Amazon Fire TV Stick

New features on Fire TV Stick

Connect to your hotel or dorm room Wi-Fi with captive portal support—Take your favorite movies, TV shows, games, and more with you when you’re away from home. Fire TV Stick enables you to connect to Wi-Fi that requires web authentication—this includes Wi-Fi at most major hotels, as well as some universities.

Browse and search Prime Playlists—Prime members can now take advantage of Prime Music playlists directly from Fire TV Stick—there are hundreds of expertly curated Prime Playlists to choose from based on your mood, activity, artist or decade of choice.

Hidden PIN entry—With the new PIN entry screen that hides the numbers selected, you can now make sure your kids can’t see your device PIN as you enter it on-screen to confirm a purchase.

New shortcuts—Quickly put your Fire TV Stick to sleep or enable display mirroring by pressing and holding the Home button on your remote.

Immediate video start with ASAP

You shouldn’t have to wait 10 seconds for a video to buffer every time you press “Play.” ASAP (Advanced Streaming and Prediction) for Amazon Instant Video learns what movies and shows you like and gets them ready for you to watch. The more you use Fire TV Stick, the more accurate ASAP becomes, dynamically adapting to your viewing habits.

Fast, fluid interface

Fire TV Stick’s user-friendly interface makes it easy to find what you want. Browse popular movies, shows, and recommendations personalized for you right on your home screen, and instantly add new discoveries to your Watchlist with a single click. Any content you’ve purchased from Amazon will be waiting for you in your Video Library. Access sleep and display mirroring controls conveniently from the system shortcuts screen.

Take it with you on the go

Take Fire TV Stick with you and never miss an episode while you’re away from home. Fire TV Stick works with HDTVs in hotels, college dorms, or anywhere with captive portal Internet access that requires entering a password or a log-in.

Next level gaming with Amazon Fire TV

Choose from a broader selection of high performance games with Amazon Fire TV and the Amazon Fire Game Controller—a dedicated wireless game controller designed to take you deeper into the action. Sold separately or get them both in the Amazon Fire TV Gamers Bundle.

Learn more about gaming with Amazon Fire TV

Voice search on the Fire TV Remote App

Download the Fire TV Remote App to instantly search TV shows, movies, actors, and genres using just your voice—no more typing with your remote to find what you want. The app is supported on many Android phones and tablets, iOS phones and tablets, Fire Phone, and Fire HDX & Fire HD tablets with microphones.

Voice search on Fire TV Stick is powered by the same voice search engine as Amazon Fire TV and is supported for the entirety of Amazon’s video, app, and game catalog, plus for Hulu Plus, Crackle, Vevo and Showtime Anytime. We will continue to integrate additional content partners over time. Note that voice search does not work directly inside individual applications, like Netflix.



Voice search is also available with the Amazon Fire TV Voice Remote (sold separately).

Stream your favorite tunes

There are millions of songs available to stream to Fire TV Stick through Pandora, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, and Prime Music. You can also access your entire Amazon Music library, so you can enjoy any albums and songs you’ve previously purchased from Amazon. Exit to the home screen at any time and keep the music going while you share photos or play games—Fire TV Stick will keep you updated with what's playing each time a new song starts. With Prime Music, access Prime Playlists and listen ad-free to over a million songs from top artists.

If you want to stream music to your home theater system, choose Amazon Fire TV with optical audio out.

Sync photos from all your devices

With Fire TV stick photos or videos you take on your phone or tablet can be automatically uploaded to Amazon Cloud Drive, so they appear on your HDTV. Prime now includes free storage in Amazon Cloud Drive for your entire photo collection.

Instantly explore your favorite movies and TV shows

Use X-Ray on Fire TV Stick to explore your favorite movies and TV shows on Amazon Instant Video. Powered by IMDb, you can identify actors and songs in the current scene, explore actor bios and character backstories, see related trivia and even jump to your favorite scene or skip opening credits.

While watching your favorite show, simply press the "Up" button on your Fire TV Stick remote to quickly answer "Who is that actor?" or "What is that song?" Access even more information about your favorite characters, actors, songs, and even trivia, by clicking "Up" again to access Full Screen X-Ray, right on your TV screen.

Share your tablet or phone screen

Click the “fling” icon on your Fire phone or tablet to send video and audio to your big screen, leaving you free to use your Amazon mobile device for other tasks. Fire TV Stick supports standards like DIAL so you can fling services like YouTube, Spotify, and Netflix, from your Android phone or iPhone.

Mirror your tablet or phone on your HDTV

Share whatever is on your screen—including movies, TV shows, music, and photos—from your compatible tablet or phone with everyone in your living room using display mirroring. What you see on your Fire OS or Android device is exactly what you’ll see on your big screen. Includes support for devices from Motorola, LG, and Google without any additional apps or software.