Right, so on a Firestick or a Amazon streaming device, you might notice your apps disappear off your device so you don’t know why. Or you might notice an option called Automatic Offload and not actually know what it does and it might benefit you. So a nice little firestick beginner video today. Just telling you what automatic offload is. And let me know in the comments if this is something you will use. Right, so that being said, don’t forget to that subscribe button and let’s crack on! Right, so first of all, if I go across to the far right hand side where it says settings and we go down to where it says applications and once you click on this you might see an option for automatic offload. Now by default this is turned on. And what it does? It automatically offload unused apps when your Fire TV is low on storage space. App data will be saved so you can easily reinstall the app later. So basically what it does is it removes an app from your firestick to increase your firestick storage, but it saves all your logins, your preferences. So if you want to install it again then it’s ready to go. You don’t have to log back in or anything like that. And if we take a quick look at it here, after 60 days, unused apps may be offloaded automatically. Offloaded apps save your login information and settings preferences so you can Easily redownload the app and start using it again. When an app is offloaded, a cloud icon appears next to it and it does tell you the devices this isn’t supported on. So let me know what device you use and do you see the automatic offload option. It’s also important to know if you don’t want it to do it automatically. Can turn this off. And when we go into manage installed applications, we’re gonna scroll down to an app, just gonna click enter on it and then you can see an option here that says offload. So instead of it doing it automatically, you can do this for individual apps if you want to do it. But do bear in mind this only works on apps that have downloaded from the Amazon App Store. If you’ve got any sideloaded apps, they’re not going to offload. It shouldn’t affect them. As we can see with this one here you can see there’s no option to offload. So I wouldn’t say this automatic offload or the offloading feature is all bad. I know we’ve all said make sure to turn it off so you don’t get any surprise and your apps are missing, but it could come in handy for some people. I don’t. Personally I don’t use it, but let me know in the comment section down below is this something you would use? But I know a lot of people were confused and thinking well Amazon are just Deleting my apps from my firestick and I don’t want them to, so that’s the reason for making this video. Just to give you a bit more information about automatic offload on a firestick and what it actually does. Another important thing to note though is one of the reasons I don’t like this feature. If I go back to applications once again and then manage install applications and at the top you’ve got an option to saw it’s currently alphabetically, but we’re gonna go to recency and as we saw it did say after 60 days it will remove an app cause it thinks you don’t use it. But this isn’t the most reliable thing because Tubi TV wasn’t so long ago. I launched the app and it’s currently saying it’s never been used or I haven’t used it within the last 60 days. And also apps on offloaded just for the sake of it. It’s if your Fire Stick is low on storage. So if you go down to where it says manage installed Applications, underneath the automatic offload option, you’re gonna see internal space and it’s gonna tell you the amount of storage you’ve got available. So if this is getting a bit low then it might be worth looking through your apps, seeing if there’s any you don’t use or clearing some of the cash and that. But I have made videos on that as well. So. Automatic offload on a firestick. It’s not all bad. But me personally, I think it’s quite a pointless feature. But this video is obviously to let you know what it does, how you can use it and will it benefit you.