Open any channel on your Roku from your iPhone
The Roku home screen is a grid that grows every time you install something, and the app you want is always three rows down. Roku Remote reads the list of installed channels straight from the Roku and puts it in a searchable list.
Open a channel
- Switch to the Channels tab in Roku Remote.
- Scroll the grid, or pull down and type a few letters in the search box to narrow it.
- Tap the channel. It opens on the TV straight away.
- Change the order of the list to suit you — alphabetical, or the order the Roku keeps them in.
What else the tab shows
- What is playing now on the selected Roku, with a play/pause button, when the channel on screen reports it.
- The channels you have opened recently from the app, which is also what the medium Home Screen widget shows.
- The channel's own artwork, fetched from the Roku itself, so the list looks like the TV's.
It opens the app, not a particular show
Tapping a tile is the same as selecting that channel on the home screen: the app opens where it was. Jumping straight to one episode is something each streaming service decides, and Roku's control interface offers no way to ask for it, so no remote app can do it.
FAQ
- A channel I installed is missing from the list.
- Pull the list down to refresh it. The list comes from the Roku, so anything installed on the TV appears once the app has read it again.
- Can I uninstall a channel from here?
- No. Removing a channel is done on the Roku itself, under the home screen's options for that tile.
- Why is the artwork missing for one channel?
- A few channels do not provide an icon the TV can hand over. The tile shows the channel's name instead, and tapping it still works.
Roku Remote is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Roku, Inc. Roku is a trademark of Roku, Inc.
The remote you never lose
Roku Remote gives your iPhone a touchpad, a keyboard for searching and signing in, your channels, private listening through your headphones and a sleep timer. It finds your Roku on your Wi-Fi — no account, and nothing through our servers.
Coming soon to the App Store for iPhone.