LG forced a Copilot web app onto its TVs but will let you delete it

LG says it will let users delete the Microsoft Copilot shortcut it installed on newer TVs after several reports highlighted the unremovable icon. In a statement to The Verge, LG spokesperson Chris De Maria says the company « respects consumer choice and will take steps to allow users to delete the shortcut icon if they wish. »

Last week, a user on the r/mildlyinfuriating subreddit posted an image of the Microsoft Copilot icon in their lineup of apps on an LG TV, with no option to delete it. « My LG TV’s new software update installed Microsoft Copilot, which cannot be deleted, » the post says. The post garnered more than 36,000 upvotes as people …

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