Often when you travel and check into your hotel room, it’s only natural to unwind by connecting your phone to the Wi-Fi, and, via a single tap, stream the latest episode of your favorite Netflix series directly to the room’s TV.

It was a way to avoid remembering your password and manually inputting it onto unknown TVs with the help of the hotel remote.

As of this week, however, consider those days officially over.

Subscribers have Netflix to thank, as the streaming giant removed the ability to cast content from its mobile apps to televisions and other streaming devices, according to Netflix’s updated help page .

The change forces subscribers to ditch their phones as controllers and log in directly through the Netflix app installed on their TV or dongle.

“Netflix no longer supports

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