Can You Download Netflix To Your Computer?

Netflix is finally making it possible to lookout shows offline on your Windows PC, but you won't be using your browser to practice it. The Netflix app in the Windows Shop supports downloading select titles for offline viewing.

This is great news for PC users who want to watch titles on a laptop-sized screen during their adjacent flight or an LTE coverage gap somewhere on the Great Plains. Fifty-fifty better, it gives you lot a reason to actually utilize Netflix's Windows x app since it offers something the web app doesn't.

If yous oasis't fired up Netflix for Windows 10 in a while, make sure you lot've got the latest version by opening the Windows Store, clicking on your user contour picture, and selecting Downloads and Updates from the drop-down carte.

Here, you'll be able to run into whether the Netflix app requires an update. If it doesn't, launch the Netflix app, and you lot should be greeted to a screen similar to what you see at the tiptop of this post advert the new feature.

netflixdownload2 — The Netflix download push on Windows x.

Using Netflix's offline functionality is just the aforementioned equally on a smartphone or tablet. Click on a title to see its defended page. If you see a download icon similar to the one pictured hither then yous're good to go. Click that icon, it will turn bluish and brandish the download progress.

This can have a while, so make sure you lot download titles well ahead of when y'all need them. To notice your downloads again, click the "hamburger" menu icon in the upper-left corner, and select My Downloads from the slide-out bill of fare.

That's all there is to watching Netflix offline on your PC.

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Ian is an independent writer based in Israel who has never met a tech subject he didn't similar. He primarily covers Windows, PC and gaming hardware, video and music streaming services, social networks, and browsers. When he's not covering the news he's working on how-to tips for PC users, or tuning his eGPU setup.