HowTo Jailbreak firestick – updated for may 2020
Step 1 – Go to the home screen of your Firestick by clicking the home button on remote
Step 2 – Hover over the Settings menu item
Step 3 – Click Preferences
Step 4 – Click Privacy Settings – you may not see any of these options on older Fire TV devices or systems that haven’t been updated, if so proceed to How to Install Alternative App Store below.
Step 5 – Turn these Privacy Settings to OFF
Go back to previous screen by clicking back button on remote after changing these settings to “Off”.
Step 6 – Click Data Monitoring
Step 7 – Turn off Data Monitoring
Step 8 – Return to Preferences and select Featured Content
Step 9 – Turn these Off
Step 10 – Click back button, return to the previous screen and click the My Fire TV
Step 11 – Click Developer Options
Step 12 – Click Apps from Unknown Sources
Step 13 – Click Turn On button
We have now jailbroken our Firestick by allowing for the installation of applications that aren’t available within the Amazon App Store.