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Amazon has released Fire OS 7 for two of its older tablets, Fire HD 8 2018 (8th generation) and Fire 7 2019 (9th generation).
This is the same operating system that ships on the company’s latest Fire HD 8 and 10, which use Android 9 Pie as a base instead of Android 7.1 Nougat. That means you get picture-in-picture support for videos, notification channels, more specific app permissions, improved battery life, and more.
Amazon’s Fire tablets rarely receive critical operating system updates, largely because they’re sold as simple media consumption devices and don’t require Netflix or TikTok Android 10 to work.
The company has now exceeded everyone’s low expectations by shipping Android 9 Pie to two of its older tablets.
Most importantly, this doesn’t seem like a straightforward visual upgrade like the company’s Fire OS 6 update for the company’s 2017 tablets. Amazon didn’t respond to our request for information about the updates, but we installed the update on a Fire HD 8 and it’s definitely based on Android 9 Pie.
It’s not clear whether Amazon started the software rollout, but installing the update manually is incredibly easy.
Go to the Amazon Help, click the “Download Software Update” link for your model and copy the downloaded “bin” file to the root directory of your tablet’s internal storage (in the same location as the “Alarms “,” Books “and” DCIM “are located). Then simply open the System Updates section in the Settings app and confirm the installation.
That’s it!
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