Future Release Date - Cannot Mark as watched

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There are many episodes with the WRONG release date. The old UI, we were still able to mark it as watched, but with the new UI, it won’t allow us to mark it as watched. Please make it so that we can mark unreleased content as watched to prevent this dumb thing from happening. It’s annoying that we have to wait sometimes a week later to mark it as watched.

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Currently it seems that episodes marked as unaired can no longer be marked as watched.

This causes problems because many streaming platforms release episodes before the official broadcast date, for example:

  • Entire seasons released at once

  • Early access / premium early viewing

  • Streaming release earlier in the day than TV broadcast

In these cases, users may have legitimately watched an episode, but Trakt prevents marking it as watched because it is still marked as unaired.

This breaks watch history and progress tracking, and forces users to come back later just to log something they already watched.

It would be helpful if Trakt allowed marking unaired episodes as watched, perhaps with a warning or confirmation message.

This would better support modern streaming release patterns while still informing users that the episode has not officially aired yet.

// Translated by AI

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This is indeed an issue. Especially with for example items that the BBC stream and release on iPlayer as a season while airing it in an episodic weekly manner on tv.

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If you are using the iOS app, long press on the button to mark an episode watched and you will get options to select when you watched it. Not sure about Android or V3 desktop versions.

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I think trakt disabled actually marking as watch in the future. But in the past, they were allowing up to 24 hours in the future unless it’s a bug.

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afaik it still works in ios, thats what i’ve been telling people since web doesn’t allow you and I dont have android so i cant test it there

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oh good to know

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Thanks, I didn’t know about the long press thing. It does work on the iphone, but doesn’t work on android.
It would be nice for it to work on all systems. Not everyone uses iOS.

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android dev is slightly behind ios but it will be added