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Netflix Won't Let You Cast Shows From Your Phone to Most TVs Anymore

Boone Ashworth

created: Dec. 1, 2025, 9:15 p.m. | updated: Dec. 4, 2025, 7:24 p.m.

Netflix has updated its service so that it will no longer support casting a streaming video to a TV from a mobile device. If you’re watching a show on your phone, you’ll no longer be able to easily cast it onto your TV and keep watching. Volume controls, playback buttons, closed captioning controls, or any other settings won’t be able to be controlled by your mobile device anymore if you’re streaming on the TV. Netflix wouldn’t share any information about how many people used the casting feature, or what resources the feature was taking up compared to anything else the platform offers. But Google has all but killed off its Chromecast, and the latest smart TVs usually come with apps like Netflix preinstalled.

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