How To Turn
Netflix
Auto-Play
On 🎬 Off
Netflix provides two Auto-Play settings that you can turn On or Off.
Changes to these settings are specific to a profile and will take effect across all devices.
You can adjust these settings from the Netflix site.
Auto-play NEXT Episode in a Series
On All Devices
When you watch TV shows with multiple episodes, you can automatically play the next episode using auto-play without needing to manually select it.
To turn Auto-Play On or Off:
To turn Auto-Play On or Off:
- Sign In to Netflix from a web browser.
- Select Manage Profiles from the menu.
- Select the profile you’d like to update.
Check or uncheck the option to Auto-play next episode in a series on all devices.
Note:
Your device may require a refresh to pick up the updated setting. You can force an update by switching to another profile, then switching back in order to reload your profile with the updated setting. If profile switching does not resolve this, try signing out and signing back in to the device.
Auto play previews while browsing on all devices
Your device may require a refresh to pick up the updated setting. You can force an update by switching to another profile, then switching back in order to reload your profile with the updated setting. If profile switching does not resolve this, try signing out and signing back in to the device.
Auto play previews while browsing on all devices
When you browse Netflix, you can automatically play trailers using auto play to get a preview of a TV show or movie.
To turn Auto-Play On or Off:
- Sign In to Netflix from a web browser.
- Select Manage Profiles from the menu.
- Select the profile you’d like to update.
Check or uncheck the option to Auto-play previews while browsing on all devices.
Note:
Your device may require a refresh to pick up the updated setting. You can force an update by switching to another profile, then switching back in order to reload your profile with the updated setting. If profile switching does not resolve this, try signing out and signing back in to the device.
Note:
Your device may require a refresh to pick up the updated setting. You can force an update by switching to another profile, then switching back in order to reload your profile with the updated setting. If profile switching does not resolve this, try signing out and signing back in to the device.
Meet the Woman who Made Netflix
Get Rid of its Most Annoying Feature
By Adam Clark - Feb 6, 2020
Sarah Hollowell: my entire kingdom for a way to turn off the Auto-Play while browsing Netflix * 2:48 PM - Feb 6, 2020
Some people find this feature helpful. Others not so much.
We’ve heard the feedback loud and clear - members can now control whether or not they see Auto-Play previews on Netflix.
Here's how: netflix.com/previewsetting
A writer from Muncie, Indiana, recently complained about Netflix’s autoplay feature. The company responded in a major way.
Lovers
of high-quality feature films and The Witcher rejoiced on Thursday
afternoon when Netflix made a huge, unexpected announcement.
Finally, viewers can turn off that annoying feature
that auto played previews when you scrolled through the video streaming
platform’s content.
Netflix will also let you turn off the auto-play feature that starts the next episode of a show after you finish the one you’re watching. This happened after a woman from Muncie, Indiana, complained about the feature on Twitter and offered to give away her “entire kingdom” to make it stop. Other Netflix watchers have complained about this feature, but her tweet seems to have gotten the company’s attention.
Netflix will also let you turn off the auto-play feature that starts the next episode of a show after you finish the one you’re watching. This happened after a woman from Muncie, Indiana, complained about the feature on Twitter and offered to give away her “entire kingdom” to make it stop. Other Netflix watchers have complained about this feature, but her tweet seems to have gotten the company’s attention.
Sarah Hollowell is a young adult fantasy writer
who now owes Netflix her kingdom.
After she tweeted for a way to turn off the autoplay feature, Netflix responded a week later on Twitter by linking to a new help page that offers a way to stop both the preview autoplay and the next-episode autoplay. The latter is what you probably blame for your last seven-hour binge, since that next episode comes on before you can peel yourself off the couch.
After she tweeted for a way to turn off the autoplay feature, Netflix responded a week later on Twitter by linking to a new help page that offers a way to stop both the preview autoplay and the next-episode autoplay. The latter is what you probably blame for your last seven-hour binge, since that next episode comes on before you can peel yourself off the couch.
Recode recently spoke to Hollowell, who explained the
backstory to the tweet that rocked the Netflix universe. Hollowell
explained that she’s been a Netflix customer since before the company
offered streaming videos and simply sent DVDs through the mail. More
recently, the self-described “expert binge-watcher” says she couldn’t
browse without being inundated by auto-play previews. Her tweet that
Netflix seems to have noticed happened after a particularly frustrating
session.
“I was clicking through all the categories on the
homepage and I was so distracted by knowing that I had to move fast to
avoid the auto-play that I could barely register the titles,” Hollowell
told Recode. “I ended up muting the TV, and it was the kind of mild
annoyance that’s perfect for whining about on Twitter.”
A week after her volley of tweets, Netflix retweeted Hollowell and
announced the updated settings. This is a big deal, if you follow
Netflix Twitter much. People reviled these autoplay previews so much
that there’s a dedicated Twitter account collecting the complaints,
including one widely circulated smirk from Knives Out director Rian Johnson. Outrage like this has spilled over to seemingly every corner of the internet.
If you click through any of those links, you’ll also realize that
people have been yelling at Netflix about this for years. There’s even a Change.org petition
started by a Melissa Bryant, a passionate Netflix user from Maine, that
racked up nearly 125,000 signatures in the past two months.
It’s unclear why Netflix finally decided to listen to its customers. Back in 2018, Netflix’s vice president of product innovation told BuzzFeed News
that one of the reasons the platform autoplayed preview clips was
because “video is just a much more efficient way to communicate these
things per unit of time than reading text.” But still, the previews
don’t count as views on the platform, so it’s not like Netflix was using
the feature to juice its numbers. Recode reached out to Netflix with
these questions and will update this post if we hear back.
In the meantime, Hollowell would be happy for folks to think that it was her tweet that did it.
“Don’t get me wrong, I will absolutely take the credit if
they want to hand it over to me,” she told Recode. “I will happily be
seen as the savior of the people.”
She went on to point out that she’s since tweeted at Hulu
about its user design, which she thinks is confusing. Hollowell would
also like Amazon Prime Video to know that browsing by genre is a
horrible experience on the platform: “Why do they make you answer their
riddles three just to find where they’re keeping the horror movies?”
It’s hard to say.
If you’ve made it this far and still haven’t turned off
the autoplay features in Netflix, we’ll make it easy for you. Just sign
in to Netflix and click the “manage profile” button. (If you’re already
logged in, you can find this option under the dropdown menu with your
profile picture.) From there, you should see two new entries.
To stop the awful Auto-Play action,
just uncheck the box and enjoy the show.
just uncheck the box and enjoy the show.
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