AMAZON’S Fire TV Sticks are one of the most popular ways to access streamed content and a whole lot more.
It’s easy to see why when they’re so cheap.
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But like any good gadget, it’s also loaded with little quirks and tricks.
Here are some worth trying.
Quick options
If you hold the home button for a second then release you get a totally different menu appear.
You’ll get the most popular options all in once place – including profiles, apps, sleep, mirroring and settings.
Stop app notifications
It’s great that you can install various apps on your Fire TV Stick but notifications can be annoying.
You can switch them off by going to Preferences, then Notification Settings, followed by App Notifications.
Add a PIN
A PIN is useful if you want to stop the kids from mucking around with the Fire TV Stick.
You can add one by going to Account & Profile Settings, followed by Parental Controls.
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Screensaver
The screensaver comes on automatically after a certain period of time.
If you want it to go on longer or shorter, you can change it by going to Display & Audio, then Screensaver.
Turn off click noise
If you don’t like that click noise that plays when you navigate around your Fire TV Stick you can switch it off.
In the Display & Audio settings, go to Audio and switch Navigation Sounds off.
Stop tracking
If you use the Silk browser, you can prevent websites from tracking you to show personalised ads.
Just go to Applications, scroll down to Silk Browser, tap Privacy and Security, where you will find Do Not Track.
Privacy settings
You can also enhance your privacy even further.
Just to go to Preferences, followed by Privacy Settings.
See which apps use the most data
If you’re curious to know which apps use the most data you can see them thanks to a useful setting.
It’s all listed in Preferences, Privacy Settings then Data Usage Monitoring.
Stop promos from playing
If you don’t like the promos that automatically play on the Fire Stick for shows available, you can switch these off too.
Go to Preferences, then Featured Content and turn off Allow Video Autoplay.
Free up space
Clearing the cache is a good way to free up some space on your Fire Stick.
To do it, just go to the Applications, find the app you’d like to clear the cache from and click the rewind button your remote to get it started.
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