Continue Watching & Up Next

Zuno keeps track of where you are in everything you watch, so you can always pick up where you left off and roll straight into the next episode.

How Continue Watching works

As you watch, Zuno remembers your position. Anything you’ve started but not finished appears in the Continue Watching row on your home screen, most recent first. Opening an item resumes from the exact spot you stopped.

For a show, Continue Watching follows the series rather than a single episode: finish one episode and the show moves along to line up the next one.

Progress syncs with your server, so where you stop on one device is where you resume on another.

On iPhone and iPad you can also keep Continue Watching on your Home Screen with the Continue Watching widget.

Playing from the row

Tapping a Continue Watching card resumes it right away. If you’d rather open the detail page first, turn off Instantly Play in Settings → Home & Interface.

Up Next

Up Next is where everything about what to watch next lives, in three tabs: Watching, Upcoming and History. To open it:

Tap Continue Watching or See All above the row on your home screen.
On iPhone and iPad, choose Up Next from the profile menu.
Pin it to your tab bar or sidebar in Settings → Navigation.

Watching

Everything you’ve started, with shows you haven’t touched in a while gathered under Taking a Break? so the main list stays focused.

Short on time? Pick a length at the top, from 30 minutes up to 2 hours, and Up Next shows only what fits: things you’re partway through, plus films from your watchlist that are short enough to finish.

Upcoming

A calendar of what’s coming in the next 60 days from the shows you’re watching, following or have on your watchlist, plus films on your watchlist. Days with something on get a dot; tap a day to jump to it in the list below. On iPhone the calendar starts as a week, and you can expand it to the whole month.

Films show twice when they have both dates for your country: In cinemas, and Digital release for when you can buy or rent them. Tap anything to open its page. On Apple TV, Upcoming shows the same episodes as a list.

You can also keep Upcoming on your Home Screen or Lock Screen with the Upcoming widget.

History

What you’ve watched recently, with a few stats along the top such as hours watched and your current streak.

Playing the next episode

On a show’s detail page, the Play button already points at the right episode: it reads something like Resume S2•E4 or Play S1•E1, so you always know what you’re about to start.

While you’re watching an episode, an Up Next prompt appears near the end with a short countdown, then rolls straight into the following episode. To turn this off, switch off Show Up Next Overlay in Settings → Playback.

Next episodes in the row

On Jellyfin and Emby, the Continue Watching row can also include the next episode of a show before you’ve started it, so a series you’re partway through is always ready to carry on. If you’d rather the row only showed things you’ve actually started, turn off Merge Up Next into Continue Watching in Settings → Home & Interface (under Media Cards on Apple TV).

Shows you haven’t watched in a while drop out of the row on their own after about three months, so it stays focused on what you’re currently watching. On Plex this all happens automatically, with no setting to change.

Marking as watched or unwatched

You can set watched state by hand whenever the automatic tracking isn’t what you want:

On a film or show detail page, use Mark as Watched (or Mark Series as Watched for a whole show).
On an episode, use Mark as Watched Up to Here to catch the whole season up to that point in one go.
In Up Next, Mark as Watched from an item’s menu (or swipe on iPhone) clears it from your list.

Marking something watched updates its progress everywhere, and moves a show along to the next episode.

If a film is in more than one library on the same Jellyfin or Emby server, such as Movies and 4K Movies, marking it watched or unwatched updates every copy. Finishing it does too, so it won’t show up as unwatched in the other library. Plex keeps copies in step on its own.

Removing an item

To take something out of Continue Watching without marking it watched, use Remove from Continue Watching from the item’s menu in Up Next, or swipe it away on iPhone. It disappears from the row but stays in your library, ready to start again any time.

On Jellyfin and Emby, this works for items you’ve actually started, the ones with a progress bar. A next episode you haven’t started yet can’t be removed on its own, because these servers have no way to hide it without changing your watched history. To clear one, use Mark as Watched instead, or turn off Merge Up Next into Continue Watching (see above) to keep next episodes out of the row altogether. On Plex, any item can be removed.