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Amazon is kicking disconnected nan caller twelvemonth by announcing a redesign of its Fire TV UI astatine CES 2026. The caller UI is designed to make uncovering things to watch connected nan level faster, while making it easier to entree much of Fire TV's features consecutive from nan location screen.
On first blush, nan biggest quality successful nan caller Fire TV UI is that everything is rounder. Shows, movies and apps person rounded corners, and Amazon's changed nan spacing successful nan interface to springiness everything much room to breathe. Tweaks to typography and colour gradients besides springiness nan UI a much modern feel, and Amazon says it's rebuilt nan codification of nan Fire TV package to make everything faster, too, successful immoderate cases demonstrating "up to 20-30 percent gains successful speed."
The fundamentals haven't changed each that much, however. There's a paper barroom of different tabs astatine nan apical of nan interface that separates nan Home page from things for illustration Movies, TV Shows and Sports. Each page shows contented successful carousels, and Amazon still lets you pin streaming apps for illustration Netflix aliases Apple TV underneath recommended content, pinch nan biggest quality being you tin now pin much apps astatine erstwhile (20 alternatively than six). Amazon is besides changing up really nan Fire TV Remote works. Pressing nan Menu fastener now lets you quickly entree Fire TV's Art & Photos, Games and Ambient Experience features, and a agelong property of nan Home fastener pulls up a shortcut sheet pinch entree to things for illustration settings and connected Ring cameras. Alexa+, Amazon's rebuilt AI assistant, is besides disposable straight wrong of nan Fire TV interface for adding things to your watchlist, recommending contented and controlling your smart home.
The caller Fire TV mobile app tin enactment arsenic a distant and a measurement to hunt Amazon's room of content. (Amazon)
Amazon offers nan Fire TV mobile app arsenic a measurement to power its streaming devices and TVs pinch a smartphone, but alongside this redesign, nan institution is besides expanding what nan app tin do. The caller Fire TV app lets you browse content, edit your watchlist and commencement playing things connected your TV, successful overmuch nan aforesaid measurement Roku and Google's streaming apps do.
Both nan caller Fire TV mobile app and redesigned Fire TV UI will beryllium disposable for free for each users, Amazon says. The caller Fire TV UI will motorboat successful February connected nan Fire TV Stick 4K Plus, nan second-generation Fire TV Stick 4K Max and Fire TV Omni Mini-LED series. Later successful nan spring, Amazon says it will bring nan redesign to much countries and devices, including nan latest Fire TV 4K streaming devices, TVs for illustration nan Fire TV 2-series, 4-series and Fire TV Omni QLED bid and TVs from third-party partners for illustration Hisense, Insignia, Panasonic and TCL.
