Fire TV Optimization & Tips
Protect Your Privacy
Amazon collects information about you that you probably don’t want to share – I recommend turning these features off, and here is how to do it:
- Settings > Preferences > Privacy Settings
- Turn off Device Usage Data
- Turn off Collect App Usage Data
- Turn off Internet-based Ads
- Settings > Preferences > Data Monitoring
- Turn off Data Monitoring
- Login to your Amazon account
- Hover over Account & Lists
- Click Your Content & Devices
- Click Devices
- Choose your device
- Click Manage Voice Recordings and click Delete
- Settings > Preferences > Featured Content
- Turn off Allow Video Autoplay
- Turn off Allow Audio Autoplay
- Settings > Controllers and Bluetooth Devices > Other Bluetooth Devices > Add Bluetooth Devices
- Wait until the headphones are found by the Fire Stick and then select it for pairing
- Login to your Amazon account
- Hover over Account & Lists
- Click Your Content & Devices
- Click Devices
- Choose your device
- Click Edit, enter the new name and click Save
- Settings > Preferences > Notification Settings
- If you want to disable the notification for all the apps, turn on Do Not Interrupt
- If you want to disable the notification for certain apps, click App Notifications and choose the desired apps
- Settings > Preferences
- Turn on Parental Controls
- If you want to protect purchases with a PIN turn on PIN-Protect Purchases
- If you want to protect launching on apps with a PIN turn on PIN-Protect App Launches
- If you want to place viewing restrictions on apps, click Viewing Restrictions and then choose the restrictions
- Press and hold the Home button and click Apps
- Select the app you want to move to the home page and click the Options button (the button with three horizontal lines)
- If you want to move the app to the front of the category, click Move to front
- If you want to move it some where in the middle, click Move and drag the app to the desired location
- To remove app from the home page, select the app you want to remove, click the Options button and click Remove from Recent
- Settings > Display & Sounds > Audio
- Turn off Navigation Sounds
- Settings > Display & Sounds > Screensaver > Current screensaver
- Choose a collection from the list
- Select Settings > Display & Sounds > Display > Calibrate Display
- Use the top and bottom of the Fire Stick remote control’s ring button to adjust the image size on the screen
- Enable CEC on your TV
- Settings > Display & Sounds
- Turn on HDMI CEC Device Control
Sleep Mode
If you want to go to sleep mode manually, press and hold the Home button and click Sleep.