Amazon is rolling out a redesigned Fire TV app

Amazon is starting to rotation retired its redesigned Fire TV mobile app to customers, the institution announced connected Thursday. While you could antecedently lone usage the app arsenic a backup remote, the updated acquisition lets you browse and observe contented straight from your phone, negociate your watchlist connected the go, and play titles connected your TV from the mobile app.

“The updated app turns smartphones into a 2nd surface for discovering what to ticker next, making it casual to adhd a friend’s amusement proposal to a watchlist adjacent erstwhile distant from home,” Amazon wrote successful an email to TechCrunch. “This seamless integration betwixt mobile and TV creates a much flexible and convenient viewing acquisition for Fire TV customers to find what they privation to watch, fast.”

The app is rolling retired present successful the U.S., Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the U.K.

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Amazon says the refreshed look matches the caller Fire TV idiosyncratic interface that it launched past month, which was designed to enactment much absorption connected content, portion besides simplifying navigation. The updated idiosyncratic interface introduced rounded corners, varied gradients, accordant typography, and accrued spacing betwixt content, portion besides providing much country for pinned apps.

The apical navigation barroom has been simplified into categories marked with wide icons for Movies, TV, Live TV, Sports, and News. The hunt fastener is much easy accessible to the near of the Home tab.

Within these tabs, Fire TV shows the contented you’re already watching alongside recommendations from your subscribed services, organized successful rows labeled “For You.” The tabs besides diagnostic escaped movies, apical movies and shows, and different paid contented you mightiness like.

The changes to the app and the idiosyncratic interface travel successful effect to the surge of streaming content, which has made it harder to support way of what’s disposable connected each service, requiring platforms similar Fire TV to relation much arsenic find hubs alternatively than conscionable places to motorboat streaming apps.