How to stop and disable a skill on Amazon Alexa

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How to stop and disable a skill on Amazon Alexa

• Adding skills to your Alexa can be useful as it
  enriches the capabilities of your smart speaker.
  However, sometimes an enabled Alexa skill creates
  troubles and errors with voice commands. If a
  skill is continuously creating problems, then you
  can stop and remove it from your Alexa device.

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• In this blog, we will go through the process to
  stop or remove skills from your Alexa device. You
  can ask Alexa to remove an enabled skill and also
  remove manually from the Amazon Alexa app.

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How to stop and remove a skill from Alexa by
voice commands

• To stop an ongoing action
• If an ongoing action causing your smart speaker
  to perform troublemaking tasks, then ask Alexa to
  end it.
• 1.    Active your smart speaker by saying Alexa,
  Echo, or Amazon.
• 2.    And say Alexa, stop.
• The task will be stopped, but wouldnt remove.

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To quit from a skill

•     If you want to walk out from the current
  Alexa skill, then use the steps given below.
• 1.    Active your smart speaker by saying Alexa,
  Echo, or Amazon.
• 2.    And say Alexa, cancel or Alexa! quit.
•     You can also do one more thing to quit from
  a skill, just ignore the skill. Dont give any
  command to your Alexa to ignore a skill, after
  some time it will automatically quit.
•     Ask Alexa for a new skill or task. This will
  also stop and quit the current skill.  To force
  your smart speaker to switch skills
• 1.    Active your smart speaker by saying Alexa,
  Echo, or Amazon.
• 2.    And give a new command like Alexa, How is
  the weather?

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To disable a skill

• 1.    Active your smart speaker by saying Alexa,
  Echo, or Amazon.
• 2.    And say Alexa, disable Name of the skill
  you want to remove.
• The skill will be removed entirely from your
  smart speakers and also from your account. You
  can also enable the same Alexa skill when you
  want to use it again. You cant remove or disable
  the default skills of your smart speaker.

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How to disable a skill from Alexa using Alexa app

• 1.    Open the Alexa app on your phone.
• 2.    Sign in into the app with the same Amazon
  account youre using on your Alexa.
• 3.    Now, tap the Three lines button at the
  upper left corner.
• 4.    Tap on Skills from the bottom of the main
  menu.
• 5.    Tap on Your Skills at the upper right
  corner.
• 6.    Scroll or search for the skill youre
  looking for.
• 7.    Tap on the Skill you want to remove.
• 8.    Tap on the large DISABLE SKILL button of
  the skill to disable it. Thats it!
• This will disable the skill on your Alexa as well
  as remove it from your account.

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About me

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