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How To Disable The LG TV Home Screen
How To Disable The LG TV Home Screen

How To Change The Default LG TV Home Screen To Live TV

Watching live TV on the new TVs from LG isn't easy. Here's how to disable the LG TV Home Screen and make your TV act like a TV again.

July 15, 2022 by Nancy Lee
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What’s the main function of a TV? To watch TV right? Well, that’s no longer the case with many of the new TVs, including many popular models from LG Electronics.

When you turn on your new LG TV, you can’t immediately watch free live TV. Instead, you are presented with an LG TV Home Screen that has a variety of apps, paid streaming content and sponsored promotions.

To watch free live TV on your TV, you have to take the extra step of changing inputs and manually selecting live TV. Weird right? This is especially annoying with the dawn of ATSC3, or NextGen TV, that features 4K resolution video, surround sound, interactivity, and much more., for free, all via public airwaves.

But if you want your new TV to be a TV again, then you are in the right place. This tutorial will show you how to disable both the LG Home Screen and Home Screen Promotions features. After adjusting a few settings, your TV will start acting like a traditional TV that defaults to displaying free live TV content.

It’s truly a sad time for the consumer electronics industry when you have to read a tutorial on how to make your TV act like a TV.
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Turn On Your LG TV And Grab Your Remote

To navigate the various menus on your LG TV, you will need the remote control. If you haven’t already, grab your LG remote control and turn on the TV.

All Settings

Lg Tv - All Settings
LG TV – All Settings

From your LG remote control, press the button with the gear icon. This will display the various settings for your TV along the left side of the screen. After you press the gear button, scroll down to the last icon that says “All Settings”.

  • All Settings

General

Lg Tv - General Settings
LG TV – General Settings

Select the “General” option from the Settings menu on your LG TV.

  • All Settings > General

System

Lg Tv - System Settings
LG TV – System Settings

From the “General” settings menu, toggle down and select the “System” option.

  • All Settings > General > System

Additional Settings

Lg Tv - Additional Settings
LG TV – Additional Settings

From the System menu, toggle down to “Additional Settings”.

  • All Settings > General > System > Additional Settings

Home Settings

Lg Tv - Home Settings
LG TV – Home Settings

In the “Additional Settings” screen, toggle down and select “Home Settings”. Don’t worry, we’re getting close.

  • All Settings > General > System > Additional Settings > Home Settings

DIsable Home Auto Launch & Home Promotion

How To Disable The Home Screen On Lg Tv
How To Disable The Home Screen On LG TV

From the “Home Settings” menu, disable both the “Home Auto Launch” and “Home Promotion” options.

Disabling the “Home Auto Launch” option will deactivate the LG TV Home Screen. The next time that you turn on your TV, it will display the last TV input that you selected.

Even if you don’t disable the LG TV Home Screen, you should at least disable the Home Promotion option. This will block your TV from displaying paid and sponsored promotions. No, thanks LG.

  • All Settings > General > System > Additional Settings > Home Settings > (Disable Both)

Why Are TV Manufacturers Sending Users To A Home Screen Instead Of Just Live TV?

So why are TV manufactures pushing users to a home screen of apps, instead of letting them watch free live TV? Money. They are greedy. It’s not enough that they just made money from you purchasing a new TV. Companies like LG Electronics have turned their home screens into new revenue streams.

  • Sponsored Content: Unless you disable the Home Promotion option on your LG TV, your home screen will feature a rotating selection of promoted apps and content. Both app creators and content creators pay LG to get placed in these influential screen positions.
  • App Store Commissions: Each time you purchase an app or start an app subscription, the store where you initiate this transaction is probably taking a commission. For example, Apple, Google, and Amazon all famously take a 30% fee for transactions that take place in their app stores.

Changing The LG TV Home Screen Default Settings

It’s truly a sad day when you have to read a tutorial on how to change the default behavior of a TV to act like a TV. Hopefully this tutorial helped you change your LG TV home screen’s default settings back to being able to watch live TV.

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