Here is the part that matters most about the TV Time shutdown: after July 15, 2026, the app goes dark, tvtime.com goes offline, and every account is deleted along with everything in it. Your watch history, your watchlist and your ratings do not get archived. They are gone, with no way to get them back.
The good news: TV Time offers an official export tool, and it takes about five minutes. Do this today even if you have no idea where you are going next. A saved export keeps every option open. A deleted account keeps none.
Export your TV Time data, step by step
- Open the export portal. Go to gdpr.tvtime.com/gdpr/self-service in any browser, on your phone or your computer.
- Sign in with your TV Time account. Lost access, or only ever signed in with a social login? Use the password reset flow right on the portal to get back in. You do not need the link from the in app announcement.
- Request your data. Submit the request and the portal starts building your file. This usually takes a few minutes, but the servers are slammed right now, so it can take longer. Request it early rather than waiting for the last week.
- Download and save the file. When it is ready you get a download. Save it somewhere you will still have it in a month: cloud drive, email to yourself, anywhere but a phone you might replace. Treat it like the backup it is.
What is actually in the export?
The download is a set of files covering your account. Your watch history and watchlist
live in a CSV named tracking-prod-records-v2.csv, and your ratings live in
separate ratings files alongside it, every reaction you ever tapped. That is worth
knowing, because importers that read only the main history file leave your ratings
behind. Keep the whole export together: it is a decade of TV in one place, which is
exactly why it is worth ninety seconds to save it properly.
Common snags (and quick fixes)
- The portal is slow or times out. It is under heavy load from everyone leaving at once. Try again a little later, and request as early as you can before the July 15 rush.
- You cannot log in. Skip the announcement link and use the password reset flow on the portal directly. That is the reliable route back in.
- The email never arrives. Check spam, and give it longer than you expect when the servers are busy. Requesting a second time can restart a stuck job.
You have the file. Now what?
Downloading your data is step one. Step two is picking a tracker that works the way TV Time did, so a scrollable list, one tap episode marking, real show statuses, a calendar and reminders, and ratings that come along for the ride.
That is the app we build. Hobi is the official migration partner for TV Time users. It keeps your show statuses (Watching, On hold, Dropped, Plan to watch), counts down to every next episode and premiere, and tracks your ratings too, which matters because some popular migration paths quietly drop your ratings on the way in. Hobi's direct TV Time import is live, in the app under Settings, Import from TV Time: upload the export file you just saved, as is, and it transfers your viewing history, watchlist and ratings in one go. Start at hobiapp.com/tv-time. Living in Trakt already? Hobi syncs with it two ways.
The full walkthrough of moving in is here: TV Time is shutting down: how to save your shows and move to Hobi.
Got your file? Next step: move your TV Time history to Hobi.
Save your history, then land somewhere good. Hobi is free on iOS and Android.