# Continue playback feature

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/continue-playback-feature/758694>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Created:** [November 18, 2021, 11:23pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/continue-playback-feature/758694 "2021-11-18T23:23:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![michal\_h](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/michal_h/32/119885_2.png) [@michal\_h](https://forums.plex.tv/u/michal_h)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 11:23pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/continue-playback-feature/758694/1 "2021-11-18T23:23:39Z")

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Hello,  
I have some suggestion about continue playback feature of series that you already watched. Something like Netflix have. If you watched some whole episode from TV series the home screen will suggest you next episode no matter if you already watched whole TV series or not.

This could be very helpful if you just rewatch some series from random episode or you just watch it casually and you dont want to remember the last episode you watched. It will be also helpful if you dont want to mark whole series like unwatched because you can lost your track about what you already watched and what not.

If you just mark suggested episode like “already watched” the feature will no longer be active until you manually start some another episode.

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 11:30pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/continue-playback-feature/758694/2 "2021-11-18T23:30:02Z")

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That’s pretty much what you can already get today with Plex.  
If you watch an episode (previously watched or not), the post-play screen will offer to continue watching the next episode of that show (w/ auto-play enabled it should also automatically start playing it). The only difference is that previously watched episodes will not cause the next episode to be added to the `Continue Watching` hub on your home page.

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**Author:** ![michal\_h](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/michal_h/32/119885_2.png) [@michal\_h](https://forums.plex.tv/u/michal_h)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 11:52pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/continue-playback-feature/758694/3 "2021-11-18T23:52:27Z")

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> The only difference is that previously watched episodes will not cause the next episode to be added to the `Continue Watching` hub on your home page.

That is exactly what I was suggesting.

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 1:10am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/continue-playback-feature/758694/4 "2021-11-19T01:10:26Z")

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I suppose this is already covered in this existing feature suggestion. There’s also a number of other suggestions around that context. I suggest you comment/vote in those suggestions in order to avoid distracting votes.

### This exact suggestion

> [@Mark for rewatch](https://forums.plex.tv/t/mark-for-rewatch/231369):
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> For those that use Trakt to sync watch status (I’ve just started using it as ab backup thanks to lost watched starts during a [Plex dance](https://forums.plex.tv/t/the-plex-dance/197064) on upgrade to a bigger HDD - some worked Fien some didn’t…) I know I go back and rewatch some TV shows many many times. So instead of marking as unwatched each time we could have a mark for REwatch which then allows the show to display the next episode in On Deck for example. This will also also Trakt to update the watch count as well.

### Related suggestions

[https://forums.plex.tv/t/allow-tv-shows-to-be-manually-added-to-on-deck/300305](https://forums.plex.tv/t/allow-tv-shows-to-be-manually-added-to-on-deck/300305)

> [@Manually add items on deck](https://forums.plex.tv/t/manually-add-items-on-deck/31742):
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> Not sure if this has been asked for or not, but I thought it would be handy if you had the ability to select movies to add on deck. This could be especially useful for those with large libraries where it’s easy to forget when you were intending on watching a certain movie.

_Those look like duplicates too._

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 12:02am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/continue-playback-feature/758694/5 "2021-11-24T00:02:00Z")

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2021 clean-up: duplicate(s)
