tell you what are the main new features that we will be able to enjoy from now on.
Have you noticed during these days how the interface of your television with Google TV has it changed without you having downloaded any update? During the last few months, we expected Google to launch an update that changed the appearance of our Smart TV and, now, it has landed definitively not only on smart TVs with Google TV: the changes have also arrived on the Chromecast, in the case that you use it. But what are we going to see differently from now on?
An update via server
We are used to updates to our devices arriving after we have received the classic notificationn which indicates that there is a new version of our operating system to download. However, we can also find that the update is carried out on the server itself and reaches all devices without the need to download any specific update package. Depending on the objective of the update, developers can choose one route or another.
And it was precisely the last option chosen by Google to update televisions with Google TV and Chromecast, as we have already anticipated. So it is likely that the next time we turn on our Smart TV we will begin to see some of the changes. Although we already told you that we are not going to see major changes, since everything has been quite discreet on the part of the american company and has focused mainly on the aesthetic level.
The aesthetics of icons
As we have already anticipated, it is a set of very discrete changes. So don’t expect big news. The change that stands out the most is the arrangement of the icons, which will now no longer have a rectangular shape, but will become rounded. Much more adapted to the Google aesthetics that we can see in the rest of the devices with which we interact on a daily basis.
This change is accompanied by a reduction in the size of each of the applications. In this way, in the main interface we will find a greater number of apps, depending on the number of downloads that we have in our system.
More customization possibilities
The aesthetic change mentioned previously does not come alone. Google also wanted to offer its users a greater number of possibilities in terms of customization and distribution of icons. Now, we can order them according to our tastes or we can even have all the applications located on the main home, placing them within our reach and allowing them to be fewer taps away.
This last option can be highly recommended for those apps that we use most frequently in our daily lives. However, in the event that we have downloaded applications that we do not usually open very often, we can choose to leave them in the application library so that our main home has greater breadth.
As we have already mentioned, this is not an update that will change our user experience with our Smart TV with Google TV. But it does offer us a new interface and some improvements in the order of the tools that we have downloaded and that we use to access our content favorite.
