How To Update Apps On Amazon Fire

How to bank check for and install app updates on an Amazon Burn down TV or Fire Television receiver Stick

An odd omission on Amazon Fire TV devices is an easy style to bank check for app updates for aps that you've installed from the Amazon Appstore. Burn down TVs do a decent job of automatically updating apps on their ain, if y'all have Automatic Updates enabled, but there is actually a slightly hidden way of checking for app updates yourself and manually forcing them to install. Hither is how to check for and install app updates on Amazon Burn TVs, Firesticks, Fire Tv Cubes, Fire TV Edition televisions, and soundbars.

This guide is for checking / installing updates to Amazon Appstore apps, like Netflix or Disney+. This is not for updating pre-installed apps, like Prime Video or IMDB Idiot box, or for system apps (a.chiliad.a system components), similar the screensaver or Alexa. To manually bank check for and install updates to pre-installed / system apps, got to Settings > My Fire Tv > About > Check for updates.

Quick Guide

In curt, you can bank check for app updates by highlighting the app icon anywhere, such equally the Home screen'southward Recent row, and so printing the Carte push on your remote. A carte du jour will appear in the lower right corner of the screen. Select the "More Info" option and the detail folio for that app volition appear. If the app has an update bachelor, at that place will be an "Update" button instead of the usual "Open up" button. Select the Update button to manually force the app to update. For instructions on updating sideloaded apps, see the bottom of this guide.

Detailed Guide

Find and highlight the app that yous want to update on the Fire TV's Home screen. If you lot can't notice it in either the "Recent" row or the "Your Apps & Channels" row, you can surely find it by holding the Home push button on the remote down for a few seconds and then selecting the "Apps" option.
With the app that y'all want to update highlighted, press the Menu push button on your remote and a carte will appear in the lower right corner of your screen. Select "More Info" from that bill of fare.
The app's detail page will load. This screen commonly has an "Open" button, simply if at that place is an update bachelor for the app, there will be an "Update" button instead. Select the "Update" push to manually forcefulness the app to update.
If, for some reason, there is no option to update the app and you are certain that an update is bachelor, your only pick is to uninstall the app and then reinstall it. Installing an app from the Amazon Appstore will always get you the latest version, regardless of what version was previously installed on your device. Practice note that uninstalling and then reinstalling will remove all of your settings/changes/logins for that app. For instructions on how to uninstall an app on a Fire TV, follow this guide.

How to Update Sideloaded Apps

If you are using Downloader, only sideload the new version of the app the aforementioned way you would sideload whatsoever other app. The new version that y'all sideload will replace the existing sideloaded app on your Fire Telly without losing any of your data/settings for that app. For details on how to sideload apps with Downloader, see this guide.

If you are sideloading an app update via ADB, but use the control adb install -r [APK] instead of adb install [APK] and your app will update and preserve its data/settings.