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Add Favorites on IPTV Smarters Firestick With a Long Press

Here's how to add favorites on IPTV Smarters Firestick using just the remote's D-pad and Select button, no mouse or keyboard needed.

Updated August 2026

Add Favorites on IPTV Smarters Firestick With a Long Press

Here's how to add favorites on IPTV Smarters Firestick: highlight the channel with the remote's D-pad, then press and hold the center Select button until a menu pops up, and choose Add to Favorites. Firestick's remote has no right-click, so the long-press stands in for it.

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Here's how to add favorites on IPTV Smarters Firestick: highlight the channel with the remote's D-pad, then press and hold the center Select button until a menu pops up, and choose Add to Favorites. Firestick's remote has no right-click, so the long-press stands in for it. The channel then appears in a Favorites row you can jump to instead of scrolling the full list. Do this for each channel you watch regularly, and remove one the same way if your habits change.

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Daniel Osei

Support Lead

devices · 8 min read · Updated 2026-08-08

The numbers

What the figures actually say

54,000+
Live channels in the full list
~18,000
Channels where players start to lag
1-5
Simultaneous connections
Unlimited
App installs allowed

In detail

The long-press is the only trick

Why do you press and hold instead of just clicking?

A Fire TV remote only has one select button, not a left-click and a right-click like a mouse. IPTV Smarters Pro still needs a way to open a context menu with options like Add to Favorites, so on Firestick that menu opens when you press and hold Select instead of just tapping it. A quick tap plays the channel; holding it down for roughly a second brings up the menu instead. It takes a try or two to get the timing right if you are used to a phone or a mouse, but once you have done it a couple of times the muscle memory sticks, and it is the same long-press for every channel you want to tag.

Where do favorites appear on Firestick?

After you add a few, back out to the main Live TV guide and look at the category list on the left, navigable with the D-pad. A Favorites group shows up there, usually near the top, separate from the full channel list and any other groups your playlist shipped with. Highlight it and press Select to open it, and you will see only the channels you tagged. This is the shortcut that matters most on a TV screen: instead of arrowing down through a long list one row at a time with a remote, you jump to Favorites and you are already close to what you want to watch.

Should you hide channel groups instead of favoriting one by one?

If your playlist has a very large channel count, favoriting individual channels helps, but it does not fix a sluggish app by itself. Player apps hold the entire visible channel list in memory, and performance can start to slip once that list runs past roughly 18,000 visible channels, well beyond what most households actually watch. Hiding groups you never open, alongside favoriting the handful you do watch, keeps the list the app has to manage smaller and more responsive. Check your version's settings for a way to hide or collapse whole categories, not just individual channels, if scrolling ever starts to feel slow on Firestick.

Does Amazon block IPTV on Firestick?

Amazon does not block the IPTV Smarters Pro app itself; it is available the same way any player app is, and it plays whatever playlist you load into it. What Amazon's store updates do target are apps that bundle pirated content directly inside the app, which get pulled or blocked in updates from time to time. A login-only player like IPTV Smarters Pro, which just displays a playlist you already have from your own provider, is a different category from that, and updates aimed at bundled-content apps are not aimed at it.

Step by step

  1. 1

    Open IPTV Smarters Pro and load Live TV

    Launch the app on your Firestick and open the Live TV tab; your provider's full channel list should already be loaded from setup.

  2. 2

    Highlight the channel with the D-pad

    Use the remote's directional pad to scroll to the channel you want to favorite, without pressing Select yet.

  3. 3

    Press and hold Select

    Hold down the center Select button for about a second instead of tapping it. A pop-up menu with several options should appear.

    Tip · A quick tap plays the channel instead, so hold a beat longer than feels natural at first.

  4. 4

    Choose Add to Favorites from the menu

    Select that option with the D-pad and center button. The channel is now tagged without being removed from the full list.

  5. 5

    Back out and open the Favorites category

    Return to the guide's category list on the left and select Favorites. You should see the channel you just tagged there.

  6. 6

    Repeat for more channels

    Go back to the full list and repeat steps two through four for each channel you watch regularly.

  7. 7

    Hide unused groups if the list feels slow

    If your provider's playlist has a very large channel count, check settings for an option to hide categories you never open, on top of favoriting individual channels.

    Tip · This matters more on Firestick's hardware than on a phone or PC, since it has less memory to hold a big visible list.

Verified service facts

Confirmed

A factory reset uninstalls sideloaded and store-downloaded apps along with their cached data, leaving only the software that shipped with the device.

Confirmed

Playing a personal media file from local or network storage through a device's file browser uses an entirely separate playback path from the IPTV app's own streaming servers, so a local playback issue is unrelated to IPTV service quality or account status.

Confirmed

Google Play requires all Android TV app submissions to be packaged as Android App Bundles rather than plain APK files.

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Questions

Add Favorites on IPTV Smarters Firestick With a Long Press — questions people ask

How do I add favorites on IPTV Smarters on Firestick?
Highlight the channel using the Fire TV remote's D-pad, then press and hold the center Select button for about a second until a pop-up menu appears. Choose Add to Favorites from that menu. The channel is now tagged and shows up in a separate Favorites category on the Live TV guide, without leaving or being removed from the full channel list. Repeat the same press-and-hold for every channel you want quick access to.
Can I get IPTV on my Fire Stick?
Yes. Firestick runs IPTV Smarters Pro like any other Fire TV app, and once it is installed you load your playlist by entering the M3U link or the username, password, and server URL your provider gives you. From there, live channels, favorites, and the program guide all work the same way they do on Android or Windows versions of the app.
Is Amazon Fire Stick blocking IPTV?
Amazon is not blocking IPTV as a category or blocking login-only player apps like IPTV Smarters Pro. Store updates occasionally pull apps that bundle pirated content directly, since that is a policy and legal issue tied to what is packaged inside the app. A player that only displays a playlist you already have from your own provider is not the kind of app those updates target.
How to organize channels on IPTV?
Favorites are the main tool: tag the channels you watch often so they sit in one short list instead of the full one. Beyond that, most players group channels into categories your provider's playlist already ships with, such as by region or type, and you can hide categories you never open. Combining a trimmed set of visible groups with a Favorites list is what keeps a channel count in the tens of thousands from feeling unmanageable on a remote.
Why won't the remote's select button open the favorites menu?
A quick tap on Select just plays the channel; you need to hold it down, roughly a second, for the context menu to appear. If nothing happens even after holding it, back out to the main guide and try again, since the menu sometimes fails to open if you are mid-buffer on another channel. Restarting the app clears this in most cases if it keeps happening.
Do favorites survive an app update on Firestick?
Usually yes, since favorites are stored in the app's local data on that Firestick, and a normal update through the Amazon app store does not clear that. A full uninstall and reinstall does clear it, though, along with your playlist login, so you would need to re-add both. If favorites vanish right after an update with no reinstall involved, that points to an app issue worth reporting rather than something you did.
How many channels can Firestick handle before the app lags?
There is no hard cutoff, but player apps that hold roughly 18,000 or more visible channels in memory at once tend to slow down on Firestick's more limited hardware compared with a phone or PC. Favoriting the channels you watch and hiding groups you do not helps keep the visible list well under that range, which is the main lever you actually control from the settings menu.

The long-press is the only trick

Adding a favorite on Firestick takes one press-and-hold and a menu choice; there is no separate setup or app permission involved. The channel count and your playlist stay exactly the same either way.

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Editor’s pick

Picked by Daniel Osei · Support Lead

I'd favorite your regular channels the same day you finish setup, while the remote gestures are still fresh in your head. It also makes hiding unused groups an easier next step if the full list ever feels slow.

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