Currently, the leading platform for streaming video is Netflix, a platform that today has no rival that at the moment is minimally close to the numbers of subscribers that it currently has throughout the world. But that may change this year and the next, as both Disney and Apple plan to launch their own VOD services.
Last July, Netflix enabled a system of automatic content download on the Android platform, a function that allowed all those users who download content from the platform on their mobile device, manage the downloads of new episodes automatically and deleting from the device the ones we have already seen. This new feature has just arrived on iOS.
Netflix just announced this new feature on iOS through their blog. Smart downloads, as they are called, take care of download the next episode of the series we are watching, once we have seen the previous, previous episode that is automatically deleted. This new function can be activated or deactivated according to the space needs of the users.
Self-downloads, as Netflix calls them, They only work when we are connected to a Wi-Fi network, in order to avoid that with a couple of episodes our data rate goes to the fret. This function is not intended for those users who want to return to being their favorite series without having to download the episodes, since it will delete them as the new ones are downloaded.
If we have this function activated, and we have downloaded the first three episodes of a series, the function downloads the fourth episode after watching episode three and automatically deleting episode one, keeping the second and third. This function is ideal for those who use Netflix when traveling by public transport to work, to university ...
