[Catlady]

Originally Posted by tomsem

If you have some folder like Utilities or Amazon (to de-clutter Home) you could at least stick it in there.

Thanks, that's what I decided to do; I had a folder for News already, so I put the Newsstand nonexistent app there. It will annoy me less if I don't see it. But why there isn't a simple option to get rid of a placeholder is baffling. Surely other customers upgrading from earlier tablets must have encountered the same situation of an incompatible or discontinued app.

If you install an alternate launcher (I have no recommendations) you might be able to use that to delete it.

I had to Google that; eek, no thanks.

Factory reset (without subsequent restore) doesn't seem like such a bad option, at least it would not be for me. I never really found many Amazon Appstore apps worth installing.

If I'd done the factory reset, I was planning on deleting from the old tablet the apps that had been problematic before doing the restore. The Amazon tech guy thought that would work. But then I decided the heck with it.

I decided to put Google Play on my Fire Max 11 to get the few apps that I didn't want to side load and keep having to update by hand, as I'd done in the past. I had not bothered to do this with any of my ten or so Fire tablets previously. It was not that hard, but you just need to get the right set of APKs. But having done it I would not want to factory reset and have to do it again. Hopefully, I will never have to.

I may try that on the old Fire tablet before I have to send it back for the trade-in. But sideloading generally seems to work well enough for me.