Netflix rolls out external sign-up page for iOS users

Popular video streaming platform Netflix has started directing users on iPhone and iPad to an external webpage where they can sign up for the service.

The change comes just months after Apple started letting “reader” apps that provide access to digital content, like Netflix and Spotify, link out to account sign-up pages on their own websites, reports The Verge.

For as far back as 2018, Netflix did not provide an external signup link — or even tell users where they could sign up — in its iPhone and iPad apps.

Users had to instead navigate to Netflix’s website from their web or mobile browser to sign up for the service before accessing the app.