Tom McFarlin

In the last update, your watchlist stopped living on one device. Turn on iCloud sync and it follows you from your phone to your iPad. But it was still your list.

After making sure that watchlists are actually available in iCloud, across multiple devices, and ultimately backed up, there’s also the notion of sharing your watchlist with a friend or family member. So, say someone is using the app and wants to make a recommendation to add to your watchlist.

That’s the newest feature in the app.

Where Can I Watch? started as a way to answer one question:

Where can I actually stream the title I want to watch?

Over the last few releases it grew into something more: a place to keep a watchlist, track where you are in a show, and see what’s on tonight. But all of that lived on one device. If you looked something up and saved it on your phone, it wasn’t waiting on your iPad. Mark an episode watched on the couch, and the app on your other device didn’t know.

Last time, in 1.6.0, I said the thing people ask me for most is syncing a watchlist that follows you from your phone to your iPad without thinking about it and that it was what I was building next.

1.7.0 is that.

Where Can I Watch? started as a way to answer one question:

Where can I actually stream the title I want to watch?

But over the last few releases it slowly turned into something else, too. Once you can save shows, track them by episode, and see what airs today, the app stops being a lookup tool and starts being the place you keep track of what you’re watching.

Which created a new problem – one I kept running into myself: I could open the app and see everything I was tracking, but not where I actually was in any of it. I’d start an episode, get pulled away, come back a few days later, and spend time figuring out which one was next.

1.6.0 is about fixing that.