you can now see the content before completing the download

When we compared the most popular streaming apps, we already saw that Android has a clear winner: Netflix. And it is, among others, for the lots of added features offered by the on-demand content platform.

This range of features has grown in recent months with the arrival of ‘Play Something’ – for Netflix to choose and suggest content – and ‘Downloads for you’ – so that the platform automatically downloads series and movies accordingly. of your tastes-. Now, in addition, Android users will be able to watch a movie or episode of a series even if he hasn’t finished downloading.

You can read the downloaded fragment offline

Netflix has long allowed its users to download content for offline viewing, but little by little it has enriched this feature with new possibilities. So far, however, it was only possible to play the content after the download was complete. That is, until the movie or chapter has finished downloading, you couldn’t see anything, not even the downloaded fragment.

This just changed for Android users as Netflix updated their app, so from now on we can see the downloaded content even if you haven’t finished going down. This new “Partial Download” feature is available now for Android phones and tablets (versions 7.64 and above) and will soon begin testing on iOS.

In the event that we have downloaded part of the movie and log out, we will not only be able to see this fragment offline, but also, when we log in again, the Netflix app. will download the remaining part and we can see what we were missing while the download is complete.