Amazon is giving Fireplace TV its greatest replace but

One of many causes I take advantage of a Fire TV Stick 4K Max as my every day streaming gadget is its consumer interface (UI). In comparison with webOS on my LG TV, I discover it cleaner, and I can get to the content material I wish to watch extra simply. Although I admit, the Fireplace TV UI shouldn’t be excellent, and it may very well be less complicated to seek out particular content material, like sports activities, and the house display screen can really feel a bit convoluted at occasions. Nevertheless, it appears Amazon is working to repair these complaints and extra.

At CES 2026, Amazon introduced not solely a brand-new TV, its new art-focused Amazon Ember Artline, nevertheless it additionally revealed that it’s utterly redesigning the Fireplace TV UI, together with an entire overhaul of its house display screen and menus, with the said purpose of constructing it simpler to seek out the content material you wish to watch sooner, whereas additionally bettering the general pace and efficiency of Fireplace TV.

You possibly can take a look at a glimpse of the redesign within the picture beneath, which incorporates relocating tabs like your watchlist and free content material to the highest of the display screen and making the icons on your often used/pinned streaming apps bigger and extra outstanding on the house display screen than they’re now.

“We have redesigned the Fireplace TV UI to be cleaner, sooner, and higher organized — serving to prospects spend much less time looking and extra time watching,” Amazon defined in a press launch. “The brand new UI has a extra trendy design with improved layouts, rounded corners, redesigned shade gradients, up to date typography, and extra optimized spacing.”

What are all of the adjustments Amazon is making?

The adjustments aren’t simply above the floor

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Up prime, Amazon has added a number of new tabs, together with ones devoted solely to motion pictures and TV exhibits, a tab particularly for information and present affairs, and one other that is fully centered on sports activities. Different acquainted tabs from the present UI are nonetheless right here too, like free content material and search. In the meantime, shortcuts to gaming and your watchlist have been moved into a brand new pop-up menu that seems when you choose the three horizontal strains icon within the top-left nook.

Moreover, one of many highlights of the brand new UI is one thing you will not discover simply by it. Amazon says it has utterly reworked the Fireplace TV code with this replace to enhance efficiency throughout its present gadgets.

“The replace is not simply aesthetics: The staff rebuilt the underlying code to make the expertise sooner,” Amazon defined. “In some instances, we’re seeing as much as 20-30% good points in pace when utilizing the brand new UI.”

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There are additionally some quality-of-life adjustments, with one of many greatest being you could pin as much as 20 apps on the house display screen, as an alternative of simply six as now you can. So if you happen to use numerous streaming apps, it must be simpler to entry them multi functional place with out having to undergo too many menus.

After all, the principle query you are most likely questioning now could be when this new UI is coming and which gadgets it is coming to. Amazon has confirmed its up to date UI will begin rolling out within the US in February for the Fireplace TV Stick 4K Plus, Fireplace TV Stick 4K Max (2nd Gen), and Fireplace TV Omni Mini-LED Collection. Within the spring, the replace will roll out to extra international locations and gadgets, just like the Fireplace TV Stick 4K Choose (sure, this replace applies to each Fireplace OS and Vega OS), Fireplace TV 2-Collection, Fireplace TV 4-Collection, Fireplace TV Omni QLED Collection, and the brand new Amazon Ember Artline.

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Thus far, after seeing the brand new UI demoed, I am enthusiastic about it and like the fashionable aesthetic Amazon goes for right here, and I actually like how there are additionally efficiency enhancements tied to the replace because of the code being redone. Nevertheless, after all, till I truly apply it to my 4K Max, I am going to reserve my ultimate judgement.

How do you are feeling about this design change? Tell us within the feedback beneath. If you wish to see extra of Pocket-lint’s protection of CES 2026, you may take a look at our tales on the brand new Amazon Ember Artline TV, the LG Gallery TV, and Samsung’s new Freestyle+ moveable projector.