Amazon Prime Watch Party Is Gone: How to Watch Prime Video Together Now

If you’re looking for the Amazon Watch Party button in Prime Video and can’t find it, you’re not imagining things. Amazon removed Watch Party from Prime Video in 2024, quietly and without an official announcement. To watch Prime Video together now, most people use the Teleparty browser extension, Apple SharePlay on supported devices, or a simple countdown over a video call.

This guide walks through each option honestly, explains why screen sharing Prime Video often shows a black screen, and covers what to use when the movie you want to share is your own file rather than something on a streaming service.

What Prime Video Watch Party was

Watch Party was a feature built into Prime Video that let a host start a session, send a link, and have friends join a synced viewing with a chat panel alongside the video. When the host paused or skipped, everyone followed. It worked from a desktop browser, and in some regions on certain other devices.

Each viewer needed their own Prime Video access, and not every title was eligible. The details changed over the years, so we won’t quote specific limits here. What matters now is simple: the feature is gone, and you need another way to stay in sync.

Option 1: Teleparty with Prime Video

Teleparty is the renamed Netflix Party. It’s a browser extension for Chrome, Edge and other Chromium-based browsers that syncs playback on streaming sites and adds a group text chat. It supports Prime Video, which makes it the closest replacement for the old Amazon Prime Watch Party.

Everyone in the group needs their own access to Prime Video, and the title has to be available in each person’s region.

How to start a Prime Video watch party with Teleparty

Steps can change as the extension updates, so treat this as a general outline and check teleparty.com for current instructions.

1. Install the Teleparty extension from your browser’s extension store on a desktop or laptop.
2. Sign in to Prime Video in that browser and open the movie or episode you want to watch.
3. Click the Teleparty icon in your browser toolbar and start a party.
4. Copy the party link and send it to your friends.
5. Each friend installs the extension, signs in to their own Prime Video account, and opens the link.
6. Press play. Pauses and seeks now sync for everyone, and the chat sits beside the video.

Good to know

• Free and paid. The free version covers synced playback and text chat. Teleparty Premium is a paid tier that adds things like video and voice chat, reactions and more services.
• Desktop focus. As a browser extension, it’s built for computers rather than phones or TV apps.
• Same title, same region. If one friend lives in another country, the title might not be available to them.

Option 2: Apple SharePlay

If everyone in your group uses an iPhone, iPad, Mac or Apple TV, SharePlay is worth a look. You start a FaceTime call, open a supported app, and playback stays in sync for everyone on the call. Apple’s own guide is at support.apple.com.

The catch: SharePlay only works in apps that support it, and support can vary by app version, device and region. Before movie night, check whether the Prime Video app offers SharePlay on your devices. A quick test is to start a FaceTime call with one friend, open Prime Video, and see if a SharePlay prompt appears when you press play.

If it works, it’s the most comfortable option on Apple hardware, since you can see and hear each other. If it doesn’t, or if anyone uses Android or Windows, move on to Teleparty or the next option.

Option 3: Countdown and a call

This method sounds basic, but it works on any device, including TVs, phones and game consoles, and needs nothing to install.

1. Start a voice or video call on whatever app your group already uses.
2. Everyone opens the same title in Prime Video and pauses at the very start, or at the same timestamp.
3. One person counts down: “3, 2, 1, play.”
4. If someone drifts, pause together, agree on a timestamp, and restart with another countdown.

Tips to make it smoother

• Use headphones. Otherwise the call picks up the movie audio from everyone’s speakers and you get an echo.
• Mute when not talking. It keeps the call clean during quiet scenes.
• Check your connection. A steady connection on every end avoids buffering pauses that throw you out of sync.
• Plan for time zones. Agree on the start time in each person’s local time so nobody is late.

It isn’t perfectly synced, and you’ll occasionally need to re-align. For a relaxed movie night with a partner or a couple of friends, it’s often good enough.

Why screen sharing Prime Video shows a black screen

A common idea is to just share your screen on Discord, Zoom or Google Meet. With Prime Video, this often fails: friends see a black rectangle where the movie should be, sometimes with the audio still playing.

That’s DRM (digital rights management). Streaming services protect their video, and browsers and apps frequently black out protected content when it is captured or shared. You may find workarounds suggested online, but they can breach the service’s terms, and you shouldn’t rely on them.

Even when screen sharing works with other videos, it compresses the picture, often drops the frame rate, and lowers audio quality. It’s fine for a quick clip, not ideal for a full film.

Comparison: ways to watch Prime Video together

Method	Devices	Syncs playback	Chat or call	Cost	Everyone needs Prime Video
Teleparty	Desktop Chromium browsers	Yes	Text chat (free); video and voice with Premium	Free version, paid Premium	Yes
Apple SharePlay	Apple devices only, if the app supports it	Yes	FaceTime video and voice	Included with Apple devices	Yes
Countdown and call	Any device	Manually	Any call app	Free	Yes
Screen sharing	Desktop	One person streams	Built into the call app	Usually free	No, but often blacked out by DRM

For most groups on computers, Teleparty is the practical pick. For all-Apple groups, try SharePlay first. For mixed devices or TVs, the countdown method is the most reliable fallback.

The bigger picture: services are dropping watch parties

Prime Video isn’t alone. Built-in watch parties have been disappearing across streaming services:

• Disney+ GroupWatch was discontinued on 18 September 2023.
• Plex Watch Together was discontinued on most apps in February 2025 and now remains only in the Plex web app.
• Amazon Prime Video Watch Party was removed in 2024.
• Netflix has no built-in co-watching feature at the time of writing (November 2026), which is why people use Teleparty there too. Our guide on how to watch Netflix together covers that.

The lesson is that a feature tied to one service can vanish without warning. Tools that sit outside any single service, such as browser extensions, SharePlay, or a dedicated watch party app for your own files, tend to be steadier choices for a regular movie night. If you’re comparing more general options, see our list of Watch2Gether alternatives.

For your own movies and home videos: CineNest

To be completely clear: CineNest can’t play Prime Video or any other streaming service, and it isn’t a screen-sharing tool. But a lot of movie nights aren’t about streaming catalogues. Maybe you want to watch a film you own as a file, a downloaded video you have the right to share, a family recording, or a wedding video with relatives in other cities.

That’s what CineNest is for. It’s a free watch party web app that runs in any modern browser on desktop and mobile, with no sign-up, no account, no extension and no download.

1. Open cinenest.live and create a room.
2. Pick a video file (MP4, WebM or MKV) or paste a direct video link, such as a Dropbox, Google Drive or GitHub share link, or an .m3u8 stream.
3. Share the room link or QR code with up to 23 friends.
4. Press play. Everyone stays in sync within a few frames.

A few things that help on movie night:

• If everyone has the file, each person plays their own copy and only play, pause and seek are shared.
• If only you have it, your browser streams the original file straight to friends, peer to peer and encrypted. It’s never uploaded to CineNest’s servers.
• Talk while you watch. Voice and video calls for up to 8 people, with face bubbles floating over the movie, plus chat and live reactions.
• Subtitles for everyone. Drop in an .srt or .vtt file once and the whole room gets it, with per-person timing adjustments. Each person can pick their own audio track and built-in MKV subtitles.
• Tricky formats. If a phone or browser can’t play a file as-is, such as an MKV on iPhone, CineNest converts it live so everyone can still watch.

There are no accounts, your videos are never uploaded, and room data is deleted 12 hours after everyone leaves. CineNest was built by PlusOneDevelopers in India for a long-distance couple’s movie nights. As always, only share videos you have the right to watch. For a full walkthrough, see how to host a watch party or our guide to watching movies together online.

Which option should you choose?

• Watching a Prime Video title on computers: use Teleparty.
• Everyone on Apple devices: check whether SharePlay works with Prime Video on your devices, and use it if it does.
• Watching on TVs, phones or a mix of devices: count down together on a call.
• Watching your own files, home videos or direct links: use CineNest.

The Amazon Watch Party button may be gone, but watching Prime Video together still works. It just takes a slightly different route than it used to.