Why Netflix and Max can’t be filtered on Apple TV
No, and it never will be. Not by CleanCut, and not by anything else that works from the Apple TV’s playback signal. Here is the reason, and what to do about it.
Two kinds of video player
Most apps on the Apple TV
Disney+, Hulu, Prime Video, Apple TV+, YouTube, Plex and the rest use the Apple TV's built-in video player. It publishes what's playing: the title, whether it's paused, the exact position. That is the signal a filter works from.
Netflix and Max
Both ship their own video player inside their app instead of using the system one, and those players publish nothing. No title, no position. There is no signal, so there is nothing for any filter to act on.
Why an update won’t change it
This is a decision Netflix and Max made about their own apps, and only they can reverse it. There is no setting on the Apple TV that exposes what their players are doing, and no permission an app could ask for. CleanCut reads what the TV publishes; when the TV publishes nothing, that is the end of it.
If you check the Now Playing controls on your iPhone while Netflix is playing, you can see this for yourself: they stay blank, where Disney+ or YouTube would show the title and a moving progress bar.
If Netflix is most of your watching
Then CleanCut isn’t the right buy, and we would rather say so here than after you have paid. It filters the apps that use the system player, which is most of them, and it does that well. It cannot reach the two that don’t.
What it does filter
Any app that uses the Apple TV’s built-in player. These are the ones people ask about most.