How to Delete the Continue Watching List on Netflix
Netflix's Continue Watching row sits at the top of your home screen and tracks every title you've started — whether you watched two minutes of something by accident or abandoned a series three episodes in. Over time, it fills up with titles you have no intention of returning to, cluttering your homepage and, on some profiles, revealing viewing habits to others who share the account.
Removing items from this row is straightforward, but the exact steps vary depending on which device you're using and whether you're working from within the app or through a browser.
What the Continue Watching Row Actually Does
Netflix automatically adds a title to Continue Watching the moment you start playing it, even if you close it within seconds. The feature is designed to help you pick up where you left off, but it has no automatic expiry — titles stay in that row indefinitely unless you manually remove them.
It's worth knowing that Continue Watching is profile-specific, not account-wide. Each profile on a Netflix account maintains its own separate row, so removing a title from one profile has no effect on another.
How to Remove Titles on a Web Browser
The browser version of Netflix currently offers the most straightforward removal process:
- Go to netflix.com and sign into your profile
- Find the title you want to remove in the Continue Watching row
- Click the three-dot menu (⋮) icon that appears below the title thumbnail
- Select "Remove from row"
The title disappears from Continue Watching immediately. Your watch history is not deleted — the title simply stops appearing in that row. If you want to erase it from your watch history entirely, that requires a separate step inside your account settings.
How to Remove Titles on a Mobile Device (iOS and Android)
On the Netflix mobile app, the process is nearly identical:
- Open the app and navigate to your home screen
- Locate the title in the Continue Watching row
- Tap the three-dot icon below or beside the title
- Tap "Remove from row"
Some older versions of the app may display this option differently, or it may appear as "Remove from Continue Watching" rather than "Remove from row." If you don't see a three-dot icon, try pressing and holding on the title thumbnail — on some app versions this surfaces the same menu.
How to Remove Titles on a TV or Streaming Device 📺
Smart TVs, Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, and game consoles handle this slightly differently because navigating menus with a remote is less precise than using a mouse or touchscreen.
General steps across most TV-based apps:
- Navigate to the title in the Continue Watching row using your remote
- Highlight the title (don't press play — just move the cursor over it)
- Press the down arrow or an equivalent button to open options below the thumbnail
- Look for a "Remove from row" or similar option in the menu that appears
On some smart TV platforms, this contextual menu may take an extra button press to access, and the exact label can vary. If the option doesn't appear immediately, check whether you're highlighting the title versus actively selected into the playback screen — on TV apps, these are two distinct states.
Removing from Watch History vs. Removing from the Row
These are two different actions, and it matters which one you need:
| Action | What It Does | Where to Do It |
|---|---|---|
| Remove from row | Hides the title from Continue Watching | Directly in the Netflix app or browser |
| Remove from watch history | Deletes viewing record entirely | Account settings → Viewing activity |
| Hide entire viewing history | Prevents titles from influencing recommendations | Account settings |
If you remove something from the row but leave it in your history, Netflix's recommendation algorithm can still use that viewing data. If you want a clean slate — both visually and algorithmically — deleting from watch history is the more thorough option.
To access watch history: go to your profile icon → Account → Profile & Parental Controls → select the profile → Viewing Activity. From there, you can remove individual titles or hide all activity.
Variables That Affect Your Experience 🔧
A few factors change how this process actually plays out:
- App version: Netflix updates its app regularly, and UI elements like menu icons move around between versions. If a step doesn't match what you see, the feature likely exists but may be labeled or positioned differently.
- Device type: The browser version generally has the most consistently accessible controls. TV apps tend to have the most variation across manufacturers.
- Profile permissions: If you're using a managed profile (set up with parental controls), some account-level settings may be locked to the primary account holder.
- Netflix plan: All Netflix plans include the ability to manage Continue Watching. This isn't a paid tier feature.
What You Can't Currently Do
Netflix does not currently offer:
- A bulk-remove option that clears the entire Continue Watching row in one click
- Automatic removal of titles after a set period of inactivity
- A setting to disable Continue Watching entirely from appearing on the home screen
Each title has to be removed individually, which makes the process more time-consuming if the row has accumulated many entries over months of use.
How much this matters in practice depends on how your household uses Netflix — who shares profiles, how often the home screen is visible to others, and whether recommendation accuracy matters to you on a given profile.