Have you ever watched something on Netflix but after some 15 minutes in, you realize that you are no longer interested in watching it? Netflix’s new “remove from row” feature was made to make it easier for people to remove those titles from the content they are currently watching.
The aim is to give people more control over what appears on their Netflix homepage. The “continue watching” row is one of the most used features on Netflix allowing users to easy to jump back into a TV show that someone might be making their way through, or pick right back up where they left off with Money Heist (if you’re like me and it took a few sittings to watch).
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The annoying thing, however, is that if someone is no longer interested in watching a movie or a TV show, the title doesn’t disappear from the row. It eventually gets pushed down the line as new titles are watched, but it doesn’t just go away. Now, people can access the feature by clicking on a title in the row. There’s an example of how it looks on Android devices in the screenshot below.
Netflix is also making it a little quicker to access episodes, info, and ratings by adding them directly into the menu when people tap on a title. This should save people from having to go into the movie or TV show’s individual landing page. An example of the shortcut is in the screenshot above.
The “remove from row” feature is currently only available to Android mobile users on both phone and tablet devices. iOS devices will get the same functionality on June 29th according to Netflix.
