Guides
Clear, honest answers to the questions people ask most about controlling a TV with a phone.
No remote? Quick answers
- Lost your TV remote?Your options when the remote is gone, quickest first.Read the guide
- Turn on your TV without the remoteThe power button, your phone, or a box plugged into the TV.Read the guide
- Allow on a Samsung TV without the remoteSelect Allow (or Accept on LG) with a USB keyboard.Read the guide
- Does my phone have an IR blaster?How to check, and which phones usually have one.Read the guide
Get started
- Use your phone as a TV remoteWhat you need, how to connect, and what your phone can do once it's the remote.Read the guide
- TV not found on Wi-Fi?Fixes in order, from the Wi-Fi network to the TV setting that hides it.Read the guide
- Type on your TV with your phoneSend searches and passwords from your phone's keyboard, or just say them.Read the guide
Connect your TV
- Samsung TVSelect Allow once, then control it from your phone.Read the guide
- LG TVAccept your phone once, then use the cursor, keyboard and voice.Read the guide
- Sony TVTurn on one setting, then type the 4-digit PIN.Read the guide
- Android TV / Google TVType the 6-character code once, then type and search by voice.Read the guide
- Fire TVTurn on ADB debugging, type the PIN, done.Read the guide
- RokuNo code, no approval: tap it and you're in control.Read the guide
- Vizio TVType the 4-digit PIN, and set Quick Start to turn it on.Read the guide
- Hisense VIDAAAllow phone remotes, then type the 4-digit PIN.Read the guide
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