Once you have a photo you’d like to display, you can use it as your screensaver.įor a custom screen saver, you can search through your phone’s gallery to find images you’d like to display. If you want to use a custom image, you’ll have to go into the settings of the device. You can’t customize it with custom images, aspect ratio, or transition effect. The built-in screensaver on your Android TV is a nice feature, but it’s limited. Then, select the screen saver you’d like to use. Depending on the model of your TV, you may need to navigate to various menus or submenus to find it.
It can also display the weather or the current time. The screen saver on your TV displays high-quality pictures while it is idle.
TLDR The key was to actually have the screensaver running to see the Google Photos option, from here while it was running I was able to select an album, see the changes applied automagically and I can still see the option for Google Photos even after exiting the app or turning the TV on/off.You may want to change the screen saver on your Android TV. In the video he shows how to set the TV to make use of BACKDROP - this needs to be set not he tV side of things, see this article on Google Support which details how to enable backdrop - the specific part of interest for you will be "Fix issues with your screen saver"Īfter making sure our TV is using Backdrop as screen saver, start the screen saver on the TV and while it's in screensaver mode showing you the usual Google images, now open the Google home app and navigate to your Television of choice, in the top right click the gear icon then into Ambient mode, you should now see Google Photos as an option. While the video breaks down how to enable the feature, it doesn't really give you any insight into how to bring it back if it's just happened to vanish - which is the case for myself, it was present on day gone the next.
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