Netflix is making it easier to give a show a thumbs-up when you’re watching on mobile

Netflix is including a option to give a thumbs-up, double thumbs-up, or thumbs-down to a present or film whilst you’re watching it on cellular, which might offer you a better option to educate the streaming service’s algorithms about your viewing preferences.

With this new change, once you faucet the display screen whereas watching one thing, you’ll see the three completely different thumb buttons along with choices chances are you’ll be accustomed to (just like the skip ahead / again buttons and altering the pace of a video).

The brand new thumb buttons might be accessible on Monday on iOS and “later” on Android, in response to spokesperson Layal Brown. (Brown had “no different specifics to share” once I requested for a timeframe for the Android launch.) And if you wish to charge a video once you’re not actively watching it on cellular, you possibly can nonetheless achieve this from a present or film’s particulars display screen.

Netflix moved from a star system in favor of a thumbs-up one in 2017. It added the double thumbs-up in 2022 as a approach for customers to underscore that they actually love what they’re watching.