What Happens to Your TV Time Data After the Shutdown
TV Time deletes all account data after July 15, 2026. Learn what happens to your watch history, how to export it in time, and how to keep it portable.
Your TV Time Data Is Deleted After July 15 — but You Can Still Save It
With TV Time shutting down after July 15, 2026, the question most people have is not about the app closing. It is about the years of tracking inside it. Every episode you marked, every rating, every show you followed — what happens to all of it?
The short version: after July 15, 2026, all personal TV Time account data is permanently deleted. But until that date, you can still download it, and you can turn it into something you actually keep instead of a dead file. This page explains the timeline, what you can retrieve, and how to make your history portable so it is never trapped in one app again.
The reassuring part is that nothing is lost yet. The urgent part is that the window is short, so the right move is to export now rather than wait.
The Timeline: What Happens and When
There is one date that governs everything: July 15, 2026.
- Before July 15 — the app works normally and the export tools are available. This is your window to get your data out.
- After July 15 — the app is removed from the App Store and Google Play, tvtime.com goes offline, and all personal account data is deleted.
Deleted here means gone. There is no archive to request afterward, no restore option, and no grace period once the servers are switched off. It is also worth knowing what will not happen: after the shutdown, your consumer data is not used commercially. This closure is a wind-down of the consumer service, not a repurposing of your personal history. That is a fair reason to feel calm about privacy — but it is not a reason to wait, because "not used" and "deleted" both mean you cannot get it back later.
All TV Time account data is permanently deleted after July 15, 2026. Export before then. Do not leave it to the final day, when export tools are most likely to be slow under the migration load.
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What You Can Retrieve, and How
TV Time provides a GDPR self-service export that lets you download your own data. Sign in with your TV Time account at:
https://gdpr.tvtime.com/gdpr/self-service
Use this tool rather than emailing a data request. A standard GDPR request by email can take up to 30 days to fulfill, which is longer than the time left before the deadline. The self-service export runs on demand, so it is the reliable route this close to July 15. The full click-by-click walkthrough is in how to export your TV Time data.
What the export contains
The export is a snapshot of your tracking, which typically covers:
- Watch history — the episodes and titles you marked as watched, the core of your record.
- Ratings — the scores you gave shows and movies.
- Follows — the shows you were tracking or subscribed to.
That is the material worth preserving. It is what lets a new tracker recreate your progress instead of starting you from zero on shows you finished years ago.
Don't Just Save a File — Make It Portable
Here is the trap to avoid. You can download the export, drop the ZIP in a folder, and feel done. But a file sitting on your drive is not a working watch history. You cannot browse it, it does not tell you where you stopped in a series, and it slowly becomes a file you never open. The point of exporting is not to archive your past — it is to keep tracking without losing your place.
The way to do that is to route the export through an open sync layer instead of importing it straight into one closed app. The reliable path has two hops:
- Import your export into Trakt. Trakt added a built-in TV Time importer, and most users report around 95% accuracy or better. Obscure or very old titles may need a manual fix, and if the built-in importer fails for your account, you can fall back to the GDPR export and import it as a CSV. The details are in how to import TV Time to Trakt.
- Connect Trakt to a tracker that syncs both ways. Once your history lives in Trakt, it is portable. Moviebase syncs bidirectionally with Trakt.tv — watch history, ratings, watchlist, and collections — so it pulls your imported history in and keeps it in step. If you ever switch apps again, your data is already in Trakt rather than locked inside Moviebase, which is exactly the situation TV Time users are stuck in now.
Moviebase is a free, ad-free Android app (with an optional paid ad-removal) that tracks movies and TV together, powered by TMDB data, with a release calendar, notifications for new episodes, and free viewing statistics. It is Android-only and has no social layer, so it will not replace TV Time's community — but as a stable, portable home for the history you just rescued, it does the job. The step-by-step is in how to switch from TV Time to Moviebase.
What to Do Today
If you take nothing else from this page, do these three things in order, and do them before July 15:
- Run the GDPR self-service export and confirm you have the download.
- Import that history into Trakt so it becomes portable.
- Connect Trakt to a tracker you want to keep using, and check that your progress came across.
Once your history is in an open ecosystem, this kind of shutdown stops being a crisis. A future app closing becomes a minor inconvenience instead of the loss of years of tracking.
Frequently Asked Questions
Source Notes
The shutdown date, the removal of the app from both stores, the website going offline, and the permanent deletion of account data are from TV Time's official notice by parent company Whip Media and reporting by TechCrunch published July 2, 2026. The GDPR self-service export URL and the up-to-30-day timeline for email requests reflect TV Time's own data-request process. The Trakt import path and the roughly 95% accuracy figure reflect the built-in TV Time importer and public user reports across Reddit, MacRumors forums, and AlternativeTo in the days following the announcement.