Microsoft is ending Copilot support on smart TVs
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Microsoft is ending Copilot on TVs this year. LG TV owners only learned it from an on-screen notice, not an official blog post.
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Microsoft is pulling Copilot support from all TVs this year, according to a report from Windows Central. The change affects the AI assistant feature that had been promised for LG and Samsung smart TVs after the companies announced it at CES 2025.
The odd part is how the news surfaced. There was no neat joint statement from Microsoft, LG, or Samsung. Instead, Windows Central’s Zac Bowden saw an on-screen message on his webOS-powered LG TV.
That message said Microsoft had “recently decided to end support for Copilot functionality on all TVs,” including the version built into LG sets. The notice was cut off, but the point was plain enough: the TV-era Copilot experiment is over before it really had a chance to settle in.
And that leaves a familiar smell around consumer AI features. They get announced with fanfare, land on a shiny device category, and then quietly disappear through the back door when the company loses interest.
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This is the part of consumer AI nobody likes to say out loud: most of it is still a feature demo with a marketing budget. TV owners didn’t buy a product to become beta testers for whatever mood the assistant team is in this quarter. If a company can turn the feature off this easily, it was never much of a feature to begin with.
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