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How To Mirror an Android Phone with the Amazon Fire Stick

How To Mirror an Android Phone with the Amazon Fire Stick In the past ten years, streaming has evolved from a specialized, nerdy way to view your favorite entertainment to the way the majority of people spend some of their downtime. Mirroring a smartphone or tablet screen to your television is one of the Amazon Fire TV Stick’s less well-known features. Even Windows 10 can be mirrored to a Fire TV Stick or Cube. Using this function, you may watch movies or TV shows on your phone, play games on a huge screen, or conduct video chats over a large screen. Either the screen alone or the screen and audio can be mirrored.

The topic of this post is “mirroring,” not casting, your phone or tablet’s screen to a Fire TV Stick or Fire Cube, as you would with Netflix, YouTube, and other apps.

To mirror an Android phone to your Fire TV, however, requires extra work because Amazon and Google only work together in part. As iPhones and iOS tablets do not mirror to any Fire devices, you must take extra steps to complete the task. Isn’t that wonderful?

In any case, configuring mirroring from Android and iPhone/iOS to your Fire TV Stick or Fire Cube is not very challenging—it just calls for a few steps. Let’s get going!

How to Mirror/Cast iPhones & Android Phones or Tablets to Your Fire TV Stick

Activating the feature is the first step towards mirroring your phone or tablet to your Firestick or Fire TV Cube. The “Settings” menu on Amazon now has a mirroring option, but it is incompatible with Android or iPhone/iOS devices.

Amazon wants you to sign up for Prime Video and purchase one of their premium goods, like Fire tablets. Google, on the other hand, wants you to utilize their particular goods and services, like Chromecast computers and Google Pixel smartphones. For Apple, the same situation applies. Do you now see the problem? Such a waste of a Miracast standard, huh?

A mirroring program like “Airscreen” is needed on the Fire device in order to reflect your Android handset to your Fire TV Stick or Fire Cube. This software is frequently the one to use because it functions on both Android and iOS/iPhone devices.

Despite having a mirroring option similar to your phone, Fire devices typically don’t interact using the default settings. You require assistance from a third-party application because of this circumstance. Here’s how to set up Airscreen on your Android or iPhone as well as your Fire TV Stick or Fire Cube.

 

Activating Android Mirroring on Your Firestick using AirScreen

1. On the “Home” screen, scroll down one row (from the preview section at the top to the menu bar below it) and select “Find,” then choose “Search.”
2. Type “airscreen” or a shorter variant into the search bar and choose “AirScreen” from the list. You no longer need the “Easy Fire Tools” app to install AirScreen—it is available in the Amazon App Store.
3. In the window that appears, choose the “AirScreen” app.
4. In the Airscreen app window, select “Get.”
5. Launch AirScreen and select “Confirm.”
6. A new screen appears, displaying a QR code and a URL. You’ll use one of the two on your smartphone to link them together.
7. If the visual examples in the steps above do not match your Firestick, it probably needs an update or is an older model. Go to “Settings -> My Fire TV -> About” and select “Install System Update” or “Check for System Update.”
8. Scan the QR code on your TV on your smartphone or tablet or go directly to the specified URL.
9. Choose from “In App content” or “Entire screen.”

Your Android device now gets mirrored onto the Fire TV Stick or Fire Cube, which appears on the TV.

Note: YouTube may automatically include your Fire TV Stick as a casting source after installing AirScreen on the Fire device—this was confirmed on Android 11 Motorola G Fast. However, other phone apps like Netflix and Disney+ may require you to scan the QR code or go to the displayed URL in the AirScreeen Amazon app to mirror your phone or tablet (not casting). Non-Amazon devices like Chromecast with Google TV and Roku appear as mirroring sources without any third-party intervention.

Once you enable the mirroring service on your Android device, your Fire TV Stick should begin displaying whatever is on the screen.

How to Mirror/Cast iOS Phones or Tablets to Your Fire TV Stick or Fire Cube

Fire OS does not support Apple AirPlay, the default mirroring app on your iOS device, but a third-party app called AirScreen works with AirPlay to deliver the casting functions you need.

1. On your Fire TV Stick, search for and install “AirScreen.”
2. Launch “AirScreen” on your Firestick and select “Confirm” once you have both the Firestick and iOS device on the same network.
3. Use your iPhone, iPad, or other iOS device to scan the “QR Code” on the TV.
4. When prompted for what to mirror, select “Entire screen” or “In-app content.”
5. Follow the instructions to mirror on your iOS device.
6. Swipe down from the top of your iPhone or other iOs device and choose “Screen Mirroring.”

In closing, mirroring the content of your Android or iOS/iPhone device to your Fire TV Stick or even Fire TV Cube is relatively easy. Third-party apps like AirScreen let you mirror your device’s display to your Fire TV Stick from almost any device, except you can’t mirror streaming apps like you can with native mirroring options. As for iPhone and iOS devices, Fire OS does not support AirPlay, but apps like AirScreen work with AirPlay’s features to deliver the goods!

 

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Originally posted 2023-12-05 08:44:07.