Netflix has begun testing a shuffle button with some users of its Android app, “We are testing the ability for members to play a random episode from different TV series on the Android mobile app,” a Netflix spokesperson said in an email. “These tests typically vary in length of time and by region, and may not become permanent.”
Android Police spotted the test earlier Friday. From the screenshots, it looks like the feature would work similarly to shuffle in your music app. Tapping shuffle arrows would let users play a popular or random episode of a show.
Of course, this wouldn’t be helpful for all shows especially plot-heavy programs like Ozark or Stranger Things. But for those of us who restart Friends or The Office as soon as we finish it, a random play feature has been a long time coming.
It’s unclear at this point whether this is just an experiment or if we’ll see this roll out to a wider batch of people soon. For now, if you don’t have this, you’re stuck with picking something on your own.
