Amazon Fire TV Stick has become one of the go-to streaming devices, and it has become quite successful at making our TVs smart! The all-new Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K is undoubtedly the best streaming device that delivers kick-ass movie viewing experience!
In this post, we’ll share some tweaks and tips that will help you get the most out of your Firestick or the other Amazon Fire TV devices.
Excellent Amazon Fire Stick Tips for Streaming Lovers
Voice Search is AWESOME!
The mic was a great addition to the Amazon Fire TV. You can look up for movies, and apps from Amazon stores and the results appear in minutes. Just use the mic on remote and say the name of the movie or a TV show or even the name of an actor, you’ll get the relevant search results.
But, voice search is not just limited to Amazon services.
Now, you can use it even for looking up videos on iPlayer, ITV HUB, and Netflix! Most of us use Amazon Fire TV to stream movies on Netflix, and it just takes a second to look up the movies on Netflix using the voice search.
Voice search support for the Spotify is in the pipeline!
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Enhance your Gaming experience
The remote of Amazon Fire TV is not good for gaming! It sucks and destroys your gaming experience. You can play small games using it, but it’s not good for playing console-style games.
Get yourself a gamepad and unleash the gaming potential of Amazon Fire TV.
A gamepad allows you to play super-games like Asphalt 8, GTA San Andreas, Minecraft, RipTide GP2, etc.
Install Apps from Amazon Website
Are you installing all your favorite apps on Amazon Fire Stick? Isn’t the process irritating?
Installing the apps for Amazon Fire TV takes a lot of time, and it sometimes tests your patience.
You can install all your favorite apps and discover new ones right from your computer. Installing the apps remotely saves you a lot of time, and you can easily manage multiple devices.
Go to the Amazon Fire TV app store on Amazon website. Search for your favorite apps and install them remotely. You can select the device on which the particular app has to be installed. You’ll see a Deliver list and chose the device there.
Turn Off the Target Advertisements
You cannot stop Amazon from advertising to you on the Fire TV or Fire Stick. But you can at least stop it from monitoring you and bombard the target advertisements.
You switch off the advertisement targeting.
Go to Settings -> Preferences -> Advertising ID.
You’ll see the option Internet Based Ads.
Turn it off.
If you want completely ad-free environment, you can use third-party adblockers such as Blokada.
Make Amazon Fire TV Environment Clutter-free
Tip #1 – Clear Uninstalled Apps
If you have more that one Amazon Fire TV devices, soon you’ll see a bunch of uninstalled apps in your app list. Though you have uninstalled them and you do not have any intention of using them, Amazon Fire TV somehow displays them in your app list. It’s annoying, and there’s a way to clear it up.
Go to Settings -> Applications -> App Store.
There you’ll see an option called Hide Cloud Apps. Just Enable it and you are done!
Tip #2 – Disable Auto-play
Amazon Fire TV is a wonderful device! The software and hardware are cool, and movie buffs love it! However, there are a few default things that are unnecessary and annoying! One of such annoying things on Amazon Fire TV is the auto-play of the videos on the feature carousel whenever we are on Fire Stick Homescreen.
If you see no point in those videos auto-playing, you can disable it.
Navigate to Settings -> Preferences -> Featured Content.
Disable the Allow Video Autoplay.
Tip #3 – Delete Voice Recordings.
Well, this tip is not just related to clearing the clutter but also the privacy. If you give serious importance to privacy, then you must know that you Amazon Fire TV stores the all the voice search recordings.
Though Amazon saves your voice search queries to understand your speech better, there are chances that it diminishes your experience using the voice search features.
Follow these instructions to erase your voice recordings from the History.
1. Go to Manage your Content and Devices Page.
2. Tap on your device.
3. You’ll see an option called Manage Video Recordings.
4. Click on the Delete button.
5. If you do not want to delete all of them, you can delete them one by one.
6. Open the Amazon Alexa app on mobile.
7. Go to Settings -> History.
8. Tap on any entry and the Delete button appears at the bottom.
Wrapping up
Amazon Fire TV is a powerful device. We hope that our tips helped you to get the most of your Amazon Fire TV. Keep visiting this blog as we’ll share some more wonderful Fire TV tips and Tricks in our upcoming posts. If you have any questions on Amazon Fire TV or TV Stick, let us know via comments. We’ll do our best to answer them.
