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Update: The Apple TV app is now also available on the Amazon Fire TV Cube.
Apple today released the Apple TV app for Amazon TV devices, starting with the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K and the older HD model. Support for Fire TV (3rd generation penchant design) and some other models is coming soon.
The TV app experience on Amazon’s platform mirrors the functionality of the Roku app, which launched last week. Users can watch their purchased iTunes movies and TV shows, access Apple TV Channel subscriptions and watch Apple TV+ content when the streaming service launches on November 1st.
Apple is keen to get the TV app in front of as many eyeballs as possible with opportunities to sell customers on recurring subscriptions, whether that is through reselling channels like HBO, Showtime and Starz or attracting subscribers to its collection of original content TV shows and movies through Apple TV+.
To get the app on the Fire Stick, search for “Apple TV” in the app store or use Alexa and ask “Alexa, find the Apple TV app”. You can also use Alexa to find TV+ shows directly, like by saying “Alexa, find The Morning Show”.
Here’s the full breakdown on Amazon Fire TV device support for the new Apple TV app:
Fire TV Stick (2nd Gen) and Fire TV Stick 4K customers will be able to download the app starting today in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and India. Fire TV Basic Edition customers in over 50 countries can also find the Apple TV app in the Amazon Appstore on their Fire TV. The app will be coming soon to Fire TV Cube (1st and 2nd Gen), Fire TV (3rd Gen pendant design), Toshiba and Insignia Fire TV Edition smart TVs, and Nebula sound bar. The Apple TV app is not compatible with Fire TV (1st and 2nd Gen) and Fire TV Stick (1st Gen).
You cannot pay through the Amazon Fire TV itself. Instead, the TV app will prompt you to log into an Apple ID and offer any content that you have bought on that account from your other devices. As always, Apple TV Channels and Apple TV+ support up to 4K HDR playback quality with a single subscription shared amongst six people through Family Sharing.
TV Provider functionality is exclusive to iOS and tvOS and not available on Amazon Fire TV or Roku. Also note that the Amazon Fire TV app does not support Dolby Vision or Dolby Atmos at this time. All that and more explained here.
Apple TV+ will be available on November 1st with a small lineup of premium content, with Apple promising to add new originals every month. If you bought a new iPhone, iPad, Mac, iPod touch or Apple TV since September 10, you are eligible to redeem a free year of Apple TV+ to share across all your devices, including the newly-launched Amazon Fire app.
If you can’t find the Apple TV app on your Amazon TV device right away, give it a while. It took several days for the Roku TV app to propagate worldwide, for example.
With this announcement, Apple has now fulfilled its promise of launching on Roku and Amazon Fire TV platforms ahead of the Apple TV+ launch. Roku and Amazon Fire TV set top boxes are simply much cheaper alternatives to the good-but-expensive Apple TV HD and Apple TV 4K.
The TV app is available now on select Samsung smart TVs and is coming “in the future” to smart TVs from LG, Vizio and Sony.
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With only a little over a week to go until Apple’s highly anticipated streaming service launches, the company wants to make sure that you’ll be able to tune in to its hits like The Morning Show regardless of your choice of streaming device.
Apple has already recently added support for Roku devices, which the company announced would be coming back in the spring, and now today it’s released its Apple TV app for Amazon’s mainstream Fire TV devices too. This actually gives Apple TV+ a leg up over Disney’s upcoming Disney+ service, which isn’t coming to Fire TV anytime in the near future due to an advertising related dispute between the two giants.
According to Amazon’s announcement, the Apple TV app will be available for the second-generation Fire TV Stick and the Fire TV Stick 4K starting today, and it’s going to be arriving worldwide in over 50 of the countries where Apple TV+ will also be debut next week.
As with the Apple TV app that’s already available on Roku devices and Samsung smart TVs, this will not only allow Fire TV Stick users to watch Apple’s new original content, but it also carries over other features of the TV app, including the ability for users to access their entire iTunes library of purchased and rented movies and TV shows as well as accessing other streaming services that they’ve subscribed to through Apple TV Channels.
The only major difference compared to using the TV app on Apple’s own Apple TV 4K or Apple TV HD is that users won’t be able to actually purchase or rent new content directly from their Fire TV Stick; instead they’ll have to make those transactions using their iPhone, iPad, Mac, or PC — or even an Apple TV set-top box.
Once purchased or rented, however, new content will be available immediately through the TV app on the Fire TV stick. Similarly, users won’t be able to actually subscribe to Apple TV+ directly from their Fire TV Stick, although of course this can still be done from an Apple device, and those who don’t have another Apple device handy can easily do so on the web at tv.apple.com.
For Fire TV Stick 4K users, all of Apple’s original content will also be available in 4K, of course, along with the same selection of 4K movies and TV shows available on the iTunes Store.
How to Get It
If you have an Amazon Fire TV Stick (2nd Gen) or Fire TV Stick 4K you can download the app simply by asking Alexa to find it for you either using the Alexa Voice Remote or a paired Echo device.
Once installed, the app can also be opened simply by telling Alexa to “open the Apple TV app.”
Much like its debut on Roku’s set-top boxes, the arrival of the Apple TV app on Amazon’s Fire TV devices provides another inexpensive way to access Apple TV+ in your living room.
With Apple’s set-top boxes starting at $149 for the standard HD model and $179 for the 4K version, Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K is a huge bargain at $50 — even after you factor in the free year of Apple TV+ that comes with the purchase of a new Apple TV.
More Devices Coming Soon
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For customers in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and India, the new app is available on both the Fire TV Stick (2nd Gen) and the Fire TV Stick 4K. Customers in the other countries where those models aren’t sold can also find it in the Amazon Appstore for the Fire TV Basic Edition.
However, this is just the initial release, and Amazon promises that it will be rolling out the app to all models of the Fire TV Cube, plus the 3rd-Gen Fire TV with the pendant design, and even the Toshiba and Insignia FIre TV Edition smart TVs and Nebula sound bar. Only the older first- and second-generation Fire TV and first-generation Fire TV Stick are being left out of the party, presumably because they don’t have the processing power to handle the new TV app.
Amazon notes, however, that it does have a trade-in program for users who are looking to upgrade from an older model, and are looking to save 20% on their new one.
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