You'll soon be able to control your 2022 LG TV with Alexa

Yous'll shortly be able to control your 2019 LG Tv set with Alexa

An update rolling out in May volition bring Alexa voice commands to 2019 LG TVs in North America

Alexa voice command support will come to LG's 2019 TVs in North America later on in May, and to Europe and Asia in the coming weeks.

First announced back in January, the Amazon vox assistant volition piece of work with the Alexa app and utilize the remote's Amazon Prime number Video button. Users can press the button and speak as they would to any other Alexa-powered device.

TVs support Alexa skills and routines and tin can control other Alexa-compatible smart abode devices.

While this isn't the first time LG TVs offered Alexa back up, previous iterations required an external Alexa smart speaker to employ vox commands to command your Television receiver. This year, LG built everything into the Goggle box system, so you won't need an external device.

Alexa volition be available on LG ThinQ AI TVs in the UHD, NanoCell and OLED ranges.

It's besides worth noting that the company's 2018 and 2019 Television set ranges back up Google Assistant as well.

The update volition curl out to LG'due south North American customers later this month. Europe and Asia will get the update in the coming weeks. In total, fourteen countries, including Austria, Australia, Canada, French republic, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Espana, the U.K. and the U.S.

LG TVs volition as well gain support for AirPlay 2 and Homekit after this year, although LG hasn't provided a firm date withal.

Source: LG Via: The Verge