Firestick is an Amazon product that looks much like a USB key and is about the same size. The Amazon Fire TV stick (as it is properly called) can be used for streaming videos and even playing games. It is plugged directly into the HDMI port on your television, streamed over the internet via Wi-fi, and requires power to function.
3 Reasons You May Not Find Applications On Your Amazon Fire TV Stick And Their Fixes
Certain streaming applications are built into the Amazon Fire TV Stick, such as Netflix, Prime Video, Peacock, HBO Max, Hulu, Disney+, etc, some of which are free and some of which require a premium cost, though a lot cheaper than the traditional satellite or cable TV providers.
As an Amazon Firestick user, if you can’t find a streaming application you desire to make use of and keep wondering why this is happening, here’s some causes and what to do to fix this problem:
1. You haven’t downloaded and installed the application
The Amazon Fire TV Stick comes with already installed applications, most of which are usually free. Where an application you may desire is not available among the already provided applications, provision is also made available for users to download the application from the internet via the download page.
Here’s how to download and install applications on Amazon Fire TV Stick:
- On your Fire Stick TV remote, press the home button.
- On your TV screen, scroll to apps (your Firestick available applications will appear) Or, on your Firestick remote, press and hold the voice button, ask the TV to search for the application of your choice by speaking into the remote.
- When the application you desire appears on screen, press enter on your remote and click download.
- After downloading, it is automatically installed. You can either open it from there or back at your home screen.
Other methods you could use to download and install applications you can’t find on your Firestick include;
Method 2
- Find your search panel on your home screen.
- Type in the application name you wish to download and click search by pressing the enter button on your remote.
- When the application is found, click on download by pressing the enter button on your remote.
- After downloading, it is automatically installed, you can either access it from there or back at your home screen.
Method 3
- Locate and open your downloader application on your home screen.
- On the search panel provided, insert the URL of the APK file you wish to download and click search by pressing the enter button on your remote.
- From the drop-down, select the application download link you wish to use.
- Click on the download application by pressing the enter button on your remote.
- Note that to complete this method, you need to enable “ADB debugging” and “apps from unknown sources” at the developer menu from the settings options.
- After downloading, manually install the application by clicking the install option.
- You can either access it from there or back at your home screen.
Method 4
- On your mobile phone, locate, download, and install “apps to fire” from the Google play store.
- Open the application and select the setup menu on the top right-hand corner of your screen.
- Tap on the search fire TV button.
- Ensure that your mobile phone and your Amazon Fire TV Stick are both on the same WiFi network or both are connected to the same WiFi hotspot.
- Your device will locate the available Amazon Fire TV Stick, click on the fire stick located to connect.
- When successful connection and been achieved, locate and tab on the fire tv as card menu where you will find all the folders from Amazon Fire TV Stick.
- Locate the local apps menu on your mobile phone where you’ll see all the apps you installed on your mobile phone, select any application you desire from the list and copy that to the Amazon Fire TV stick folder.
- Still on your mobile phone, install the application you just copied on your Amazon Fire TV stick. To verify if your installation was successful, on your Firestick TV, locate your applications menu and search for the application you just installed.
2. Your Firestick application may be experiencing upload malfunction.
Many times, after you’ve downloaded your fire stick application and successfully installed it, the app does not appear in the app section. The fire stick app may be experiencing an upload malfunction.
The simple remedy for this setback would be to power off and restart your TV. Grab your fire stick remote control, press and hold the ok/pause button on your remote control and press the ok/control button on your remote simultaneously until you get a message come up on the screen saying, “your Fire TV Stick is powering off”, then let go of both those buttons and allow the Fire TV Stick to restart.
3. Your Amazon Fire Stick app update has malfunctioned
Amazon Fire Stick Service Providers usually make regular provisions of newer Amazon Fire Stick versions and users are usually compelled to make regular updates to the higher versions of Amazon Fire Stick to continue enjoying quality service and avoid network glitches or freeze. Many times, after making these updates you may come to realize that most of your Firestick applications do not display their icons making it impossible to find them.
The quick remedy for this would be to uninstall the application and reinstall the same again. Here are steps to uninstall and reinstall an application on Fire TV Stick:
- Press and hold the home button in your remote control.
- Locate settings and click enter on your remote control.
- Go to the applications menu and click enter on your remote control.
- Move down to the manage installed applications tab and press enter in your remote control.
- On the list, find the app whose icon is missing or not found on the home screen, press the enter button on the remote to highlight it and from the menu press enter on force stop, clear data, clear cache, and uninstall respectively.
- Once the app is uninstalled, follow the same steps you used to download the app before and re-download the app, once it’s re-installed, your app icon will appear on your home screen.
Conclusion
If your Amazon Fire TV Stick application still is not found after trying out the procedures and remedies listed here, the alternative would be to place a call to your Amazon Fire TV Stick service providers. You can easily find your Firestick service providers option in the settings menu on your Amazon Fire TV.
