Where to find the YouTube app on Amazon Fire TV

After the scuffles between Google and Amazon, the waters are calm. And again the companies allow users to use each other's services on their own platforms. It is something that had happened with the YouTube application, which gives way to all the videos on this platform when the Fire TV device is being used. After years of problems, the application was removed from the device that makes televisions smart, without users having an official option to watch YouTube videos through of this device.Until now.

It seems that the problems are a thing of the past and Amazon Fire TV users can now download the YouTube application again, which is available on the platform. So no using third party tools, hacks or complicated tricks. You just have to find it and download it. This is what you should do.

As just another application

Just look in the Your Apps & Channels menu on your device Fire TV Stick Basic Edition It's where they are the rest of applications such as Netflix, Movistar + or Prime. Now YouTube is here again as one more application. Of course, it is a new improved version, according to Amazon.

Once you open the download screen you are allowed to install it as one more tool on your Amazon Fire TV. Once it is installed, all you have to do is log in with your YouTube (Google) account to access all your subscriptions, your favorite videos, suggestions and other elements of the platform Just like in the mobile app or web browser.

The interesting thing is that, once installed, the application will once again be the default tool on your Fire TV to watch videos of this platform. Thus, both Amazon and Google seem to slam the rest of the unofficial tools and tricks that users have sought over this time to continue having access to the platform. Now everything will be automated and default with the tool that it should be. An application that returns to Amazon Fire TV apparently complete to provide the service that its users deserve. But there is more.

YouTube isn't the only YouTube app that will appear in Your Apps & Channels on the Fire TV Stick. As announced by Amazon, the YouTube Kids application will also arrive on the platform as one more downloadable tool.Of course, the smallest of the house will have to wait a few more months, and this arrival is scheduled for the end of the year.

A convenient measure

Amazon has fine tuned the times to release this news. And the Amazon Prime Day is approaching, where you can find special offers if you are a customer of this service. Among them will be your Amazon Fire TV Stick, which will cost, for a limited time, 25 euros About 15 euros cheaper than the Google Chromecast.

Prime Video comes to Chromecast and Android TV

But the armistice is not unilateral in this case. If Amazon welcomes a Google app and service back to its devices, you would expect the same thing to happen but in the opposite direction. And so it has been. Now the content offer of Prime Video can be found through Google's Chromecast devices that can be connected to any television.Or even through Android TV.

The only thing to do in this case is to download the Prime Video app from the Google Play Store, where it is already available. Of course, it is necessary to be customer subscribed to Amazon Prime to have access to all this content such as movies and series, some of them in 4K quality.