Over the last few years, we have become accustomed to series and movie recommendations on our most used streaming platforms. However, when they appear on the main home of our Smart TV with Android TV, it can be a significant setback for our user experience. We tell you how to remove them.
The Smart TV have been evolving in recent years, with increasingly advanced operating systems that offer us all kinds of functionalities. If you are an Android TV user, you have probably noticed how on the main screen you can access a battery of series recommendations and movies to enjoy.
However, the criteria for choosing Android TV is not always the same as what we find in other streaming platforms, that are based on our history and, therefore, have a high probability of being right according to our tastes. In many cases, we end up seeing recommendations that do not meet any of our interests. Luckily, there is the option to configure the main screen so that only the app drawer appears.
How to turn off personalized recommendations
For our Smart TV to only show the applications that we have installed on our television, all we have to do is take the remote control of our television and look for the settings tab. This button is located on the top right of the screen and it is different from all those around it, so it won’t take us long to find it. We must look for something similar to a gear wheel, which is the classic icon that we always find on Android to refer to the settings.
Once we are in this tab, we have to access the “Accounts and login” menu. Next, we choose our default profile and we enter the “Applications only mode” option. This button is disabled by default. However, if we want only the apps to be displayed on our main home, all we have to do is activate it, save the changes and exit the menu we are in until we return to the main screen.
Only the apps
When we get to the starting screen, If we have followed the previous steps correctly and the configuration has been well saved, we will notice how only the applications that we have previously downloaded appear. In this way, we will have all the apps just a few clicks away, taking advantage of all the space that was previously occupied by series and movie recommendations.
The smart televisions with Android TV They have a large number of options in their configuration menu that, although we are not always familiar with them, can help us have our television 100% adapted to our tastes. Therefore, it is always advisable to access this menu to check all the options it offers us when changing the appearance of our television.
Remember that if at any time you want to return to the classic view, all you have to do is go back to the menu that we mentioned previously and deactivate the “Applications only mode” option again.
