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How to update your Fire TV

David Okwii

Keeping your Fire TV Streaming stick or Smart TV is critically important. The latest software updates usually come with performance improvements, bug fixes, better user interface and security updates. The Fire TV Stick and Smart TVs run on the Fire OS operating system. Fire OS is based on the Android Open source project which explains why most Apps available on Android/Google TV are also most likely found on the Fire TV.

Amazon is constantly making updates to its Fire OS platform. Major updates take time, usually a year or so, but minor updates are frequently being pushed in weeks or monthly intervals. Now the Fire TV devices and paired accessories automatically download software updates when connected to the Internet. So you don’t have to manually keep checking for updates. However, you’ll have to install the update by choice.

Before you update your Fire TV

Here are a few housekeeping things to note before or during an update for your Fire TV device;

How to update your Fire TV

Now to update your Fire TV, go to Settings from the main menu of your Fire TV. It’s a gear icon. Then select My Fire TV, then select About and then Check for System Update. Clicking on this will check if there are any updates available for download. If there are, you will see the install update button. Updates are not very big. Most are in order of MBs really, so you don’t need much data.

Select settings > My Fire TV
Select About
Select Check for Updates

Keep in mind that older Fire TV devices don’t get updates. Each device is updated until a certain period of time after which it stops getting software updates.

Below is a list of software versions of each Fire TV device as of Feb 7th, 2022. You can find the latest updated version numbers here.

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