How to Use Phone as Remote for Fire Stick
The free Amazon Fire TV mobile app for iOS enhances your Fire TV experience with simple navigation, a keyboard for easy text entry (no more hunting and pecking), and quick access to your favorite apps and games.
It features:
• Voice search (not available in all countries)
• Simple navigation
• Playback controls
• Keyboard for simple text entry
• Quick access to your apps and games
• Fire TV Recast support
Compatibility:
• Multicast-enabled router required
• Designed for simple navigation and playback control of Fire TV streaming media players
• For gameplay, use the remote included with your Fire TV or the optional Amazon Fire TV Game Controller
By using this app, you agree to Amazon's Conditions of Use (www.amazon.com/conditionsofuse) and Privacy Notice (www.amazon.com/privacy).
What's New
Version 2.1.2011
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
Ratings and Reviews
4.5 out of 5
422.2K Ratings
Awesome!!!
Ok so know that this isn't a perfect 5 star rating because NOTHING is perfect. Take that into account and this app update is awesome. The old swipe feature had its place but this looks more like a real remote and that's what we're all used to. The app is easy to pair and comes in very handy because the remotes that come with the Fire Sticks are crap. We have 3 Fire Sticks in the house (2 HD and 1 4K) and only one remote still works. It's the remote for the 4K Fire Stick and we decided to re-pair it with the bedroom tv. The "d-pad" on the app needs to be smaller, it should be at the bottom of the screen for people with smaller hands like my wife and there needs to be more options that would be on a basic remote (like a sleep button or volume control) but overall this update to the remote app is a HUGE step in the right direction. Adding the remote listening feature, which is available for the Roku remote app (we have two Rokus as well), would be awesome too.
Easy fix
I usually don't do reviews but here it goes... this app has always worked great for me especially since I have lost the physical remote. But recently for about a week or so when I attempted to watch anything the app would not let go up,down,left or right I could however click on the setting button and it would immediately take me to settings but again I could not go up,down,left or right and when I clicked the home button it immediately went to the home button but I still couldn't move around. I came on here in the reviews to see if anyone was having this issue I had attempted to unplug and re-plug the fire stick and I was still have the same issue. Today I decided to contact support through the app and selected call me, so I immediately got a call waited less than 1 minute and they actually helped me. She was able to take control of my screen and see what I was talking about she had me troubleshoot by reinstalling this app on my phone than unplugging the fire stick from my tv wait 2-3 minutes than plug it back in and to my surprise it WORKED i guess waiting before replugging helped because I had unplugged the fire stick before but not that long just like a couple seconds so yeah hope someone can find this helpful.
It's very good, but needs improvement
This app was very useful when I lost my fire stick remote (idk how I lost it but I suspect it's in my room), my mom mentioned it to me, and I reinstalled it. (my mom must've had the app previously) It took me by surprise of how good it was! I functioned just like my fire stick! (My fire stick was awesome btw ;-;) But there is two things that irritates me. And one of them is when my phone turns off automatically, it would have a little "Reconnecting" thing. This didn't bug me much, until now. Now, if you leave the app open for a long time, the "Reconnecting" thing will be a bit long. (Not too long, but enough to annoy me) And, there is the last thing I need to complain about lol. If you leave the app for a long time, the thing I just said above is if your fast enough to come back. If you leave it for a long enough time, when you come back to the app, it shows how to connect to your fire stick TV. Now, this happens a lot, and it's really stupid cause it takes so many taps just to be lucky and actually connect to it. Let me get straight to the point. Sometimes if I try to connect to it, (which means tap on what my TV is called) it doesn't work. It's like a frozen screen, but it's not. And if I hit the wrong thing, which happens often, It would send me to "Add Devices". Please fix this, it would be better for me.
App Privacy
The developer, AMZN Mobile LLC, indicated that the app's privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
- Other Data
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Information
- Seller
- AMZN Mobile LLC
- Size
- 87.2 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2018 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.
- Price
- Free
- Developer Website
- App Support
- Privacy Policy
Supports
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Family Sharing
With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.
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Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/amazon-fire-tv/id947984433