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

I typically have many constructive issues to say about my Fire TV Stick 4K Max. Streaming exhibits and films look incredible in 4K HDR, and it consists of a number of useful features I depend on, similar to connecting Bluetooth audio units and taking part in video games via the cloud with Xbox Cloud Gaming.

Nonetheless, one problem that generally occurs with my Fireplace TV Stick is that it slows down randomly. For instance, it is perhaps gradual to load apps or stutter when searching menus. This is not a frequent downside, and often, restarting the gadget fixes the problem for some time. One other widespread and efficient method 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 lets you clear the cache for all of your put in apps with a single click on on all its Fireplace TV units (by way of AFTVnews). This imply no extra having to pick every app and clear the cache individually. You’ll be able to clear every part 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 simple to search out — and you will be liberating up cupboard space and dashing up your Fireplace TV Stick very quickly.

The way to Clear All App Caches in your Fireplace TV

It’s possible you’ll have to 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 may want to verify it is up-to-date on the newest firmware. To try this in your Fireplace TV Stick, head to Settings > My Fireplace TV > About > Set up Replace. If a brand new replace is not accessible to you but, it is perhaps as a result of it is nonetheless rolling out, so you might want to attend just a few days.

As soon as the newest replace is put in, the brand new cache-clearing characteristic ought to grow to be accessible. 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, here is the way to really use the brand new cache-clearing characteristic, step-by-step:

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

2. As soon as there, select Functions.

3. Beneath Functions, you must 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 may release and to substantiate 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 Functions and choosing every app individually and clearing it, which could be very time-consuming when 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 units with the newest replace, not simply Fireplace TV Sticks, such because the Fireplace TV Dice and any TVs working Fireplace OS.

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