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Amazon’s new interface for Firestick and Fire TV is slowly making its way to devices across the world.
Here at TROYPOINT, our Firestick Lite has acquired this new interface today! But only after manually updating.
This highly anticipated launch is rolling out first to the new Firesticks, the Fire TV Stick Lite, and the 3rd Gen Fire TV Stick.
Amazon Rolling Out New Interface to Firestick and Fire TV
Older devices such as the Firestick 4K and others are likely to receive the update sometime in early 2021.
Many Fire TV users are excited about the new interface change as the device hasn’t received an update like this since 2016.
You can see Fire TV’s Official video describing the new Firestick experience below:
You can check to see if your device has a software update waiting within Settings.
How To Update Firestick/Fire TV
TROYPOINT TIP: After installing the software to receive the new update, you may lose some of your installed apps.
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New Firestick Interface
After the new interface installs, your device is likely not finished updating.
As we have found, you may need to install another minor update to finish the process.
Use the guide below to finish your software update for the new Firestick interface:
1. After your device has restarted, click Got It
2. If you notice a notification on the Settings Gear icon (orange dot), click to open Settings
3. Click Notifications
4. Choose Forced App Updater
5. Click Dismiss
6. Return to Settings and open My Fire TV
7. Click About
8. Choose Install Update
9. Wait for updates to finish. Enjoy!
You can now return to your device and check out the updated Firestick Interface.
After your device is finished updating, we recommend viewing our popular Jailbreak Firestick tutorial.
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Comment Below
Have you received the new Firestick interface yet? If so, do you like this new interface?
Let us know your thoughts in the comments!
I’d be interested to find out if the new update does in fact remove apps/side loads do disappear OR it’s just the the ICONS disappear leaving the Apps/side loads with a greyed out Icon which doesn’t look like anything until you click on it.. My 4K Firestick updated itself and I ‘lost’ Mobdro, then I noticed a strange greyed out square ‘icon’. When I clicked on this Mobdro opened !
We have a 1st Gen Fire Cube; it had an update that took awhile last week, but as of today (12/20/20), we still have the old layout. Maybe ours is too old to get it. ::shrug:: No love lost there.
Installed an update but still old layout BUT an app greyed out. That is to say an App kinda disappeared . The App itself is still there but the ICON is greyed so you don’t know what the app is untill you click on it.. ! I loaded a friend new Firestick lite and 3 Apps icons didn’t appear (all grey out ) Mobdro was one, Mobdro still works though, you just cannot Identify it
installed an update but still old layout did not work
restarted cube no up date
Are you talking about a plain restart or a restart to Factory Defaults? I tried with Amazon Cube too and it did nothing. Bob P.
just a restart not doing a factory reset then I will have reinstall everything
I like the current way it works and not impressed with the new way. Is there a way to refuse the update?
I did the update today and I don’t see any difference
So what I am reading here is that after the new interface is installed, all of my side loads will be gone? Is there an easy way to get the Troy point app back? I always have trouble d/l it since I am a member and you have my email Addy already.
I am the same. I really don’t need this right now. It will do my head in trying to get all the app’s back. I will need lots of help.
All of my apps are still there nothing was removed just have to go down to recent apps or at the top where it shows the app bar next to home library etc..