
Choose video quality of Netflix videos you want to download If you have already tried some troubleshooting steps before emailing us, make sure to mention them so we can skip them in our answers. If you can, kindly include the exact error messages you are getting to give us an idea where to start. Unless you are on an unlimited data plan, or you can afford to pay humongous cellular bills, downloading via wifi should be a wiser choice.īefore we proceed let us remind you that you can contact us by using the link provided at the bottom of this page. When describing your issue, please be as detailed as possible so we can easily pinpoint a relevant solution. Netflix contents can take several GBs so you want to make sure that you’re using your home wifi or any other fast wifi to download them. Just make sure to plan ahead and do the downloads using your home wifi. This short tutorial will walk you through the steps on what you need to do to make that possible. The new iPhone Netflix app now allows you to save your favorite movies or shows so you can watch them even when your device is not connected to the internet. Again, like the limited-downloads issues we highlighted above, this is one of those in-the-fine-print scenarios that we didn’t encounter in the wild.Going to an off-the-grid trip and afraid of missing your favorite Netflix shows or movies? Fear not. Unfortunately, there’s really no way to tell which titles have which limitations unless you experiment with them ahead of time, so if your goal is to download all the episodes of Frasier for that Arctic cruise, it might be wise to test things out a few weeks before you set sail. Some titles will also expire 48 hours after you first press play (this is also displayed in the “My Downloads” section).įortunately, if the particular title is available for renewal per the licensing, you don’t have to download it again-you just have to tap the little “!” icon next to it in “My Downloads” and renew it (while online of course). If a title is set to expire from your download collection in the next 7 days or less, you will see a notification to that end on your “My Downloads” page within the Netflix app.


Per the fine print in Netflix’s help file on the matter, titles can expire per the license agreement with the companies leasing the content to Netflix. Titles Expire, and You Need to Log In Occasionally We tried to run into this barrier with show after show, but have yet to run into a limit. That means it’s theoretically possible that you could run into a situation where you wanted to download all 6 seasons of a show but Netflix would only allow you to download some of them. Although we have yet to run into this issue while field testing the download feature, we talked to Netflix and found that it’s possible company X could cap the number of episodes you download of show A.
