Apple TV not marking shows as watched even after tvOS 18.2.1

Yup, still not working right in version 18.3 for non-4k AppleTVs. Must not be a priority for those of us with forgotten, I mean older hardware. Does Apple even make the non-4k AppleTVs anymore?

It seems since TvOS 18, this feature doesn't work right. As you said, for the 4k Apple TV models, it seems correct in TvOS 18.2.1, but is ongoing in the regular HD models, including the lack of menu items in the settings to connect third-party apps to the Apple TV app and third-party content not updating and/or displaying all available providers appropriately in the Continue Watching feature of the Apple TV app.

This likely is either a bug or other side effect of something implemented for TvOS 18. It's not likely to be intentional because the Continue Watching feature itself is still available on regular HD Apple TV models. Signing out of your Apple ID and signing back in doesn't help nor does resetting the Apple TV to the latest TvOS (not to be confused with simply updating the Apple TV software). The regular Apple TV HD model has different hardware from the 4k model, and as such also has a different feature set; because of this, sometimes bugs may be fixed for one of the models before the other.

Like most software companies, Apple will not comment on this (or any) bug or any kind of timeline for its correction. Instead, it will either appear fixed in some future TvOS release or it will not, and there is no other official information about it.

I have a slightly older model (4th gen?) and it looks like they didn’t fix it for that model.

@PhantomSoul,

No they don’t. Only the two 4K models.

Yeah, it's fine if they don't want to upgrade older hardware, but to break something that was working fine and basically hasn't changed is sloppy and irritating.

I have two 4Ks and one has never had an issue but the older of the two (Apple TV HD) has done this on and off for months. It randomly starts working again and then will stop.