Amazon is giving Hearth TV its greatest replace but

One of many causes I take advantage of a Fire TV Stick 4K Max as my each day streaming gadget is its consumer interface (UI). In comparison with webOS on my LG TV, I discover it cleaner, and I can get to the content material I need to watch extra simply. Although I admit, the Hearth TV UI shouldn’t be excellent, and it may very well be less complicated to search out particular content material, like sports activities, and the house display can really feel a bit convoluted at instances. Nonetheless, it appears Amazon is working to repair these complaints and extra.

At CES 2026, Amazon introduced not solely a brand-new TV, its new art-focused Amazon Ember Artline, however it additionally revealed that it’s fully redesigning the Hearth TV UI, together with an entire overhaul of its residence display and menus, with the said aim of creating it simpler to search out the content material you need to watch sooner, whereas additionally bettering the general pace and efficiency of Hearth TV.

You’ll be able to take a look at a glimpse of the redesign within the picture beneath, which incorporates relocating tabs like your watchlist and free content material to the highest of the display and making the icons on your regularly used/pinned streaming apps bigger and extra distinguished on the house display than they’re now.

“We have redesigned the Hearth TV UI to be cleaner, sooner, and higher organized — serving to clients spend much less time looking out and extra time watching,” Amazon defined in a press launch. “The brand new UI has a extra fashionable design with improved layouts, rounded corners, redesigned coloration gradients, up to date typography, and extra optimized spacing.”

What are all of the modifications Amazon is making?

The modifications aren’t simply above the floor

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Up prime, Amazon has added a number of new tabs, together with ones devoted solely to films and TV exhibits, a tab particularly for information and present affairs, and one other that is totally centered on sports activities. Different acquainted tabs from the present UI are nonetheless right here too, like free content material and search. In the meantime, shortcuts to gaming and your watchlist have been moved into a brand new pop-up menu that seems when you choose the three horizontal traces icon within the top-left nook.

Moreover, one of many highlights of the brand new UI is one thing you will not discover simply by taking a look at it. Amazon says it has fully reworked the Hearth TV code with this replace to enhance efficiency throughout its current gadgets.

“The replace is not simply aesthetics: The workforce rebuilt the underlying code to make the expertise sooner,” Amazon defined. “In some instances, we’re seeing as much as 20-30% beneficial properties in pace when utilizing the brand new UI.”

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There are additionally some quality-of-life modifications, with one of many greatest being which you could pin as much as 20 apps on the house display, as an alternative of simply six as now you can. So in case you use numerous streaming apps, it needs to be simpler to entry them multi function place with out having to undergo too many menus.

After all, the primary query you are in all probability questioning now’s when this new UI is coming and which gadgets it is coming to. Amazon has confirmed its up to date UI will begin rolling out within the US in February for the Hearth TV Stick 4K Plus, Hearth TV Stick 4K Max (2nd Gen), and Hearth TV Omni Mini-LED Collection. Within the spring, the replace will roll out to extra international locations and gadgets, just like the Hearth TV Stick 4K Choose (sure, this replace applies to each Hearth OS and Vega OS), Hearth TV 2-Collection, Hearth TV 4-Collection, Hearth TV Omni QLED Collection, and the brand new Amazon Ember Artline.

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To date, after seeing the brand new UI demoed, I am enthusiastic about it and like the fashionable aesthetic Amazon goes for right here, and I actually like how there are additionally efficiency enhancements tied to the replace due to the code being redone. Nonetheless, in fact, till I really apply it to my 4K Max, I am going to reserve my closing judgement.

How do you are feeling about this design change? Tell us within the feedback beneath. If you wish to see extra of Pocket-lint’s protection of CES 2026, you’ll be able to take a look at our tales on the brand new Amazon Ember Artline TV, the LG Gallery TV, and Samsung’s new Freestyle+ moveable projector.