Amazon Fire Stick owners are just realizing they’re missing three important tricks that ‘improve privacy’ and save money
AMAZON Fire Stick owners have been informed of three settings that can help better their user experience.
In November 2014, Amazon released the Fire Stick, a media streaming device that converts your TV into a smart one.
To date, the popular gadget has been sold more 200million times, per Amazon.
However, despite the gadget’s popularity, there are still many features that some users are not aware of.
Below we have outlined three settings you need to know about your Fire Stick right now.
VOICE SEARCH
You may or may not know that you can use Amazon Alexa to search for content using just your voice.
To use this feature, press and hold the microphone button on your voice remote.
Then state a simple, natural language command or say the name of a TV show, film, actor, or director.
Once you do that, the search results will show any relevant content from Amazon’s system and other services as well.
TURN OFF TARGETED ADS
Some apps on the Amazon Fire TV Stick target users with adverts based on data collection.
If you have privacy concerns about this, you have the option to turn this off.
It’s important to note that you will still see adverts, however, they won’t be based on your data.
To disable this feature, head to Settings > Preferences > Advertising ID.
From here, you can switch them off and/or reset your “Advertising ID.”
USE FIRE TV APP AS REMOTE
If you’ve lost your remote, you can still control your TV through the Amazon Fire TV app.
This is handy because it saves you money as you don’t need to buy a second remote.
Thanks to this tool, you also can do all the things your Fire Stick can, even use voice control.