If y'all've just got a new Amazon tablet, this is how to set up it up the correct way, including getting YouTube, electronic mail, contacts and more.

The screens beneath may wait slightly dissimilar on your tablet equally Amazon does update them slightly from time to time. But the basic procedure remains the aforementioned.

Initial setup

Yous probably don't need any assistance getting through the main setup process: the on-screen instructions are clear and like shooting fish in a barrel to follow.

Ordinarily, there will be plenty battery power to set your tablet without charging it first. But it'south too a good thought to utilise the included USB cable and mains charger and let the battery to fully charge as soon as you can.

When you turn on a Fire tablet for the outset time, it will inquire to choose a language and a region.

How to set up an Amazon Fire tablet

Tap Continue and yous'll meet the Connect to Wi-Fi screen. The password for your Wi-Fi network is unremarkably on a sticker on your router, or sometimes on a removable card. Or, if you're similar u.s.a., you'll have inverse your password to something yous tin easily call back!

Choose the correct network name from the list and type the password, which volition exist example-sensitive so exist certain to enter upper- and lower-case letters correctly.

The tablet will bank check if there are any software updates available and if so, download and then install them.

Next, you'll be prompted to enter your Amazon account details to register the tablet. This is necessary in the same fashion it is on a Google or Apple tree phone: you can't install whatsoever apps or games or whatsoever other content from Amazon (such as books, videos and more) without an Amazon business relationship.

Signing in with an Amazon business relationship will also allow you to install apps from any web browser, rather than on the tablet itself. (You'll need to get to www.amazon.com or www.amazon.co.uk and sign in with the same Amazon business relationship, then search for the app to see the option to install information technology on your tablet.)

How to set up an Amazon Fire tablet

If you don't take an Amazon account, yous can tap the 'New to Amazon' link to create an business relationship.

If y'all've had a Fire tablet before, yous may be offered the option to restore a backup. Yous can restore the most contempo fill-in to save the hassle of installing apps and games. Plus all your settings will be as you set up them, including electronic mail accounts, bookmarks and more than.

On the side by side screen you can opt in (or out) of location services, and bankroll upwardly your stuff to Amazon. It's well worth enabling Fill-in & Restore to make it easy to swap to a new Amazon tablet should you need to.

How to set up an Amazon Fire tablet

Then you'll be prompted to select which members of your Amazon Household volition use the tablet. This streamlines the creation of user profiles, but yous'll only run across them if you've previously set up them up on your Amazon account.

If not, you will come across the option to add a kid account. A kid account has a completely dissimilar interface to an adult profile and limits what they can run into and do. Information technology also gives them admission (if you allow it) to a kid-safe spider web browser. To acquire more, likewise read our guide on How to set up parental controls on a Burn tablet.

Next yous can link other social accounts, if you lot desire to, so you lot'll see an adverts for Audible audiobooks and Kindle Unlimited. Either tap No Thanks or 'Offset My Gratis Trial'.

Quick-start guide to FireOS

Now you'll see a tutorial which will show you how to navigate around FireOS. At the bottom of the screen is the familiar Android navigation bar. Tap the < to become back, the O to become to the Home screen and the square icon to switch to a recently used app.

How to set up an Amazon Fire tablet

Swipe down from the top of the screen to see the Quick Settings panel where you tin adjust screen brightness, change user profiles, enable flight style and various other things. The cog icon takes you to the full menu of settings.

If your Fire tablet supports Alexa, which all the latest models practise, you'll go a brief tutorial on how she works and be asked if y'all desire to enable or disable her. Yous tin also read our guide on How to use Alexa. Some Fire tablets support hands-costless Alexa which means you can employ it like an Amazon Echo and say "Alexa, open Prime Video".

On other models, yous may find that Alexa is supported but you have to press an on-screen push before making your request.

How to set up an Amazon Fire tablet

If you lot find that units such as temperature have defaulted to Fahrenheit rather than Celcius, just wait. Usually this volition change to Celsius on its own fairly chop-chop. If non, launch the Weather app, add a location and tap the bill of fare icon (superlative left) tap Settings and then 'Show Temperature in Degrees Celsius.

How to set up an Amazon Fire tablet

Is YouTube and the Google Play store on a Burn tablet?

No. Amazon tablets are different from Android tablets. And you certainly won't discover any Google apps at all, including YouTube. It's strange because the official YouTube app is bachelor on Amazon's Burn down Television products.

Yous can withal install the YouTube.com app or tap on the Silk Browser icon and get to the relevant websites (Gmail.com, YouTube.com etc) to use Google services. You can too use the born Electronic mail and Contacts apps to access your Gmail account.

If you badly want the real YouTube app (and other Android apps) it is possible to install Google Play on a Burn tablet.

Once you've followed those steps, you lot'll demand to launch the Google Play Store app, sign in with your Google account and yous can then install YouTube.

How do I set up email, calendar and contacts on a Fire tablet?

Tap on the Eastward-mail app and enter your email address and password. This can exist whatever address, including Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo. Unfortunately it won't work for Apple email accounts, including @me.com and @icloud.com, at least not automatically.

How to set up an Amazon Fire tablet

If you get an fault message, search online for the server settings required for your email service. If you have 2-gene hallmark enabled for your email, you may take to disable information technology to use e-mail on the Fire tablet, or authorise information technology using your electronic mail provider's mechanism to do then.

You lot can add more than than one email address and manage multiple accounts through the E-post app.

For contacts, you should find these are populated automatically once you lot've configured your email address (so long as y'all have some contacts associated with that electronic mail business relationship). With Gmail, for example, contacts are added automatically.

If not, you can import them from a vCard file on a microSD carte. Check your current provider where your contacts are stored to observe out how to export details in a vCard file.

And so tap on the Contacts app then the three vertical white dots at the top right, then tap Import/export and then 'Import from storage'.

How to set up an Amazon Fire tablet

The same goes for the Calendar app. Once you've added a Gmail, Yahoo or Outlook electronic mail address, everything volition be populated automatically, fifty-fifty if you have multiple calendars within those accounts.

That's your Fire tablet set up, so you can now browse the Appstore to find actress games and apps, or utilise the web browser to read your favourite websites.

Hither are some of the essential apps you lot'll probably desire to install commencement on your Fire tablet.