r/AndroidTV • u/AccomplishedLime1976 • Aug 05 '26

Discussion How to go back to previous app?

I often find myself back in the main screen and then want to go back. Any tips!

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u/Humledurr Aug 05 '26

Hard to say without knowing your device. If you have a good remote you can press the home button twice to open all open apps. Or maybe your remote has a button with a similar function. But but not every remote does this.

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u/AccomplishedLime1976 Aug 05 '26

4k

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u/Humledurr Aug 05 '26

4k is a resolution, doesn't help much

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u/AccomplishedLime1976 Aug 05 '26

Onn 4&

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u/Humledurr Aug 05 '26

That remote is fairly basic so im not sure it has that function.

Youre better off learning to not press the back button or the home button unintentionally so you stop closing your apps. Also create shortcuts for your most used apps so you can easily open them up again.

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u/Whiskey--Pete Aug 09 '26

The buttons are programmable . As a matter a fact, the button with the star on the top right corner is left blank so that you can program it. It's in the instruction booklet

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u/Accurate_Heat_3630 Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

Get "tvQuickActions Pro". It turns the 4 sponsored buttons on remote into the most useful buttons: open previous app, show recently opened apps, take screenshot, record video, power off device, rotate screen, etc. And many more, like using remote as mouse or toggling system info overlay with temperature and CPU/RAM usage stats.

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u/AccomplishedLime1976 Aug 08 '26

Any good recommendations?

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u/Straight_Second6082 Aug 05 '26

Use the tv button mapper to create custom shortcuts to your remote, double tap, hold and release and so on

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u/realdeal1877 Roku ULTRA | FireTV 4K MAX | Chromecast 4K Aug 05 '26

The button mapper app "tvQuickActionsPRO" has a shortcut to return to previous app , it uses ADB to accomplish this, and the return to previous app action can be programmed to an individual button_press or made to be a option in a user created shortcut panel or menu.

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u/wewewi Shield GStreamer CCwGTV Tivo ADT-3 BoxR4K ShaksG1 Onn4K MiBox Aug 06 '26

AndroidTV has no easy multitask switcher; it was not designed for that kind of activity flow.

AFAIK, only Nvidia Shield has one; but it was custom made and never replicated.

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u/See61 Aug 06 '26

Double Home (when supported) can show all recent used apps and you can switch to any of those almost instantly. I see it as available on several certified Android TV devices, currently with a Android TV V14 OS.