This Genius New Roku Feature Helps You Find Everything You Need Much Faster - Here's How

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Roku OS 15.1 adds a Subscriptions hub for your paid services.
• Newly Added makes it easy to find nan latest movies aliases shows.
• Subscriptions besides has Continue Watching, popular, and trending titles.

Roku is bully astir mini updates, rolling retired predominant tweaks to Roku City, nan location screen, and more. Sometimes they're truthful subtle I hardly announcement them, and other times they're genuinely useful, for illustration its latest package release.

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Roku OS 15.1 is now softly rolling out, pursuing 15.0 from a mates of months ago. The biggest alteration is simply a paper point called Subscriptions. I'll admit I disregard half of Roku's paper options, but this is 1 I cognize I'll support using. It's a caller hub for each nan streaming services I salary for, nan shows I'm presently watching, and what's recently disposable crossed each my subscriptions.

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As personification who subscribes to everything, including Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max, Paramount+, Hulu, and Peacock, keeping way of what's caller aliases worthy watching tin beryllium exhausting. I've spent measurement excessively galore nights scrolling, jumping betwixt apps, trying to find something, anything, to watch. Subscriptions seems for illustration it could make that process a batch little frustrating.

How to find Roku's Subscriptions paper

You should find Subscriptions connected nan near broadside of nan location screen, sitting supra Settings. That's wherever I spotted it on my Roku. Once you unfastened it, you'll spot it pulls together respective useful categories crossed each nan services you're subscribed to, including:

• Trending and celebrated picks from your subscriptions
• Continue Watching, truthful you tin jump backmost into what you near unfinished
• Newly Added, which seems fantabulous for uncovering caller movies and shows
• Your Roku Save List, wherever your bookmarked titles are stored
• What's included successful your subscriptions, surgery down by service

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Newly added is nan champion category, hands down

As soon arsenic I tried Subscriptions, I knew I was going to emotion Newly Added.

It shows what has precocious landed successful nan services I already salary for, truthful I don't person to unfastened 1 app, excavation to find its caller section, look done nan titles, adjacent it out, and past repetition successful different app. It's redeeming a ton of clicks, scrolling, and time.

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It besides scratches that itch wherever I consciousness for illustration thing caller is retired there, but I person nary thought wherever to look, aliases I cheque everything to make judge I'm not missing something. Now, Roku serves it up, reducing my streaming fatigue alternatively of adding to it.

I besides for illustration nan celebrated and trending categories shown for each app. Sometimes I want to spot what everyone other is watching. Now, alternatively of Googling that aliases texting friends for suggestions, I tin spell to Subscriptions.

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Roku really shows all your streaming subscriptions

I really emotion that Roku's Subscriptions paper seems to admit each my paid streaming services, moreover if I don't subscribe to them done Roku. I salary for Disney+ extracurricular of Roku, and yet it still shows up, surfacing what's caller to watch, popular, and trending.

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Roku tin besides look crossed each my subscriptions to populate a Continue Watching class successful nan Subscriptions menu. It pulls nan past fewer things I've watched crossed my apps into 1 place. Selecting a title launches nan correct app and resumes playback wherever I near off.

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How to get nan caller Subscriptions paper

Roku OS updates rotation retired gradually, truthful you whitethorn not person it today. If Roku OS 15.1 is disposable for your device, it should instal automatically. But you tin ever cheque manually connected your Roku by going to:

1. Go to Settings.
2. Select System.
3. Select Software update.