When Google launched a brand new TV overlay final 12 months, it promised to carry a contemporary interface to Chromecast and subsequently launched gadgets. It additionally prompted lots of confusion over what would occur to the Android TV working system, which powers a whole lot of fashions of streaming sticks, TV units and extra. Those older gadgets did not get the brand new Google TV interface, however the firm did start to roll out some updates that made Android TV look extra much like the brand new structure, together with a refreshed look and a Discover tab. Today, Google is including new instruments to Android TV to make it really feel extra like Google TV: Watchlist, suggestion tuning and element pages.

With this replace, now you can add titles to your watchlist throughout the Android TV system, both by long-pressing in your choice and hitting “Add to Watchlist” or urgent the Watchlist possibility within the present’s element web page. You may also add to the checklist out of your cellphone or laptop computer by way of Google Search or within the TV app. Your saved objects will seem in a row on the Discover tab. 

The firm additionally tweaked the element pages of every present by including trailers that autoplay if you dive deeper into every title, much like how providers like Netflix are arrange. You can flip these off within the Settings (underneath Home Screen in Device Preferences by deactivating “Enable video previews”). 

You’ll additionally discover a new method to inform Google what reveals you want (and hate) within the Home Screen settings — search for Content Preferences and scroll by way of the titles that present up. Additionally, there is a card within the Discover tab that claims “Improve your recommendations” that may allow you to tune your preferences too, and you’ll select between “More like this” or “Less like this” for every present. Once you are finished, the system will replace its ideas for you within the Discover web page.

Those already utilizing a Chromecast with Google TV will discover these options acquainted, and people with older Android TV gadgets haven’t got to attend lengthy to get them. Google mentioned the updates will arrive on Android TV gadgets “beginning this week.”