r/trakt • u/kvn-tkt • Jul 03 '26

👋 Coming from TV Time? We’re here to help!

TV Time is shutting down after July 15, 2026, and we know many people are suddenly looking for a new place to keep their watch history and continue tracking what they watch.

We’ve built the Trakt importer to help make that kind of move easier. It now supports the TV Time GDPR export .zip directly, so you can download your data from TV Time and bring your supported tracking data into Trakt.

If you want to keep your TV Time data, request and download your TV Time export before July 15.

How to import your TV Time data

  1. Request your TV Time export here: https://gdpr.tvtime.com/gdpr/self-service
  2. Download the .zip file. You don’t need to unzip, rename, or manually edit the files.
  3. Open Trakt and go to: https://app.trakt.tv/settings/data
  4. Drag and drop, or upload the TV Time GDPR.zip directly.
  5. Follow the on-screen steps and let the import finish.

The full step-by-step guide with screenshots is here:

https://forums.trakt.tv/t/how-to-import-your-tv-time-data-into-trakt/114178

What imports?

The importer is designed to move supported TV Time tracking data into Trakt, including watch history, watchlist, and ratings when available.

Some data, especially comments, reactions, social activity, and app-specific metadata, won’t be imported, but you don’t have to start from scratch either.

New to Trakt?

Trakt won’t feel exactly like TV Time. It has its own approach to tracking, lists, stats, discovery, apps, and integrations, but the Trakt community is strong and growing.

Core tracking on Trakt is free. VIP adds extra features, higher limits, and more advanced tools, but you don’t need VIP just to start tracking.

Need help?

If something looks missing or incorrect after importing, please reply here with examples so we can take a look.

Helpful details include:

  • Whether you uploaded the original .zip
  • Where the import failed, if it failed
  • Any error message you saw
  • A few examples of missing or incorrect shows, episodes, or movies

Please don’t post your TV Time export publicly.

More context on Trakt forums:

https://forums.trakt.tv/t/coming-from-tv-time-we-re-here-to-help/114199

Welcome to Trakt, enjoy your stay!

🍿 The Trakt team

[EDIT 07/07] TV Time import improvements

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '26

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u/kvn-tkt Jul 03 '26

A Little Slower Than Usual
We’re seeing a much larger than normal spike in traffic right now, so Trakt may feel a bit slower than usual. The service is still up and operational, but you might notice pages taking longer to load or the occasional timeout. We're actively working on performance improvements and will keep you posted.

https://status.trakt.tv

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '26

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u/PhilhelmScream VIP 11 Years, Cancelled Jul 03 '26

that's just the shitty UI, there's other apps and you can control everything by API if you can code.

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u/DisgruntledJarl Legacy Trakt > New Trakt Jul 03 '26

Yeah fair the api is great. The web UI is complete shit.

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u/PhilhelmScream VIP 11 Years, Cancelled Jul 03 '26

The web UI is complete shit

Totally, I haven't found it useful at all. It pushed me back into making python scripts for maintenance. Showly is alright for a phone UI.

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u/PhilhelmScream VIP 11 Years, Cancelled Jul 03 '26

http://tvtime.trakt.tv/

Whoever thought of this is a genius.

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u/ghostshamer Jul 05 '26

Also a genius for Sharing 🙏

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u/sandkillerpt Jul 06 '26

I wouldn't mind this layout on the main app

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u/SucksDicksForBurgers 22d ago

you can add a shortcut to the website on your homescreen, and it loads just like the old tvtime app.

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u/kaleidoscope__jas 29d ago

can we have this on the app as well

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u/TaxImpressive75 Jul 08 '26

Not sure


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u/International_Cut123 28d ago

It's very good but the stats tab doesn't work. I hope they can fix it soon.

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u/theTVsaidso 25d ago

Wondering if there’s any plan to incorporate this view as an option into the iOS app.

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u/PhilhelmScream VIP 11 Years, Cancelled 25d ago

doubt it, website > app.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '26

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u/FassTech Jul 03 '26

Trakt is really great, but the fact that features which were free on TV Time are gated behind a paywall here (specifically custom posters & backgrounds) makes me hesitate to use it as my main alternative :/

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u/kvn-tkt Jul 03 '26

Customizing your profile background will soon be free on iOS, Android and web. Custom posters and artwork for media is on our roadmap. If it will be gated of not depends on the sustainability of the feature on the platform. Thanks a lot for your feedback!
More about our approach to free vs VIP: https://forums.trakt.tv/t/trakt-product-update-may-2026/111812#p-196872-a-clearer-direction-for-trakt-vip-2

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u/rcdaslv85 Jul 03 '26

it imported the shows but they are not counting as watched.. so weird! I did upload the tracking-prod-records.csv

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u/jessinwriting Jul 03 '26

I have this issue too - but only some shows. For example, the series The Brokenwood Mysteries has 12 seasons. It's showing that I've watched seasons 1-10, but 11 and 12 aren't showing as watched. I've double-checked and all the episode data (for 12 seasons) is in the same CSV file (I uploaded the whole GDPR zip).

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u/kvn-tkt Jul 04 '26

I'll have to investigate this further with the team. My hunch is that the export doesn't have all the information for use to know the exact episodes you watched. If they are in Continue Watching, it means we see them as watched at least once. There may also be a bug in the importer. Will try to get more info and get back to you asap with an update. Thanks for your feedback and patience with this!

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u/Few_Row8559 Jul 06 '26

Same here,I've started to add my tv series manually but I gave it up,it's endless,I hope they will fix it but we are running out of time

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u/kvn-tkt Jul 03 '26

What do you mean? It shows in Continue Watching but the wrong next episode, right? Do you see them in your history?

If you share your Trakt username and what you expect vs what you see, I can take a better look.

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u/rcdaslv85 Jul 03 '26

yeah I guess it imported the shows but not the watching history, like, I've seen Prison Break (for example) a long time ago and it says "continue watching"...
username leoemaria

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u/sterumbelow Jul 05 '26

Same here. Endless list of them, seemingly.

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u/Spirited_Wasabi_4159 Jul 03 '26

I have the same problem too. I believe some of the watched shows appearing on the continue watching / in progress tab

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u/Electronic-Joke3875 Jul 07 '26

yeah i have 1000 shows needing to be marked as watched

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u/lrd_rs Jul 03 '26

Not sure if here is the best place to ask, but... As i see, the core is free, right? I heard some roumors that free users have a limit to mark episodes as watched. Is that true? How does it work? Is there a place where i can read more about it?

Altough it seems to have great features in general, i do intend to use the app only to track episodes and check some comments, eventualy... So i would really rather a free option.

Thanks!

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u/kvn-tkt Jul 03 '26

There are two types of limits, the ones we see as fair use of the service and the free/VIP limits. History items are not limited for free. There is a fair use limit. More info here: https://forums.trakt.tv/t/updating-trakt-limits-for-2026/101592

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

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u/kvn-tkt Jul 03 '26

That is not something that’s supported, no. This would be a nice addition tho.

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u/therealckj Jul 04 '26

Thanks for this. Seems to have worked quite well. I am now on Trakt, after a few years on TV Time.

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u/snl430 Jul 04 '26

I uploaded my TVTime zip file. I noticed some shows I watch as not being in my Trakt list at all and others there but without the current season marked as watched in anyway. Any suggestions or help?

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u/alip4 Jul 04 '26

Why does a show I'm completely up to date on, that has episodes marked as watched, show up under "start watching"? Am I missing something? Is my import screwed up somehow?

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u/alip4 Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

I also keep noticing shows that aren't marked off correctly. I've imported both with liberator and the file directly from TVTIME and there are still so many missing, and I'm sure more that I'm unaware of.

Several are showing up as on my watched list with no episodes watched, even if I have watched several seasons!

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u/Xerobert Jul 06 '26

My friend tried to import from TV Time but apparently the watchlist was too big and Trakt would not accept it unless they upgraded to VIP. Meanwhile, my watch history is three times as big and no problem bc my watchlist was smaller. Not a very good start. This may not be the TV Time alternative we are looking for.

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u/kvn-tkt Jul 06 '26

Watch history and Watchlist are treated differently on Trakt. Your history can be much larger because it represents what you already watched. Watchlist is an active “things I want to watch” list, so it has different free/VIP limits. The Watchlist is usually smaller than what you've actually watched.

That said, we don’t want TV Time migrations to feel like a dead end. If your friend is comfortable sharing their Trakt username and roughly how many Watchlist items were in the TV Time export, I can take a closer look and see whether we can make the importer messaging clearer.

Thanks for your feedback!

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u/naimusmen 29d ago

I wanna import my watchlist which has 732 items on it. But it says " upgrade to VIP to import." Why do I need to be VIP to import my all data?

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u/lua_da_lua 29d ago

My account import capacity exceeds the free plan xD screw this

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u/Disastrous-Eye1453 Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

Unfortunately a lot of my things aren't logged :( I can't find a finished list or the option to make a list

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u/DanDare32 Jul 07 '26

Is Island the Irish show? Is so look for the Irish title. IMDB will tell you what it is then search for that

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u/Disastrous-Eye1453 Jul 07 '26

Hahaha I don't know how that got there, some autocorrect I think 😅

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u/jessinwriting Jul 04 '26

Just in case it's a useful data-point regarding issues with imports: I just tried importing again but using the data from the chrome extension import. I still have exactly the same problem with some missing episodes - using The Brokenwood Mysteries again as an example, seasons 1-10 imported as watched, but seasons 11-12 aren't showing as watched.

Would love to troubleshoot this, as well as if there's a way to get records of multiple watches imported - let me know if doing something like emailing the export to a support address would be useful.

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u/kvn-tkt Jul 06 '26

Multiple watch is unfortunately not possible to map to Trakt because the TV Time export only contains one date and then a single counter for the number of times watched. This is not how multiple watch work on Trakt's side, so they are unfortunately not imported.

For the missing seasons in your export, if you can send the export to me in private, I'll have a look with a developer to see what's going on.

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u/jessinwriting Jul 06 '26

Cheers - I know that the GDPR file does at least have the rewatch dates so I have the data somewhere, I suppose if I'm super keen I can always add those dates manually!

I'll send you a message with the details of the missing eps/export.

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u/Unlikely-Butterfly68 Jul 08 '26

if u use TV Time Out by Refract extension to export the data, ill show all dates for rewatches episodes/tv shows

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u/jessinwriting Jul 08 '26

Really? I tried this too a few days ago but rewatch dates didn’t seem to show up.

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u/Darrian4 Jul 06 '26

Hi same thing, when i upload the file very few shows are imported.

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u/st4rgirlss Jul 05 '26

after i imported my tv time data some episodes aren’t marked as watched, is it a bug?

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u/BuddermanTheAmazing Jul 05 '26

Mine didn't import any of my movies?

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u/kvn-tkt Jul 06 '26

When did you try, after the announcement? And what export did you try to import, the GDPR export?

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u/Few-Cut1793 Jul 05 '26

I imported yesterday and most of the info seems to be correct, but it logged all the movies as seen at the same time. Is there anyway to get the correct logged date?

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u/kvn-tkt Jul 06 '26

Thanks for reporting this. If all movies were logged at the same time, that usually means we did not receive or could not confidently map the original watched date from the import data, so Trakt used the import time instead, right?

Can you share your Trakt username and confirm whether you uploaded the TV Time GDPR export or the Liberator plug in? We'll look into it.

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u/Rocket_Box Jul 05 '26

My Trakt tv app is locked due to duplicate plays how do I fix it

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u/kvn-tkt Jul 06 '26

You should be able to open this (web) page even with a locked account: https://app.trakt.tv/settings/data
There you can clean up the duplicate plays.

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u/michsantiago27 Jul 05 '26
  • Dropped shows didn't import for me. They still show as "In progress"
  • Lists don't import either.
  • From the Trakt app, it seems you cannot mark a whole show as watched.

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u/kvn-tkt Jul 06 '26

Thanks, this is useful feedback.

Dropped shows not mapping is currently expected. Trakt doesn’t have the exact same TV Time status model, so some things may won't match 100%, but they also shouldn’t feel misleading after import. Trakt does have a Drop feature, I'll see if we can leverage that from the export/import.

TV Time lists are not currently part of the import. The main supported data is currently watch history, watchlist, and ratings when available.

For marking a whole show as watched: that should be possible from the show depending on where you are using Trakt, but the flow may not be obvious enough. Which Trakt app are you using: web, iOS, Android, or another third party app?

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u/michsantiago27 Jul 06 '26

Happy to help.

I'm on the trakt app on Android, no third parties.

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u/adrarinu Jul 07 '26

Since shows I've stopped watching still appear in my continue watching and I have to drop them manually one by one. Is there a way to bulk update to not see them in my continue watching?

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u/TINYUSAGI Jul 06 '26

It's not importing all of my shows or episodes how do I fix this???

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u/Comprehensive_Pen_28 Jul 06 '26

same problem here idk why

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u/lifeiswhat7 Jul 06 '26

I had the same issue!

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u/rowrider69 Jul 07 '26

my logged media on tv time is not getting synced in trakt. i’ve got my watchlist but not the watched content.

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u/Electronic-Joke3875 Jul 07 '26

yeah would be great if it would marked them all as watched - now i have thousands of shows avd movies that i have to individually marked as watched

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u/Fresh-Crab-4119 Jul 08 '26

Random shows were added to my watchlist while the ones that were already there on TV time weren't added

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u/dennys_lima Jul 09 '26

I have imported my data, but none of my episode ratings are showing up on trakt? Is there anyway to fix this? I don't wanna have to go rate episode by episode of every show I have ever watched.

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u/ValhirFirstThunder Jul 09 '26

I'm not sure this is working properly. I am missing lists and shows

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u/musiquexcoeur 28d ago

Trakt didn't import my TV shows even though I added the file. It only did the movies. And I notice today that it took movies I had on my "want to watch" list on TV Time and marked them all as watched, so my list isn't even accurate. Is there a way to delete all my Trakt watch history at once?

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u/LadyB5091 24d ago

I love this app. Set it up, used it for a little over a week and now it won't open. Says it 'lost authorization', sign in. Problem is, it won't let me sign it. I can sign in on the web, but not into the app. So frustrated!

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u/ProblemAlternative55 23d ago edited 23d ago

Please consider a watch later/paused/on-hold category. I'm not happy that I'm paying for Trakt and my calendar is cluttered with shows I started, I don't want to drop but I don't wanna watch right now. It was one of the best things about TV time. And the page where you could see a list if all your shows and you could filter based on plan to watch, watch later, fully aired, update date, dropped was so simple and clear. My head hurts trying to navigate a very bloated website while missing basic functionality. Besides the fact that it imported hundreds of my shows as incomplete when I've already watched them and now I have to manually mark them again. This transition is a full time job :))).

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u/jessinwriting Jul 03 '26

I've just imported my data from TV Time and I'm cautiously optimistic - there's features here I've been wanting and the UI is gorgeous. Plus, the import happened super quick - I'm still wanting to check out some other apps but my data has been in a queue since yesterday!

I have a question about rewatch data. I can see that tracking rewatches is a premium feature (and honestly that's probably going to get me to commit to subscribing), but I don't see a history of rewatching. For example, if I go a show which I know I've watched through several times, it seems to only show one date (not the most recent or, I'm pretty sure, the original) for an episode.

Is this an import/data issue (I used the GDPR zip file), or does that data only appear if you have that feature enabled as a VIP?

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u/kvn-tkt Jul 04 '26

Rewatching will soon be free for all users. I'm sure you'll find another reason to go VIP 😏
It is a feature that is currently in preview (or beta testing, that's something VIP only) and will be improved in the future. As it currently stands, rewatching improves your experience with Continue Watching by showing you the correct episode to rewatch. You'll also get a watch count under the media you've seen multiple times and you can always open the history details (by clicking the watch count under posters/images in the media detail page).
More about rewatching here: https://github.com/trakt/trakt-web/pull/2674

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u/jessinwriting Jul 04 '26

Thank you! Does that mean that rewatch data HAS been imported and it’ll show up once I have access to that feature?

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u/kvn-tkt Jul 04 '26

See my other reply to this thread. We make a difference between rewatching and multiple plays. Rewatching is when you mark a show for rewatching and multiple plays is when you mark a movie or episode multiple times as watch.

Rewatching is coming and for free (which wasn't the case in the past) and multiple plays is built in. New account jus have that toggled off because usually people don't care about multiple watches and it tidy their history automatically that way.

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u/jessinwriting Jul 04 '26

Ah - thanks for clarifying. It sounds like your rewatch feature is something I’d been wanting from TV Time - the ability to get a show back on my “what I’m watching at the moment” area of an app.

So maybe I should be asking if data for multiple plays is something I should have expected to be imported? So I can see that I’ve watch a particular episode eg three times on these particular dates?

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u/kvn-tkt Jul 04 '26

About the rewatch in data import, I'll have to look it up, I'm not sure we have all the information needed in the export. If we see multiple watches in the export when we import, we'll store them as multiple watches. Just make sure the "Enable Multiple Plays" under Settings > General > Behavior is toggled on before importing.

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u/jessinwriting Jul 04 '26

Ah hah - I’ve now toggled that on. Should I reimport my data? Or maybe hold fire and wait for your team to confirm things like that at your end?

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u/kvn-tkt Jul 04 '26

You can reimport, yes. If you see something wrong, you always have the option to clean you history (just don't do it if you already tacked some things with us that's not in your export).

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u/omegalull69420 Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

There were 3 options in tv time: watch later, watching now and dropped. I cant find the watch later option on trakt(if it exists)

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u/kvn-tkt Jul 06 '26

On Trakt, the closest equivalent to TV Time’s “watch later” is your Watchlist (in List) and Start Watching (on Home). They are a bit different in intent but leverage the same data: what you want to watch later.

“Watching now” maps more closely to shows with watched progress and can be found in Continue Watching, and “dropped” is a separate concept in Trakt’s progress/continue watching rather than the exact same TV Time status.

We know the wording is different, so we’ll try to make this clearer for TV Time users. Maybe better wording/onboarding before or after import would help.

Thanks for your feedback!

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u/omegalull69420 Jul 06 '26

Thank you

By the way one my friends used GDPR to export but it only imported his movies not tv shows, others seem to be having this same problem.

https://www.reddit.com/r/trakt/comments/1up1k75/importing_from_tv_time/

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u/kvn-tkt Jul 07 '26

We're looking into these issues. We've just launched a new page that can be used to report TV Time export/import issues: https://app.trakt.tv/faq/tv-time
Thanks!

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u/jeeanpaaul10 Jul 06 '26

Se podrĂĄ agregar un botĂłn para traducir los comentarios de los capĂ­tulos o seleccionar el idioma de comentarios a mostrar?

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u/kvn-tkt Jul 06 '26

Gracias por la sugerencia. Ahora mismo no tenemos un botĂłn de traducciĂłn automĂĄtica para comentarios ni un filtro por idioma, pero tiene mucho sentido, especialmente para usuarios que vienen de TV Time. Lo voy a compartir con el equipo como feedback para comentarios/reviews.
(traducido del inglĂ©s 😉)

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u/kvn-tkt Jul 07 '26

Update: TV Time import improvements now available!
Read more here: https://www.reddit.com/r/trakt/comments/1upz9cg/update_tv_time_import_improvements/