Last Updated on June 21, 2022
The Amazon Fire Stick is a device that allows you to stream and watch online content on your TV, and download different apps and games. It basically turns your TV into a smart TV, letting you put all your streaming apps, accounts, and games into one place.
But, the more you use your Fire Stick, the more data is stored on it. To ensure easy accessibility and faster loading, the Fire Stick saves details about your usage of certain apps. This data piles up and, after some time, might slow down your Fire Stick.
To boost the speed, you might want to clear the Fire Stick cache, clear Fire Stick data, or ultimately perform a factory reset on your Fire Stick.
This article will help you navigate through each of these options.
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Clear Cache on a Fire Stick
Cache memory is a set of regularly used functions and light running processes. The cache is basically a temporarily saved process while you’re using an app. For example, once you leave one app and open another, the cache memory of the first app is saved, making it faster to load the next time you open the app.
With time, this stored data slows your Fire Stick down. So, it is essential to clear your cache memory, especially on apps that process a lot of data continually.
How to Clear Cache on a Fire Stick?
Clearing cache memory from your Fire Stick is simple:
- By using your home button on the remote control, go to the main menu of the Fire Stick.
- Then, go to the Settings option on the menu. You will find it at the right top of the screen.
- The next step is to head to “Applications.”
- Then, you need to select the “Manage All Installed Applications” option.
- Scroll up and down through your installed apps, checking for file size, storage data, and cache size.
- Once you decide the app you want to delete cache memory from, find the option Clear cache and select it. This will delete all of your temporary files.
- The process will take a few seconds, but the time it takes depends on the size of the stored cache.
- If you did the process successfully, you should see the cache size brought down to zero.
Make sure that you do not confuse the Clear Cache and Clear Data options since they are next to each other. Doing a cache clean-up won’t make any changes to the app itself, but it should improve the overall performance of the Fire Stick.
Also, it’s important to know that you can’t bulk clear cache on your Fire Stick. You would have to go through your apps and delete their cache memory one by one.
If you perform Cache clearing to fix speed problems or lagging for your Fire Stick, this should do that. If it doesn’t, you might need to clear app data, clear cookies, or factory reset your Fire TV Stick.
Clear Data on a Fire Stick
If you clear your apps’ data, you’re basically clearing all your customizations, preferences, settings, cached data, and saved data. This will include saved login credentials. So, before clearing data from an app, make sure that, if needed, you do remember your login details. Clearing data of an app will restore all its functions and settings as to those at the time of download.
How to Clear Data on a Fire Stick?
Clearing your data on an app essentially follows the same steps as clearing the cache.
- Go to the main menu of the Fire TV Stick
- Go to settings and then into “Applications”
- Select the “Manage All Installed Applications” option
- Scroll through your installed applications until you find the one you want to clear data from
- Select the “Clear Data” option
The process might take some time, depending on the size of the data. Once cleared of data, when you open the application it will have the default settings. Clearing data from all applications simultaneously is not possible. The same as for clearing cache, you will have to manually clear the data of each app you want.
How do I clear both the cache and data on my Fire Stick?
If you want to delete both the cache and the data from a certain app, you can do so with the “Clear Data” option. That will include clearing of cache too.
Another way is to simply uninstall and re-install the app. But, both of these options apply for one application at a time.
If your Fire Stick is freezing or doesn’t work properly, after you’ve deleted both the cache and the data on the Fire Stick, you might want to do a factory reset. A reset to factory settings will return your Fire Stick to its first state, deleting all your apps and all the stored items.
How do I do a factory reset on my Fire Stick?
There are two ways to do a factory reset on your Fire Stick. One is through Fire Stick Settings, while the other is with the remote control.
– Factory Reset of a Fire Stick through Settings
- Go to the home screen or so-called home menu
- Find and select the Settings sub-menu
- Then, go right to the My Fire TV option
- At the bottom of it, you will find the “Reset to Factory Defaults” button
- Before starting the reset, a pop-up field will ask you to confirm. Press “Reset”
The process might take several minutes. Make sure that your Fire Stick is plugged into a power source when resetting.
– Factory Reset of a Fire Stick with the remote
One of the biggest reasons why people need to do a factory reset of their Fire Stick is due to their stick being unresponsive and a frozen screen. If that is the case, you need to perform the factory reset with the help of the remote control only.
To start the factory reset, you need to hold the Right Button on the remote control ring and the Back button, at the same time. Keep them both pressed down for at least 10 seconds.
After the reset is done, you need to reconfigure it again, the same as you would with a new one. Press the Play button on the remote and follow the instructions shown. You will be asked to sign in to your Amazon account. Then, download the apps you use and re-enter your login credentials.
Conclusion
With usage, apps sort all kinds of data and cache on your Amazon Fire Stick.
If you want to boost the speed of your Fire Stick, you might want to clear the cache.
Doing so will delete all background working temporary data from the app. If that doesn’t do the trick, you might want to delete data. Clearing data will delete saved login details or settings, basically returning the particular app to its original form after downloading for the first time.
The last thing to do, if you want to delete all downloaded apps and their stored content, is to perform a factory reset to your Fire Stick. This will bring your Fire Stick back to its original, after-purchase form.
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