Netflix fulfilled the dream of all — or nearly all — of their users: as of Wednesday, you can already download tv shows, movies, documentaries, or even your favorite novels available in the catalog and view them without an Internet connection.
starting today, users can download their movies or favorite tv series including Narcos,, Orange Is the New Black and many more to see them even when not connected to the Internet. This is possible both in the app Netflix for iOS, as for Android. At least for now, cannot be downloaded to a computer, but only to a mobile device.
What to consider
First, you should know that this type of content offline is available for all Netflix users, regardless of what type of membership used. In addition, for now is only available on iOS and Android and not on computers. It is also a feature to all Netflix users, without any type of limiting geographic.
The download of content — tv shows, movies and documentaries supported — is useful for when you’re going to do something that will keep you away from a viable Internet connection, like a flight on a plane without Wifi, during your commute to work or why not? in the queue of the supermarket.
download offline can be done on a mobile data connection, but from CNET in Spanish we recommend that you use your Wifi network or any other network public Wifi (and safe) to download your content.
just like when you’re watching a series or movie on a Wifi network and low quality depending on your connection speed, the download you can choose what quality of video you want to download — remember that the better the quality, the more time is needed to download and takes up more storage space.
Requirements on iOS and Android
To download content in the app of Netflix, you will need iOS 8.0 or higher in the case of iPhone or iPad, while on Android you need Android 4.4.2 or higher.
How to choose to Download only with a Wifi network
Since you anticipate that you can download content over a Wifi network or cellular, but think twice if you want to download with your 4G data, because it is content that occupies several hundreds of megabytes and, in the case of movies, you can exceed the gigabyte.
So you choose to download content on Netflix only with a Wifi connection
Photo of screen Captures Oscar Gutiérrez/CNETTo do the smart thing and activate the downloads only on a Wifi network, go to the Settings app of Netflix (remember, you have updated your app before you do this). Go to the Settings option of the App and activates the button that says Wifi Only, in the section Downloads. Once this is done, go to the menu video Quality, and choose Higher, to have the best possible image.
In that same window, there is a bar at the bottom of the menu, which displays the name of the device, and you paint with grey the space used between apps, photos and videos from other applications, while with blue lights up the space used by content on Netflix. There you will see a section to delete the downloaded content in the app of Netflix.
How to download series and movies on iOS and Android
Download content is very simple.
(left) The first screenshot is the first thing that appears when the app Netflix has already upgraded to download content; the second screenshot are both the menus where you can view the downloaded content, and view content that you can download
Photo of screen Captures Oscar Gutiérrez/CNETGo to your application, go to the side menu and choose the option Available for you to download, to display only the movies and series that are available for download. Once there, the content appears that you can see without Internet connection; Netflix says that this available content will grow as time goes by, so if by now your favorite content is not available, please be patient.
Now, you can avoid entering this menu and go movie by movie, series by series, to see what can be downloaded — and what doesn’t. In the description of each file there are several options to add the content to the user’s list, share the file to other sides, and a third option for download which is indicated with a small arrow down.
An indicator tells you if a movie or series is available for download; you can also see in one place all the content that you have downloaded and the size it is occupying on your device
Photo of screen Captures Oscar Gutiérrez/CNETWhen you click on the arrow, a message is displayed at the bottom of the screen, indicating that it is downloading that file. The download time may vary, depending on the speed of the Wifi connection and the size of the file. You can see the files in the download in the section My downloads in the sidebar.
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