Now you will get a complete season of a present from Netflix in your iPhone or iPad with a faucet. Photograph: Brad Gibson/Cult of Mac
Netflix launched a brand new “Season Download” button in its app Wednesday that enables iPhone and iPad customers to obtain total seasons of their favourite exhibits with a single faucet. That streamlines offline viewing for iOS customers, who beforehand needed to obtain episodes individually.
It’d be good if Apple TV+ did that too, proper?
Netflix provides one-click full-season downloads for iPhone and iPad customers
iOS and iPadOS customers can entry the brand new performance via a devoted button situated subsequent to the Share possibility on a present’s show web page, based on The Hollywood Reporter. They usually can handle their downloaded content material via the My Netflix tab, sustaining easy accessibility to their offline library. It is perhaps value noting the brand new performance is proscribed to accessible episodes. It doesn’t pace up their launch.
The characteristic’s introduction to iOS units — Android customers already had it — marks an growth of Netflix’s offline viewing capabilities, which have advanced since their launch in 2016. The replace iPad and iPhone builds upon earlier improvements like Good Downloads, which robotically replaces watched episodes with the subsequent accessible installment in a sequence.
Netflix’s most-downloaded sequence
Together with the brand new characteristic launch, Netflix revealed its most-downloaded sequence of all time. The listing consists of each seasons of Squid Sport, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, One Piece and Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story. These world hits seem to spotlight viewers’ growing choice for downloading content material for on-the-go leisure throughout commutes, journey or in areas with restricted web connectivity.
Final 12 months, Netflix launched social media sharing capabilities. They permit customers to share their favourite moments from Netflix exhibits. And the corporate’s dedication to each content material and product growth seems to be paying dividends. Neflix’s current record-breaking quarter noticed the addition of 19 million new subscribers.
Rising costs
The timing of this characteristic rollout coincides with Netflix’s current pricing changes. Subscribers on ad-free plans can retailer as much as 100 energetic downloads per machine. These choosing the ad-supported tier can retailer 15 downloads per 30 days. The premium ad-free plan now prices $24.99 month-to-month. The usual ad-free plan goes for $17.99. And the ad-supported possibility is priced at $7.99 per 30 days.
