Netflix Brings ‘Season Obtain’ Button to iPhone, iPad Customers

Netflix on Wednesday introduced it was introducing a button that might enable customers to obtain a whole season with a single faucet on its app for iPhone and iPad. The ‘Season Obtain’ button is not precisely new — it has been accessible on the Android model of the app for some time. Netflix customers can faucet the season obtain button to mechanically obtain all episodes in that season to their cellular gadget, so long as they’re subscribed to one of many platform’s ad-free or ad-supported plans.

Netflix Season Obtain Button Was Beforehand Restricted to Android Gadgets

The streaming platform mentioned in a publish that it was updating the Netflix app for iPhone and iPad with a ‘Season Obtain’ button. Devices 360 was in a position to verify that the brand new season obtain characteristic had rolled out to Netflix for iOS and iPad. It didn’t require a software program replace, which signifies that the brand new button is being enabled by a server-side swap.

Netflix’s new button is seen on each TV present itemizing on the streaming platform, and it’s situated to the correct of the Share button. Customers can faucet on the Obtain Season button, and the app will begin downloading all of the episodes in that season.

It is value noting that there are some limitations to utilizing the Season Obtain button. For instance, customers on an ad-free plan can have as much as 100 downloads per gadget. Completely different plans supply various limits on gadgets that may obtain content material.

Netflix additionally gives ad-supported plans in some areas (excluding India) and customers who’re subscribed to those plans have a extra restrictive obtain restrict — 15 episodes. In consequence, these customers won’t have the ability to obtain a whole season of some TV reveals, which embrace as much as 23 episodes.

The streaming platform additionally gives different options which can be designed to make it simpler for customers to observe content material offline. For instance, if a person downloads a couple of episodes to observe offline, the Automated Downloads characteristic may also hold upcoming episodes offline at any time when the gadget is linked to a Wi-Fi community.