ZiroTV changelog
What changed in each version of ZiroTV, newest first. Installs from our website update themselves, and the latest file is always on the download page.
Version 1.1.34
Current version
- Search answers from the second letter, with title suggestions and a Search key.
- Season tabs on a series page are reachable with the remote again.
- Clearer messages when friends, watch together or sharing cannot reach the server.
Version 1.1.33
- One card per film and series: copies of the same title in other languages or 4K are grouped, and you pick the copy on the title page.
Version 1.1.32
- The player shows the picture and sound quality of what is playing: SD, HD, FHD or 4K, and stereo, 5.1 or 7.1.
- Hide a category in one press, straight from the category list.
- Follow sport from up to five countries at once.
- Hide any row on Home, Friends included, and find your friends on their own page in Settings.
- Films and series show their year, and series their genre, from your provider.
Version 1.1.31
- Faster on Android TV: moving through the Guide, Movies, Series and their categories responds quicker.
- Text on the TV is a size smaller and calmer.
- The player buttons are round icons; the label shows on the one you are on.
- Type into search from the keyboard app on your phone.
Version 1.1.30
- Live TV has a new layout: the picture and what is on sit on top, categories and channels side by side below.
- Long category and channel names now fit on one line.
Version 1.1.28
- Channel names show their country in front again (NL, BE, EX-YU…), once, on every screen.
- Sport lists the top competitions in a fixed order, with your favourites first.
Version 1.1.27
- Sport: tap a broadcaster to see every copy in your playlist by quality (8K, 4K, HD, SD) and play it.
- Broadcasters you do not have open a search instead.
- Channels are matched to your playlist more reliably.
- Back from a channel returns you to where you came from.
Version 1.1.24
- A new look across the app, with calmer screens and clearer focus.
- The guide and Live TV show what is on now and next more clearly.
- Moving around with the remote lands where you expect, and Back returns you to where you were.
- Arabic and Russian screens keep times, numbers and names readable.
Version 1.1.23
- ZiroTV now speaks Russian: pick it in Settings › Display › Language.
- Menus, buttons and cards make room for longer languages, so words no longer get cut off.
Version 1.1.22
- The ZiroTV name on the welcome screen shows in full.
- Confirmations never cut their text off.
- An open menu keeps the remote on it, so nothing behind it gets picked by accident.
Version 1.1.21
- Delete your ZiroTV account from Settings › Account.
- Take a title off Continue watching, from Home or from the Movies and Series walls.
- Customize now covers Movies and Series categories too.
- Text fields work with your TV’s own on-screen keyboard.
- Holding a direction on the remote keeps its place in long lists.
- Posters and channel logos that fail to load are tried again.
Version 1.1.19
- Smoother playback on newer Android TV devices, plus small fixes.
Version 1.1.18
- Report someone from Friends or a shared playlist: it goes straight to our support team.
Version 1.1.17
- Send us feedback from Settings: scan the code with your phone to write to support.
Version 1.1.16
- Watch together: join a friend’s room and watch the same film or episode with them.
- Add friends, set the name they see, and share a playlist with someone you trust.
Version 1.1.14
- Home now shows what you played last: channels, films and series, with Continue watching and Live now.
- Posters and channel logos load faster and more reliably.
- New wallpapers: night photographs in ZiroTV blue.
- On TVs without a file browser, backups now save to Downloads.
- Your sign-in, PINs and stored playlists are better protected.
- A provider that stops answering no longer hangs the app.
- Smaller fixes.
Version 1.1.13
- ZiroTV now speaks Spanish, Italian, Turkish, Brazilian Portuguese and Arabic, next to English, French and German.
- In Arabic the whole app reads right to left, with the TV guide kept in time order.
- Catch-up and rewind now also work with M3U playlists that support it.
- Server and link fields always open a Latin keyboard, whatever language the app is in.
- Creating an account now asks you to accept the terms.
- Smaller fixes.
Version 1.1.12
- Your favourites, watch progress, profiles and settings now follow your ZiroTV account to every device you sign in on.
- Settings shows when your account last synced, and says so when it cannot.
- Movies and series open with less memory, so large playlists stay smooth.
- The TV checks for updates whenever you come back to the app, not only when it starts.
- Smaller fixes.
Version 1.1.11
- Playlists you add in your ZiroTV account now appear on your TV by themselves.
- Live TV opens on the categories, on the part of the playlist you used last.
- A text size setting on the TV: Smaller, Default or Larger, and the TV guide grows with it.
- Xtream channels start more reliably.
- Smaller fixes.
Version 1.1.10
- A new look on Android TV: the home screen, the live player, the TV guide, movies and series are all redesigned.
- The TV guide keeps your place as you move through channels and hours, and grows with the text size.
- A channel has the same number on every screen, and you can type a number on the remote to jump to it.
- Channel lists refresh in the background and keep where you were.
- Linking your TV to your account uses a new key every time, and each key works for ten minutes.
- A TV that was switched off for a long time signs in again by itself.
- Smaller fixes.
Version 1.1.9
- Ready for the app stores: once ZiroTV is in a store, a copy installed from there gets its updates from the store. The in-app updater only runs when you installed the app file yourself.
- Smaller fixes.
Version 1.1.8
- Fixed a freeze on Fire TV: opening a channel could leave the picture stuck on the tuning screen and stop the remote from responding.
- The Android TV banner and the start screen show the new logo.
- A new animation while your playlist loads.
Version 1.1.7
- The selected choice in the settings switches is easier to read.
Version 1.1.6
- Choose what fills the screen while a channel switches over: TV static, a freeze frame or black. It is in Settings, under Playback on a phone and Channel switch on a TV.
Version 1.1.5
- A new ZiroTV logo and app icon.
Version 1.1.4
- A security update to the way the app checks your plan. Every install needs it to keep working.
Version 1.1.3
- A new look: a calmer blue across the whole app.
Version 1.1.2
- Your playlists now sync to your ZiroTV account. Sign in on another TV or phone and they are already there.
- When you add a playlist, you can now sign in and pick one that is already on your account.
- Sign in from Settings, under Account.
Version 1.1.1
- ZiroTV now updates itself. When a new version is out, the app shows what is new and installs it in one step.
- Back up your playlists and settings to a file, and restore them on any device.
- Download films and episodes to watch offline, where your provider allows it. (Later removed: ZiroTV now plays over a connection only.)
- Large TV guides load in the background, so Fire TV stays responsive while they do.
- The tuning screen clears as soon as the picture starts.
Version 1.1.0
- Live TV and the TV guide for Xtream Codes logins and M3U links, with catch-up on Xtream Codes.
- Live rewind: go back through live TV on channels with catch-up.
- Films and series from your playlist, with continue watching.
- Profiles with a “Who’s watching?” screen, each with its own progress and layout.
- Hide, rename and reorder categories and channels.
- Add a playlist from your phone: scan the code on the TV and type it on your phone.
- Zoom and aspect ratio options in the player, and clearer messages with a retry when a stream fails.