There have been fairly a couple of occasions I’ve slept halfway via what was presupposed to be a binge-watching session. In case you’ve skilled this too, what Netflix is engaged on will definitely assist – a sleep timer.
The oldsters over at XDA Developers have discovered proof of a sleep timer within the newest model of Netflix (v 7.82.1) that’s now rolling out to Android customers. The code of the app accommodates a brand new string that implies that Netflix could quickly add a sleep timer to its software.
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How this may occasionally work is that Netflix will allow you to set a sleep timer from inside the video participant UI. As soon as set, the appliance will cease streaming the video on the predefined time interval and can allow you to choose up from the place you left as a substitute of messing together with your watch progress and letting you determine the place you stopped watching.
This characteristic isn’t activated but and there’s no assurance that we’ll see the characteristic roll out to all customers worldwide. However given how intuitive it’s, I don’t see why Netflix wouldn’t wish to roll this characteristic to all its customers worldwide.
At the moment, Netflix does ask customers in the event that they’re nonetheless watching by popping a dialogue field on the display screen. However there’s no approach to know when the dialogue field will seem and therefore it’s restricted in its software.
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Though, there’s a further characteristic that can be utilized to behave as a kind of sleep timer. Netflix permits you to disable autoplay which implies that it gained’t robotically play the subsequent episode until you manually select to take action. However since this solely stops streaming on the finish of an episode or a film, the characteristic gained’t be of a lot use should you go to sleep earlier than the episode/film ends.
