# Party mode when watching

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/party-mode-when-watching/448767>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Created:** [August 19, 2019, 10:59am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/party-mode-when-watching/448767 "2019-08-19T10:59:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![MattWeiler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/mattweiler/32/23102_2.png) [@MattWeiler](https://forums.plex.tv/u/MattWeiler)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 10:59am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/party-mode-when-watching/448767/1 "2019-08-19T10:59:31Z")

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When several people are watching content together, it would be nice if they could all register as watching together and Plex would mark the content as watched for all users in the “party”.

People could join an active “party” from their phone/device assuming they have an account on the server.  
This way the people watching on the main display wouldn’t have to be interrupted to add someone.

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**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 11:24am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/party-mode-when-watching/448767/2 "2019-08-19T11:24:28Z")

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A request for the same feature exists already, and it has more votes.

> [@\[Feature Request\] Allow Multiple Users to Viewing Session // mod: joint watching on same device](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-allow-multiple-users-to-viewing-session/131160/1):
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> The Problem: My wife and I watch 80% of our media together. For stuff we watch together, we use my account so that it ends up watched for me, but not for her. Her account’s watch list ends up being inaccurate because it is too hard to continue to manually adjust the watched states for all the media she watches with me together. As a result, one of our watch lists will always be only 50% useful. Creating a “joint account” does not solve the problem and adds additional work and complexity to m…

Therefore this one is closed.  
Votes are given back to the users who voted on this request. Please think of re-voting in the other thread if you still want it.

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**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 11:24am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/party-mode-when-watching/448767/3 "2019-08-19T11:24:33Z")

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