{"id":212772,"date":"2026-02-12T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/i-turned-my-android-phone-into-a-tv-remote-with-this-free-app\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T20:45:07","slug":"i-turned-my-android-phone-into-a-tv-remote-with-this-free-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/i-turned-my-android-phone-into-a-tv-remote-with-this-free-app\/","title":{"rendered":"I turned my Android phone into a TV remote with this free app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/i-turned-my-android-phone-into-a-tv-remote-with-this-free-app\/\">I turned my Android phone into a TV remote with this free app<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/i-turned-my-android-phone-into-a-tv-remote-with-this-free-app\/\">https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/i-turned-my-android-phone-into-a-tv-remote-with-this-free-app\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-12 15:42:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.xda-developers.com\">www.xda-developers.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are very few things I lose more frequently than my television remote.<\/p>\n<p>While I typically use an Apple TV 4K and an iPhone, which gives me instant access to iOS 26&#8217;s built-in smartphone remote if I lose my Siri Remote, I&#8217;ve been experimenting with my Hisense TV&#8217;s Android TV operating system and spending more time with Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy S25 Ultra.<\/p>\n<p>Right on cue, I misplaced my TV&#8217;s remote a few days ago, which led me to start researching Bluetooth Android TV remote apps.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of Android TV remote apps out there, but most target Android TV specifically (which, in my case, works fine but still limits compatibility), or are too complicated and feature useless paid functionality. That&#8217;s why the simply named Bluetooth Remote developed by Athrok caught my attention (thanks MakeUseOf).<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tThis simple trick fixed my laggy smart TV<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">If your smart TV&#8217;s operating system is stuttering, clearing its cache is often a quick way to speed it up.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"as-far-as-tv-remote-apps-go-this-is-the-best-i-39-ve-ever-used\">\n                        As far as TV remote apps go, this is the best I&#8217;ve ever used<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"using-a-tv-remote-app-on-your-smartphone-can-actually-be-better-than-a-physical-remote\">\n            Using a TV remote app on&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/i-turned-my-android-phone-into-a-tv-remote-with-this-free-app\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I turned my Android phone into a TV remote with this free app https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/i-turned-my-android-phone-into-a-tv-remote-with-this-free-app\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.xdaimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/02\/bluetooth-remote-android-remote-header.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,86],"class_list":["post-212772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212774,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212772\/revisions\/212774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}