{"id":192157,"date":"2025-12-19T00:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/192157\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T00:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:30:11","slug":"lg-will-let-you-delete-the-previously-unremovable-microsoft-copilot-shortcut-on-its-smart-tvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/192157\/","title":{"rendered":"LG will let you delete the previously unremovable Microsoft Copilot shortcut on its smart TVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Several LG smart TV owners, including some Engadget staff, were surprised to find what looked like <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/lg-quietly-added-an-unremovable-microsoft-copilot-app-to-tvs-235923754.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:an unremovable Microsoft Copilot app;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an unremovable Microsoft Copilot app<\/a> suddenly installed on their devices earlier this week. After all the raised eyebrows, a representative from LG has reached out to say that the company &#8220;will take steps to allow users to delete the shortcut icon if they wish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">According to the spokesperson, the Copilot icon is a shortcut for launching the AI chatbot in the TV&#8217;s web browser rather than an application embedded in the appliance. We&#8217;ve asked for more specifics about when people will be able to get rid of the Copilot prompt, but have not received a response at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Apparently we&#8217;re still learning the lessons of <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014-09-15-how-to-get-the-new-u2-album-songs-of-innocence-out-of-your-itu.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:U2&#039;s notorious iTunes album giveaway;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U2&#8217;s notorious iTunes album giveaway<\/a>. It might seem like free additions would be something people would enjoy, but it turns out customers want to choose which services they use. Particularly when smart TVs <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018-07-13-lawmakers-ftc-investigate-smart-tv-data-collection.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:don&#039;t have the best track record;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">don&#8217;t have the best track record<\/a> on privacy, the surprise appearance of an AI chatbot wasn&#8217;t likely to be well received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several LG smart TV owners, including some Engadget staff, were surprised to find what looked like an unremovable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85,46,107987,25243,109923,125],"class_list":["post-192157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-lg-smart-tv","tag-microsoft-copilot","tag-shortcut-icon","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}