Since its arrival in our country, the American streaming content platform has only grown. Its large catalog, its exclusive contents and the possibility of watching our series and movies from any device and even offline, are the main responsible for its success. However, there are certain functions that may not be liked by everyone, such as automatic Netflix playback of trailers and previews . If you are one of those who bothers you that the next episode starts or the trailer or movie is played while you browse the catalog, we show the steps to follow to disable it.
Although it is a function that in certain cases can be useful, for example for those who sit on a chair Sunday afternoon and want to see a lot of chapters of their favorite series almost without blinking, the truth is that for many others can be a great inconvenience . In addition, the fact that you are looking for a movie to watch and that every time we get into one, the trailer begins to play, is not to the liking of many users.
How to disable automatic playback on Netflix
It is a feature that a while ago could not be deactivated but that, finally, has been incorporated into the platform settings so that users who want to, can disable the automatic playback on Netflix of trailers and previews. To do this, the platform itself provides two different automatic playback settings that you can enable or disable, one for automatic playback of the next episode and another for automatic trailer playback.
It is important to know that changes in these settings affect a specific profile and will be applied to all devices. Therefore, each user profile can choose how they want to have these options configured independently. To enable or disable these options, these are the steps to follow:
From the web
- We open the Netflix site in our browser.
- We log in with our platform user.
- Select Manage profiles from the menu
- We choose the profile we want to modify.
- Uncheck the option Automatically play the next episode of the series on all devices.
- Uncheck the option Automatically replay progress while browsing all devices.
The first box is the one that deactivates the automatic playback on Netflix of the next episode, while the second is the one that refers to the automatic reproduction of trailers or advances.
Desktop version and mobile app
If you are a user of the platform and you have the desktop version installed on your PC, you will have already realized that when you try to manage any of our profiles, a web browser will open directly for us to do it from there. Therefore, the only way to disable Netflix automatic playback is from the browser itself.
Something we can do from the desktop or from the browser on our mobile phone. In this case, these would be the steps to follow:
- We open the Netflix site in our browser.
- We log in with our platform user.
- Select Manage profiles from the menu
- We choose the profile we want to modify.
- From the menu we select the option Playback settings.
- Uncheck the option Automatically play the next episode of the series on all devices.
- Uncheck the option Automatically replay progress while browsing all devices.
