Netflix Profile Transfer – Export your preferences if you switch accounts

when you give up high on netflix you create an account, paid, which gives you access to a catalog of movies, series, documentaries, cartoons and mobile games. And within that account, you create a profile in which you keep viewing history and for which personalized recommendations are created. But what if you want change account but keeping your profile? That’s what the Netflix profile transfer is for.

The idea behind the profile transfers is that you can join or leave a shared account and go free. And do this whenever you want and with all comfort. A strategy that Netflix itself has allowed since it created individual accounts with advertising and shared subscriptions in which paying an extra you could join even if you were not a “family unit”. What Netflix calls extra subscribers.

Let’s see what does it consist of Netflix profile transfer, what information allows you to move between accounts, How active and how to make the transfer between two accounts. It’s more. Netflix gives you the possibility to create a new account taking advantage of the transfer to go free with an individual account.

What is Netflix Profile Transfer

In the words of its own creators, ”the transfer of profiles allows a Netflix subscriber and the people who use their account transfer a profile to a new accountto an existing one or to an extra subscriber pass”.

The requirements to make your Netflix profile transferable are:

• That your account is active
• That is not a child profile
• That is not protected by code. If so, you must deactivate it previously
• That does not have an associated email address

What information is copied on Netflix profile transfer:

• Profile name and icon
• recommendations personalized
• viewing history: ratings, duration, device data, country, etc.
• Content My list
• games saves and game aliases
• netflix settings: language, subtitles and dubbing, automatic playback, restrictions…
• More settings: Streaming quality, custom notifications, etc.

Activate profile transfers

You can turn Netflix profile transfer on or off at any time. Whether you are going to use it or not. It is one more function that this streaming video platform offers and does not have any additional cost.

For deactivate transfer profiles:

1. Sign in to your Netflix account
2. Go into Account
3. go to Setting
4. Check the option Disable profile transfers

For Activate transfer profiles:

1. Sign in to your Netflix account
2. Go into Account
3. go to Setting
4. Check the option Activate profile transfers
5. then choose Allow
6. You will receive a confirmation email
7. It will active after two days. In the mail you can choose activate instantly

Create a new account with the transfer

One of the reasons that there is Netflix profile transfer is to invite shared account users to have your own individual account with advertising, the cheapest version there is. And in these situations, it is very likely that they still do not have a new account. come on, what it will be the first time that they have their own account since they have been sharing it for years.

For create a new account via Netflix profile transfer:

1. Log in to the Netflix account where the profile to be transferred is. do it from the web
2. Go into Account
3. Choose your profile to transfer within Profiles and parental control
4. Choose Transfer
5. Then click Start profile transfer
6. And finally choose the option a new account
7. You will have to provide an email and a password for your new account
8. Then follow the instructions to set up your new account
9. When finished, Netflix will create the account and transfer your profile

Transfer a profile on a Netflix account

Another possibility is that you want change an account individual to a shared one or between shared accounts. Be that as it may, the process is similar to the previous one to follow keeping your personal profile even if you are going to use a different account from now on.

1. Log in to the Netflix account where the profile to be transferred is. do it from the web
2. Go into Account
3. Choose your profile to transfer within Profiles and parental controls
4. Choose Transfer
5. Then click Start profile transfer
6. Choose the option An existing account
7. Indicate the email and password of the account to which you transfer your profile
8. Finish the process by clicking on transfer profile

Delete an already transferred profile

When the Netflix profile transfer is complete, you will have your profile in two different accounts. The original account and the final account. So you will have to delete the original account profile, since you are going to stop using it. Consider that those profiles are not connected, so there is little use in using both. For the rest, for delete a profile you just have to do the following:

1. Sign in to the Netflix account you are leaving
2. Enter Manage profiles
3. Choose the profile you are going to delete
4. Select the option delete profile
5. Please note that you cannot remove the primary profile from a Netflix account.