A brand new Google TV replace ought to make Google’s TV platform extra helpful for everybody in your house.

The replace is rolling out at this time, and the largest change you’ll see is the addition of profiles, which can enable everybody in your loved ones so as to add their very own accounts with a purpose to get extra customized content material suggestions, entry to their particular person watch lists, and extra tailor-made responses from the Google Assistant. As you may count on, as a result of your Google TV profile is linked to your Google account, your apps and login particulars shall be mechanically imported, so that you don’t should manually enter all of your credentials one after the other.

When you’re not watching TV, the addition of playing cards to Google TV’s ambient mode, which seems after your TV is idle for a couple of minutes, ought to make it simpler to maintain tabs on the climate, information, sports activities, and extra. Info shall be introduced through a card-based UI, permitting you to scroll by completely different playing cards utilizing your distant. If you need, you possibly can launch into podcasts, music, and pics out of your Google Photos library immediately from the Google TV ambient display screen with no need to dive into Google TV itself.

And along with the brand new virtual remote feature that’s coming quickly to the Google Home app—, in case you lose your bodily distant or it runs out of batteries—Google can be including help for Philo to Google TV’s built-in stay TV tab, which lets you browse at the moment airing packages from the principle Google TV UI with no need to open the Philo app itself.

With the addition of Philo, Google TV now helps three completely different over-the-top stay providers in its Live TV tab, with YouTube TV having gotten help at launch adopted by the addition of Sling TV integration earlier this yr.