Difficulty: Medium Time: Little Updated : 2012
Solution #1: Quick Workaround
- There is a quick workaround that temporarily removes a movie from the Recently Watched.
You have to watch several movies in order to push the movies you want to hide from the “Recently Watched”. An Example is shown below:
For instance, if you don’t want people to see this ABC Family Drama in your“Recently Watched”, simply watch another movie that you have no problem showing off…
The Recently Watched List will display the most recent, so if you watch a few “questionable” movies, you can fade them from the list by watching some “upstanding” ones. However a complete list of the movies you watched is permanently stored.
If you own a Roku Box,
scroll through the movies, select the one you want to remove, and highlight and select “remove”.
If you are using the Netflix App for Xbox or the Netflix app for Vizio TVs……
you will have to watch a lot of “good” movies in order to push the one “bad movie from the list.
Solution #2: Permanent Workaround
If you want to really get rid of the “Recently Watched” and your complete viewing list, then you can try this permanent and drastic solution. This a permanent step that cancels your Netflix membership, so watch out…
- Sign in into your Netflix account
- Navigate to Your Account & Help at the top right corner
- Navigate to Manage Account; Click Cancel Membership
- Scroll down, check the box, and click “Complete Cancellation”. Cancelling your membership erases your “Recently Watched” viewing history. Proceed to activate a new account.
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Sucks they can’t just make it possible to press a little “X” next to the Netflix movies or shows we want off our front page. Why would it be so hard to allow us to do such a thing? Maybe if we all send Netflix complaints they would put this in. I mean, we are paying customers, and we feel such a thing should be allowed.
not a lot of movie choices
Netflix makes it hard to erase recently watch movies. Time to cancel damn idiotas.
They do this so that we will be scared to give our account to others to use.
This is absolutely ridiculous. I clicked on something “questionable” and watched 2 seconds of it before closing it, and now it’s in my viewing history forever, unless I cancel my account. WTF is Netflix doing? Do they want people to have to cancel their accounts? I’m at a loss as to how that could possibly be beneficial to them.
Same thing happened to me, which is why I’m looking for a fix and came here. There is no fix apparently. They lost hundreds of thousands of subscribers and still no changes? I saw about 3 minutes of a movie and shut it off and it was forever on a list of watched movies, as though I saw the whole thing. Then I had to explain to the others using the same Blu-ray player. I hate Netflix’s unwillingness to respect customers! Adults have every right to watch R rated movies without them showing up to their kids. The cover art alone on many of their options bothers me…I don’t need it recommended or featured for my whole subscription.
I just spoke with a Netflix representative and the Netflix recommendation is to watch enough movies to push the undesirable movies off the list.
My response to him and recommendation to the community is to create a program to randomly chose 100 G or PG movies to watch for 30 seconds and then cancel and chose the next movie. This will push all the actually history off the list. I am going to write such a program. I would suggest others to do the same and publish them in the public domain.
This will force Netflix to reconsider as programs like these begin to be used it will 1) eat Netflix bandwidth cycling through movies your not actually watching and 2) screw up all the statistics that Netflix wants about what you “like” to watch.
Holding out on a delete history function is a bad decision on Netflix’s part, especially when the recommendations from their service reps are to push bogus data.
Mr. N