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Here’s How You Can Save Your Netflix Profile After Being Kicked Off of Someone Else’s Account – CNET

November 29, 2023 Admin

Netflix password sharing is a thing of the past. After hemming, hawing and testing out its new policy in foreign countries, Netflix finally cracked down on password sharing in the US in early summer 2023. 

Even though the streaming giant put an end to unofficial password sharing, you can still share a password with someone outside your household, but for a price. Sharing a password with a user outside the household costs the owner of the account $8 per extra person, on top of what they’re already paying for their Netflix plan. If you’re on the standard Netflix plan, you can add one person outside your household. Premium users can add up to two.

If you were one of the many folks who lost access to a shared Netflix account in the crackdown this summer, it might be putting a cramp in your holiday-season streaming. The good news is, even if you got booted off a shared account, you can still transfer your profile over to a new account or another existing account to preserve your recommendations, save lists and other settings.

We’ll show you how to find and enable Netflix’s Transfer Profile feature on your profile, and how to transfer your existing profile to a different account.

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If you’re using a phone or tablet, open the official Netflix application, go into your profile and then tap your profile icon in the top-right corner to access your account settings. Next, tap Account, scroll down to the bottom of the page, and tap Turn on profile transfers. This will redirect you to the official profile transfer page, where you can then hit the Allow button.

You should then get a notification saying that profile transfers will soon be coming to your account. For my account, it said I would get the feature in two days. However, it also said I could enable the profile transfer feature instantly if I clicked the confirmation link sent to me via email, which I did.

Now transfer your profile to another Netflix account

Once the Transfer Profile is enabled, you can transfer your profile to your own new Netflix account or a different existing account. To transfer a profile, log in to your original Netflix account (web or mobile) and go into the Transfer Profile page found in your settings. You should then see the start of the Transfer Profile process, which will give you a brief summary of what the feature does:

• Transfers over your recommendations, viewing history, saved games, settings, My List and more to a separate account.
• Creates a backup of your profile on the original account.