How to lock the screen and prevent inadvertent touches

We do not discuss a general functionality, which serves to the whole system, but that is going to be for a particular app. However, it consumes many moments of our day-to-day, or at least on the weekends. We talk about Netflix, and is that up until now you had to be very careful not to touch the screen and get us out of what we were seeing at the time.

A function inherited from other apps

For the high demand that has their service streaming, it’s something that Netflix already should have done some time ago, given that we are dealing with this problem constantly when watching content on mobile. Without a doubt, there is a function that is innovative or is the result of many hours of research on the part of the company.

Many users will know one of the players most popular platform as it is VLC. All told, this app allows you to lock the screen of the terminal for some time, whose option we find among the various controls that we have to play a video in VLC.

How to lock the screen when in Netflix

Although we are missing other functionality to

reach out to the player, as the controls gesture, what is certain is that it is a step forward, and an implementation very useful. To activate it, there is that carry out a similar procedure, as we will also see this option of instant playback of our series, or movie in streaming.

Once you have selected the content, the screen will rotate to horizontal automatically, as always, and just below the playback bar, you will see the function together with the selection of episodes and the activation of subtitles. In this way, disappears the rest of the controls once activated, so if we want to change the language, change subtitles, or to pass on to another chapter, we’re not going to be able to do it.

To do this, you will need to unlock the screen again, pressing the button that appears in the center of the same. The app asks us if we are sure to unlock it, so we have to re-press the button to confirm. In addition, Android users are in luck, since time is of exclusively for our operating systemalthough sooner rather than later will be available in the other platforms.