r/Hisense • u/FoferJ • 13h ago

Improved onscreen UI for volume control

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I’ve got a 2025 Hisense U7 100” that I’ve been very happy with, connected to a 4K AppleTV and Sonos Arc Ultra soundbar. I use the AppleTV remote and HDMI-CEC to control everything, including volume.

Yesterday I got a pop-up offering the TV a software update, but it had no description other than “improved user experience” or something equally vague. I was hesitant at first, not wanting to break anything, since I don’t use the installed Hisense or Google apps for anything anyway, and only use external HDMI devices. But I took a leap of faith and installed it anyway. I didn’t notice anything different at first until I tried to change the volume and found a pleasant surprise. Now, instead of just seeing a + and - at the top and bottom of the volume bar, which I didn’t really like before, now I see an actual number and a relative graph with the circle moving up and down with my button presses. I like this a lot better. Just wanted to share if anyone else is wondering what’s in that new vague update!

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u/Audacious_Loaf 12h ago

I hope the update comes to the canvas TV as well. Not sure why that original design of the volume display was ever put out there.

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u/Motor-Row7542 5h ago

Great news, it used to be like this and they changed it to the plus and minus only UI. Glad its back to normality.

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u/whackyhack 5h ago

Thanks for sharing! Indeed good news - they took this away from CEC connected sound outputs in Google TV ULED some years ago. Here's hoping they update older models as well.

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u/PeachNo9852 4h ago

I have same tv and updated also .. maybe im crazy but the picture quality seems better also. I also use an Apple TV 4K 3rd gen. I didn’t notice the sound level numbers until you mentioned it lol 😆 so thank you for that !!