

All of that combined can really clean up a lot of space on your tablet’s internal storage partition. You can even automatically save your personal videos and photos to SD. You can, however, easily install apps to SD, as well as download movies, shows, audiobooks, books, magazines, and music to the card. The good news is that you can add a microSD card to easily add more storage.įire Tablet don’t have all the bells and whistles that stock Android devices do-like the option to adopt and SD card as internal storage. RELATED: Everything You Need to Know About Using a MicroSD Card With Your Amazon Fire Tabletįire Tablets don’t come with the largest amount of storage, so you’ll likely fill it up pretty quickly. Feel free to dig around on your own, too! Expand Storage with an SD Card There are a lot of different tweaks here, but we have a great list of things you should disable here. The good news is that you easily disable a bunch of the junk by jumping into Settings > Apps & Games > Amazon Application Settings. While some of it can be useful, a lot of it is just fluff that probably don’t want or need. This is Amazon’s tablet, so there’s a lot of Amazon stuff on it. RELATED: How to Make the $50 Amazon Fire Tablet More Like Stock Android (Without Rooting)

Disable Amazon-Specific Junk You Don’t Want With one click and a fifteen dollar bill, those ads are gone for good.

You’ll need to grab an additional app called LauncherHijack, which is what will enable you to actually use your new launcher. Just like sideloading the Play Store, this is a simple and straightforward process, but it’s a bit more complicated than simply installing a new launcher from the Play Store and running with it. The stock launcher on Fire OS isn’t really that bad, but if you’re looking to customize your tablet a bit more (or just want a more stock Android-like feel), then installing a new launcher is the way to go.

RELATED: How to Use a Different Home Screen Launcher on the Amazon Fire Tablet (Without Rooting It) The process doesn’t require a rooted device and is fairly straightforward-it’s little more than a few app downloads-so hit up this guide and get to work. But since Fire OS is based off of Android, you can easily sideload the Google Play Store for full access to everything Google has to offer. The Appstore isn’t necessarily bad, but it’s definitely a few steps behind the Google Play Store in terms of content and updates. RELATED: How to Install the Google Play Store on an Amazon Fire Tabletīy default, the Fire Tablet line ships with the Amazon Appstore.
