{"id":1936,"date":"2025-12-19T00:31:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/lg-forced-a-copilot-web-app-onto-its-tvs-but-will-let-you-delete-it\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T00:31:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:31:51","slug":"lg-forced-a-copilot-web-app-onto-its-tvs-but-will-let-you-delete-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/lg-forced-a-copilot-web-app-onto-its-tvs-but-will-let-you-delete-it\/","title":{"rendered":"LG forced a Copilot web app onto its TVs but will let you delete it"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/258078_LG_G5_OLED_TV_JHiggins_0003.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">LG says it will let users delete the Microsoft Copilot shortcut it installed on newer TVs after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/software-apps\/microsoft-and-lg-are-forcing-copilot-onto-smart-tvs-and-you-cant-even-delete-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">several<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/televisions\/your-lg-tv-may-get-an-unremovable-microsoft-copilot-app-in-its-next-update-and-yes-users-are-annoyed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/service-providers\/tv-providers\/lg-tv-update-adds-non-removable-microsoft-copilot-app-to-webos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">highlighted<\/a> the unremovable icon. In a statement to <em>The Verge<\/em>, LG spokesperson Chris De Maria says the company \u00ab\u00a0respects consumer choice and will take steps to allow users to delete the shortcut icon if they wish.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Last week, a user on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/mildlyinfuriating\/comments\/1plldqo\/my_lg_tvs_new_software_update_installed_microsoft\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">r\/mildlyinfuriating subreddit<\/a> posted an image of the Microsoft Copilot icon in their lineup of apps on an LG TV, with no option to delete it. \u00ab\u00a0My LG TV&rsquo;s new software update installed Microsoft Copilot, which cannot be deleted,\u00a0\u00bb the post says. The post garnered more than 36,000 upvotes as people \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/847685\/lg-copilot-web-app-delete\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LG says it will let users delete the Microsoft Copilot shortcut it installed on newer TVs after several reports highlighted [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}