Netflix Ends Casting From Mobile Devices For Users Of Newer Tvs

Netflix is ending support for nan expertise to formed from mobile devices to galore TVs. According to a help page spotted by Android Authority, "Netflix nary longer supports casting shows from a mobile instrumentality to astir TVs and TV-streaming devices. You’ll request to usage nan distant that came pinch your TV aliases TV-streaming instrumentality to navigate Netflix."

The institution indicated that casting should still activity pinch older Chromecast devices and TVs that support Google Cast, but only for users who are connected an ad-free plan. However, if you person a Google TV Streamer, Chromecast pinch Google TV aliases a tv that runs connected Android TV, casting whitethorn nary longer beryllium an action successful nan Netflix app.

It appears that Netflix has been softly winding down support for casting successful caller weeks, arsenic immoderate users reported successful mid-November that it was nary longer an action for them. I person an ad-free Netflix scheme and nan latest type of nan iOS app connected my phone. While I tin still pat nan formed button, nan app doesn't database immoderate devices for maine to formed to, including my Android TV-powered television.

This is simply a disappointing move from Netflix arsenic galore folks find it easier to hunt for thing they want to watch connected nan mobile app and past formed that to their TV. If, for instance, you dozed disconnected while watching something, it's besides overmuch faster to get backmost to nan constituent you past retrieve seeing by scrolling done nan section aliases movie connected a mobile instrumentality than pinch a distant connected a TV app.

Engadget has asked Netflix why it's winding down support for casting connected mobile devices. The institution antecedently axed AirPlay support successful 2019 because of "technical limitations."