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Eight New Episodes, a Work Night and an Early Alarm

In a streaming app, the next episode can start before anyone decides to watch it.1 This is one of those nights, in Luca’s apartment.

  • Netflix starts the next episode on its own when one ends. Its switch, Autoplay Next Episode, belongs to a profile, so each profile on an account has its own.1
  • Prime Video does the same, with a switch of its own called Auto Play, which is set on each device.2
Luca in a folding chair on a balcony at night with his feet on a stool, a phone propped against a plant pot on the table, string lights behind him

Luca starts a new heist series on the balcony

All eight episodes of a show Luca has waited for came out today on Netflix. It is a work night, but a warm one, so he takes a chair out to the balcony and leans his phone against a plant pot. One episode of this, he tells himself, one of a legal drama, then bed. The credits roll, the next episode starts on its own, and he stops it.

Luca on the balcony with his arms crossed, watching the glowing phone on the table, his feet still up on the stool

Luca opens Prime Video for the other show

The other show is on Prime Video, a series he is a few episodes behind on. Luca crosses his arms and watches one. The credits roll, and before he has reached for the phone, the next episode has started. He has not decided to keep going, but he does.

Luca lying on his bed at night with his hands on his stomach, a phone charging on the bedside table, a crescent moon in the window

Luca checks the time after the third episode

It is past one when the second Prime Video episode ends, and a third is already starting. He stops it, carries the phone in from the balcony, plugs it in by the bed and sets an alarm for seven. Then he lies awake thinking about the last scene.

Past one in the morning

Luca had taken the next episode for something the evening decided on its own. He had no idea Netflix and Prime Video each kept a switch for it, Netflix’s in Manage Profiles and Prime Video’s in its own Settings.

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Luca starts a new heist series on the balcony

If Luca had used TrueTo, it would have gone into Netflix and Prime Video and turned off autoplay in each for him.

Luca opens Prime Video for the other show

With Auto Play off in Prime Video, the episode would have stopped at its credits, where he meant to go to bed.

Luca checks the time after the third episode

Either switch would have been his to turn on again, in its own app, with everything else left as it was.

Autoplay Next Episode

In Netflix, under My Netflix and then Manage Profiles, Luca can turn off Autoplay Next Episode himself, one profile at a time.1 In Prime Video, under Settings, which opens from the cog on his profile, he can turn off Auto Play.2

Sources

  1. Netflix, “How to autoplay the next episode,” Netflix Help Center, read October 12, 2026.
  2. Chaudhary, Paurush, and Ashish Mohta, “How to Turn Off Auto Play on Amazon Prime Video,” Guiding Tech, July 31, 2024.