Google delays personalised profiles for Google TV

(Pocket-lint) - Google TV users person been eagerly awaiting the promised accomplishment of idiosyncratic profiles, that were primitively supposed to get past month. 

Google has present confirmed that this diagnostic is delayed, alternatively promising that it volition beryllium made disposable successful "the coming months".

At present, the institution has not offered a crushed for this delay, but astatine slightest Google TV users won't person excessively agelong to wait.

The caller profiles diagnostic volition let for personalised assistance from Google Assistant, customised watchlists and forestall users from having to sift done contented recommendations for different members of their household.

As it stands, utilizing Google TV tin beryllium a spot similar sharing a Spotify profile; alternatively of letting the algorithm suggest tracks to your idiosyncratic taste, you're having to navigate astir your mum's aureate oldies too.

It's understandable, then, wherefore Google TV users are looking guardant to this addition.

Google TV precocious added ambient-mode cards, these tin beryllium configured to show definite accusation portion your TV is idle, akin to however Chromecast tin show Google Photos images arsenic a screensaver.

The caller cards tin amusement things similar sports scores, upwind and quality and erstwhile profiles launch, they volition beryllium tailored to the connected user. The diagnostic besides provides on-screen shortcuts that let users to rapidly commencement playing music, podcasts oregon photos.

The ambient-mode cards person already begun rolling out, initially starting with a tiny percent of users successful the US.

Writing by Luke Baker. Originally published connected 6 December 2021.