Watched status and resume progress

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Progress and watched status belong to your profile. Use the same profile on each device to pick up where you left off. Other profiles on the same account keep their own progress.

Continue or start over

Open an unfinished item from Continue Watching, or open its page and select Play or Resume. Continue Watching also shows the next episode of each series you’re watching. To give those episodes their own Next Up row, open Settings > Home Screen in the web app and set Next up episodes to Separate row. On the same page, Show new episodes first moves a show you’ve caught up on to the front when a new episode or season arrives. See how Home orders these rows.

Until you change them, both settings follow your server’s default, which the person who runs your server sets. Under a setting you haven’t changed, the page shows the value it’s using, for example “Using the server default (off).” Once you’ve changed one, select Use server default beside it to follow the default again.

In the web app, selecting Play on a movie or episode you’ve started asks whether to Resume at your saved time or Play from Beginning. Play from Beginning is also in the title’s More menu (⋮). Replaying from the start moves your resume point back.

To clear your resume point on a movie or episode you’ve started, select Reset Progress in the web app. It’s in the menu (⋮) on a Continue Watching card or an episode, or in the long-press menu on a phone. On a movie or episode page, it’s in the More menu (⋮), after Play from Beginning. The item leaves Continue Watching, and the next play starts from the beginning. Its watch history stays, and an item you’d already watched stays watched.

Remove a title from Continue Watching or Next Up

Open the card’s menu and choose Remove from Continue Watching or Remove from Next Up:

• In the web app, point at the card and open its menu (⋮). On a touchscreen, touch and hold the card instead.
• On iPhone, iPad, and Android phones and tablets, touch and hold the card.
• In the native Mac app, Control-click or right-click the card.
• On Apple TV and Android TV, focus the card, then press and hold Select.

On a title you’ve started, the menu says Remove from Continue Watching. On the next episode of a show, it says Remove from Next Up, in the Next Up row or inside Continue Watching.

Removing an episode takes its whole show off Continue Watching and Next Up, whichever row you used. The show comes back when you play any of its episodes again. Removing a movie takes off only that card, and it comes back the next time you play it. Your resume point and watched status stay as they are, and the change applies to your profile on every device.

In the web app, a message confirms the removal. Select Undo in it to put the title back. The Apple and Android apps don’t have an undo, so play the title again to bring it back.

Change watched status

On a phone or tablet, open the title and select Watched.

In the web app, the button’s label shows what it will change, for example Mark Watched on a movie or episode, Mark Season Watched on a season, or Mark Series Watched on a series. The change applies as soon as you select it; select the button again to undo it. On a narrow screen, season and series pages shorten the label to Mark Watched.

Mark Unwatched clears the item’s resume point and removes its watch history too. To clear only the resume point, use Reset Progress instead.

Continue on another device

Pause on the first device so it can save your position to the server, then open the title with the same profile on the second device. If the position looks wrong, look at the profile and the version you’re playing before seeking. A device used offline sends its progress once it reconnects.

Playing the same title on two devices at once can make the position jump, because both send updates. If the wrong position keeps coming back, report the problem with the devices, title, profile, and approximate time.

To bring in history from Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby, see Import your history from Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby.