Unable to mark episodes as watched when airing date is in the future
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When an episode has an airing date in the future, you are unable to mark it as watched.
However, some services make all episodes available online on the release date whilst also only airing one episode per week on TV. This seems to be pretty common in the UK.
In the screenshots below, Patience S2 is all available online whilst 1 episode is being shown on Channel 4 on a Wednesday. Iâve seen it for other series, like After The Flood on ITV.
I use trakt to monitor where I am up to in a series as I forget. This would make using Trakt a lot less useful.
My issue isnât that the airing date is wrong, it is that the functionality to mark something as watched now relies on the airing date in the app. The website doesnât have that restriction.
That depends. What about if I go on holiday to a different country and they have an earlier airing date and I watch it whilst there? Or if you watch a movie at a film festival before it is released (Iâve done this several times)? Surely the easiest thing would be for Trakt to remove the restriction theyâve applied in the app but not on the website, rather than getting the airing date or premiered date correct for everything.
Wow just wait and in a while we wonât be able to toggle movies as watched before the release in the us of a or whichever country is deemed âoriginal countryâ.
Itâs a good thing the Netherlands is mostly late with foreign shows though. But for moviesâŚ. Hmnnnnn. Donât like where this is going once again.
Iâm running into the same issue, especially with anime releases.
Sometimes episodes are available earlier on streaming platforms (like Crunchyroll), even though the broadcast date listed on Trakt is still in the future.
In those cases, I can mark the episode as watched using the web dashboard, and the status syncs correctly to the Android app. However, the Android app itself prevents marking the episode as watched.
It would be helpful if the Android app allowed marking episodes as watched regardless of the airing date, since Trakt already supports this via the website.
Iâve found that once the air date as passed, you can mark as watched in the app on the date that you watched it, even if that is before the air date, so it is just the functionality of the button that seems to be impacted.
Yes â that matches what Iâm seeing as well. Once the air date passes, the Android app allows marking the episode as watched normally.
The issue is mainly when episodes are legitimately available to watch before the broadcast date listed in Trakt, which happens in some cases such as:
Anime simulcasts on streaming platforms (e.g., Crunchyroll)
Regional early releases
Streaming-first releases before TV broadcast
In those situations, the Trakt website/dashboard still allows marking the episode as watched, and the status syncs correctly to the Android app afterward.
That suggests the restriction is specific to the Android app UI rather than a backend limitation.
It might be worth allowing the Android app to behave consistently with the web dashboard in this case, since the watched entry itself is already supported by Trakt.
Yep, I am having the same problem with an Anime that has aired on Crunchyroll but Trakt uses the TV date, so I canât check in. Trakt Web: Track Your Shows & Movies
Trakt team, please can you revise this change?
Edit: Interestingly, you can still mark as watched if you long press on the check in button on iOS
