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Netflix recently expanded more serious efforts at ending password sharing to Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain. And now, the password-sharing crackdown has arrived in the United States. In a blog post shared on May 23, Netflix noted:
Among other things, Netflix plans to begin blocking devices that it feels are using a Netflix account but not paying for it. The blog post further notes, If you want to share Netflix with someone outside your household, you can use these features.
To ready users for the upcoming crackdown, Netflix has added the option of an easy profile transfer. Very simply, this lets each profile on an account easily become its own account. As Netflix shares in a release:
This is quite a move from a company that reportedly spent $400 million for the Knives Out sequels. And is dropping something like 86 original movies this year. But according to a company blog post, Netflix claims the password sharing is preventing them from investing in top-tier content.
Furthermore, the Netflix shareholder letter, indicated more than 100 million households are sharing passwords. More specifically, 30 million households in the US and Canada share passwords. This is a problem for the streaming platform.
A January 31 story on The Streamable suggested that Netflix users watching from multiple locations would have to ensure that any device used to stream titles from a location other than the primary household would have to log in from the primary household and watch something there at least once every 31 days. 9to5mac quoted similar wording from the FAQ page, including the 31-day stipulation.
As of now, the FAQ page does not mention anything about a 31-day window in which users must log their devices into the primary home network, so the company may have walked back that measure in the short time since announcing it.
Members on a Standard or Premium plan can purchase additional member slots for people outside their household. Standard plan users can add one extra member while Premium users can add two extra members to their plans.
Those additional members get full access to the subscription tier of the primary account holder but get their own unique account and password. Their account is simply paid for directly through the primary account holder.
You might be using a password for your Netflix account that you also use for another service. While that may not be a great practice for security reasons, you might still want to keep your password private while sharing your Netflix account with a family number. You can do so by using a password manager.
Most password managers have a password-sharing feature that lets you share your password in a discreet way with your contacts. As long as the person you want to share your password with also has the same password manager installed, the software will take care of automatically logging in without showing your actual password to another party.
For example, netflix, on the apple plus app under my profile, will my shows from Netflix show up and only mine. Then for my wifes profile only hers will show up? Or based on the account used to log in with on Netflix on the main apple TV box will that be the shows that are shown across multiple platforms?
However the individual apps, like Netflix, Hulu, Prime etc... do not in most cases support multiple accounts and will use whichever account is signed in to the App at the time its being used regardless of which Apple ID is active on the Apple TV.
Apps however do support multiple profiles, so if you and your wife have your own profile within each app, you will be able to change to your profile within the App independently of the Apple ID being signed in.
If you each have your own subscription and account with each app and not just a profile within the same account, then you would need to sign the other person out of the app and sign in with your account.
If you want to run an app on a different profile than what the Apple TV is currently logged into then simply change the profile and all billing and preferences for the different profile will be used. Very very simple to do. For example, my wife and I have different profiles and preferences and we are Netflix customers. We both use the same Apple ID for billing however we like to watch different types of content. When she is logged into her account, she sees her preferences and what she has watched in the past, what she would like to watch etc, when I log in to my account then I see what I want.
Thanks. We have separate profiles now, and I am thinking about getting an Apple TV box to consolidate all the services into you. So to be clear, I sign in on the main box to all the accounts with the billing sign in IE Netflix and Apple TV plus. But then the profile on the apple TV app will ask which profile to use for each service. IE Netflix for wife profile on wifes profile for Apple TV plus? 180 dollars is alot to spend if we cant separate the profiles.
Guess what I am trying to say , on the apple tv app, my profile will house all the profiles from streaming apps like Netflix and Disney plus, but then my wifes profiles will consolidated under her own apple tv app profile.
For the 3rd party apps like Netflix, they will need to be signed in with one account that is paying for them, and is not really tied to the Apple ID logins on the Apple TV box in Settings. Netflix may be using the Apple ID as its account, but it is not tied to the Apple ID that is actually active in Settings.
No, The TV App and other Apple apps will use whichever Apple ID is currently active at the time you open the App. It will not ask, you will need to manually change the active Apple ID in Settings if you want to change the user for the Apple apps.
This is, as mentioned, unrelated to the account used for other 3rd party apps like Netflix. For those, if each of you is paying for your own subscription to Netflix, you will need to sign each other out of the App and sign in with your own account.
If you are using the same billing account for Netflix, but have different profiles inside the app, then you can just select the profile within the App you wish to use. But again, this is unrelated to the active Apple ID from the Settings App.
Again, no. Do not confuse accounts with profiles. Accounts hold profiles. Apple IDs do not have profiles. They are just one account that holds information for one user. The active Apple ID will not define what account is logged in to 3rd party apps like Netflix or Disney+, but may define what subscriptions are active for the channels within the Apple TV App.
3rd party Apps like Netflix use accounts with the billing information, and then hold different profiles for different users within that account so they can separate viewed content and likes and dislikes. These are not tied to the active Apple ID at all.
If you have Husband Apple ID and Wife Apple ID, but then you have a subscription account to Netflix with 2 profiles under that account for viewing content, these are unrelated to the Apple IDs. Again it may use the Apple ID as its account, but it has no connection to the Apple ID that is active in Settings.
Note that Netflix's Basic plan is no longer available. If you are already subscribed to this option, you can continue to use it until you cancel or switch plans. With Basic, you are limited to watching Netflix on one device at a time.
As noted in the pricing breakdown, the Standard plan limits you to downloading Netflix content on two devices at once. With a Premium plan, you can download Netflix shows and movies on up to six devices at once. If you have the Standard with ads plan, you can't download at all.
While you can be signed into Netflix on multiple devices, you can only actively watch a stream on the number of screens included in your plan. This means that if you have the two-screen plan, you can still have three people signed into your account on various devices, as long as they aren't all watching at the same time.
The message should show you which devices are streaming Netflix with your account, and what they're watching. Ask these people to stop (via texting them or whatever is easiest) and you'll be clear to stream on your own once they stop. If you think someone is using your Netflix account without your knowledge, we've shown how to find out who is using your Netflix account if it's not immediately apparent.
Separate from the number of screens that you can watch Netflix on at a time, you can also create multiple profiles on your Netflix account. This allows each person that uses the account to have their own personalized recommendations, list of titles they want to watch, subtitle appearances, and similar.
Every Netflix account can have up to five profiles. This doesn't mean that you can watch on each of those profiles at the same time, though. Profiles are a handy way to keep each user's preferences distinct, but the amount of people that can watch Netflix at the same time is still bound by your Netflix plan's screen limit.
It was once common practice to share your Netflix password with other people, allowing everyone to save some money on the service. However, in 2023, Netflix started cracking down on password sharing. Now, the company has restrictions on people outside of your home using your account, so sharing your password with friends or faraway family isn't really an option. Your account is only intended for devices in your home to access the service.
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