5 Netflix Tips and Hidden Features to Improve Your Streaming Experience

Here is a summary of reported tips for navigating and customizing Netflix settings, including viewing history, genre codes, cleaning the continue watching row, disabling auto-previews, and adjusting subtitles.

View Your Complete Watch History

If you want to review everything you have ever watched on your profile, you can access your viewing activity through a web browser.

• Sign in to your Netflix account and select Manage Profiles.
• Choose your profile and scroll down to Viewing Activity to see a chronological list.
• You can also select Download All to download your complete history as a spreadsheet.

Use Secret Sub-Genre Codes

Netflix categorizes content broadly, but you can use specific numeric codes to find niche genres.

• Open a web browser and enter `http://netflix.com/browse/genre/` followed by the specific code.
• For example, reports indicate codes like `8985` for martial arts films or `7687` for film noir can help surface targeted titles.

Clean Up the Continue Watching Row

Unwanted or unfinished titles can linger in your continue watching list. You can manually remove them depending on your device:

• Mobile: Tap the three dots under the title and select Remove from row.
• TV Remote: Press and hold the select button on the title and choose Remove.
• Web Browser: Hover over the title and click the X icon.

Disable Auto-Previews

If automatic video previews or auto-playing next episodes disrupt your browsing, you can turn them off.

• Navigate to Account, go to Playback Settings, and uncheck the options for autoplaying previews and next episodes.

Customize Subtitle Appearance

Viewers who use subtitles can modify how text appears on screen.

• Go to Manage Profiles, select your profile, and click Subtitle Appearance to adjust font size, shadows, and backgrounds.
• Additionally, selecting standard language options instead of closed captions ([CC]) can limit descriptive sound text if preferred.

To verify these settings, users can log into their official Netflix account via a web browser or supported app and review their account menus.