Thanks to its certainly very attractive or competitive price, the Fire TV Stick is one of Amazon’s most popular products and is also the easiest and fastest way to turn a standard TV into a smart TV with which you can install applications and others.
As with webOS, Chromecast with Google TV, tvOS, Tizen, and the like, the aforementioned dongle also bases its entire user experience on apps . These, once downloaded, will be included in a kind of drawer, but the user can still mark them as “favorites” and return them to the main screen of the software.
In this guide we will focus on this point, trying to show you how to add or remove apps from the Fire TV Stick home page.
How to Add Apps to Fire TV Stick Desktop
Before continuing, we anticipate that the software we will be using will be the latest released by Amazon, although the steps to complete will be very similar to the ones we will present in this guide .
If you want to manually download the new software mentioned above, we will show you below the helpful guide to know how to do it without any difficulty. Here is the sequence to follow to manually check for Amazon Fire TV Stick Basic Edition updates :
Settings > Device info > Check for system updates > after download select “Install system updates”.
With that said, let’s see how to add apps to the FireOS home screen.
- Turn on your Fire TV Stick.
- Swipe through the foreground apps on the home screen until you reach the last tile on the right (before the Settings icon).
- Click the same icon to access the all apps screen.
- Scroll down to enter the section of Appsnot present on the desktop (those in the upper strip are already present on the home screen).
- Move the remote to the app you want to add to the home page.
- Click the button with three horizontal lines on the remote.
- Choose ” Move to Top”from the menu that appears.
At this point, the app will appear at the top left as the first app among those in the foreground. To move it, simply click on it again using the button with three horizontal lines on the remote and then choose the “ Move” option.
How to Remove Desktop Apps from Fire TV Stick
In essence, reverse operations will put things back in place and allow us to remove an app from the FireOS home screen.
- Turn on your Fire TV Stick.
- Swipe through the foreground apps on the home screen until you reach the last tile on the right (before the Settings icon).
- Click the same icon to access the all apps screen.
- Move the remote to the app you want to remove from the home page (the ones on the home screen are on the top strip).
- Click the button with three horizontal lines on the remote.
- Choose ” Move”from the menu that appears.
- Drag the icon down until it disappears from the top strip.
