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dorkydicken
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3 years ago
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How to hide or show shortcuts on Roku home screen

What about for shortcuts you don't use? I don't want a bunch of ugly square cluttering up my home screen. I most certainly don't need a bluetooth square icon on my home screen, some of these are unneeded and uncalled-for and redundantly stupid shortcuts. Furthermore the most stupidly retarded thing is if you click remove then it uninstalls it, those are two entirely different options and words.

  • RokuArjiemar's avatar
    RokuArjiemar
    3 years ago

    Hello! dorkydicken,

    Thanks for the post,

    We're pleased to assist you with hiding shortcuts on your home screen.

    Use the instructions below to hide or show tile shortcuts in your channel grid.

    1. Press Home on your Roku remote
    2. Scroll and select Settings
    3. Select Home screen
    4. Select Shortcuts
    5. Scroll to the desired shortcut
    6. Press OK on your remote to hide (unchecked) or show (checked) the shortcut

    To hide or move shortcuts, you can press Star * on your Roku remote when a shortcut is highlighted in the channel grid on your Home screen. 

    Please keep us posted on what you find out; we will happily continue assisting you further. We look forward to hearing back from you.

    Thanks,

    Arjiemar

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  • RokuArjiemar's avatar
    RokuArjiemar
    Retired Moderator
    3 years ago

    Hello! dorkydicken,

    Thanks for the post,

    We're pleased to assist you with hiding shortcuts on your home screen.

    Use the instructions below to hide or show tile shortcuts in your channel grid.

    1. Press Home on your Roku remote
    2. Scroll and select Settings
    3. Select Home screen
    4. Select Shortcuts
    5. Scroll to the desired shortcut
    6. Press OK on your remote to hide (unchecked) or show (checked) the shortcut

    To hide or move shortcuts, you can press Star * on your Roku remote when a shortcut is highlighted in the channel grid on your Home screen. 

    Please keep us posted on what you find out; we will happily continue assisting you further. We look forward to hearing back from you.

    Thanks,

    Arjiemar

    • dorkydicken's avatar
      dorkydicken
      Streaming Star
      3 years ago

      You know as well as I do that's not an accurate description or tutorial.

       

      Only certain options show up on the * key menu for instance number one prime suspect "Bluetooth" shortcut hitting the Asterix key only shows 3 options / Move Channel / Check for Updates / Close

       

      I am trying to clean out the useless clutter in the Apps & Inputs shortcut section, to be more specific.

       

      So now tell me again how to remove bluetooth from there, cause it only just randomly appeared in the Apps and Inputs section last week.

       

      Furthermore how bout a more advanced Apps and Inputs section?

      Why must I have every single app installed on one Roku device show up on every single other Roku device I have? This is overwhelmingly frustrating and you the company are taking over the control of my account and device, by this mandatory nonsense.

    • dorkydicken's avatar
      dorkydicken
      Streaming Star
      3 years ago

      Oh okay, so now you've got nothing at all for me and no solution to this issue.

       

      Which is sadly what I thought.