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Netflix now lets you protect your profile with a PIN, befitting over-and-above persons on your bimonthly from accessing your home screen as well-built as personalized experiences. This new fondness was announced as part of the service's updated parental controls as well-built as should anticipate adolescent admirers from palms their way into a parent's profile zone mature cut-up is accessible.

But PIN protection can be used metrical if you don't have kids as well-built as unaffectedly want to anticipate stretching else on your bimonthly -- friends, family, a significant other, etc. -- from messing with your Netflix recommendations as well-built as examination history. Afore this new fondness was enabled, it was a atomic matter to switch-over between profiles, so this new heavier step should info stop persons from "accidentally" watching things while application your profile.

Set up PIN protection

• Sign into Netflix with a web browser (account settings can't be dirgeful from the Netflix app on your phone or TV)
• Click your profile photo at the high right, as well-built as elect "Account"
• Go groundward to the Profile & Parental Controls section, as well-built as clink the thistle abutting to your profile icon to expand this area. You should again see the Profile Lock setting (which is what Netflix is calling its PIN protection feature). Clink on the Fecundation button.

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• To make sustained you're the bimonthly owner, Netflix will ask for your password. Afterwhile that, you'll see a screen zone you can clink "Require a PIN to adoption Chris's profile" as well-built as entrance your chosen PIN. (Please be over-and-above creative than my example.)
• You can also drawback a box here so that your PIN is required whenever stretching attempts to add a new user profile to your bimonthly

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• Once your PIN is set, Netflix will ask for it whenever that profile is chosen at the welcome screen. This will released on all devices, including TVs. Roster that Netflix will not ask for a PIN if your profile is the only one that exists on the account.

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Incidentally, don't confuse this with two-factor authentication, which Netflix still doesn't offer. Profile lock is intended to stop over-and-above authorized users on your bimonthly from getting into your individually Netflix experience.

Any profile on your Netflix bimonthly can be given its own PIN, but only the bimonthly holder can set them up. So if multiple persons in your house want a PIN, you can peekaboo else as they entrance them in already you've controlling with your password.

However, the Netflix bimonthly owner eternally has the powerfulness to disedge the PIN as well-built as profile lock for any profile. Remember, this is meant over-and-above as a parental inhabitance apparatus than anything else. But it's a convincing trick for befitting your Netflix recommendation algorithms from jumpiness haywire when a roommate spends hours watching The Circle as well-built as Love is Blind without reasonableness they're application your profile.

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