You never know when the remote will not connect to tv

The remote feature like never works it won't let me navigate my tv it is driving me crazy so upset please fix this bug.

Why take away the remote

Connected to my TCL Google TV easily, but the app is very limited. It only works as a basic D-pad remote and doesn’t support moving the on-screen cursor or blue pointer that’s required on some apps and pop-ups. That makes it impossible to interact with certain screens. If you have a Google TV that uses a cursor, this app may not be enough. Disappointing.

Terrible. Always times out and won’t let me reconnect to the TV.

This app has become useless after removing the option to use remote control options and keyboard input.

I only got this app because they removed the add to watchlist button from Google Search. Very annoying. New shows are slow to appear, and the search is terrible. When it knows what I’m typing, it offers to search for “movies like x” instead of letting me go to the movie I’m looking for

fix ur remote stuff cause its not even allowing me to use the remote on my phone and when it actually pops up it just disappears and im jus not allowed to use my remote on here

My google tv device almost always never shows up, so I’m just sitting on my couch waiting for nothing.

I only use this app for a remote for my google tv. Works well but there is a constant bug. When I leave the app it seems to think the swipe to home means a movement on the remote. Which makes the remote go to the left corner every time either causing media controls to pop up or the media I’ve been playing to restart. Not aggravating just annoying. Otherwise the remote works well.

This app is the only remote i have for my tv and it works, just not all the time. My bf and i both have the app and when it’s not working for one of us typically it works for the other. Unfortunately for me he’s at work and my app isn’t working, so i don’t get to watch tv until he gets home. EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING.

I use this app because I lost my tv remote. Google tv on a Phillips. When using the app, the remote icon only shows up half the time. I have to open and close the app many times to get the remote icon to show up. It’s so frustrating. Please fix! It’s driving me crazy!

I get this notification every time I try to download a tv show episode or a movie, “The operation couldn’t be completed. (CoreMediaErrorDomain error -16840 - HTTP 401: Unauthorized)”. I have closed and reopened the app, deleted and redownloaded, and re-logged in to the service. I own all of these episodes and movies, why can’t I download them! Please fix this issue.

I like this a lot

Since the remote function is no longer available this app is useless….

Its so fun!!

It would be 5/5 if the control was always present.

Why do I have to keep closing the app 5 times just to get the remote on the app to work? Like what’s the point anymore?

It was great the first few seconds, then it just kicks you off of it in the middle of you using it, making you have to repair it 1000xs before being able to pick a movie/ show and press play. Very annoying. But when you lost your remote Beggars CANT BE CHOOSERS HUH!?

It keeps not wanting to play movies I want to watch!

this is absolute garbage. it doesn’t work. i can’t find my remote and i need to shut off my tv and i can’t because i don’t have my remote so i downloaded this, YES i have a google tv. it just says only purchased contact can be cast on this device. what in the world does that even mean ? no code even shows on my tv. yes it’s the same network. yes my bluetooth is on. yes it says it connected to the tv. NO REMOTE SHOWS. Only tells me to stream a show , but only purchased. there is NO FIX. NO REMOTE SHOWS ON MY PHONE . Oi looked it up and that isn’t even an issue that’s been dealt with by anyone else before. apparently no one else has this problem. this app does not contain the remote it says it does. i have to download a random app and pay a monthly fee to get one. ridiculous.

While it’s amazing to be able to just grab my phone whenever I can’t find the remote to my Hisense TV, there’s a couple issues that are cramping my style. Picture this: you are trapped in a house with an energetic toddler who loves very, very long YouTube videos. Perhaps someday, YouTube will offer a “play from beginning” button. But that glorious day is not today. So you are resigned to spamming the back arrow on the Google TV app like you are speed-running an arthritis diagnosis. I am BEGGING you to please adjust the sensitivity on the rewind function of the back arrow. The rate of speed you have to tap in order to accelerate the rewind speed is so absurd that I didn’t even know the app had this functionality for a very long time! This isn’t a Smash Bros tournament, and I fear the friction of button spamming will overheat my phone if my fingers don’t fall off first. Seriously, I challenge anyone reading this to get 80% through a multi-hour-long YouTube video (may I suggest Jenny Nicholson?) and then try to rewind it as fast as you can. The other issue I am experiencing (and what pushed me over the edge to writing this): lately if I am playing audio on my phone at a low volume and I allow it to continue playing while I swipe over to this app to use the remote, my phone’s volume will skyrocket to like 95%, and it’s horrible. TV volume remains unchanged. New migraine unlocked. I hope this will get fixed soon please, sending all my love to Google’s support and dev teams, thank you so much! 💖

This is awful. I can't control my tv with my phone. Our remote fell off of our couch onto our floor and now doesn't work. So I can't use the remote for the tv and the remote with my phone sucks. I can only turn the tv on. Can't select anything or watch anything. Google tv is awful. I hate our tv!

I don't mind it promoting other shows but that shouldn't move the stuff I am watching so far down it isn't worth finding

EDIT: The app actually isn't losing connection cause I see that it shows being connected to my google tv. Instead the app just arbitrarily decides that I don't need the remote as I'm actively using it and just causes it to disappear. I can't use the remote feature for more than 15 seconds without it disappearing on me and having cycle through disconnect and reconnect and force close and opening etc to get the remote back. Truly terrible app. Can't reliably do the one thing I need it to. I connect to my tv, then it drops connection as I'm using the remote. I then choose my tv to reconnect and it just loads forever. Getting a google tv had already proven to be a mistake, and the fact that their app can't even function properly as a remote, is just the cherry on top. Should have stuck with Roku. Learned my lesson. In fact, I would be using my Roku plugged into this tv except the tv also doesn't accept the Roku despite it working on other tvs.