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Netflix announced Tuesday a brand new feature that will make many users very happy, especially those who constantly download Netflix broadcasts for offline viewing. From now on, you will not have to manually download and then delete the Netflix content, as the app will do it for you when you are on Wi-Fi. Smart Downloads will automatically replace each episode watched by the next in the series, which will means that it will not consume the memory of your phone either.
All the good news if you are on Android, because only the Android application of Netflix has functionality. However, iPhone and iPad users do not need despair because OSO is next.
The only reason that Netflix does this on Android, is because – and I speculate here – Smart Downloads is precisely the kind of feature that's the easiest to remove. with Google's lax restrictions on Android developers. Apple imposes much stricter guidelines on iOS developers, and they only have access to certain APIs.
The Netflix app has to do a lot of things to automatically download content, things that Apple might not agree with. Think about it, the app should track your content consumption, and then monitor the wireless activity while it's looking for a known Wi-Fi network. Then he has to start the download without any interaction from the user. Then, a bar appears on the screen to inform you of what is happening and a notification tells you when the process is complete.
Of course, your approval is implicit because you allow the application to behave this way when you enable Smart Downloads.
In his initial announcement, Netflix said the feature originally comes to Android, suggesting that the iPhone could be next. Now, the company confirmed to BuzzFeed that Smart Downloads actually comes on iOS "later this year". Netflix's product innovation director, Cameron Johnson, also explained that this feature does not work with movies. "Netflix is not smart enough to understand the exact movie you might want to watch next," he said.
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