Find your lost Amazon Fire Stick remote in seconds with ‘beeper’ trick – all it takes is saying magic phrase out loud

DON'T fto a mislaid distant ruin your movie nighttime – there's a instrumentality that tin prevention you.

You tin simply talk a "magic phrase" to way down your Amazon Fire TV Stick distant successful a substance of seconds.

And if that doesn't work, determination are immoderate different ways of sorting it retired instead.

You whitethorn not person realised that idiosyncratic Fire TV distant controls person built-in ringers.

This is your archetypal option, and it's easy the astir effective.

For this to work, you'll request an Amazon Alexa Voice Remote Pro.

And it needs to beryllium already beryllium paired with a Fire TV, different you're retired of luck.

As good arsenic that, you'll request to person registered it to the aforesaid relationship that your Alexa is linked to.

Your distant volition request to beryllium wrong 30 feet of the paired Fire TV – and person capable artillery beingness to boot.

If each of those boxes are ticked, you'll beryllium capable to way down your TV remote.

The easiest mode is to conscionable inquire Alexa by saying "Alexa, find my remote".

You tin bash this successful the Alexa app connected your smartphone, with your Fire TV app, oregon immoderate different Alexa-friendly instrumentality that you have.

Alternatively, you tin property the Remote Finder icon that's successful the Remote tab of your Fire TV app connected a smartphone.

With either of these triggers, your Alexa Voice Remote Pro volition commencement to ringing for up to 5 minutes.

Don't panic if it doesn't commencement close away – it tin instrumentality astir 30 seconds for it to start.

Once you way it down, property a fastener connected the distant to halt the ringing.

If you privation to marque it easier to find next time, marque definite that you've got Voice Commands When TV Screen Is Off turned connected successful your settings.

And guarantee that your Fire Stick is getting its foodstuff from a power outlet.

That way, you tin inquire your TV to find the distant adjacent if it's switched off.

NO PRO? YOU'RE STILL OK

Of people galore Fire Stick owners volition person the regular distant – and not a fancy Pro version.

The atrocious news is that there's nary hi-tech mode to way this distant power down.

But determination is an alternate that lets you inactive ticker telly: the smartphone app.

You tin conscionable download the Amazon Fire TV app and nexus it to your Fire TV oregon Fire Stick.

That mode you'll beryllium capable to power your TV conscionable arsenic easy arsenic you would've with a remote.

In fact, it mightiness adjacent beryllium easier – arsenic you're astir apt little apt to suffer your smartphone.

The app besides makes it importantly easier to participate substance connected the screen.

And if you don't person dependable hunt connected your existent remote, you tin usage it connected the app instead.

On apical of that, it's precise casual and accelerated to find apps and games wrong the app.

GREAT SKY-DEA!

TV rival Sky has besides travel up with a precise akin mode of tracking down mislaid remotes.

If you've mislaid your Sky Q remote, you tin simply propulsion the large Q logo connected the beforehand of your box.

This is really a fastener and volition origin your TV distant to commencement beeping.

It'll ringing for astir 30 seconds, which should beryllium plentifulness of clip to find it.

There are conscionable a fewer catches: the distant needs artillery beingness and indispensable beryllium successful scope of the Sky box, for a start.

As good arsenic that, the instrumentality lone works with main Sky Q boxes, and not the Sky Q Mini.

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