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Colour theme Premium
Path: Settings › Look & feel › Colour theme
How
- The Colour theme row lists every theme by name and applies the one you pick straight away. To preview first, use the cards below it.
- Browse Standard, Inspired and Animated. Select a miniature interface to preview its shell, focus and progress colours, then choose Apply. Cancel or Back leaves your saved theme unchanged.
- The catalogue has nine standard themes, including Graphite and Amethyst, six inspired themes, including Cyberpunk-inspired, and eight animated themes: Aurora (flowing teal and violet ribbons), Deep Current (travelling cyan waves), Ember (rising amber embers and a copper glow), Snowfall (winter-blue with gently falling snow), Rainfall (fine falling drops with tapered silver-blue trails), Starfield (a stationary night sky with gentle twinkles), Autumn (falling copper and gold leaves) and Halloween (midnight purple with creeping mist, drifting bats, wailing ghosts, glowing pumpkins and occasional forked lightning).
- Turn Background motion off for a still version with the same colours. In Live TV, animated themes replace the programme-artwork background with one continuous effect behind the header, programme grid, collapsed navigation rail and bottom control helpers, alongside the small channel preview. Opening or closing navigation keeps the same background moving. The glass TiviGlass wordmark sits on the opposite side of the header from the preview, following its left/right position and size. Text, cells and focus indicators stay still while the background moves. Motion pauses for fullscreen video, other video previews, and while the app is hidden. Devices needing reduced motion and Android’s Remove animations setting also keep the backgrounds still.
- Your themes holds your custom choices. Select one to preview it; Apply, Edit and Delete are on the preview. Create custom theme builds your own from Shell, Accent and an optional Progress colour. Select Progress to change programme and playback bars independently; Default progress colours makes programme and playback bars follow the theme accent.
- Duplicate current copies the current colours into a custom theme; background animation is not copied.
Good to know
TiviGlass keeps a dark TV-friendly backdrop and steady text, buttons and focus indicators. Gallery thumbnails stay still; choose Open animated preview to see movement in a larger viewing area. The preview tells you if Background motion, reduced motion or playback is keeping it still. Ocean, Nord, Aqua & Coral, Mountain, Game of Thrones and Peaky Blinders are retired from the catalogue, but an existing saved selection continues to work and appears under Your saved theme. You can duplicate it into a custom theme. The colour palette applies from the first frame at startup. Background motion follows your profile and syncs with appearance settings; each device still applies its own reduced-motion restrictions. Without Premium the app uses Navy & Sky.
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Layout, logos and the clock Free
Path: Settings › Look & feel
How
- App text & layout size switches between compact and comfortable spacing, for the whole app. To change the TV guide on its own — bigger text, or more channels on screen — use Guide text size and Guide row height under Settings › TV guide › How the guide looks (how-to 14). Guide text size is also on this page, beside App text & layout size.
- Movie & show poster size chooses Small, Medium or Large covers for every library filter, including Favourites and Watchlist.
- Group list layout, on Settings › Home & menu › How each section opens, chooses the original horizontal pills or a Left sidebar for Live TV, Movies and Shows.
- Channel logos and Channel logo size control whether and how big logos appear. Off removes the whole tile, including the two-letter coloured stand-in a channel gets when its provider has no logo, so the row is just the channel name.
- Fix cut-off screen edges pulls the picture in if your TV crops the edges.
- Time format and Date & time language set how times are written.
- Remote or touch layout chooses Automatic, TV / remote, or Phone / tablet for this device.
Good to know
Left sidebar is the default. It opens each library’s groups in a panel beside the menu, with Views, your groups and the TV service’s groups in one list, including Favourites, Watchlist, History, Recently added and filters where available; the old pill rows are removed from the content area. The icons on the left keep showing where you are. Pick an item to return to the content; press Left or Back in the groups panel for the main app menu. Choose Horizontal pills in Group list layout if you prefer the original layout.
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Use your own channel logos Free
Path: Settings › Look & feel › Logo sources
How
- Put PNG, JPG or WebP files in a folder, named after the channel — for example BBC One.png.
- Select that folder as the Local logo folder.
- Set Preferred logo source: playlist first, TV guide first, or local folder first.
- After adding files later, select Refresh local logos.
Good to know
Matching ignores case and punctuation, so “bbc one.png” works too. If a logo is missing or fails to load, TiviGlass falls through to the next source and finally to a coloured letter tile.
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Rearrange the menu Premium
Path: Settings › Home & menu › Menu entries
How
- Open Order and rename menu entries, or hold OK on an entry in the side menu itself and choose Move in the menu or Rename. A moved entry follows Up and Down; OK puts it down and Back puts it back.
- Move sections up and down and rename any of them. To hide a section, turn off its own switch on the same page: Sports hub, Show Kids in the menu, Search, Movies & shows, Apps and Reminders. Turning Reminders off also stops every saved reminder from going off until you turn it back on. Sports hub carries the silver Essentials badge when your plan does not include Sports, and its switch still works, so you can take the padlocked entry out of the menu. Recordings has its switch on its own page, Record programmes in Settings › Recordings, and it works the same way.
- Change a section’s icon if you prefer a different shape.
- Each entry shows its state: Shown; Hidden, with where to turn it back on; Locked when your plan does not include it; or Always at the bottom for Settings, which sits beside Exit at the foot of the menu. If you hid entries with an older version, Show hidden menu entries appears on the page and brings them all back.
Good to know
The menu layout travels with the profile, so switching viewers re-themes the sidebar in one step. Without Premium the sidebar uses the built-in order.
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Remap remote buttons Premium
Path: Settings › Remote & buttons
In the live-player button editor or Shortcut keys, assign Channel list (live player) to browse and search your current channel order without leaving playback, or Recently watched channels (live player) to open the recent-channel row. Use a normal button press; both custom actions require Premium. Last channel still switches straight to the previous channel, and it is now also in the player’s More menu, so you can use it without setting a button up first. Back closes the channel list.
How
- Buttons in the live player, Buttons in movies & shows and Buttons in the TV guide, under What buttons do, each open their own editor. The guide editor lets you assign spare buttons to Favourites filter, Page channels up/down, Jump to now and Jump to top. Arrow keys, Select and Back keep their guide navigation roles. Open fullscreen with one press of OK is on the same page too. Button remapping requires Premium, and every row that edits it carries the Premium badge. Without it you can still look through the editors and set your buttons up — your choices are saved and start working the moment you upgrade — but until then each button keeps its built-in behaviour, which is the one the editor shows you. A choice that is waiting is listed underneath as Set to … — needs Premium, so the list never claims a button does something it does not.
- Inside a button editor, Colour shortcuts previews four actions for that screen. Apply it to set red, green, yellow and blue together, then adjust any button individually. Other buttons and long presses keep their settings. Use the existing key-learning editor for remotes that send different key codes, including Formuler models.
- Shortcut keys assigns spare, colour and number keys to actions like Screenshot, Last channel, Jump to now in the guide, or Open recordings. Choose Tap, Hold or Double at the top, press OK on an action, then press the key to use. New profile and Rename are in the Button profiles window. This is the same Premium feature as button behaviour, and behaves the same way without it.
- Back button while watching chooses whether Back hides the controls first or exits immediately.
- Loop lists round is on by default: pressing down on the last item of the menu, Home, a settings page, a list or a picker carries on from the first, and up on the first goes to the last, so going up from the top of the menu reaches Exit. Only a fresh press loops: holding the button stops at the end, so holding up to reach the top never overshoots. Movies and Shows loop once the whole list has loaded, so the last row of a long library still loads the next page instead. Turn it off to stop at the ends. The TV guide’s channel list has its own switch, Loop from the last channel to the first. This setting is shown when you use a remote.
- CH+ and CH− (or Page up and Page down) move a screenful at a time on every screen and in every window: Home, the menu, Movies, Shows, Search, Recordings, pickers and the rest. CH+ goes up the page and CH− goes down. Hold one to keep paging. The guide pages its channels with them, and on a settings page they jump a section. If you have set CH+ or CH− under Shortcut keys to open a section, that shortcut wins; one set for the player only still pages while you browse.
- Under Skipping forward and back, Skip length sets how far, and Left and Right skip, Up and Down skip and Rewind and fast-forward buttons skip set which keys do it. Rewinding live TV has the same choice for live channels.
Good to know
Remote or touch layout, on Settings › Look & feel › Size & screen, is free: choose Automatic, TV / remote, or Phone / tablet. It changes this device immediately and survives restarting or signing out; it never changes your other devices. Remote button customisation remains available in every mode, including phones with a keyboard or remote; paid shortcut features still require Premium.
To close the TV app without scrolling to Exit, leave playback and any dialog first. Press Back on the guide until the menu opens and shows the confirmation (the first press goes to the groups), then press Back again within 3 seconds. A child profile returns to the profile picker instead. Phone / tablet mode follows Android Back behaviour.
Bindings are per context — live TV, movies and shows, browsing and the guide can each behave differently. Button profiles (remote layout only) mean a cheap box with a four-button remote can be set up separately from your main TV. One action is worth knowing about even if you never remap anything else: Options for the focused item opens the same menu as holding OK, so a remote that can't hold reliably still reaches every channel action.
To close the TV app without scrolling to Exit, leave playback and any dialog first. Press Back on the guide until the menu opens and shows the confirmation (the first press goes to the groups), then press Back again within 3 seconds. A child profile returns to the profile picker instead. Phone / tablet mode follows Android Back behaviour.
Bindings are per context — live TV, movies and shows, browsing and the guide can each behave differently. Button profiles (remote layout only) mean a cheap box with a four-button remote can be set up separately from your main TV. One action is worth knowing about even if you never remap anything else: Options for the focused item opens the same menu as holding OK, so a remote that can't hold reliably still reaches every channel action.
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Sounds and the sleep timer Free
Path: Settings › While watching › Sleep, screen & picture-in-picture · Settings › Look & feel › Sounds
How
- Turn Startup sound on or off. It is on Look & feel › Sounds, and the same switch is on Home & menu › When TiviGlass starts.
- Turn Interface sounds, beside it, on or off. This switch controls your device’s navigation and click sounds for remote buttons across menus, dialogs and playback. Each press sounds once; holding a button does not repeat the sound.
- Set a Sleep timer, under Settings › While watching, to stop playback and turn off after a chosen period.
- You can also set one without leaving what you are watching: More → Sleep timer on the player controls.
Good to know
On-screen messages, programme reminders and recording notifications are always silent. Remote button sounds come from your device, so its System sounds setting (sometimes called Touch sounds) has to be on as well. The sound and volume depend on your device. Volume, Home and power buttons keep their normal system behaviour. The sleep timer counts down on screen as it approaches, so it never cuts off a film without warning. Both places set the same timer, so one turns the other off.