Amazon Prime Video removes Watch Party feature and prevents watching movies and series with friends from a distance

9 Jul. (Portaltic/EP) –

Amazon Prime Video ha removed of your service the function known as Watch Partywhich allowed people to watch movies and television series together with up to one hundred people, regardless of their location, as well as being able to comment on the content viewed via chat in real time.

The streaming content platform launched the feature Watch Party in 2020 for all users with a subscription to the service. This option was Designed so that groups of friends or family could watch movies and series at the same time from their respective homes.providing a way to view and comment on content together regardless of where each user plays it from.

This is how she became a useful function to enjoy the content of the platform with other users, especially in situations such as, for example, confinement due to the pandemic of coronavirus or for cases of groups of friends who live far away.

Now, four years later, Amazon Prime Video has removed the Watch Party feature from its platformso that the Users can no longer organize this type of sessions with up to one hundred participants to watch movies or series together, as some users have reported through Reddit postscollected by Android Authority.

Thus, as a user shared in the forum, not finding this option available, he contacted the Amazon customer servicefrom where they have Confirmed that this tool has been discontinued for all users with any subscription level from Prime Video.

Amazon has also confirmed this through the forum for digital devices and services of the platform where, through the response to a user with the same problem accessing the function, the company claimed that the Watch Party option has been unavailable since April 2, 2024.

In addition, the access to the Amazon support page for the tool is also not available. For all these reasons, although Amazon has not shared the reasons for discontinuing the group viewing option, users will have to look for alternatives to Watch Party if they want to continue watching content together in real time.