If your Roku keeps freezing, buffering or randomly restarting right in the middle of your favorite show, you're not alone and your device probably isn't broken.

Katie Maher joined the KCTV5 sports team in July of 2025. She was born and raised on the Jersey Shore and graduated from the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism in 2022.

Excess cached data can slow your Roku to a crawl, making apps take forever to load. Clearing it out with a simple system reset can quickly restore snappy performance.

Preview the exciting changes coming to your iPhone this fall, including a new aesthetic called Liquid Glass, with the new public beta.