Restoring or resetting your Amazon Fire TV Stick is important, especially if your screen goes blank often or the Amazon Fire TV Stick itself became slow. Resetting your Fire TV stick to factory settings looks more like when you’re resetting your computer – all data will be deleted and the program or the operating system will look good as new. If you don’t have an idea how to reset your Fire TV stick and bring it back to factory settings, follow the step by step guide we have written below.
Resetting Using Fire TV Settings
Using your remote control or going to the Settings, you can easily reset the Fire TV stick. But, you should remember that once you reset and bring back your Fire TV stick to factory settings, all data stored in it will be erased. So, make sure that all data inside it, especially important ones should be backed up. Here is the step by step guide on how you can reset your Fire TV stick back to factory settings.
1. On the Fire TV screen, go to Settings. If you don’t know where it is, just hold down the Home button on your remote until the screen becomes dark or look for it at the top of your home screen.
2. Scroll the menu that will appear when you click Settings. Look for My Fire TV option on the menu. Click it. On the other hand, if you have an older version of the Amazon Fire TV stick, the My Fire TV option is labeled as System or Device instead.
3. In the My Fire TV menu, you can choose from two options. Either you restart the device or reset it back to factory settings. Select the Reset to Factory Defaults option on the My Fire TV menu. You will be asked to input your PIN. Type it when prompted.
4. Once done, click the Reset button. A notification will appear on the screen, saying that your device is now resetting to factory settings. It might take a few minutes before the process ends so be patient. You should plug your device during the whole process because you will go back to the start of the process again if the power supply gets cut off.
Your Amazon Fire TV Stick will restart automatically after your device resets. It is like you’re setting the whole device again for the first time. Applications and system storage will be optimized automatically as well. Your device will start again when everything is done.
Resetting Using the Remote
If the Settings method didn’t work out and your Fire TV stick still has some issues, maybe you can reset it using your remote control. Here’s the step by step guide.
1. Turn both the Fire Stick device and television on.
2. Press the Right directional button and the Back button and hold them at the same time for 10 seconds or more.
3. A pop-up message will appear on your screen, giving you the option to reset your device. Click Reset. It might take a few minutes before the process ends so be patient. You should plug your device during the whole process because you will go back to the start of the process again if the power supply gets cut off.
Uninstall Amazon Fire Stick Apps
You might have a lot of apps installed on your device that is why it became slow. This is actually not surprising because an Amazon Fire TV Stick can only hold up to 8GB of memory.
That is why you should remove some of your apps, especially those that aren’t important so you can free some space and make your device perform like how it used to be. Here are the instructions to uninstall apps in Amazon Fire TV Stick.
1. On the Fire TV screen, go to Settings. If you don’t know where it is, just hold down the Home button on your remote until the screen becomes dark or look for it at the top of your home screen.
2. Scroll the menu that will appear when you click Settings. Look for Application option on the menu. Click it.
3. In the applications menu, you can choose from two options. Either you go to Amazon Photos or to Manage Installed Applications. Select the Manage Installed Applications option on the Applications menu.
4. Choose the apps that need to be deleted in your device.
5. Once done, click the Uninstall option. A notification will appear on the screen, saying that you might lose some important file or data when you delete an app.
6. Click Uninstall afterward.
Clear App Cache on Fire TV Stick
Other than uninstalling apps on your Amazon Fire TV Stick, you can also clear app caches so more space can be used to save important data. Caches help make your apps perform faster. However, it consumes a lot of space on your device so you should clear it regularly. Here are the instructions on how you can clear the app cache using the Fire TV.
1. On the Fire TV screen, go to Settings. If you don’t know where it is, just hold down the Home button on your remote until the screen becomes dark or look for it at the top of your home screen.
2. Scroll the menu that will appear when you click Settings. Look for Application option on the menu. Click it.
3. In the Applications menu, you can choose from two options. Either you go to Amazon Photos or to Manage Installed Applications. Select the Manage Installed Applications option on the Applications menu.
4. Choose the apps that you want to be cleared.
5. Two options will appear on the screen. It is whether you want to clear the data or clear the cache instead. Choose Clear Cache. Just wait for a few seconds and it will be saved automatically.
