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Guide
YouTube TV has no built-in way to type a channel number. Here is what you can do today, and how NumberTV adds it.
YouTube TV’s channel guide is built for scrolling, not typing, so it has no number pad. On an Android TV or Google TV device you can add one with the NumberTV app: install it from Google Play, allow its Accessibility permission, then type the channel number and YouTube TV changes channel.
Cable boxes gave every channel a fixed number, and many viewers still know their channels that way. YouTube TV’s guide works differently: you scroll through a list of channels or search for one. That is fine for browsing, but slow when you already know exactly where you want to go.
Viewers who grew up with cable ask about this often. YouTube TV does not offer a way to type a number in its guide.
Both help, but neither lets you type a channel number.
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Get NumberTV from Google Play on your Android TV or Google TV device ($15, one time).
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Turn on the Accessibility permission when the app asks. It uses it to enter the number you type into YouTube TV.
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Open YouTube TV and type the channel number. YouTube TV changes to that channel.
To confirm: real screenshots from a TV for each step, and Girish’s exact steps.
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Next: the setup guide or the compatibility check.