The LG OLED65G5 arrives as a statement: an OLED that pushes brightness, packs full HDMI 2.1 gaming credentials and layers in LG’s latest webOS + AI features — but it arrives into an ultra-competitive field where picture nuance and built-in audio increasingly decide buyers. This review-based...
LG owners woke up to a new entry on their home screens this month after a routine webOS over‑the‑air update quietly placed Microsoft Copilot on many sets — and for a large number of users the tile behaved like a system item that could be hidden but not uninstalled, prompting a broad backlash...
LG's retreat on the "unremovable" Copilot tile — promising a future webOS update that will let owners delete the Microsoft Copilot shortcut — is a narrow, early concession in a much larger fight over who controls software, privacy and advertising on smart TVs. Background / Overview
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LG’s sudden placement of Microsoft’s Copilot on many webOS televisions — and the company’s subsequent promise to make the shortcut deletable — crystallizes a wider debate about who controls the software that runs on devices consumers already own and how OEMs should deliver AI features in the...
LG’s sudden reversal on the Copilot shortcut is a rare win for consumer pushback: after a mid‑December webOS update pinned a Microsoft Copilot icon to many LG TVs’ home screens with no clear uninstall path, the company has announced it will add a true delete option — while insisting the tile is...
LG has quietly promised to let TV owners delete a Microsoft Copilot shortcut that many users found forcibly pinned to their webOS home screens after a recent over‑the‑air update, saying the tile is a browser shortcut rather than a native app and that a delete option will be added following...
LG’s reversal — promising to let TV owners delete the Microsoft Copilot shortcut added by a recent webOS update — is a fast-moving example of how AI features, update mechanics and user expectations collided in living rooms this month, and why consent-by-default matters when vendors retrofit...
LG smart TVs around the world have begun receiving a webOS update that quietly pins Microsoft’s Copilot to the home screen as a system-level, non-removable app, sparking an intense backlash from owners, privacy advocates, and consumer-rights groups. The move — visible to many users in...
LG owners are waking up to an uninvited guest: Microsoft’s Copilot has been rolled onto many webOS televisions via a recent firmware update and, in a large number of reported cases, appears as a pinned, non‑removable app tile on the home screen — a deployment that has provoked widespread user...
LG smart‑TV owners across multiple forums discovered this week that a routine webOS firmware update silently added Microsoft Copilot to their home screens — and in many reported cases the tile behaves like a preinstalled system app that can be hidden but not uninstalled, touching off a...
LG smart TVs received a webOS update that silently pinned Microsoft Copilot to many home screens — and owners are discovering there’s no supported way to uninstall it.
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A recent over‑the‑air webOS update added a visible Copilot tile to a range of LG televisions, placing Microsoft’s AI...
LG owners woke this week to a routine webOS firmware push that left Microsoft Copilot sitting on their home screens — and for many the new Copilot tile behaves like a system component that can be hidden but not removed, touching off a broad backlash about device ownership, privacy defaults, and...
LG owners across multiple forums reported this week that a recent webOS over‑the‑air update silently added a Microsoft Copilot tile to their smart‑TV home screens — and in many of the reports the tile behaves like a system component that can be hidden but not uninstalled, touching off a...
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LG TV owners woke up to a routine webOS firmware update that quietly added Microsoft Copilot to their home screens — and, in many reported cases, the new Copilot tile cannot be uninstalled through the normal app-management UI. The incident has ignited a broad consumer backlash over device...
LG’s Copilot has quietly started appearing on some webOS sets after a routine update — and for many owners the new app can be hidden but not removed, touching off a debate over software control, privacy, and the commercial logic of embedding AI in televisions.
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LG owners across multiple forums this week reported waking up to a new tile on their TV home screens: Microsoft Copilot — installed by a recent webOS firmware update and, in many cases, presenting no obvious uninstall option. The backlash was immediate, focused, and predictable: users felt a...
Owners of LG webOS televisions are reporting that Microsoft’s Copilot AI appeared on their home screens following a recent over‑the‑air firmware update—and in many cases the Copilot tile behaves like a system component that can be hidden but not uninstalled, provoking privacy, control, and...
LG’s 2025 OLED evo refresh pushes the company’s premium TVs into two converging frontiers: extreme gaming performance and deep, conversational AI. The new OLED evo family — led by the G5 and the wireless M5 — pairs LG’s Alpha 11 AI Processor Gen2 with a host of display and sound upgrades...
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The evolution of smart televisions has taken a decisive turn with LG’s 2025 OLED evo and QNED evo TV lineup, signaling an era where artificial intelligence is seamlessly woven into everyday home entertainment. By integrating AI-powered content curation, deeply personalized viewing experiences...
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LG smart TVs throughout the world are preparing for a significant shift—a change that reaches deep into the everyday user experience and gets to the heart of how we interact with our entertainment hubs. Across living rooms from the U.S. and Europe to South Korea, users of LG's webOS TVs have...
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