[Swordmaker]

If you are looking for encrypted storage on your mobile devices, you won't find it on Amazon's Fire devices using Fire OS 5. — PING!

Pinging dayglored, ThunderSleeps, and Shadow Ace for their ping lists.

Amazon Removed Local Encryption
for User Data in September's Fire OS 5
Ping!

The latest Apple/Mac/iOS Pings can be found by searching Keyword "ApplePingList" on FreeRepublic's Search.

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me

[NewHampshireDuo]

I picked up a Fire for use with a ham radio program. That’s all it will be used for and it will not need to be connected to the internet.

[Cyberman]

The latest word is that Amazon is reversing its position and will restore the feature in a future software update.

That said, it appears to be basically an engineering decision driven by technical issues with the low-end processor and memory of this model -- hardly anybody uses the encryption because it's a strain on the severely limited system resources.