

Kindle Oasis now has an option to invert black and white colors, and the effect is somewhat similar to the black theme that you might have used and appreciated on the Android or iOS app for being softer on the eyes. Easy.Amazon’s new eBook reader, Kindle Oasis 2 (9 th generation) brings forward several changes and if you just bought one and are wondering what all you could do on your Kindle Oasis besides reading books, here are a few simple tips and tricks that you can benefit from. Next time you – or anyone else – tries to get onto the Fire, there’ll be a password stopping them: Tap on “On” next to the Lock Screen Password option and it’ll prompt you for a PIN code or security code:Įnter the same code twice, tap on “Finish” and you’re done… Now you’ll see the option you want: “Lock Screen Password”: Now you’ll see a much more extensive list of settings:Ĭhoose “Security” at the bottom, as I’ve highlighted above.

Handy, but what you want to set up the security code PIN is under “More”, so tap that.
On any page on the Kindle Fire HD, drag the very top edge down and you’ll bring up a set of configuration options: Still, that might be a bit more trouble than it’s worth, so let’s stick with the regular security PIN… Turn those off and while other people can get to the main portion of your device, they couldn’t dig much further without entering the parental control password. You can do the overt and obvious security code that needs to be entered to gain access to the device – as I’ll demonstrate in just a minute – or if you wanted to be more sneaky you could simply use the parental controls to disable key features like Web browsing. There are two ways I can envision you setting things up. I’ll let you and your Mom figure that one out! Hmm… as a parent, I’m a bit curious what you’re doing on your Kindle Fire and what you access and store that makes you want to hide it from your Mom, but let’s just leave that one alone.
