How to install HBO Max on an Amazon Fire TV

Although almost all applications are compatible with Amazon Fire TV, not all. We cannot download HBO Max on Amazon Fire TV by default on any of its models if you have the Amazon section and want to use it on the TV. HBO Max is not compatible with or Amazon Fire TV Stick or with Amazon Fire TV Cube in none of their models…

In that case, there are some tricks that we can follow to be able to install HBO Max on any of the Amazon devices until it officially appears in the app store. We will only need to have the device and an account on the streaming platform since we will need to log in once downloaded. All cheats are completely legal and we will not hack no HBO Max content but force the installation to be able to use it on your television with the Amazon device.

From the Amazon website

The first option to download HBO Max on Amazon Fire TV is to do so by downloading the application from the Amazon website. You must bear in mind that we cannot download it by default in our country, so we will have no choice but to modify the configuration of our account in the online store to “deceive” Amazon and make it believe that we live in another country, from which we do. It is possible to download HBO max on Amazon Fire TV. For example, the United States. The steps are very simple and we can do it from our account, through the computer browser.

First we change device settings and then we download the application normally. The steps are the following:

• Let’s go to our Amazon account
• We log in with our email and password
• We touch on “Account and lists”
• We open the section “Manage content and devices”
• In the tabs at the top, we choose “preferences”
• Here we will see the option “Country/Region Settings”
• You will see that it indicates “Current country Spain” but tap on “Change”
• A popup will open where you can change the country
• Open among all the options and choose “United States”

Here we have to fill a series of false data with a United States address and zip code, you can use Google. Once you have it, you must update the Amazon page and you will be able to search for “HBO Max” in the search engine to download the app and add it to your device on the television, without complications.

From mobile phone

We can install HBO Max on the Amazon Fire TV if we send the APK from the mobile phone if we have previously installed it, although the process is much more annoying and slow than the previous one. In this case there are several steps that we must follow: download the APK on our smartphone, download a file transfer application that allows us to send the APK from the mobile to the television (to the Amazon Fire TV) and we will need to install an application on the Amazon device that allows us to download and install that application officially. Although it seems very long and complex, it will only take a few minutes. We explain it step by step…

• Go to your mobile phone and download Send to file via the Google Play Store

You can download any other similar application, but by downloading this we will make sure that it is an app compatible with both your smartphone and your Amazon Fire TV, so we will not have any problems when linking them.

• Go to your Amazon FireTV and download Send to file from the app store

Once we have this, we go to the device settings:

• Open your Amazon Fire TV using the remote
• Access your account if you have not done so before, with email and password
• Go to the gear icon to open the settings or configuration
• Go to the “My Fire TV” section
• Once here, search “Developer Options” on the menu
• You will see “Install unknown apps”, as you see in the screenshot below
• Access and allow access to this type of applications by following the steps on the screen

Once we’ve done this, we need to have the streaming video app. To do this, from your mobile phone, download the HBO Max APK from a trusted application store and make sure that it is an official version free of viruses and malware. With the file already downloaded on your smartphone, go to the Send to file app and tap on “Send” to send it to the Amazon Fire TV Stick.

Once we have sent the APK, we need an application or program that works as a file explorer on the Amazon device. You can choose the one you want or use one that you already have previously installed. With this file explorer we can go to the “Download” folder where we will see the HBO Max APK.

Tap on the file, as it is in the image and tap on “Install app”. After a few seconds the Amazon Fire TV will tell you that the app has been installed correctly and you just have to open it to access HBO Max and log in with your credentials.

Download the app from the Fire TV

We cannot officially download the application from the application store because Amazon does not allow it, as we have already said in previous paragraphs. But we can do it through different application stores that allow us to download the APK file and install it in the same way that we have done in the previous step.

In this case we just need a browser installed on the Amazon device and a website from which to download the application and then install it. It is important here that we do not get carried away by any page that offers us to download HBO Max without making sure if it is reliable or not, since we can end up installing malware or malicious applications and not only will they not work, but we can endanger the different devices.

To open a browser that allows us to go to one of these stores we can use Amazon Silk, the Amazon browser. It is an easy to use and simple option that allows us to use the control of the device to search for the application store that you want. For example, Uptodown. Make sure the app store is trustworthy and search for HBO Max to download the APK on your Amazon Fire TV. Once you have it, follow the steps to install it and log in with your username and password.