You no longer only have to resort to the remote that comes with the Amazon Fire TV Stick that you had bought. You can use your Android phone or iPhone if you prefer. Although, it can also be a good alternative in case the remote control has broken or you have lost it somewhere. The good thing about this option is that we only need to install a simple application on the mobile.
For this reason, we are going to show you how you can control the Amazon Fire TV Stick from your mobile. In this way, you will never need to have another controller next to you, since you can do everything from your own smartphone without problems.
Amazon Fire TV App
At first, this would not be possible without the help of the application for Android or iOS known under the name of Amazon Fire TV. With this free app, we will have the option of using the mobile as a remote control for the Fire TV Stick from the well-known online store. In fact, it makes things easier for us, since we find navigation quite simple or we can even use the mobile keyboard to write more quickly if we want to search for any content. In addition, there are two types of Command: simple and tactile.
However, for it to work on mobile, we must bear in mind that you must have a phone with a version of Android 6.0 or higher, as well as an iPhone with iOS 13 or higher. As specified in the features of this application for Amazon smartphones.
Once we install it, we will have to have both the mobile and the Fire TV Stick under the same WiFi network. Otherwise it won’t work. Also, once we enter, it will start searching for devices automatically. Now, write the four-digit code on the mobile that will appear on the TV screen and we accept on the phone. In this way, we will be able to link the device with the app that you have just installed on the phone. And if you want, you can log in with your Amazon data (username and password).
Which functions has?
There are several features that the Amazon Fire TV app has. Among its features, we find a good number of options that will be very useful to avoid having to resort to the control itself that came with this Amazon device. So we are going to know each of the options that the mobile application will allow us to use it as a remote control:
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Voice search. We can talk to Alexa by sliding the microphone icon.
- Navigation with simple control or touch control (using the mobile screen).
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Control the volume.
- Use the Home, Back and Menu buttons.
- We have all the playback control features.
- Through the icon of the 3 squares and the ‘+’ we can run any app in a more practical way.
- We can use the mobile keyboard to write.
- It is not even necessary to have the app open, since, from the notifications or control panel, we can access the remote control quickly.
