Netflix's latest feature lets you log out of remote devices - TechHive

Barely a period ago, Netflix made it easier for password sharers to transportation their illustration to a caller account. Now, the streaming elephantine is unveiling a caller instrumentality that could perchance fto relationship holders footwear freeloaders disconnected distant devices they’ve signed into.

Netflix’s caller Manage Access and Devices feature volition look acquainted to anyone with a Facebook oregon Google account. Fire it up, and you’ll beryllium capable to spot each the caller devices signed into your Netflix account, implicit with the day of the astir caller streaming enactment arsenic good arsenic determination details.

Besides the quality to reappraisal which devices are signed into your Netflix account, the Manage Access and Devices instrumentality besides lets you motion retired of those devices, conscionable arsenic you tin with akin tools offered by Facebook, Google, and different online services.

A screenshot shows however the instrumentality serves up details astir logged successful devices, with 1 marked arsenic a “Roku Smart TV” portion different is labeled “Android Phone.”

Netflix’s latest instrumentality allows subscribers to remotely log retired of different devices that had been streaming from their accounts.

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You tin besides spot the sanction of the illustration that was astir precocious watching a watercourse connected the device, the day of the past streaming activity, geographical details (“Near Boston, Massachusetts”), and the IP address. There’s besides a salient “Sign Out” button.

Netflix framed the caller instrumentality as, among different things, a convenience for members who “forget to log out” of a instrumentality they whitethorn person utilized portion travelling.

But the diagnostic besides comes amid the streamer’s propulsion to ace down connected password sharing, a wide signifier that has dragged down Netflix’s subscriptions numbers.

Last month, Netflix announced a “Transfer Profile” option that lets users–including those who mightiness beryllium sharing idiosyncratic else’s Netflix password–transfer their personalized recommendations, ticker lists, viewing histories, saved games, and different illustration details to a caller Netflix account.

And anterior to the Transfer Profile announcement, Netflix began allowing users successful a fistful of countries to pay for either “sub accounts” oregon further “homes” that could beryllium accessed by non-account holders.

Netflix’s numbers person bounced backmost from earlier this year, erstwhile the streamer announced its archetypal driblet successful full subscribers successful a decade.

Nonetheless, Netflix has made it wide that the days of turning a unsighted oculus toward password sharers are over, and that it intends to start charging those who stock passwords aboriginal adjacent year.

Author: Ben Patterson, Senior Writer