How I tricked my Apple TV into working with Netflix

For causes I do not know if I will ever perceive, Apple and Netflix simply don’t seem to get along. Each main streaming service integrates straight into the Apple TV app, which helps you to entry your watchlist and simply proceed watching one thing with out having to open up the precise app. It is a good timesaver as you solely need to open up a single app to entry every part.

Outdoors of an error that built-in Netflix into the app, there does not appear to be any indication that Netflix and Apple will lastly enter a partnership. Which means you continue to have to enter the Netflix app to proceed watching your reveals. Clearly, that is not the top of the world, however I admire saving time once I can. Though it is not the identical factor, I discovered a workaround that allows you to get the following smartest thing. The perfect a part of all of it is that it takes just some seconds to arrange.

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How you can make Netflix and Apple play properly

It is easy and straightforward

When you’re like me, you most likely do not do a whole lot of tweaking to your Apple TV 4K’s dwelling web page, however there’s fairly a bit you are able to do. You probably have many various apps put in, you possibly can categorize them into folders simply to make issues much less cluttered. What you won’t have identified is that your app’s place issues. Apps within the high row of your Apple TV homepage act otherwise as you are capable of hover over them and nonetheless have entry to the very high of the display. By doing this, you may get entry to Netflix with out opening the app.

All it’s important to do is maintain down the huge heart circlepad in your Apple TV distant whereas having the Netflix icon chosen on your house display. This can pull up the choice to Edit Residence Display, and from there, you wish to drag your Netflix tile to the highest row. You will have to maneuver one thing out of the spot, so simply transfer one thing you do not ever use. When you do that, you possibly can scroll via your Netflix picks on the high of the display so long as you’ve the Netflix app chosen. It’s totally restricted, and you may have to open the app to see every part, however that is greater than sufficient for getting again into what you watched final. I additionally suppose it is good to see a number of the new issues hitting Netflix, even should you get much more data by opening the app itself.

This undoubtedly does not repair all the problems you possibly can have with Netflix not integrating with Apple TV, however I discovered it to be a pleasant workaround within the meantime. I might nonetheless very a lot choose full integration throughout the app, however I will take this for now.

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A tricky-to-swallow tablet

I am undecided if there will likely be something higher than this workaround with regards to Apple and Netflix. Each main app seems on the Apple TV app besides Netflix, and it does not appear to be there are any plans to alter that. Netflix has acknowledged up to now that it needs subscribers to really scroll via the app as an alternative of having the ability to entry it via different means.

We all know the know-how to make the mixing is so simple as a flip of a change because of it randomly working earlier in 2025. Because it seems, that was short-lived, so it does not appear to be there’s going to be any deal struck, as a lot as I might like one to be. On the very least, I hope you possibly can make the most of this easy trick to get your Netflix Continue Watching list to indicate up in your Apple TV dwelling display. It isn’t the actual deal, however it’s the most effective we will get for proper now.

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