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How to Use Your Phone as a Remote and Keyboard for IPTV

Typing logins on a TV remote is slow. Use your phone’s keyboard with Fire TV or Google TV instead.

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Your phone can type for you, which makes long addresses far easier. It also works as a spare remote.

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Join the same Wi-Fi

Connect your phone to the same Wi-Fi network as your TV or stick. If they are on different networks, this will not work.

For a Fire TV, install the Amazon Fire TV app from your phone’s store. For a Google TV, install the Google TV app. Both are free.

Open it and sign in with the same account as your TV. That is your Amazon account for a Fire TV, or your Google account for a Google TV.

Tap the name of your TV or stick in the list.

A code appears on your TV screen. Type it into your phone. You only do this once.

Your phone now shows a remote. Touch and slide on the screen to move around, and tap in the middle to select.

Final step

When a box appears on the TV, tap the keyboard picture on your phone. Now you can type, or paste what you copied from your email.

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