TV Remote has been rebuilt from the ground up.
• Five more televisions. Samsung, LG, Sony BRAVIA, Roku and any set running Android TV or Google TV are now driven directly — and Philips is still here, over the same JointSpace protocol, for the sets that speak nothing else.
• Your television is found by itself. The app looks for the ports a set opens for its own remote, so one that advertises nothing at all still turns up. Typing an address still works when nothing else does.
• The keyboard. Type into the TV's search box from the phone (Samsung, LG and Roku) instead of picking out letters with the arrows.
• Apps, from the list the television itself reports — and waking a set from standby over Wi-Fi.
• The app now speaks French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese as well as English.
• A free trial that opens everything, and a one-off purchase for anyone who would rather not subscribe.