Pin a show to Start Next. Found something on your watchlist you want to begin soon? Tap Pin on its page, or long-press its poster, and it waits for you in a new Start Next row on Home, on every device you use. Up Next is smarter too: an episode that's been announced but doesn't have an air date yet no longer shows up as your next one to watch.

This update is all about keeping your watch history safe. Re-watching a show, or marking a season unwatched, now asks first. If you cancel a re-watch, your original watch dates come back instead of turning into today's date. Your notes, ratings and watchlist stay put when you sign in to a different TMDb account, edit a show on a second device, or tap Re-upload to iCloud, which now asks before it does anything. And on Home, tap a spotlight poster to open the show.

Your Up Next widget now always tells you where you stand with a show. It says how many episodes you're behind, even on a show you're seasons behind on, "All caught up" when you've seen everything that's aired, and "Not started" for a show still waiting on your watchlist. In Your Year in Shows, tap the poster wall, any month's bar, or any genre to see the shows behind it.

New to How to TV? Setup now asks what you're watching right now, so Upcoming and the widgets have your shows from the first day. Top People, new in Your Year in Shows: the people you spent the most time with that year, on screen and behind it. Cast count, and so do the creators, writers and directors of the shows you watched. Each one gets a share of a show's hours by how many of its episodes they worked on, and they get their own panels, like your top shows. Home has a new shelf, Deep Pulls: the shows that have waited longest on your watchlist, and how long each one has waited. Your recommendations get sharper too. For You no longer suggests shows you've already started or finished, Picked for You keeps to the kinds of shows you actually rate, and both shuffle daily. And in Your Year in Shows, tap anyone in Top People to see the rest of their work. On the widgets: • Up Next now shows how many episodes you're behind on a show you're watching, on the medium and large sizes. The count moves on as new episodes air and as you tick them off. • Mark watched on Up Next now takes the episode off This Week at once too, without opening the app.

Your Year in Shows, now in pictures. Your year's posters fill the top of the screen, each month's bar is built from the shows you watched that month, your top shows get their own poster panels, and each top genre comes with a fan of its shows' posters. Every number is still there. Widgets, with two new ones: • Up Next comes to the Lock Screen, and you can pin it to one show to follow just that one. Leave it unpinned and it shows whatever airs next. • Mark watched, right on the Up Next widget. Once an episode has aired, tick it off from your Home Screen. Tapped by mistake? Undo it right there, for up to 10 minutes. • This Week: which of your shows air on which day over the next seven days. • Your TV: your headline stat and two insights from your Stats, at a glance. Fixed: in the Americas, an episode could show up a day early in Upcoming, on the Up Next widget and in its airing alert. Air dates now land on the day the episode airs, wherever you are.

Your Year in Shows. Open Stats to see your year so far: the hours you watched, month by month, the shows you gave the most time to, your top genres and your biggest binge day. Look back at any earlier year too, and share it as a card. Your Taste Profile now shows the shows behind its headline. When it says you're all about crime, the posters underneath are your crime. Coming from TV Time? Imports now keep the date you started following each show. And Settings has a new neighbor from the same studio: Movie Night, movie trivia for the whole family.

Coming from TV Time? Bring your history with you, and let your Stats tell you something new. • Import your saved TV Time data export: every show you followed and every episode you watched, with the dates you watched them. Find it in Settings, under Your Library. Importing again never adds anything twice. • Insights now measure every number against something: your average, your last ten ratings, a typical month, the crowd. • New insights only TV can have: binge or one at a time, day-one or catch-up, whether shows get better after season one, what you finish and what you have left hanging. • Trends: your viewing by month, rating momentum, and how your genre mix is shifting. • A new Profile: what you are leaning into lately, your signature genre combos, your people, and what to watch next. • Browse shows the shows. Every genre is a rail of posters, your best genres first.

Quiet groundwork in this one. Marking an episode watched straight from a notification now completes reliably. How to TV now connects to TMDb through its own registered application, which makes signing in and syncing your ratings steadier.

Three fixes, and a screen that no longer stops you. Mark Watched marks the right episode. On Home, the button now always marks the episode the card is showing. Your changes no longer go missing quietly. If your TMDb session has expired, How to TV tells you instead of dropping the change. Upcoming points somewhere. Before you have added any shows, the screen now takes you to search rather than ending at a message. Faster, tidier episode lookups behind the scenes.

Your library, yours to keep. Export everything you have rated, watched and noted. Ratings, episode progress, notes and rewatch counts, as JSON or as spreadsheet-ready CSV. Find it in Settings, under Your Library. Share your Taste Snapshot. Your stats as a card worth sending: what kind of viewer you are, your numbers, your top genres, and the shows behind them. Smaller things. Tapping a How to TV link from the App Store now opens the right screen.

iPad, a Home Screen widget, and a much faster app. Made for iPad. A real sidebar layout, not a phone app stretched to fit. Up Next widget. Your next episode on the Home Screen, one glance away. Picked for You. Suggestions built from your own ratings, refreshed daily. Top TV by Genre. The highest rated series in every genre, with your own ratings layered on top. Faster everywhere. Launch and scrolling are dramatically quicker, especially with a large library. Real two-device sync. Your ratings, notes and episode progress now travel between iPhone and iPad instead of only backing up. Better with VoiceOver and large text throughout.

Redesigned show pages that connect everything • Watch trailers right from the top of any show. • Tap a creator to explore everything they've made. • Jump to similar shows, or to more from the same genre or network — every show is now a doorway to your next one. New ways to discover • Top TV by Genre — browse the best series in every genre, ranked by IMDb. • IMDb ratings, refreshed daily. Runs on more iPhones • How to TV now supports iOS 18 and later. Polish & fixes • A refreshed app icon and faster launch. • Fixed shows that occasionally listed a season twice. • Continue Watching no longer suggests episodes that haven't aired yet. • Cleaner layouts and clearer watchlist controls throughout. Thanks for watching with How to TV — keep the ratings coming, they make every recommendation sharper.