Apps & Services
Samsung TV Plus’s New Update Revamped Home Page and Experience
Samsung Electronics has released a new version of Samsung TV Plus, the popular free streaming TV service with ads supported (FAST). The most recent iteration of Samsung TV Plus brings new features and improvements to the user interface (UI), with the goal of improving the user experience (UX) and expediting content discovery. This upgrade includes 2500+ channels and has been implemented in all 24 countries where Samsung TV Plus is offered. Enhanced content categories, a customized home page, and sophisticated recommendation algorithms are among the updates.
UI Changeover:
Together with the list of frequently seen and popular titles, the revamped homepage of the Samsung TV Plus update offers a summary of the material that is accessible for watching. Newly added categories include Live TV, movies, and TV shows. Music, Kids and Settings, and more are situated on the left side of the main page in the redesigned user interface. A wide variety of information is available in each area and is always simple to find. Furthermore, to accommodate various market demands, region-specific tabs have been introduced depending on user preferences and each region’s content catalog:
- New Zealand, Australia, and the United States music tabs
- American, European, Brazilian, Mexican, and Indian kids tabs
- India’s news tab offers multilingual support.
Users can now more quickly browse through an ever-expanding collection of TV channels, all thanks to the redesign interface’s big user interface components, which also facilitate browsing. To effortlessly access their favorite channels in one location at the top of the channel guide, users may also connect to their Samsung accounts.
Video on Demand (VOD) feature:
The most recent upgrade increases Samsung TV Plus’s functionality and Video on Demand (VOD) selection. Now that VOD is accessible through the channel guide, viewers may instantly watch certain shows without having to wait for a particular episode to air on the channel. Users may find information that suits their interests with the help of the new “More Like This” function, which suggests content based on what they have previously viewed.
Yonghoon Choi, Executive Vice President of the Visual Display Business at Samsung Electronics, said,Over the past year, we have witnessed a 60% increase in global viewing time on Samsung TV V Plus testament to the platform’s expansive content library and user-friendly design. We will continue to evolve and enhance our services to provide a more intuitive and enjoyable viewing experience for our users.”
Over the years, Google has made several improvements to its most crucial application, the Google Play Store, and it constantly provides new utility features and improvements. Now, with the latest development, the company is working on a new capability to handle multiple application downloads.
According to the information, Google is looking to bring a new capability to download multiple applications together. Previously, when you tap on the install button of the applications, it starts downloading them one by one. When one application fully downloads, it starts downloading the second application.
However, it is worth noticing that the phenomenon of multiple downloading is limited to only two applications, meaning if you tap on more than three applications to download, it will start downloading two applications while the third one is still pending.
Additionally, the simultaneous download is limited to the new installs, but it will not apply to the update section. We hope that Google may expand the multiple downloads to update phenomenon and may increase the number of downloads together in the next developments.
As per the information, the new change has already started working on several devices, at least for the Android 14 installed devices with the latest version of the Play Store (40.6.31).
Good Lock plays a key role in providing a platform for all the customizing applications or plugins of the Galaxy devices. For information, it provides several types of plugins like NavStar, QuickStar, LockStar, Camera Assistant, and many more. With these plugins, users can perform several customizations for the smartphone UI, including navigation bars, lock screens, home screens, notifications, and many more. To manage these plugins more conveniently, the company has started rolling out the update for Good Lock.
Good Lock is receiving a new update, version 2.2.04.95. With the latest update, the company has introduced some new changes that will fix the phenomenon of installation and deletion of modules, so users can easily manage them according to their requirements.
Along with this, the changelog also says to bring some fixes for the security-related functionalities, so if you are also having some issues while using any of the functions of Good Lock or want to get some performance enhancements, then you should go for the latest Good Lock update.
If you want to install the latest version of Good Lock, you can check its availability from the Galaxy Store. If it is available, tap on the update button, but if it isn’t available, you can also sideload the application through some external sources.
Google’s developers are releasing an update for its Android Auto app with great constancy. After providing stable version 11.8, there is a new beta ready to test.
Google released Android Auto 11.9 Beta Update
This new Android Auto 11.9 beta build landed online a few hours ago, allowing users to test its features before the public rollout begins.
The latest Android Auto 11.9 beta is ready to download for all users who have registered for it. However, the update rarely brings significant changes from the previous updates. The mMountainvViewgiant didn’t offer the changelogs for the Android Auto updates, so the only way to find out what’s new in version 11.9 is to install it on your device and look for changes.
In the previous Android Auto 11.8 update, the redesigned Settings menu began rolling out to users. Installing Android Auto 11.9 beta doesn’t guarantee you’ll get the new Settings interface today, but it is required once Google enables the server-side update on your device.
Keep in mind that Android Auto 11.9 is still in the beta stage. As a result, you may encounter bugs and issues after installing it. As a result, you might experience crashes or other issues while using this beta version.