
This will cause at least all of Amazon’s apps to be pushed to sync to the Cloud, and you should be able to see this occuring in the notification panel. You can manually do this by first checking that your WiFi or cell connection is turned on and connected to a network. You’ll want to make sure that everything is synced from your existing Fire to Amazon’s cloud services. You can remove an app by long holding on it to bring up a menu that will prompt you to delete it.Īlso go through the various content menus such as Books, Videos, Apps, Games, etc and tap the ‘Device’ filter to limit your view to content that’s been downloaded. This can be particularly useful for books you’ve already read or other media, as this can quickly add up to a lot of transfer time.Īpps that you use, and have save data that you want to keep, make sure you don’t remove these as the associated save data will be gone if you remove the app. This will make the migration process go a lot smoother and quicker, as well as keeping your new Kindle Fire spick and span. So first do a bit of spring cleaning and remove or uninstall all the apps that you no longer use. You may have a lot of unused apps and data on the Kindle Fire that you don’t want to copy to your new Kindle Fire. However, the Kindle Fire is a multimedia tablet and so the reason most people want to go through this process is to make sure other content apart from ebooks is also synced over, so read on for the steps to do so. Keep in mind that you can use multiple Kindles on the same Amazon account, so if you mainly want to sync your Amazon content such as ebooks, then it’s not strictly necessary to go through this whole migration process. The steps may differ slightly as the name of the directories change depending on what Kindle Fire you have, but in the end your goal is to move the ‘content’ folders off the old Kindle Fire and back them up, then copying that content to your new Fire. This will already be happening on your device if you’re logged in, but you can check it by swiping down from the Home screen to open the Quick Actions or select Menu and select the Sync icon or the Sync and Check for Items option. This is not the case for Kindle books and Audible audiobooks, which you can sync to Amazon’s Cloud system to save your progress. Keep in mind that when you delete something from your Kindle Fire, the bookmarks or progress data will also be removed.
#KINDLE TRANSFER VIA COMPUTER SOFTWARE#
This is unavoidable as some software is tied to a specific device, so moving to a new Kindle Fire will always remove this data. So follow these steps below and you’ll be easily able to convert it all over as best as is possible, although you may find some apps lose some of their progress but nothing major.

#KINDLE TRANSFER VIA COMPUTER UPGRADE#
However, with the continuing improvements to the device, it can be tempting to upgrade your current Kindle Fire to the latest Fire HD 10 and Fire HD Plus but hesitate to do so because you’re worried about all your data not transferring over. The Amazon Kindle Fire is designed to work with Amazon’s content management systems as well as Netflix, Facebook, Hulu, Instagram, TikTok, and more through Amazon’s Appstore.

Manually Transfer Old Data Steps for Data Transfer From Old Kindle Fire to New One
