What Happens to Your TV Time Data After the Shutdown

What Happened to TV Time Data After July 15

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: TV Time said personal account data would be deleted after July 15, 2026. The deadline for creating a new export has passed. If you saved an export earlier, you can still use that file to rebuild supported parts of your history in Moviebase or Trakt.

Start by checking your Downloads folder, cloud storage, email attachments, and backups for a TV Time ZIP archive or extracted CSV files.

The Timeline: What Happens and When

There is one date that governs everything: July 15, 2026.

• Before July 15 — the app and its export tools remained available.
• After July 15 — the consumer service closed and the previous export route stopped being available.

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.

What You Can Retrieve, and How

TV Time no longer provides a new-export route. Search for a ZIP archive or CSV files you saved before the shutdown. The available options are explained in TV Time exports after the shutdown.

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:

1. Import a saved file. Moviebase accepts supported TV Time ZIP or CSV files directly. Trakt also documents a route for saved TV Time exports. In either case, review title matches and dates after import. The details are in how to import TV Time data into Trakt.
2. Connect Trakt if you want cross-app synchronization. Once your history lives in Trakt, you can connect it to a compatible tracker such as Moviebase and review the synchronization settings.

Moviebase is free to download on iOS and Android, with optional Premium. It tracks movies and TV shows together, supports Trakt, and can import supported saved TV Time files. 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:

1. Find any TV Time ZIP or CSV file you saved before the shutdown and preserve the original.
2. Import a copy into Moviebase or Trakt.
3. Check several familiar titles, ratings, and watched dates after the import.

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, removal from the stores, website closure, and stated deletion of account data come from TV Time's official notice and reporting published in July 2026. Current migration guidance is limited to previously saved exports; import results depend on the contents of each file and title matching.