From PC World: Recently, many of us Apple TV users managed to do something miraculous — namely, connect Netflix to the Apple TV app. Well, there’s good news and bad news. Actually… just bad news.
Apple has now confirmed via The Verge that the short-lived ability to add Netflix as a connected service on the Apple TV app was actually just a bug and has been “rolled back.”
That explains why the Netflix integration some of us experienced earlier today on the Apple TV app was so flaky. For example, while I was able to add Netflix as a connected service on the Apple TV app, I never saw any Netflix videos on the Continue Watching shelf. I was also puzzled that some Netflix shows only displayed a smattering of available seasons, while an “Add to Watchlist” button that appeared on some Netflix titles within the Apple TV app subsequently disappeared.
Initially, the bugginess of the Apple TV app’s Netflix integration seemed like a symptom of a still-in-progress rollout, but it turns out that was wishful thinking. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman tweeted shortly after noon ET on Friday that he heard the Netflix integration was “probably some sort of bug” and that “it would be odd for Netflix to finally give in here.” Soon after, an Apple rep confirmed to The Verge that the Netflix integration should never have been rolled out in the first place.
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