If you have a television with Android TV or Google TV and the HBO Max button has become useless, fixing it is very easy and quick.
A few days ago HBO Max said goodbye forever and became Max: new streaming platform, new price plans, more content and a minor but annoying problem for those who have their Smart TV remote control with a dedicated button : That key to enter HBO Max no longer fulfills its mission because that platform no longer exists and does not take you to the new one.
According to this Reddit thread , it has happened on TCL, LG models and also Android TV devices and there are also complaints on X/Twitter . Well, if you have a Smart TV with Android TV or Google TV or simply a Chromecast with Google TV, then there is a solution and it is extremely easy and effective: use applications like tvQuickActions or Button Mapper , both free apps that work well and allow you to remap remote buttons .
How to fix the HBO Max button on the remote control to work with Max
As we explained in the intro , you can do this task with several applications, including those mentioned above, but for simplicity we prefer Button Mapper, so it is the one we recommend the most. These are the steps to follow:
After installing the application from the Google Play Store on our Smart TV or Chromecast (it has a paid version without ads, but the free one is enough for this task), we open it and go to the ‘ Add buttons ‘ option.
There we choose the button in question whose function we want to modify and we mark the activation box in ‘ Customize ‘. Here you can choose several ways to invoke it: a single touch, double touch, long… the simplest and most intuitive is one touch.
Below is a drop-down menu to add new functions to the buttons and also assign applications. In ‘ Actions ‘ you will see different tasks that you can do, the one that interests us is ‘ Applications ‘ and there you will have a list of the apps you have installed, so you will only have to choose ‘Max’.
Finally just exit the app and return to the home screen to check that the physical ‘HBO Max’ button now takes you to ‘Max’ with one tap. If you change your mind or want to remap buttons, simply go back to the app and disable the action or delete the button, as it works for any button on the controller and any app .
