It’s been almost a year since Netflix announced that it was ending shared accounts. All those sessions started outside of what we have established (or Netflix has automatically established) as our home will not have an easy time playing content. Although the company has been warning for months, there were still many users who had not received any type of notice.
As we read in Twitter.com/search?q=netflix%20cuentas&src=typed_query&f=live”>X and in some forums, since yesterday, Netflix is sending the notices again. If we have logged in on a device “outside our home”, we will have to approve the login with a temporary code. What the limits on extensions are is something we do not know, since it has not been detailed.
It is also likely that Netflix is confused with what it considers home. We are going to remind you how this Netflix limitation works with shared accounts and how you can configure the main home to avoid scares.
Recapping the ban on shared accounts
Last year they changed the rules when it comes to sharing accounts on Netflix: if the content is not played under the same IP, the devices are not part of the same household. The principle is simple, although problematic: there may be the case in which we are not sharing an account, but we want to play content outside our home.
If we are traveling or away from home, access to Netflix will be done with temporary 14-day sessions
For those cases, Netflix’s solution is 14-day temporary access. Using an SMS code or email, linked to the main account with which we registered, we can approve these temporary logins. If we travel or are away for more than 14 days, in principle, nothing will prevent us from receiving another new code and continuing to play the content from that device in the new location.
Netflix warned that, if the user had not set up the main home, the application would do it for them. In my case, Netflix has configured my Chromecast with Google TV as the main device, although there is something very peculiar about my use of Netflix: I almost always watch series from the iPhone. So much so, that in my case I received the message that “this device is not part of your home” on the iPhone itself.
Setting up the main home
Netflix home is configured from the television or PC, at the moment, we have not been able to do it from the mobile. We have to open the application, and go to the ‘help’ section.
You can use Netflix on different devices, but they must be connected to the same network and in the same location
Within it, we will see, at the bottom, a “Manage Home with Netflix” section. The app itself will tell us that Home is the “set of devices you use to watch Netflix connected to your internet network“. This last point is key, you can have as many devices as your plan allows, but the playback of content is limited to them being connected to the same network.
In this section, we can click on “Update Home with Netflix”. After clicking, verification will be requested that it is us, and once done we can access it from the devices we have at home.
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