If despite Netflix’s new and strict measure on shared accounts, you are still a user of the platform, it is likely that you will have some questions about the use of your account in different circumstances. Netflix, let’s remember, forces you to establish a main address for the account in order to detect if a person who does not live in that house is using the same subscription. If so, the service will limit access to that non-resident user, forcing them to pay a sub-account, create a new account or unsubscribe from the service. But, What if that person is on vacation?
Luckily, Netflix is not so strict when a user who has an account established at home travels for a few days or even weeks for vacations or any other circumstance. Nevertheless, We must take into account a series of guidelines.
First of all Netflix allows access to an account from devices such as a smartphone, tablet or computer, without any limitation. That is to say, it is possible to watch a series or a movie away from home without any notice appearing. And, of course, without having to pay an extra cost for a sub-account for non-residents.
As always, subscribers will be able to watch Netflix on their personal devices or sign in on another TV (at a hotel or vacation rental, for example).
Netflix states on its website.
Of course, it is likely that after a long period of time —for example, 30 days—, Netflix will restrict access from that device because it has been connected to the home network. Or, because it has been constantly connecting to a Wi-Fi network that is not the main one.
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However, what if you want to log in on a tv away from home? In this case, Netflix has an option to, in a way, notify you that we are on vacation. This will prevent the platform from taking the necessary measures when using the account in another place that is not the usual address.
When you go to log in to your Netflix account on a TV that is not the one -for example, that of a hotel or a vacation apartment-, the following message will be displayed: “this TV is not connected to the main location of this account” . It will also do so together with a called button “I’m on a trip”. By clicking on this option, the platform will display a new page with the possibility of receiving a temporary access code by email or SMS. That code will allow you to use that TV normally for a maximum of 14 days.
And once the 14 days have passed? In this case, Netflix will redisplay the screen with the notice that that TV is not connected to the primary location. And, therefore, it will allow you to receive the temporary code again so that it is possible to continue playing content for another 14 days.
It is likely, yes, that after that second extension, access will be completely limited. In this case, the service would detect that the account is being used constantly from a location other than the one indicated as the main one, and it would be necessary to pay the additional 5.99 euros that a subaccount costs.