13 stuff you actually ought to know, and a hidden one some followers will love

Sky Glass first arrived in October 2021 however because it launched, it is had a number of over-the-air updates which have considerably improved the consumer expertise. There are additionally a lot of useful ideas and methods price figuring out that can enable you get probably the most out of your Sky Glass TV and its interface.

For these with Sky Stream, it is price mentioning that the interface of Sky Stream matches that of Sky Glass, so a lot of the following tips may also work on any secondary TVs Sky Glass house owners have in case you have the Sky Stream puck, in addition to on TVs that solely use the Sky Stream puck. Listed below are the highest 13 methods price figuring out for Sky Glass, and one further hidden one for good measure.

Use your voice

It would really feel slightly ridiculous speaking to your TV, however given many people have been chatting with smart speakers like they’re our greatest pals for years now, it should not take an excessive amount of to adapt. Utilizing your voice is by far the quickest option to entry something on Sky Glass, whether or not that is the programme you need to watch, or the settings menu.

To make use of your voice, say “Hey Sky” and easily say the identify of the programme or what you’re searching for. You may as well press and maintain the microphone button in your Sky Glass distant and discuss in the event you’d fairly not use the wake phrases.

Shortly discover your distant

We hope you’ve got practised utilizing that voice and saying “Hey Sky”, as a result of you are going to want it in the event you’ve misplaced your Sky Glass distant. Say “Hey Sky” to your TV, adopted by “discover my distant” and your Sky Glass distant will begin beeping so there is not any want to tug off all of your couch cushions, until in fact you are searching for that piece of chocolate you simply dropped.

View channels by class

One of many nice issues about Sky is the quantity of content material on provide. It’s binge-watching heaven, and that is much more true once you sign up to further streaming apps like Netflix or Disney+ the place you then get suggestions of nice content material to observe from these platforms too, multi functional place. If what you need to watch fairly than searching for inspiration, press the left button on the round pad once you’re in TV Information to entry content material by class. IIf it is a Saturday evening, it’s at all times a film evening for us. Monday evening in the meantime, give us that actuality TV.

Bounce forward to subsequent week

If you have not fairly obtained into the entire watching content material everytime you need – or On Demand as Sky very precisely calls it – and also you need to know what’s on TV subsequent Thursday, don’t be concerned, there is a tip for that. Once you’re in TV Information on Sky Glass, press and maintain the correct button on the round pad to leap forward as much as 7 days.

Signal into all streaming companies

If like us you’re a streaming companies junkie, signal into each single one you’ve got a membership to in your Sky Glass TV. All the favored apps can be found, together with Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, Apple TV+, BBC iPlayer, ITVX, Paramount+, Lionsgate+, and Discovery+, amongst a lot extra. Should you signal into all the ones you’ve got entry to, you will get a lot better suggestions from Sky, and proposals are refreshed a number of instances day by day, so even in the event you do not see one thing right away, you may guess your backside greenback one thing will catch your eye ultimately.

Activate Night time mode

If you’re utilizing the built-in speaker on Sky Glass fairly than an exterior soundbar, there’s a Night time mode possibility you need to use to cut back the amount and excessive sounds. It is a characteristic Sonos additionally gives on its soundbars for instance, and whereas you aren’t getting the immersive expertise when watching motion pictures, it is a good possibility for these with little ones or easily-irritated neighbours.

Head to Settings > Image and sound > Night time mode > Flip it on or off. There may be additionally an possibility under evening mode for speech high quality which you can activate to make the dialect slightly clearer and extra pronounced over the background noise.

Flip wake utilizing movement on or off

OK, this one is slightly creepy, so it’ll come down to private desire as as to whether you go on or off right here. In our expertise, it is fairly helpful nevertheless it will not be to everybody’s style. There is a setting in Sky Glass known as “Enhanced expertise”. This sees a few settings turned on mechanically, together with wake by movement detection and auto standby utilizing movement. These two can be switched on or off individually beneath the ‘Enhanced expertise’ setting. When on, wake by movement means your Sky Glass TV will activate when it detects movement. It freaks us out slightly when the TV randomly activates as we stroll throughout the lounge, however we prefer it general so it is an on from us.

Open Settings > Startup & standby > Enhanced expertise > Toggle on (or off).

Manually regulate the backlight

Sky Glass has an auto backlight adjustment characteristic that mechanically adapts the backlight of the display screen to the environment. In concept, it is an ideal concept. In apply, you may discover that the backlight is slightly too shiny, leading to a dimmer image outcome than you maybe would like. We advise turning the auto backlight characteristic off totally and enjoying round with the backlight depth utilizing the setting under to get an image outcome that fits your room and desire.

Open Settings > Image and sound > Scroll to Image > Auto backlight adjustment > Choose to show off.

You may see “Backlight” under this setting. If you choose that and use the pad to maneuver the slider left or proper, you will notice the backlight regulate in actual time.

Skip the adverts

Generally adverts are fairly entertaining and also you may even find out about one thing you did not learn about, different instances it’s possible you’ll not have the endurance for them. Should you press and maintain on the correct of the round pad in your Sky Glass distant, it’ll quick ahead shortly, although it’s a talent to get it to cease in precisely the correct place. You may as well press and maintain the microphone button and say “quick ahead 3 minutes” or no matter common time the adverts within the present you’re watching look like lasting for, and it’ll leap straight there. A lot faster.

Watch in higher high quality

Sky Glass is a 4K TV so it could make good sense that you simply may need to watch UHD content material by default. It’s price noting that you simply do must have an honest Wi-Fi connection for this although, so it’s possible you’ll discover that you simply get a greater expertise if you do not have a great connection by not doing this trick. You might also discover not all content material is UHD. Should you do have an honest connection nevertheless, head to ‘Settings’ > Image and sound > Default streaming format > Change to UHD. This can imply that if 4K is accessible, you will be watching it.

Change up the image settings

Normally, we might counsel not meddling with the image settings on TVs until you actually know what you’re doing, although Sky Glass does offer you a couple of fairly helpful preset choices, in addition to the choice to create a customized view. Our private desire was to activate Vivid mode as we just like the distinction and punch it provided. There may be an Leisure mode too, together with a Sport mode, Film mode, Music mode and Customized.

Head to settings > Image and sound > Viewing mode > Choose your desire.

Add to Playlist (and create private playlists)

We do not all like to observe the identical issues, and a few days we want straightforward to observe and different days we want extra participating and thought-provoking content material. The Playlist characteristic on Sky Glass is nice for that. You possibly can have as much as 5 private Playlists and you’ll add any present or programme to your Playlist so it is simple to entry the reveals you are concerned with at a look. Playlist will be discovered on the house display screen within the row of tabs immediately under advisable reveals. It seems alongside TV Exhibits. So as to add a present to your Playlist, press choose on the present itself you need to add and scroll throughout to “Add”.

Entry fast settings quick

You should utilize your voice to entry settings shortly as we talked about, however you can too entry fast settings on Sky Glass by urgent the three dots on the distant subsequent to the play/pause button. From right here, a bar will seem on the backside of your display screen that can can help you seek for reveals and films by pulling up the keypad when chosen, change the viewing mode, flip the microphone on or off, flip evening mode on or off and improve speech high quality.

Additional hidden tip for Intercourse and the Metropolis followers

There’s yet another hidden Sky Glass tip we’ve got for Intercourse and the Metropolis followers. You possibly can say “Hey Sky” adopted by a lot of Carrie Bradshaw traces and you will be taken straight to season two of Intercourse and the Metropolis’s And Simply Like That. It is price making an attempt, even in case you have no concept who Carrie is. Right here is the record of traces to attempt: