Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorMaybe you’ve been there: You’re trying to download a movie or show to Netflix’s app before a flight — but you don’t get the whole thing before your plane takes off into the wild blue yonder, so you can’t watch any of it.Netflix has now addressed this first-world problem: On Monday (June 28) the streamer is launching a feature that lets customers with Android phones and tablets start playing a TV episode or movie before it has completed downloading.Netflix introduced downloads for offline viewing in 2016.
Two years later, it introduced Smart Downloads on Android (followed by iOS in 2019), a feature that automatically downloads the next episode in a TV series you’re watching and also deletes an episode once you.
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