Back Up and Restore Your Fire Tablet

Back up your Fire tablet in case of damage or loss, and then easily restore your data to a new device. You can set your device to automatically back up weekly, or you can manually back up your device.

Important: Your device must be connected to Wi-Fi in order to be backed up.

Fire tablet backs up your:

  • Personal settings
  • Silk Browser bookmarks
  • Home screen and app layout

Note: Purchased music, movies, TV shows, apps, and books are automatically stored in the Cloud and can be downloaded to your device from the Cloud tab. Photos and personal videos can be backed up in your Amazon Drive.

To turn on automatic device backup:

  1. Swipe down from the top of the screen and tap Settings.
  2. Tap Device Options, and then tap Backup & Restore.
  3. Tap the switch to turn Device Backup ON.
    Your device will automatically back up once weekly when it is in sleep mode and connected wirelessly.

To manually back up your device, tap Back Up Now.

When you set up a new Fire tablet, you will have the option to set it up as a new device or restore your content from a backup.