Netflix broke split-screen playback in a recent update
(Android Police)

But you can roll back to an earlier version to fix it (for now) Netflix giveth, and Netflix taketh away. For ages, you couldn`t even play Netflix on Assistant-powered smart displays, though that has since been fixed. This small step forward is accompanied by an equally confusing step back, as sometime recently, Netflix lost the ability to do split-window multitasking — even if you forcibly enable it, playback will stop if you interact with a second window. To be clear, the Netflix app doesn`t officially support this at all (as far as we can tell), and by default you won`t get the option to use it in split- or multi-window modes on most phones. Read More Netflix broke split-screen playback in a recent update was written by the awesome team at Android Police.