The Netflix app on Android is broken, but only for some

The Netflix app happening Android is broken, but only for some

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I buns't open the Netflix app on Android, and it's impulsive me up the wall.

No longer can I play Calamary Game on a precariously-placed smartphone while I form breakfast, Oregon flick through new and trending titles on the service while I walk dwelling, to know what to add to my watchlist subsequently. And IT looks like I'm not the only one.

While a major Netflix outage make users around the reality on October 18, and has apparently been single-minded, there are persistent issues opening the Netflix app connected Android, even if it's for a nonage of users.

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When trying to open the Netflix app myself – on a OnePlus 8T – I'm repeatedly met by a distressing-looking satellite illustration, asking Pine Tree State to "seek again". It's a small melioration over the sadder "Sorry, we could non reach the Netflix Service of process, please try again later. (-1000)" message I'd been receiving during the outage.

In our chats with Netflix support, we've been told that the Mechanical man problem is "an active issue" and "a known issue", but that at that place's "nobelium selective information when this started" – suggesting that Netflix ISN't sure at what point the problem began (i.e. before OR during the outage).

I'm informed by Netflix customer service to coerce stop the app, open the Android 'overview' and cozy the app manually, restart my phone, and then try to update to the latest version of the app (7.120, if available).

Once again, looking for Netflix in the Google Play Store gives me an update option, but spurring it repeatedly doesn't do anything. (I'm told to attempt to launch the Netflix app four multiplication at this point, which may lic for some, even if it didn't for me.)

Supporte me, please

Ultimately, this Netflix issue appears not to exist too widespread. Other TechRadar colleagues aren't reporting the number, and the platform seems to be operating fine across iOS, browser, and intelligent TV apps, which will make for the resistless majority of users anyhow.

I canful make do without the Mechanical man app for a time, just it does confine the flexibility of accessing my Netflix account on the wing.

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Patrick Henry is TechRadar's News & Features Editor, covering the stories of the day with vitality, moxie, and aplomb. He's spent the past tense three years reporting on TVs, projectors and smart speakers A cured as gaming and VR – including a skimp Eastern Samoa the website's Home Movie theatre Editor – and has been interviewed live on both BBC World News and Channel News Asia, discussing the future of transport and 4K resolution televisions respectively. As a graduate of West Germanic language Literature and persistent theatre enthusiast, he'll usually be saved forcing Shakespeare puns into his technology articles, which he thinks is what the Bard would have wanted. Bylines let in Edge, T3, and Little Ashen Lies.