Casting Netflix To TVs Quietly Goes The Way Of The Chromecast

It’s An Opportunity To Max Out Your Screens In No Time!

Travellers enjoyed the ability to cast their favourite Netflix shows from their phones to the TV in the room where they were staying.  It was easier than bringing along a dongle and it was also a way to quickly and easily set up a watch party at a friends house to watch content as a group.  The most popular dongle was the Chromecast, which went the way of the dodo in 2024 when Google stopped making new ones.  It was announced, something Netflix can’t claim after they quietly updated its Android app to disable casting in all but a handful of circumstances.

There are specific requirements to cast Netflix from your phone now.  You need to be paying for one of the “ad-free” service tiers and be connecting to old hardware, either a Chromecast so old it didn’t come with a remote or a TV with the same lack.  That TV will also have to lack a built in Netflix app but that does have a built in Cast app.

This isn’t a problem for those that stay at home, but it does mean if you set up your Netflix somewhere like a hotel or an Airbnb you should definitely remember to log out before you leave, lest you run out of installs and need to deal with it the hard way … or pay Netflix more per month.