Oliver Haslam on February 8, 2020, 5:26 am

You Can Finally Disable Auto-Playing Previews On Netflix, Here’s How

You’d need to have been hiding away from social media this week to have missed the news that Netflix has finally given us the option to disable automatically-playing previews. And it’s great.

Being able to just disable it altogether would have been enough to keep us happy, but Netflix has gone a step further by making it possible to make the change on a per-profile basis. That means you can disable it for one person but keep it active for everyone else. It’s like a glass of ice water in hell, and we never thought we’d get it.

Now that we do have it, here’s how to go about disabling those pesky auto-playing previews.

Step 1: Pull up your profile in the Manage Profiles section on the web. You can access that via netflix.com/profiles/manage.

Step 2: Once you’re in your profile, you’ll see a new option to disable previews when browsing all devices. Uncheck that and you’re done.

It’s amazing how such a simple setting change can make such a huge difference to the way we use Netflix. Not having these previews blaring at us while we’re just trying to decide what to watch is amazing, and we wonder why it took Netflix so long to add a feature people have been demanding for years.

But it’s here now, so let’s just enjoy that blissful silence, shall we?