🚀 Trakt Product Update – June & Mid-July 2026

Trakt Product Updates
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Six weeks, one clear theme: making Trakt more connected, more personal, and more dependable wherever you use it.

Since the start of June, we’ve filled important gaps in V3, added richer stats and social context, improved lists and discovery, shipped updates on Apple platforms, and moved our Android app forward.

We also moved quickly to welcome people coming from TV Time. We improved our import tools to bring over what matters most: history, ratings, and lists.

:compass: Web V3: the last mile

When we redirected free members to V3 in March, we kept the previous web experience available to VIP members while we brought over more advanced workflows and continued polishing V3.

June and the first half of July were about closing that gap.

In our last Product Roundup, we said our goal was to make V3 the default for VIP members by the end of June. We missed that target. The extra time went into moving more account and service management directly into V3, including subscription controls, connected apps, Plex-related settings, account deletion, and profile settings.

We’ve also kept working through your feedback about desktop workflows, filters, navigation, lists, calendars, progress, and history. We’re now watching new reports closely and fixing rough edges as they surface.

With those pieces in place, V3 is the default web experience for everyone. That’s a big milestone. But it isn’t the end of the work. We now have one modern foundation to improve instead of splitting that effort across two web experiences.

:package: Welcoming the TV Time community

When TV Time announced that its service would shut down on July 15, many people suddenly needed a safe way to preserve years of viewing activity. We made that migration an immediate priority.

The Trakt importer can read a TV Time GDPR export and bring across:

  • Watched history, including watch dates where the export provides them
  • Watchlist items
  • Ratings where available
  • Multiple export formats, including imperfect or incomplete variations
  • Match choices for items that can’t be identified confidently

We also added clearer progress and reporting tools, support for larger exports, and several rounds of fixes based on real files shared through support. If an import doesn’t look right, you can report it directly. That gives us what we need to inspect the mismatch and keep improving the importer.

There are a few caveats. Continue Watching might look different because the two services calculate it differently. Anime season structures can vary between databases, and some exports are missing reliable IDs. Keep your original export somewhere safe, review your all-time totals after importing, and report anything that looks off.

Read the TV Time migration guide →
See the import improvements →
Read the final export and verification checklist →

:globe_with_meridians: More control and context on the web

The web app gained a lot of depth over the past six weeks. Rather than list every small change, here are the improvements you’re most likely to notice.

Lists, progress, and everyday actions

  • Manually reorder your watchlist and custom lists
  • Sort and filter Progress, lists, credits, and library views more consistently
  • Rate an item directly from history and open dedicated history views for episodes
  • Preview “watch until here,” drop a show from more places, and jump to the current episode faster
  • Clear your library when you need a clean reset
  • VIP preview: see favorites by year and use smarter sorting in Continue Watching

Richer show, season, and episode pages

  • Explore season progress, information, and reviews without losing context
  • Find more useful history, ratings, and release details in episode drawers
  • See clearer ratings breakdowns, including season-by-season quality charts
  • Find people, trivia, and social context in more places throughout the experience

Stats, social, and discovery

  • Screen Time shows your last seven days of watching, including peak hours and useful stat cards
  • All Time Stats, Month in Review, and Year in Review now feel more at home inside V3
  • Activity and follow requests are easier to find, with more context about who’s watching or rating something
  • The Releases calendar surfaces premieres, finales, and new releases more clearly
  • “Why this?” explanations and Smart Related controls, currently in VIP preview, make recommendations feel less like a black box

The V3 web app is open source, and our work happens in public. You can follow issues, pull requests, and the conversations around them on GitHub.

:red_apple: iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV

Two iOS releases arrived during this period, both focused on making your Trakt data more useful and easier to share.

Trakt for iOS 3.6

  • Viewing streaks on Home, with a monthly detail view
  • Ratings added to profile activity
  • Shareable media images
  • Check-in end times
  • Username and email management inside the app
  • Fixes for birthday timezone handling

Trakt for iOS 3.7

  • Screen Time for the last seven days, including peak viewing hours
  • A new Activity view—essentially, “who’s watching this?”—with followers, ratings, and reviews
  • Drag-to-reorder for custom lists and watchlists
  • More powerful multi-select filters across Home, Calendar, and Lists
  • Ratings breakdowns and season-by-season quality charts

Read the complete iOS release notes →

Trakt for Apple TV 3.1

Apple TV received a cleaner action layout on summary screens, ratings alongside core actions, dedicated Trailer and More options, and check-in support when opening a streaming link.

Read the Apple TV release notes →

:robot: Android and Android TV

Work on Android followed many of the same themes as web and iOS:

  • Viewing streaks, Profile Activity, Screen Time, and All Time Stats
  • Native user profiles, follower activity, follow requests, and social screens
  • Personal-list reordering, sorting controls, and public/private lists
  • Dedicated media-history views and Android TV history management
  • Better watched-date, Watch Again, and active-episode behavior
  • Updated sharing links and Trakt social-image templates
  • More accurate creator, credit, and history information
  • In-app updates and a broad set of interface fixes

:electric_plug: API and platform work

The Trakt API powers our own apps and thousands of community-built apps, media-center plugins, watch apps, and integrations. We love that. And we’ve been working behind the scenes to make that shared foundation more dependable.

Large accounts can now synchronize watched history in smaller, more predictable pieces. That means fewer timeouts and more reliable syncing for everyone. Read about the sync improvements →

Our API documentation also has a new home at docs.trakt.tv. It’s easier to explore, test, and keep current, giving developers a stronger starting point for future Trakt-powered experiences.

:telescope: What we’re focused on next

Here’s where our attention goes next:

  • Keep hardening V3 and fix the workflows that still feel less complete
  • Improve import matching, reporting, and recovery for unusual exports
  • Bring web, iOS, and Android closer together without forcing every platform into the same shape
  • Refine Releases, Calendar, Progress, Continue Watching, and history based on how people actually use them
  • Keep improving reliability, accessibility, and performance alongside visible features

:clapper_board: That’s a wrap

There’s still plenty to improve. And your reports keep shaping what we fix and build next. Thank you for testing, challenging, and helping us make Trakt better.

See you in the next roundup :waving_hand:

:popcorn: The Trakt Team

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How do I generate a new iCal URL with the new layout? This feature is my favorite aspect of Trakt, and it motivates me to renew my subscription every year! January will mark 10 years!

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Is there any way to make the default page be redirecting to the progress page? Trakt Web: Continue Watching to be similar to the previous /dashboard page?

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Nooooo, so long my beautiful V2 :cry: You will be missed!

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I’ve been a Trakt user and VIP supporter for over a decade. I believe I joined in 2013, although I can’t seem to find my exact join date anywhere now.

I have stayed with Trakt and paid for VIP because it has always been an incredibly useful tool for tracking my viewing history and organizing what I want to watch. After more than a decade of using it, I have a huge amount of information stored here. V3 has somehow made accessing and using that information significantly harder.

My biggest issue is how difficult it is to tell whether I’ve already watched something. This is one of the most basic reasons I use Trakt. In V2, I could look at a page of titles and immediately see what I had already watched. In V3, I genuinely cannot tell easily. I find myself opening titles or staring at the interface trying to figure out whether I’ve already seen something.

I watch a lot of movies and television. I do not remember every title I’ve watched over the last several decades. That is literally why I use Trakt.

The same problem exists with lists. I have spent years building and maintaining lists, and now I can’t easily tell whether I’ve already added a title to one of them. I shouldn’t have to click through menus and check my lists every time I see a movie just to make sure I’m not adding something I’ve already added.

These aren’t minor cosmetic complaints. They make the basic functions of Trakt slower and more difficult to use.

V3 seems designed around large images, empty space, and hiding information behind additional clicks. V2 was information-dense, and that was a feature. I could scan a page and immediately understand what I was looking at. I could see what I’d watched, manage my lists, and move through large amounts of information quickly.

I don’t use Trakt because I want another streaming-service-style browsing experience. I use Trakt as a database and tracking tool. I have more than a decade of my viewing history and personal organization invested in this site. The redesign has taken information that used to be immediately visible and made me actively search for it (and often not ever find it).

There are so many small things in V3 that now require an extra click, an extra menu, or an extra moment of trying to figure out what I’m looking at. Individually, each one might seem minor. Together, they make the entire site exhausting to use.

I also don’t understand the decision to force longtime VIP users onto V3 while it is still missing, hiding, or changing functionality we have relied on for years. I paid for VIP because Trakt was useful to me. Being forced into a version that makes the core reasons I use Trakt harder feels like a pretty terrible reward for supporting the site for over a decade.

Please bring back the option for VIP members to use V2. If that absolutely isn’t going to happen, then V3 desperately needs to restore the information density and immediate visual feedback that made V2 so useful.

At the absolute minimum, I should be able to look at a title and instantly know two things: have I watched this, and have I already added it to one of my lists?

Those are not obscure power-user features. Those are two of the most basic reasons Trakt exists.

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Absolutely on point right here. Well said.

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After trying to use this confusing interface for an hour I have realised how cumbersome everything is. It took me 15 minutes to find out how to rewatch a show (Turned off by default even though I had been using the feature for years.) Once I found it it forced me to watch the first episode of a show right there and then instead of just resetting the rewatch status ready for when I wanted to rewatch it!

I can’t do simple things like click onto TMDB website from the mobile app so I can grab the movie poster I want to download when posting to Social Media.

I also agree with the above from Rayvn, trying to see my progress in one glance of a page is now impossible and I too was just staring making sure I wasn’t missing something.

Also the post to social media when checking in is now gone.

There is probably so much more that’s not great with this new V3 that i’ve not even discovered yet, but this is just the tip of the iceburg i’d imagine.

Can VIP please have the choice to switch back to V2 for all the features we actually paid for and not this glorified “Shiny” looking front end which seems to give us the most basic of features that none of us asked for!

I do like the actual look I would have just preferred a hybrid of the two and kept all the useful at-hand features we came to love and spend the money to support!

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Has anyone worked out how to see episode collected history? I use lists to track what shows and episodes I have both watched AND collected… Can’t see anyway to tell if an episode has been collected.

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I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a company so insistent on upsetting its core customer base. A loyal group of people who pretty clearly like what V2 had to offer, and every time you tried to force them onto V3 the entire forum is inundated with complaints.

Along with everything else already mentioned above, why is the JustWatch function now so much less visible? Before you could go through a list and immediately see where to watch stuff without having to click through on every item.

Also half the stuff that was on my watchlist is now just gone in the changeover. Very frustrating.

Edit: oh, apparently can’t have episodes OR seasons on lists anymore. Sure, great. This is definitely a step forward.

Edit 2: No sortable page with ratings. Seasons and episodes don’t have their own pages anymore. JustWatch way less user friendly and several clicks away. Lists broken… What about this is an upgrade?

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Two major VIP features I used are now completely inaccessible: Notes and Filtering by Streaming Service. And at a pretty critical moment — let me elaborate:

Since 2023 I have been creating annual Emmy and Oscar Nominations lists. These are public lists and I’m pleased at the responses I’ve gotten from other Trakt users. I create them primarily to help guide my viewing — indeed my streaming service activations — between the nominations announcement and the awards ceremony, which can be a short catchup window. In fact, we are in such a window right now for the 2026 Emmy Awards.

I won’t go into my efforts converting official lists of nominations by category into lists of nominations by show or movie, but it is a substantial amount of preparatory work. Once I have that, I can begin building a list — but nominally that is just the first step. Until now, I would also paste into a Note for each show/movie a text list of the nominated categories and people. After the awards ceremony I would update the Note for each winning show/movie by adding a :trophy: to the categories won.

But without the Notes interface, my lists are just raw lists of shows or movies with no context.

The loss of Filtering by Streaming Service is particularly difficult for me right now. In the two month window before the September 14 televised awards ceremony, I need to prioritize which streaming services to reactivate so I can catch up with as many of the nominated shows as possible ASAP (no, I skip the Talk and Reality shows, though they are in my list). The loss of the streaming services filter means I will need to manually make this determination and externally track my progress — the very thing Trakt is meant to do.

This awards use case is personal for me but I’m sure other people are deeply affected by the loss of those two features. Before the streaming service filter became available, I created a personal watchlist, if you will, for each of my favorite streaming services, and I still prefer that methodology to help guide my subscription activations and binge viewing. But had the streaming service filter been available when I first began using Trakt, I definitely would have built a workflow around that and the actual Watchlist — and I’ll bet many VIP users do exactly that.

Or did, before today…

I know these features are on the GitHub plan and can’t be fully implemented with a wave of a magic programming wand. But yanking the last connection to V2 without any alternative for these and so many other V2 features is just another bewildering example of grossly premature moves by Trakt development leaders. It honestly feels like an enshittification trend.

Bring back V2 for VIPs.

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Indeed, Notes are now completely inaccessible in every way. It’s supposedly on their still-to-do list…

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I agree whole heartedly. This is not the service I paid for.

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Horrid, just horrid, as someone who has supported the site for 10 years, I feel short-changed by being forced to use V3, which has taken away so much and is a long way from being ready to be used. Nothing wrong with leaving V2 in place for those who still want to use it.

The whole site is barely working. I have had to refresh pages 3-4-5-6 times today just to get the content of the page to load! Absolutely ridiculous and will be the death of Trakt because they refuse to listen to their supporting (VIP) members.

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are they not going to bring back where we can see who’s watching along with us in real time?

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You said you were going to keep v2 active until v3 had all of the same features. As everybody expected, you lied, and now you’re forcing everybody onto the VASTLY INFERIOR version of your site that is completely incompatible with many of the ways people would use the v2 site.

Any normal company would have seen the overwhelming negative response to their redesign and pumped the breaks on the forced transition until they could absolutely make sure the new version could replicate every single function that your users needed from the old site.

This is a company this is completely out of touch with what its users want.

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The only reason I renewed my VIP subscription was to keep access to V2. Could we please have it back?

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V3 appears to have broken the Plex Sync settings access. Everytime I try to access that page in settings it crashes. It’s only on the Sync page no matter what server I try to quickly select before the crash. Every other setting page including Plex Scrobbler appears to be stable, only the Sync page crashes.

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All indications were that we’d lose v2 access on June 30th. We got 2 extra weeks!

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Why are upcoming shows that were on my V2 calendar yesterday not on my V3 calendar today?

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i think this will be my first and last message here. i’ve been using trakt since 2013 and have been a vip for the past 2 years and the web v2 version was part of the reason why i stuck with trakt for so long and decided to support, even though the conversion rate from USD to BRL make it a bit pricey. it was worth it. it’s very sad v3 will be the new normal from now on. i guess this is when i part ways with trakt. this can read as very dramatic, and mayeb it is, but after 13 years, there’s a lot of feelings attached, so it’s all very bittersweet.

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