How to Manage Your Netflix Watch History

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November 28, 2024

Netflix keeps track of your viewing history to personalize recommendations. By analyzing what you watch, Netflix suggests shows and movies you might enjoy, helping you discover new favorites or rediscover forgotten gems.

However, you may want to control your viewing history. Whether you want to refresh your recommendations or accidentally start something, you can remove titles from your watch history.

This guide will show you how to find and manage your Netflix watch history. You can also download your viewing activity if you prefer to keep a local record.

Contents

  1. How to Find Your Netflix Watch History
  2. How to Hide Titles from Netflix Viewing History
  3. Clear the Entire Viewing History on Netflix
  4. How to Download Your Netflix Viewing History
  5. Save Netflix Titles Before Watch History Deletion
  6. Final Thoughts

1. How to Find Your Netflix Watch History

Netflix offers a Viewing activity page to show everything watched for the current profile. Here’s how to find your Netflix viewing history:

  1. Go to Netflix.com on your browser and log in to your Netflix account.
  2. Click your profile picture in the top right corner and select Account from the drop-down menu.
Netflix Account

  1. Scroll down and select Edit Settings under Quick Links.
Edit Settings

  1. Tap Viewing activity to see the watch history of the current profile.
  2. Here you’ll see a complete list of what you’ve watched on this profile, including dates. Use the “Show More” button at the bottom to view your entire history.
Viewing-Activity

2. How to Hide Titles from Netflix Viewing History

You can remove individual titles from your Netflix viewing history. Once deleted, the title won’t influence recommendations and will disappear from the “Continue Watching” row.

  1. Log in at the Netflix Account page (netflix.com/YourAccount) and select Edit Settings > Viewing Activity.
  2. Click the Hide icon  next to the episode or movie to remove it from your watch history. If you want to hide the entire series of the TV show you are deleting, click “Hide series?
Hide-from-Viewing-History

3. Clear the Entire Viewing History on Netflix

You can also clear your entire viewing history at once. Select “Hide All” at the list bottom to remove everything and start fresh with your recommendations.

Clear-All-Watch-History

4. How to Download Your Netflix Viewing History

Before clearing your Netflix watch history, you may want to keep a copy of what you have watched. Netflix offers the option for you to download the entire Netflix viewing history as a CSV file. This creates a handy spreadsheet you can keep track of, even after the title’s gone from Netflix.

To download, go to the Viewing activity page on Netflix and look for the Download All button at the bottom.

Download-Watch-History

5. Download Netflix Titles before Removed from Watch History

Netflix subscribers can download selected movies and TV shows from the Netflix app. However, most downloads last 7 days, and many titles expire 48 hours after you first press play. Some titles even limit how many times they can be downloaded per year. Additionally, downloaded titles can only be accessed through the Netflix app on the device used to download them. They cannot be transferred to other devices or stored in external storage.

If you want to overcome these download limitations and permanently save the movies before removing them from the watch history, you can use Pazu Netflix Video Downloader. It is a desktop program designed to download Netflix videos without the need for the Netflix app. The tool can bypass Netflix’s DRM protection and convert movies and TV shows into MP4 and MKV formats. The converted files are preserved in high quality, up to 1080p, and maintain the original subtitles and audio tracks. After converting, you can transfer the downloaded files to any compatible device for offline enjoyment.

Netflix video downloader

Netflix Video Downloader

Download Netflix movies & TV shows to MP4 with HD quality. 

  • Download movies & TV shows from Netflix.
  • Download videos in 1080P.
  • Preserve audio tracks and subtitles.
  • Fast downloading speed.

Step 1. Launch Pazu Netflix Video Downloader

Download, install, and launch Pazu Netflix Video Downloader on your Mac or Windows. Log in to your Netflix account.

Click the key icon and enter your registration code to unlock the full version of the downloader if you have purchased a registration. If you haven’t, go ahead with the free trial version.

Netflix video downloader

Step 2. Add Netflix movies/TV shows

Search for a show or movie you want to download from Netflix.

add movies or shows

Step 3. Choose video format/quality

Click the gear icon on the top right corner to choose the video formats and settings such as:

  • Video format: MP4 or MKV
  • Video codec: H264 or H265
  • Audio language: English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese
  • Subtitle language: English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese
video settings

Step 4. Start to Download Netflix videos

Click the Download icon on the right side of the title you want to download.

As you can see from the screenshot, all episodes are checked by default. Uncheck the episodes you don’t want to download if there are any.

select episodes

You can also click the three lines and gear icon to choose audio/subtitle languages for each episode. To close the window, click the OK button.

episode settings

Click the Download button on the right bottom corner. The downloading begins.

download netflix videos

After downloading, click History and find the video in MP4 format. You can now transfer the downloaded videos and watch them whenever you want.

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6. Final Thoughts

Netflix allows you to view, hide, and download your watch history with easy steps. When you want to remove a title from the viewing activity, follow the guide in this article. If you want to delete a title from your watch history but save it permanently on your device, use the Pazu Netflix Video Downloader. It can convert Netflix movies and shows to MP4 with HD quality on your Mac or Windows.

To get started, download and install the software now.

Netflix Video Downloader

Netflix Video Downloader

Download Netflix movies and TV shows to MP4/MKV on your PC/Mac