If you've just got a new Amazon tablet, this is how to ready it upwards the right manner, including getting YouTube, email, contacts and more.

The screens beneath may look slightly dissimilar on your tablet as Amazon does update them slightly from time to time. But the basic procedure remains the same.

Initial setup

You probably don't need any assistance getting through the primary setup process: the on-screen instructions are articulate and easy to follow.

Ordinarily, in that location will exist plenty battery power to set upward your tablet without charging it offset. Merely it'southward also a good idea to use 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 get-go time, information technology will enquire to choose a language and a region.

How to set up an Amazon Fire tablet

Tap Go along and you'll see the Connect to Wi-Fi screen. The countersign for your Wi-Fi network is normally on a sticker on your router, or sometimes on a removable carte. Or, if y'all're like united states, you'll have changed your password to something you can easily remember!

Choose the correct network name from the listing and type the countersign, which will be case-sensitive so be sure to enter upper- and lower-case letters correctly.

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

Next, you'll be prompted to enter your Amazon account details to annals the tablet. This is necessary in the aforementioned way it is on a Google or Apple phone: you lot can't install whatsoever apps or games or whatever other content from Amazon (such every bit books, videos and more) without an Amazon account.

Signing in with an Amazon business relationship will likewise allow you to install apps from whatsoever web browser, rather than on the tablet itself. (You'll need to become to www.amazon.com or www.amazon.co.united kingdom and sign in with the same Amazon account, and so search for the app to come across the option to install it on your tablet.)

How to set up an Amazon Fire tablet

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

If you've had a Burn tablet earlier, you may exist offered the pick to restore a fill-in. You tin restore the almost recent backup to save the hassle of installing apps and games. Plus all your settings will exist as you fix them, including email accounts, bookmarks and more.

On the side by side screen you can opt in (or out) of location services, and backing upwards your stuff to Amazon. Information technology's well worth enabling Backup & Restore to make it piece of cake to swap to a new Amazon tablet should you lot demand to.

How to set up an Amazon Fire tablet

Then yous'll exist prompted to select which members of your Amazon Household will use the tablet. This streamlines the cosmos of user profiles, but you'll just encounter them if you lot've previously set them up on your Amazon account.

If not, you will see the selection to add a child account. A child account has a completely different interface to an developed profile and limits what they tin can see and do. It also gives them access (if you allow information technology) to a kid-safe spider web browser. To learn more than, also read our guide on How to ready parental controls on a Fire tablet.

Next you can link other social accounts, if you lot want to, and then you'll see an adverts for Audible audiobooks and Kindle Unlimited. Either tap No Thank you or 'Start My Gratis Trial'.

Quick-kickoff guide to FireOS

Now you'll meet a tutorial which will bear witness you how to navigate around FireOS. At the bottom of the screen is the familiar Android navigation bar. Tap the < to go dorsum, the O to go to the Dwelling screen and the square icon to switch to a recently used app.

How to set up an Amazon Fire tablet

Swipe down from the acme of the screen to meet the Quick Settings panel where you can adjust screen brightness, change user profiles, enable flight mode and diverse other things. The cog icon takes you to the total carte du jour of settings.

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

On other models, you may find that Alexa is supported but y'all have to press an on-screen button earlier making your asking.

How to set up an Amazon Fire tablet

If you find that units such equally temperature have defaulted to Fahrenheit rather than Celcius, but wait. Normally this will change to Celsius on its own fairly rapidly. If non, launch the Conditions app, add a location and tap the menu icon (superlative left) tap Settings and and so 'Evidence Temperature in Degrees Celsius.

How to set up an Amazon Fire tablet

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

No. Amazon tablets are unlike from Android tablets. And you certainly won't find any Google apps at all, including YouTube. Information technology's strange because the official YouTube app is available on Amazon's Burn down TV products.

Yous can yet install the YouTube.com app or tap on the Silk Browser icon and go to the relevant websites (Gmail.com, YouTube.com etc) to use Google services. You can also use the congenital-in E-mail and Contacts apps to access your Gmail account.

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

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

How do I ready up electronic mail, calendar and contacts on a Burn down tablet?

Tap on the Electronic mail app and enter your email address and password. This can be any accost, 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 error message, search online for the server settings required for your email service. If y'all have two-factor authentication enabled for your email, you may accept to disable it to use e-mail on the Fire tablet, or authorise it using your email provider'south mechanism to exercise then.

You tin add more 1 email accost and manage multiple accounts through the Email app.

For contacts, you should detect these are populated automatically one time you've configured your e-mail address (so long as you have some contacts associated with that electronic mail account). With Gmail, for example, contacts are added automatically.

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

And then tap on the Contacts app and then the 3 vertical white dots at the meridian right, so tap Import/export and then 'Import from storage'.

How to set up an Amazon Fire tablet

The aforementioned goes for the Calendar app. Once you've added a Gmail, Yahoo or Outlook e-mail address, everything will be populated automatically, even if yous have multiple calendars within those accounts.

That's your Fire tablet ready upward, so you can now browse the Appstore to find extra games and apps, or use the web browser to read your favourite websites.

Here are some of the essential apps you'll probably want to install showtime on your Fire tablet.