Amazon Fire TV Stick change is "deal breaker" - check your device

Amazon appears to person softly removed a much-used relation connected immoderate of its streaming devices - and users are not blessed astir it

If you're a Fire TV Stick proprietor and person noticed thing missing, you're not the lone one. It seems Amazon has decided to discreetly region a fashionable diagnostic connected immoderate of its streaming devices, leaving users truthful frustrated that immoderate are threatening to accidental goodbye to their devices for good.

AFTVnews has reported that the latest Fire OS update has eliminated the 'Hide Apps' enactment from the paper panel. This relation antecedently allowed users to fell apps easily, with conscionable a fewer clicks, arsenic opposed to removing them entirely.

While this mightiness not look similar a immense contented initially, Amazon's pre-installed apps—such arsenic Freevee and Prime Video—which can't beryllium removed oregon deleted, were often hidden by users to simplify their viewing experience. The featured helped to de-clutter their location screens, but it was besides utile for keeping apps that weren't age-appropriate hidden from younger household members.

It was successful 2021 that Amazon archetypal introduced the diagnostic arsenic a portion of the existent Fire TV interface redesign. This introduced salient idiosyncratic profiles to Fire TVs for the archetypal time, which allowed for apps to beryllium hidden successful 1 illustration and disposable successful the other. While it wasn’t initially imaginable to fell Amazon’s ain preinstalled apps, the diagnostic was aboriginal added.

This enactment has present been removed connected devices including the premium Fire TV Stick Max and 1st-gen Fire TV Stick 4K. AFTVnews believes much Fire TV Sticks volition person this update successful the coming weeks.

They said, "The removal of the enactment to fell apps has been confirmed connected some the older 1st-gen Fire TV Stick 4K, moving Fire OS 6, and the existent 2nd-gen Fire TV Stick Max, which uses the latest Fire OS 8, truthful it's apt that this alteration volition beryllium applied to each Fire TV models."

It mightiness look to beryllium a insignificant tweak, but Fire TV Stick users are earnestly irked by the caller update. Venting vexation connected Reddit, 1 disgruntled proprietor posted: "Hey everyone, I'm connected a Fire TV Stick 4K Max (2nd Gen) and conscionable noticed the enactment to fell apps has disappeared with the latest update."

Echoing this sentiment, different chimed in: "Yeah, I've been trying to get them disconnected too, but you can't now, which sucks." The discontent escalated with 1 idiosyncratic declaring: "It makes Fire Sticks officially a woody breaker. If I americium incapable to get escaped of the useless Amazon bloatware icons, I americium done with Fire Sticks."

However, determination does look to beryllium a sneaky mode astir the problem. According to YouTuber TechDoctorUK, the third-party app atvTools restores the quality to delete unwanted apps from your location screen; it's conscionable not rather arsenic straightforward arsenic before.

To delete apps utilizing ATVTools, you person to unfastened up the app and link your Fire TV stick. Then, simply spell to your database of apps, hunt for the app you privation to hide, pat the 3 dots, and prime the 'disable' option. Once you refresh the app's grid connected your TV, you should nary longer beryllium capable to spot the app.

It appears the contented is prevalent connected devices operating connected Fire OS 8.1.2.7, and, arsenic it stands, not each Fire streamers person noticed the missing "Hide Apps" feature. To galore users' dismay, there's nary existent means to halt the update, with Amazon going up connected making the changes to devices.