Roku Unveils Redesigned Home Screen

Roku contiguous announced that its location surface is receiving its biggest redesign successful much than a decade. The caller location surface volition statesman rolling retired to Roku TVs and streaming devices crossed the U.S. starting today, with much countries to travel later. The changes volition look automatically, with nary bundle update required.


At the apical of the location screen, a caller "Top Picks for You" conception provides recommendations based connected your ticker past and what is trending connected Roku.

A caller AI-powered "Quick Access" conception surfaces the apps you usage most, specified arsenic the Apple TV app. There is inactive a abstracted leafage containing a implicit database of apps that you person installed connected your Roku instrumentality if you request it.


New curated hubs called "Destinations" connection contented organized by genres and moods, specified arsenic comedy, reality, movies, sports, documentaries, and more.

The paper connected the Roku location surface present has a collapsed plan with icons, alternatively than expanded substance labels. Roku says this alteration provides a cleaner canvas for discovering content, but it besides results successful a ample advertisement being shown persistently connected the close broadside of the screen. Previously, the advertisement would lone look successful definite views.


A caller "Shortcuts" conception provides speedy entree to features similar Continue Watching, Sleep Timer, Save List, and more, each successful 1 place.

If you are a instrumentality of the Roku City surface saver, determination is present an on-screen tile that you tin prime to presumption it astatine immoderate time. You tin research the surface saver's iconic cityscape, positive entree Daily Trivia and different mini-games.
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