Usually,streaming companieswork on addingnew featuresto its devices rather than removing them, butAmazonhas other ideas.
Amazon first added the feature five years ago in 2019, so it’s puzzling why it suddenly decided to remove it now. The only way to hide/get rid of an app now is to uninstall it.
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Goodbye user interface cleanliness
The update has been confirmed to be rolling out on the first-generation Fire TV Stick 4K and the second-generation Fire TV Max player (viaStreamable). These devices run the latest Fire OS 8, which means this change will likely affect all Fire TV models. Since it is part of a forced software update from Amazon, there is no way to avoid it.
It’s unclear why Amazon decided to do this. It may be to appease app owners so more viewers can see their apps, but that’s just speculation. Hopefully, it will return in a future software update. Without being able to hide apps, you’re stuck seeking all of Amazon’s pre-installed apps that you can’t uninstall on your Fire TV’s app list, like Amazon News, Amazon Shopping, and evenFreevee, which Amazon announced it was shutting down.
Amazon has been adding features to Fire TV devices, such as a newAI-powered search featurepowered by Alexa that lets users ask more complex questions about specific genres, characters, and plot points when trying to find a show/movie.Xbox recently cameto Fire TV devices also, allowing users to stream games from the cloud on the device with no Xbox console required – just a controller.
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