Whether you own anAmazon Fire TV Stick,Fire TV Cube, or a Fire TV-powered smart TV (perhapsone made by Amazon!), you’ll know just how robust the Fire TV platform is. Packed with features, customizations, and an immense library of movie and TV show content, one of your Fire Stick’s more low-key capabilities is called private listening.
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What You Need
An Amazon Fire TV Stick, Fire TV Cube, or Fire TV-powered smart TV
A pair of wireless headphones or earbuds
A 3.5mm to RCA audio adapter (for wired headphones)
Roku was one of the first streaming device companies to introduce this convenient Bluetooth feature, and now you may use it on Fire TV hardware, too. Here’s how to link a pair of Bluetooth headphones or earbuds to your Fire TV device in just a few simple steps.
How to connect wireless headphones to a Fire TV device
Step 1:First, you’ll want to put your headphones into pairing mode.
Step 2:Grab your Fire Stick remote and go toSettings>Controllers & Bluetooth Devices.
Step 3:ChooseOther Bluetooth Devices>Add Bluetooth Devices.
Step 4:Your headphones should appear in the device queue. Navigate over to them with the remote and hitSelect. After a few moments, your wireless headphones or earbuds should connect to your Fire TV device.
Step 5:You can also unpair your headphones from your Fire TV device by following all the same steps. Once you select your headphones, you’ll be able to press theMenubutton on your remote to complete the unpairing.
Note: Whether you own a Fire TV Stick, , or , the pairing/unpairing process is exactly the same.
Connect headphones to a Fire TV device using an Alexa remote
If you happen to own a Fire TV device that came with the or standard Alexa Voice Remote, or you purchased one separately and paired it to your Fire TV device, you can use voice commands to expedite your headphone-pairing process.
Step 1:If you have a Voice Remote Pro, press theAlexabutton and say “Pair Bluetooth headphones.” If you have the regular Voice Remote, press theheadphonebutton.
You’ll be taken to theAdd Devicescreen on your Fire TV.
Step 2:Now it’s time to put your headphones in pairing mode. Once your Fire TV detects them, highlight them and hitSelectto pair.
Can I use wired headphones with a Fire TV device?
Amazon doesn’t make a version of the Fire TV remote with a built-in headphone jack. While this eliminates the capability of wiring a headset directly to your Fire TV device, there’s technically a workaround, but you’re going to need some other equipment, specifically, a TV,AV receiver, orsoundbarwith analog audio outputs.
If your wired headphones use a standard 3.5mm connection, you’ll need to invest in a . Plug the RCA male ends into the left-right audio outputs on your TV, AV receiver, or soundbar, then plug your headphones into the 3.5mm end.
This connectivity method treats your TV, AV receiver, or soundbar as the main audio output device. As long as your Fire TV device is connected to one of the three components, you should be able to hear sound through your wired headset.
