Differences In Menu Names between Web and iOS App

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Short description of the issue

  • Why are the separator sections in the iOS app and the web so different?

  • I am using both Trakt official apps in my web browser on my computer, on my iPhone, and on my Apple TV.

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  • iOS has “Up Next, Upcoming Schedule, Watchlist, Recently Watched, and Social Activity”,

  • Web app has “Continue Watching, Start Watching, Upcoming Schedule, History, and Social Activity.”

  • Is ‘up next’ and ‘continue watching’ the same thing? They seem to have different content (mostly overlapping) depending on the app I use.

  • Is “watchlist” and “start watching” the same thing? they have different content ….

  • Why have 2 different terms for “Recently Watched” and “History” ….. the content seems to be the same

  • The ‘upcoming schedule’ uses the same terminology, however, the content displays differently as 1 show will display 4 episodes are upcoming while the other (iOS) displays an entirely different episode. Some of the other shows are the same.

  • Seems very inconsistent and hard to understand how the app should work with the same data.

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If you can share some details of the versions of the apps you’re using that might help clarify further (and/or screenshots, seeing as the web doesn’t exactly have a version).

Chances are you’re on either an older version of the app, and/or not on the beta version of the app. These will become synced up once the beta versions of the native iOS/Android apps are released.

For context:

Up Next is equal to Continue Watching
Recently Watched is equal to History

Watchlist is all watchlist items, whereas Start Watching is Released Watchlist items, show in a different way. This specifically is still pending some logic updates on iOS beta to match web.

Upcoming schedule on the web currently has some experimental logic to merge several episodes of the same show, which hasn’t been implemented on iOS yet.

Essentially the web app might get changes before the apps due to the nature of how apps require explicit releases compared to the web app that more or less just refreshes when things change.