6 Fire TV Tips and Tricks for MAXIMUM AWESOMENESS

Your Fire Stick can do more than you thought! What is a great device already has a few hidden tricks up its sleeves that you can use to get the most out of your Fire TV experience. Luckily, these tips and tricks are simple and straightforward, so it's easy to implement them and get that Firestick purring like a kitten. Whether you use a Firestick or an integrated Fire TV, there should be a tip or two in this list that will help you out.

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In this video:
0:00 - Intro and software updates
1:28 - #1. Quick menu
2:27 - #2. Turn off autoplay previews
3:15 - #3. Clear voice search history
5:00 - #4. Add bluetooth headphones
5:51 - #5. Add bluetooth game controller
6:53 - #6. Sideloading apps

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[durwood]

Appreciated the Bluetooth headphones tip—not sure why I hadn't discovered that feature myself! My main TV does have Bluetooth support so I've typically use that, but THIS allows me to just use my Fire remote and allows me to use Bluetooth headphones on my other two TVs. Awesome.

[berndhankel]

Thank you very much for muting "ALEXA"

[tracihill]

Love all the great info, thanks, please give more info on side loading.

[Richie]

Fire stick is an excellent streaming device with lots of inbuilt features for user convenience.

[fujinblast]

Great video! Would like to see one for the Nvidia shield pro

[wtyrone]

Thanks forvall the information, my firestick is stuck on checking updates. I have restarted nut its stuck. It worked and i can fo everything as normal. Any suggestions??? Thsnk you and great videos

[UPB]

Hey man, great videos and explanations. I installed the 3rd party version of Amazon Prime Video since i'm from Argentina and i bought a Fire TV Stick in the US some time ago (model W87CUN 1st gen aparently) and it's the only way it showed all of the available content in my country because the native version that came with the device not only doesn't show me all the contents but constantly says "internet connection error, try again later" despite all my efforts to delete data and cache and then reset absolutely everything. But now the problem with the 3rd party version is that when i try to play anything it tells me "something went wrong, try again later, contact prime...". Again, i tried everything but nothing worked. Any ideas or advice? Is this happening because of geographical restrictions? Will a VPN solve this issue? Thanks!!!

[stevenmaggi]

Hold in 'select' and 'play' to restart device

[officialmacmanomm]

Say 6 tips and you only give 5 🤣🤣🤣. Still a good informative video

[michaelscott]

Here's a question I don't think you covered: If my Toshiba Fire TV is connected via ethernet cable direct to my router, shouldn't my internet speed (as seen in the onscreen speed test) be at LEAST as fast as the Ookla test I run on my Wi-fi connected laptop?
It's not. I'm showing 125mbps on the laptop and 93 or so on the TV.
Would changing the IP address or DNS settings on the Fire TV have any possible impact on this?
Thanks for any info.

[sunilchandranu]

Thank you for all those information. A little bit in depth about various options available out there in this stick to get the best experience from also would be great. Let me tell you one example, I had enabled the volume leveler in the settings hoping it will give much more clarity in movie conversations. Unfortunately I wasn't happy about that. The sound was like less louder in my sound system. After investigating some time, I disabled it and the difference was big. The sound become much louder and was better. Like that so many options are there.

[joey]

With everything that can be downloaded, different apps etc....is there an app that will search ALL of the available apps downloaded to find what your looking for? Thanks

[cr-pol]

nice tip about deleting searching history via voice commands and that you have some options for the age of searches to delete.

[neitherhereorthere]

How do you turn on motion smoothing? Mine doesn’t seem to be on?

[XristoferLee]

How do you fix a fire TV that doesn't want to download the latest update? Everything else downloads and the tv is fully functional. If I factory reset I have to use the power skip trick to get past the update part. When the tv tells you it can't connect even though it is you hit the power button instead of the back button. Then once the power is off quickly turn back on tv. Should be at the part where you select full or simple mode.

[DynaGlyde]

If I wanted to connect an Amazon Recast to the fire cube. Can I have the cube in one room, and the Recast in the other as to work on 2 different TVs?

And how far apart is too far for the wifi signal?

I have the cube in my bedroom and the Recast in the living room. And I can't seem to get the Recast to give a signal to the cube in my bedroom.

And the Recast won't work on my LG TV with the preloaded prime app.

My goal was to use one Recast dvr with the cube in my B room and on my LG TV in the L room with the preloaded prime app.

How can I make this happen?
Or do I need to move the Recast in my B room with the cube?

Also if I decide to leave the Recast dvr in the L room, is there away to use cables to plug into my LG TV and use the Recast with the preloaded prime app?

My TV has wifi, though I don't believe it has Bluetooth.

Please HELP, thank you.

[khillable]

If you have a blue tooth Keyboard how do you get to use it when there is no place on the Fire Cube to place the dongle?

[anthonyruiz]

How can I close caption off the fire stick?

[michaelyoung]

How can I add Locast channels to the live channels on Fire TV?

[annapoornastores]

AFTER PAIRING MY LG MAGIC REMOTE WITH FIRE STICK I CANNOT FAST FORWARD OR REWIND THE MOVIE OUT OF AMAZON STICK CAN YOU HELP