New reminder is beside the Reminders heading when a source and profile are available. App tiles on phones and tablets have a visible Options (…) button; holding OK on TV still opens the same menu. Header actions wrap below the heading on narrower screens.
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Set a reminder Free
Path: Guide, Search or Sports Hub → hold OK → Set reminder
No guide entry needed: open Sidebar → Reminders → New reminder. Pick a channel from the current source, using search to narrow the list, then choose a future date, hour and minute and select Set reminder. The time uses your device’s local clock. This manual reminder keeps the time you chose even if the guide changes, so you can tune in before an event starts. Hidden, locked or profile-blocked channels cannot be selected. Review or remove it from the same Reminders screen.
How
- Set the reminder on any future programme — from the guide, from a guide result in Search, or while watching (hold OK on the video, then look under Next).
- Shortly before it starts, a small countdown card slides into the corner over whatever you’re watching. It doesn’t black out the picture — carry on watching if you want.
- Choose Watch now to switch straight away, Not now (or Back) to cancel, or ignore it — it tunes automatically at zero.
- Change the countdown length in Settings › Home & menu › Reminders & alerts › Reminder countdown (10 seconds to 1 minute).
- Review everything in Sidebar → Reminders.
Good to know
The countdown appears inside TiviGlass and needs no notification permission, so it works even with your TV’s notifications switched off. Reminders are per profile and remember which playlist the channel came from — if that’s a different playlist, TiviGlass switches to it for you. If the guide later moves a programme you set a reminder for, the reminder moves to the new time, whichever profile set it. New reminders are assigned to the device where you set them. In the Reminders list, This device or Another device shows the destination; choose Remind here to move delivery to the TV you are using. Older reminders show All devices (older reminder) until you choose a destination. Keep every participating device updated for device-specific delivery, and allow cloud sync to finish after moving a reminder. They survive a reboot. With exact-alarm permission, reminders use alarm-clock delivery so Doze does not delay the countdown; Android may show the next reminder as a system alarm. Turning Reminders off or cancelling a reminder removes its alarm.
A reminder is only offered for a programme that has not started yet — there is nothing for a “starting soon” card to warn you about once it is already on. Once one is set, the same place offers Cancel reminder instead. If Android has not granted TiviGlass exact alarms the action still works and says so: the reminder may arrive a few minutes late.
A reminder is only offered for a programme that has not started yet — there is nothing for a “starting soon” card to warn you about once it is already on. Once one is set, the same place offers Cancel reminder instead. If Android has not granted TiviGlass exact alarms the action still works and says so: the reminder may arrive a few minutes late.
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Make sure reminders actually arrive Free
Path: Settings › Home & menu › Reminders & alerts
How
- Check the status line at the top of Reminders & alerts.
- It only ever reports a problem with reminders that arrive while TiviGlass is closed — the in-app countdown always works.
- To fix those, allow TiviGlass notifications in your TV’s Android settings, and grant it permission to show full-screen alerts if your TV asks.
- Return to TiviGlass — the status updates straight away.
Good to know
There are three honest answers, not one: reminders are Ready; they work while TiviGlass is open but only raise a notification when it’s closed (common on Android 14 and newer, which restricts full-screen alerts); or their timing may drift because your TV limits exact alarms. If Android cannot confirm full-screen access, TiviGlass gives the notification-only advice until access can be checked.
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The Kids section Free
Path: Sidebar → Kids
How
- Open Kids for a simplified screen of children’s channels, favourites and shows.
- Everything is bigger, brighter and reachable with fewer presses.
- The bar under the featured show filters by age: All ages, Preschool, Younger kids or Older kids. At its end are the grown-ups’ two buttons, Kids Mode and Customise Kids.
Good to know
Kids is this page of children’s shows; anyone can open it. Kids Mode locks the TV to it until someone enters your PIN. A profile marked as a Child opens straight into Kids and cannot leave it, and has no grown-up buttons. What appears is drawn from the playlists and categories you allowed for that profile, and from what you chose in Customise Kids. Channels with a parental lock never appear. Like the Sports Hub, Kids reads its shows out of your guide, so on a very large channel list they fill in over the first minute or so rather than appearing all at once.
Hold OK on a show or channel for Not for Kids, which takes that channel out of Kids and Kids Mode, and Customise Kids. Both ask for the PIN when parental controls are on and a PIN is set. One correct PIN covers the rest of that visit to Kids; leaving TiviGlass for another app or the home screen, or switching profile, forgets it.
Hold OK on a show or channel for Not for Kids, which takes that channel out of Kids and Kids Mode, and Customise Kids. Both ask for the PIN when parental controls are on and a PIN is set. One correct PIN covers the rest of that visit to Kids; leaving TiviGlass for another app or the home screen, or switching profile, forgets it.
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Customise Kids: what’s in Kids, Kids Mode, time limits and bedtime Free
Path: Kids → Customise Kids · or Settings › Parental & profiles › Kids › Customise Kids
Customise Kids is where a parent decides what Kids shows and sets up Kids Mode. It is laid out like Customise Home: tabs down the left edge (Left reaches them from anywhere in the list), then the list, a preview on the right and the keys along the bottom. When parental controls are on and a PIN is set, it asks for the PIN before it opens, so nothing here can be changed without it. Every change is saved as you make it.
How
- What’s in Kids: switch an age group off to take its shows out of Kids and Kids Mode. Below are the channels found in your guide; press OK to take one out or put it back. Add a channel to Kids finds any channel by name and adds it; a locked or adult channel can’t be added.
- Kids Mode: Daily time opens a list: No limit, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 90 minutes, 2 hours or 3 hours. Bedtime opens another: Off, 7pm to 8am, 8pm to 7am or 9pm to 7am, plus your own times if you set different ones. Turning bedtime Off keeps those times, so you can turn it back on. The preview shows how many minutes are left today.
- Select Start Kids Mode now to lock the TV into Kids. If no PIN is set yet, it asks you to set one first and then starts Kids Mode. The Kids Mode button on the Kids page does the same.
- Options: Kids in the menu, and Kids corner on Home (the same switch as that row in Customise Home).
- To leave Kids Mode, choose Grown-ups: exit and enter the PIN.
Good to know
When the limit runs out or bedtime arrives, the TV shows a friendly message instead of just stopping. The allowance resets the next day. What you choose for Kids applies to every profile in the household, a Child’s included, so a child’s own profile shows exactly what you chose, and it travels with cloud sync. A channel you take out or add belongs to its TV service; the age groups apply on every TV service.
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Apps and web shortcuts Free
Path: Sidebar → Apps
How
- Your apps lists what’s installed on the TV; press OK to launch.
- Web shortcuts open a site directly.
- Focus a tile and follow the visible menu-dot hint: hold OK or press Menu to pin, hide, lock or uninstall it.
- Rescan picks up newly installed apps.
Good to know
Hidden apps aren’t gone — they stay under the Hidden group. A PIN-protected tile asks for the parental PIN before it opens, which is a neat way to keep a store or browser out of a child’s reach.
In the Google Play edition, web shortcuts open inside TiviGlass and stay on the selected site. Some redirects to another site are unavailable. TiviGlass links open sign-in, legal and support pages; purchases use Google Play. Software downloads are unavailable in this web view. Press Back to return.
In the Google Play edition, web shortcuts open inside TiviGlass and stay on the selected site. Some redirects to another site are unavailable. TiviGlass links open sign-in, legal and support pages; purchases use Google Play. Software downloads are unavailable in this web view. Press Back to return.