Why Reset Your Fire TV?
While we don’t encourage people to take the scorched-Earth approach to fixing their gadgets, unfortunately that’s sometimes the only solution that works. Whatever your ghost-in-the-machine glitch might be, there’s a very good chance that a factory reset is the key to eradicating it.
If you’re not put off by the hassle and you’re ready for that new-car smell, let’s reset your Fire TV.
How to Reset Your Fire TV & Fire TV Stick
First, let’s get one thing out of the way. Even though we opened this tutorial with a joke about giving your Fire TV a swift kick in the reset button, we can’t actually suggest that course of action. Do we say this because it would be far too difficult to land a well placed kick into a tiny and recessed reset button hole? Who are we to judge your kicking skills? The real reason is the Fire TV doesn’t have a physical reset button. There are only two ways to reset it: via the System menu and via remote control button combination.
If you want to jump right to the reset option, you can do so by holding down the Back button and the Right button on your Fire TV remote for 10 seconds until the reset screen pops up.
You can also take the longer route, through the System menu, by navigating down the sidebar menu until you reach “Settings”.
There scroll right until you see the “System” menu.
Scroll down through the slide out menu until you see “Reset to Factory Defaults” and select it.
When prompted, enter your PIN code (if you’ve set a parental/security PIN code on your device).
Select “Reset”.
