Roku is known to be one of the best streaming media players you can find today. With access to a myriad of channels, there’s plenty you can do on Roku devices.
Even better is that the platform allows some customization to the UI to make it your own, including things like changing the theme and even setting up a screensaver.
It doesn’t end there. Instead of having the default screensavers on your home screen, the Roku mobile app lets you create and set your own custom screensavers using the many photos you have on your phone.
To do this, all you need is to install the Roku app on your Android or iOS device, launch it and head to Media > Screensaver and then hit the ‘Get Started’ button.
Well, this was true at least until the most recent update to the Roku mobile app that brought a change some users feel wasn’t needed. As per the reports, the Roku mobile app no longer has room to create custom screensavers.
As noted before, the Roku mobile app was recently updated on both iOS and Android, but there’s not much to pick from the generic changelogs available.
If these reports are to be believed, though, it seems the mobile app update took away the ability to create and set custom screensavers on Roku devices and users obviously aren’t happy about this decision.
So far, Roku hasn’t provided any official statement on this development. But it can be speculated that the removal has something to do with the limited system resources (at times just 512MB of RAM) on some Roku devices.
Still, one of those affected says they reached out to Roku support and apparently, the issue is under investigation. Hopefully, Roku finds a way to restore the feature.
There’s no workaround for now, but since the matter is supposedly known to Roku, we should get an update sooner or later. We will let you know when this happens, so stay tuned to PiunikaWeb.
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