{"id":292919,"date":"2025-12-01T11:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/292919\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T11:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:34:07","slug":"netflix-kills-casting-from-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/292919\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix kills casting from phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Netflix has removed the ability to cast shows and movies from phones to TVs, unless subscribers are using older casting devices. An <a href=\"https:\/\/help.netflix.com\/en\/node\/58351\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">updated help page on Netflix\u2019s website<\/a>, first reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/netflix-casting-chromecast-google-tv-streamer-3620784\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Android Authority<\/a>, says that the streaming service \u201cno longer supports casting shows from a mobile device to most TVs and TV-streaming devices,\u201d and instead directs users to navigate Netflix using the remote that came with their TV hardware.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The change seems to have rolled out in the last few weeks, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Chromecast\/comments\/1ox7in3\/rant_netflix_no_long_has_casting_support_you_must\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one user on Reddit reporting<\/a> that casting support was removed on November 10th \u201cwith zero warning.\u201d My colleague Dom Preston also found that while he was able to cast to a TV from an older version of the Netflix app, the casting option was no longer available after the app was updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Casting support is still available on older Chromecast devices or TVs that support Google Cast natively, according to Netflix\u2019s support page, but only for subscribers on pricier ad-free plans, which start from $17.99 per month. Netflix users with an ad-supported subscription ($7.99 per month) will be unable to cast from their phones even if they own legacy Chromecast devices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The casting changes announced on Netflix\u2019s support page do not explain why the feature has been removed. It follows a similar move in 2019 when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/4\/6\/18298146\/netflix-confirms-it-yanked-airplay-support-wont-let-you-beam-shows-to-apple-tvs-anymore\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix removed AirPlay support<\/a>, citing a desire to \u201censure our standard of quality for viewing is being met.\u201d We have reached out to Netflix for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix has removed the ability to cast shows and movies from phones to TVs, unless subscribers are using&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,786,59,844,392,50,3842,227,86,33300,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-292919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-entertainment","tag-gadgets","tag-gb","tag-google","tag-netflix","tag-news","tag-streaming","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-tvs","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}