Having the place where you store your cash get full is never a bad thing, but having your cache storage full could bring your entertainment life to a screeching halt if you’re a Fire TV or Fire TV Stick user. Has your Fire TV or Fire TV Stick been acting “buggy” lately? Lagging, or taking forever to load apps and content? Various data caching storage locations in Fire OS could be full, causing some of your home entertainment headaches.
Here at Pocket-lint, we care about you too much to allow you to watch things on your TV in suboptimal fashion, so we’re going to show you how to clear the cache on your devices and make it easier for you to watch Frank Castle make that one last kill! You’re welcome!
What is a streaming device cache?
Temporary storage that improves efficiency
Let’s go on a brief side quest, shall we? My wife loves her Roku, but I’m actually not a huge fan. The service is easy to use, and the app is well laid out, but I’m impatient and hate how slow it is to load apps, which it calls “channels.” That’s because it doesn’t store those apps’ data in a temporary folder on the device. No, if you want to speed up launch times, you have to plug a flash drive into the Roku’s USB-A slot (if it has one), and it will cache some data externally.
With Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, you don’t have to wait as long. But that speed comes at a cost….