New Fireplace TV Stick replace provides a characteristic that speeds your gadget up in seconds

I typically have many optimistic issues to say about my Fire TV Stick 4K Max. Streaming reveals and flicks look unbelievable in 4K HDR, and it contains a number of useful features I depend on, resembling connecting Bluetooth audio gadgets and taking part in video games by the cloud with Xbox Cloud Gaming.

Nonetheless, one concern that generally occurs with my Fireplace TV Stick is that it slows down randomly. For instance, it could be sluggish to load apps or stutter when looking menus. This is not a frequent drawback, and often, restarting the gadget fixes the problem for some time. One other widespread and efficient approach to repair issues in your Fireplace TV Stick, like app crashes, is to clear the cache for all of your apps. And lately, Amazon has made this course of a lot simpler.

In its newest Fireplace TV replace, Amazon launched a brand new characteristic that means that you can clear the cache for all of your put in apps with a single click on on all its Fireplace TV gadgets (through AFTVnews). This imply no extra having to pick out every app and clear the cache individually. You may clear every little thing with one press of your distant utilizing the brand new “Clear all Software Caches” characteristic. If you wish to attempt it your self, it is easy to seek out — and you will be liberating up cupboard space and rushing up your Fireplace TV Stick very quickly.

Tips on how to Clear All App Caches in your Fireplace TV

It’s possible you’ll must replace your Fireplace TV gadget

First issues first, so as to have the ability to use the brand new cache-clearing characteristic in your Fireplace TV Stick, you will want to verify it is up-to-date on the newest firmware. To do this in your Fireplace TV Stick, head to Settings > My Fireplace TV > About > Set up Replace. If a brand new replace is not obtainable to you but, it could be as a result of it is nonetheless rolling out, so it’s possible you’ll want to attend a couple of days.

As soon as the newest replace is put in, the brand new cache-clearing characteristic ought to turn out to be obtainable. I put in Fireplace OS 8.1.4.9 on my Fireplace TV Stick 4K Max, and the characteristic popped up for me.

With all that in thoughts, this is how one can truly use the brand new cache-clearing characteristic, step-by-step:

1. On the Fireplace TV dwelling web page, navigate to Settings.

2. As soon as there, select Purposes.

3. Below Purposes, it is best to now see the brand new cache characteristic referred to as: Clear All Software Caches.

4. Click on it, and a menu telling you the way a lot area you will unencumber and to verify the motion will pop up.

Earlier than this replace, clearing the cache for all of the apps in your Fireplace TV Stick meant going to Handle Put in Purposes and deciding on every app individually and clearing it, which could be very time-consuming if in case you have many apps. The brand new replace simplifies this course of, making it simpler to clear the cache for all of your Fireplace TV apps — an vital quality-of-life enchancment for Fireplace OS. It’s additionally price noting that this characteristic ought to work on different Fireplace TV gadgets with the newest replace, not simply Fireplace TV Sticks, such because the Fireplace TV Dice and any TVs working Fireplace OS.

In the event you’re questioning what cache information is, it is non permanent information that any app shops, like picture thumbnails and pages. In the event you delete it, it does no hurt to your gadget or the app, as any cached information an app wants will merely be redownloaded while you open it. Clearing cache information in your apps is a straightforward approach to unencumber cupboard space in your Fireplace TV Stick and assist pace it up, particularly if in case you have a bunch of apps downloaded however do not use all of them usually. I examined out this new cache characteristic on my Fireplace TV Stick, and it undoubtedly made it really feel snappier, in all probability as a result of I hadn’t cleared all my cached information in a really, very very long time.