How Many People Can Watch Netflix at Once?

This article explains profile limits on Netflix, plus covers how to watch Netflix on multiple devices, how to share Netflix with your family, and ways to work with the Netflix screen limit.

How Many Profiles Can You Have on Netflix?

A profile on Netflix allows a different member of your household to use the same Netflix account but with different personalized settings. Netflix allows you to create up to 5 unique profiles on your one account.

Each profile can customize its own language settings, maturity levels, activity log, subtitle settings, and of course personalized suggestions for movies and TV shows. Each account can use a unique email account so that different users will receive their own Netflix notifications.

How Many Streams Can I Have on Each Netflix Plan?

While you can have five profiles on one account, all five of those users won't be able to use Netflix at once, as each Netflix plan include a screen limit.

• Standard with Ads ($6.99/mo): Two devices can watch simultaneously, and you can use a maximum of two devices to download movies and shows.
• Standard ($15.49/mo): Standard has the same limitations as Standard with Ads: two simultaneous streams, and two download devices.
• Premium ($22.99/mo): The Premium plan has the most simultaneous streams: four. You can download on up to six devices.

Can You Share Netflix With Family?

Whether you have a Standard (with or without ads) or Premium account, you can add profiles to your Netflix account for additional family members.

To do this, when you're logged into your Netflix account, select the dropdown to the right of your profile image and select Manage Profiles. On the Manage Profiles page, select Add Profile to the right of the account list.

Give the profile a name and select whether the account is a child or not. Select Continue to finish creating the profile.

This new profile will have its own viewing preferences, activity logs, and everything else a unique user experiences on Netflix.

Tips for Using Your Netflix Account Offline

While you can't directly get around the screen limit Netflix places on your account plan, there is a way to use your Netflix account offline. Even though you can't stream Netflix content over the internet to more than two screens on the Standard account, you can download Netflix content to a mobile device and then watch shows and movies offline.

To do this, use your mobile phone or tablet and open the Netflix mobile app. Search for a movie or TV show and use the Download link at the bottom of the listing to download that content to your mobile device.

When you're done, turn off your Wi-Fi and cellular internet connections (try using Airplane mode). Now you can watch your downloaded content offline and Netflix won't count this device as one of the screens that's actively streaming content from Netflix.

Can You Kick Someone Off of Netflix?

When you're trying to stream Netflix content and you're getting the error your account can't stream to any additional devices, it can be annoying. Especially if you don't know who's streaming from the account.

A quick fix for this is to open your Netflix account settings. Under the Settings section, select Sign out of all devices.

This will reset your Netflix screen limit count to 0 and will let you watch Netflix on your device again. You will need to log back into your Netflix account first in order to do this.