Amazon Fire TV 4+
Enhance the Fire TV experience
AMZN Mobile LLC
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
The Fire TV Remote App enhances the Fire TV experience with simple navigation, a keyboard for easy text entry (no more hunting and pecking), quick access to your apps and games, plus voice search. Voice search is powered by the same voice search engine as Amazon Fire TV and supports the entirety of Fire TV’s integrated video, app and game catalogue. Note that voice search does not work directly inside individual applications such as Netflix.
Features:
• Voice Search
• Simple Navigation
• Playback Controls
• Keyboard for simple text entry
• Quick access to your apps and games
Compatibility:
• Multicast-enabled router required
• Designed for simple navigation and playback control of Fire TV and Fire TV Stick
• For gameplay, use the remote included with your Fire TV or the optional Amazon Fire TV Game Controller
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What’s New
Version 2.12.2
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
Ratings and Reviews
Handy when you lose the remote
I do find this app handy for when I can’t find the remote, but it doesn’t seem to connect when trailers play or when trying to click off a programme before it automatically plays the next episode (on Netflix). It’s so frustrating. No problems with connecting when I’m browsing or during a programme/film, only when it ends. This needs to be fixed for a higher rating. EDIT: this problem was fixed! Or at least I haven’t had this problem for about a week maybe two so I’ve noticed improvements... but since last night the app won’t connect at all. Tried checking for updates, tried restarting my phone... not working! Hopefully it’s just an update that’s not been made available yet making it mess around. I’ll keep checking for updates and will edit review if/when it’s working again.
Didn’t Let You Enter PINs
****UPDATE****
The bug talked about below has now been fixed..hopefully for good this time🤞
Would be nice if you could browse while having to watch what your other half or kids force you to watch and then simply tell the remote that you wanna switch to what you want at the end of what they’re watching..
****UPDATE OVER****
Used to work fine, now there appears to be a bug where PINs, when entered, aren’t automatically accepted by the Fire stick as it would be when entered by a physical remote. To be clear, on a physical remote, the keystroke to enter a PIN is simply to enter the 4 digits, the Fire stick then accepts them and you enter Netflix (for example). Using this app, you enter the 4 digits and the Fire stick does nothing, it simply sits there with the 4 entered digits so you can’t access anything. At certain points in the version history, it worked fine, the issue has been corrected in the past but currently (01/24) it doesn’t.
Well worth installing just to get a keyboard
Worth it just for the keyboard entry instead of having to navigate the onboard fireTV keyboard with the simple remote and clicking character by character to type.
I find the apps touchpad swipe control to sensitive when wanting to move around using the auto repeat as it’s much too fast and the selection box on screen flies across too quick. Still looking how to adjust this. The mimic of a four quadrant cursor control does not have this problem and works just fine.
Brill - wish I had known about this app years ago. They should include a leaflet about it with each new fire stick.
App Privacy
The developer, AMZN Mobile LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
- Other Data
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Information
- Provider
- AMZN Mobile LLC
- Size
- 66 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2023 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.
- Price
- Free