- Netflix provides Download Season to iPhone and iPad apps
- The replace comes after Android customers obtained it
- It follows a major value improve
During the darkish days, those the place my dwelling broadband community went offline, we struggled to stream Netflix content material on our iPads and iPhones. If solely we would had this current replace: the power to obtain complete seasons.
Granted, which may not have labored so nicely with the just about ineffective New Radio connection on my iPhone, but when I’d already had the power to obtain complete seasons of Squid Game and Man on the Inside, we’d’ve already had all these reveals resident on our iPhones and iPads. In that case, who wants a connection?
The potential to obtain a whole sequence on probably the greatest streaming companies shouldn’t be totally new. Android customers have had it for some time. Netflix on my new Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra had this potential from the second I put in the streaming service.
How to get it
The new obtain functionality wasn’t there right now once I checked my iPhone 16 Pro Max. But I discovered a fast approach so as to add it. I deleted the app from my telephone and reinstalled it. Presto! Netflix Downloads administration middle moved to a brand new location underneath My Netflix, and reveals the place downloads can be found now embrace a Download Season possibility subsequent to the Share icon.
In the case of multi-season reveals, the label says “Download Season 1” or no matter season you are in. In the case of a restricted sequence or one with only a single season underneath its belt like A Man on the Inside, it’s going to say one thing like “Download 8 Episodes.”
Over WiFi, it took a couple of minute to obtain 8 episodes of A Man on the Inside. To double-check the utility of this characteristic, I put my telephone in airplane mode and was happy to see that I may play any of the episodes.
I may additionally go into the Download Management part and delete the episodes individually or the whole season with one click on.
Being in a position to watch Netflix streamers offline is an enormous deal. I do know that in my home, once we had no connectivity and had been solely watching what we may stream stay in the meanwhile – which wasn’t a lot and why we switched to DVDs (the old-school approach of getting immediate entry to complete seasons of your favourite reveals) – we’d’ve thought of this characteristic a binge lifesaver.
There’s no technical motive I can see that prevented Netflix from bringing this to the perfect iPhones and finest iPads similtaneously Android telephones and I hope they do not make a behavior of overlaying just one platform at a time.
Giving us this content material portability is the least Netflix can do after once more elevating costs on all ranges of service.
As I put together to go on somewhat trip, I plan to make the most of this characteristic and obtain just a few seasons of some choose reveals to look at on the seaside or once I simply need to chill in my resort room.
Such good timing. Thanks, Netflix.
