Altering the settings in your Google TV is about to turn out to be a lot simpler

Late final yr, Google started rolling out Gemini to Google TV gadgets, together with its personal Google TV Streamer, Walmart’s onn 4K Professional, and good TVs from manufacturers like Hisense and TCL. Now, at CES 2026, Google has introduced its first major update coming to Gemini for Google TV, including a number of new options.

The standout addition is the flexibility to vary your TV’s settings utilizing pure voice instructions. You possibly can say issues like “the display is just too dim” to bump up the brightness, or “the dialogue is misplaced” to regulate your TV’s audio settings — all with out leaving no matter present or film you are watching. In different phrases, as soon as this replace rolls out, you will not have to dig by way of menus to seek out the setting you are on the lookout for; you may simply ask Gemini to deal with it for you.

Google can be updating Gemini for Google TV with what it calls a brand new “visually wealthy framework.” Gemini’s responses will now adapt to your questions utilizing imagery, movies, and real-time sports activities updates. For extra advanced queries, Gemini will carry out deeper dives, delivering narrated, interactive overviews that Google says are “simplified for the entire household.”

As for when this replace is coming, Google did not specify a precise launch date, nevertheless it did say it is going to roll out to pick out TCL TVs first, adopted by different Google TV gadgets, presumably meaning the Google TV Streamer, within the coming months. Google additionally introduced that Gemini will debut on Google TV projectors quickly, however did not present a timeline.

Google Images can be getting an improve on Google TV, due to Gemini

Nano Banana may even be usable on Google TV quickly

Past having the ability to search and alter settings in your TV and ship extra visually wealthy responses, Gemini on Google TV may even quickly be capable of search your Google Images library immediately in your TV to seek out particular individuals or moments.

For instance, for those who’re sitting with household or buddies and wish to pull up a second from a current vacation shortly, you’ll accomplish that with a pure voice command, and Gemini will floor it out of your Google Images library. Google can be bringing Picture Remix to Google TV, which helps you to apply “creative kinds” to your pictures and “rework recollections into cinematic, immersive slideshows.”

Nano Banana, Google’s somewhat controversial AI video-generation device, can be coming to Gemini for Google TV with this replace. Based on Google, it is going to allow you to reimagine your private pictures or create authentic media immediately in your TV.

Gemini solely started rolling out to Google’s personal Google TV Streamer final November as a replacement for the old Google Assistant, so seeing such a large replace arrive so shortly is welcome. That stated, whereas a few of these options genuinely appear worthwhile — like adjusting TV settings together with your voice or getting richer visible responses to questions — others elevate a couple of eyebrows. AI video technology on Google TV with Nano Banana, specifically, feels pointless to me, and I am not satisfied many individuals wish to try this on their TV as an alternative of a smartphone or PC.

Both method, Google’s large Gemini replace for Google TV is anticipated to roll out within the coming months, and it will be attention-grabbing to see these options in motion and the way nicely they really work.