Amazon Fire TV Stick owners discover three little-known hacks that instantly upgrade their telly for free
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YOU don't need a crystal ball to find out when the batteries in your Amazon Fire TV Stick are going to run out - or what to do if you lose the remote.
Check out these three little-known Fire Stick tricks instead.
While the extra smartphone telly remote can certainly help smooth things out, it's nice to know when you need to stock up on batteries.
If you’re curious to know your remote battery strength, you should follow these steps:
- Go to Settings on your Fire Stick device
- Click on Controllers and Bluetooth Devices
- Now select Amazon Fire TV Remotes
- On the right side, you can see your battery strength
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NO REMOTE? NO PROBLEM
There's a extra telly remote tucked away inside the official Amazon Fire TV app, that that you can download from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store.
You can use it as a keyboard and voice search.
To access it, simply follow these instructions:
You can give your living room a revamp by setting a new screensaver on your Amazon Fire TV.
There's even an option to upload your own family images or custom photos to make your device little more 'you'.
Here’s how to do it:
- Install the Amazon Photos app on your smartphone
- Sign in with your Amazon account
- Click Back up Photos and Videos from the app
- You can get up to 5GB of storage for free
- Once done, open your Fire Stick Home and go to the Amazon Photos app (built-in on Fire Stick)
- On the top menu of this app, go to Folders
- You will find your pictures available in this folder click on that
- Click any picture and press the 3 horizontal-line type button on your Fire Stick remote
- Select ‘Set as Screensaver’
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