Netflix Can Now Automatically Download Movies and TV Shows for You

Netflix’s Smart Downloads characteristic is broadening its horizons with “Downloads for You.” It can now mechanically obtain films and TV exhibits that you simply would possibly like, that will help you in conditions the place you end up caught with out Internet entry or in an extended wait just like the night commute. (Remember travelling from side to side for work? Saving on commute time is among the few issues I’m grateful to COVID-19 for.) Previously, Netflix’s Smart Downloads would mechanically delete the episodes you have watched and obtain the subsequent episode of stated TV collection. But films (or new exhibits) have been out of the query. With Downloads for You, Netflix goes a step additional.

How to mechanically obtain films and TV exhibits on Netflix app

Naturally, Netflix’s Downloads for You is an opt-in characteristic which you can activate contained in the Netflix app. The characteristic is just accessible for Android gadgets, it isn’t on iPhone and iPad proper now.

1. To get began, merely launch the Netflix Android app.
2. Then, faucet on the Downloads tab.
3. There, hit the toggle subsequent to Downloads for You.
4. On the subsequent display screen, determine how a lot cupboard space you wish to dedicate for Downloads for You. Netflix says 3GB is sufficient for 12 films and TV exhibits.
5. Once you have made up your thoughts, faucet Turn On.

If you alter your thoughts, you’ll be able to all the time deactivate the Downloads for You toggle within the Netflix app. Or when you run into storage troubles, you’ll be able to lower the quantity it takes up from Downloads > Smart Downloads. Alternatively, if you’d like extra surprises, simply improve the cupboard space allotted to Downloads for You. The cupboard space you reserve for automated downloads is not going to be utilized by guide downloads you provoke within the Netflix app.

“Three years ago, we introduced Smart Downloads so you can find the next episode of your favorite show — even when you’re on the go,” Netflix’s director of product innovation Patrick Flemming wrote in a Netflix weblog. “Now, we want to make discovering your next new favorite series or film quick and easy whether you’re connected or not. Today we’re launching Downloads for You, a new feature that automatically downloads recommended shows or movies to your mobile device based on your tastes.”

Netflix’s Downloads for You is accessible now on Android globally. It will quickly enter testing on iOS. If you are questioning how a lot of a wait it is perhaps, Netflix’s Smart Downloads characteristic took practically seven months to make the bounce from Android to iOS.