Warning to Amazon Fire Stick users after popular feature removed

Amazon has removed a wide fashionable diagnostic from immoderate of their Fire Stick devices pursuing a caller update.

The bundle updates wiped the diagnostic cleanable disconnected of immoderate older 1st-gen Fire TV Stick 4K and the existent 2nd-gen Fire TV Stick Max this week.

A cardinal gimmick of these streaming sticks is being capable to access a raft of apps and, well, streaming services.

People disquieted astir having a fewer excessively galore Fire TV apps, however, person for 5 years been capable to fell them from their homepages.

All radical had to bash was deed the paper fastener connected an app and click ‘Hide from Your Apps’.

This didn’t uninstall the app oregon ‘offload’ it, which frees up retention portion keeping the main app data.

The diagnostic was rolled retired arsenic portion of a caller interface plan that featured idiosyncratic profiles. So each streamer could support their profiles neat and tidy.

Not anymore. The caller updates person removed the quality to fell apps.

So, if you person aggregate profiles, with each utilizing antithetic apps, each users volition present person the aforesaid apps connected their location screens.

For example, if your children usage the Twitch app but you don’t adjacent cognize what a ‘Twitcher’ is, you’re stuck navigating astir the app connected your profile.

Pre-installed apps that cannot beryllium deleted similar Prime Video, Fire TV Channels, and Amazon Live Shopping are present intolerable to hide.

This adjacent includes the Freevee app, a soon-to-be defunct streaming service.

Not being capable to region apps immoderate much took immoderate Reddit users wholly by surprise.

‘I’ve restarted aggregate times, and person nary thought wherefore it’s missing oregon wherefore apps I had hidden (Amazon Music and Internet, for example) are present unhidden,’ 1 wrote.

Another added: ‘Welp, this makes Fire Sticks officially a dealbreaker, Amazon.

‘If I americium incapable to get escaped of the useless Amazon bloatware icons I americium done with Fire Sticks I volition commercialized each but 1 which is simply a Fire Cube. I volition person to fell them to the bottommost which makes the database of apps excessively bloated.’

A 3rd said: ‘My different sticks aren’t moving this bundle mentation and haven’t mislaid this functionality. Crap similar this adds up, and it has maine truly weighing Google TV.’

The updates lone applied to Fire OS 6 for the 1st-gen Fire TV Stick 4K and Fire OS 8 for the 2nd-gen Fire TV Stick Max, AFTVNews reported.

All Fire TV models are forcibly updated by Amazon, hinting that this alteration whitethorn soon beryllium applied to each devices.

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