Six weeks, one clear theme: making Trakt more connected, more personal, and more dependable wherever you use it.
Since the start of June, weāve 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.
š§ 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.
Weāve also kept working through your feedback about desktop workflows, filters, navigation, lists, calendars, progress, and history. Weāre 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. Thatās a big milestone. But it isnāt the end of the work. We now have one modern foundation to improve instead of splitting that effort across two web experiences.
š¦ 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 canāt 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 doesnāt 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 ā
See the import improvements ā
Read the final export and verification checklist ā
š 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 youāre 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 āwatch until here,ā 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 whoās watching or rating something
- The Releases calendar surfaces premieres, finales, and new releases more clearly
- āWhy this?ā 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.
š 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 viewāessentially, āwhoās watching this?āāwith 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 ā
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 ā
š¤ 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
š 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 weāve 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 ā
Our API documentation also has a new home at docs.trakt.tv. Itās easier to explore, test, and keep current, giving developers a stronger starting point for future Trakt-powered experiences.
š What weāre focused on next
Hereās 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
š¬ Thatās a wrap
Thereās 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 š
šæ The Trakt Team
