# Continue Watching and Resume Playback | Vodlix **Source:** https://vodlix.com/features/continue-watch **Summary:** Resume any title at the exact position on any device, with a progress bar and minutes remaining. Play from beginning stays one tap away, and viewers can clear their own activity. **Publisher:** Vodlix --- A progress bar, a Resume button and the minutes left. The viewer picks up on any device exactly where they stopped on another one. - **Feature Plan:** 2 - core-platform - front-end ## Stopping Is Not Quitting Most viewing sessions end in the middle of something. Vodlix remembers the exact position, shows how much is left, and offers Resume on whatever screen the viewer opens next, with Play from beginning right beside it for the times they want to start again. ### The Two Minutes That Decide Whether Somebody Comes Back A viewer who stops forty minutes into a film has not rejected it. They have run out of evening. What happens the next time they open your service decides whether those forty minutes turn into a finished film or into a thing they never got round to. If they have to remember the title, find it, start it and then drag a scrubber to roughly the right place, a meaningful number of them will simply watch something else instead. Continue watching removes all of that. One button, in the first place they look, with the position already correct. It is among the least glamorous features in streaming and among the few that measurably changes completion rates, because it removes friction at exactly the moment a viewer is deciding whether to bother. #### The position, not the title A progress bar under the artwork and the minutes remaining beside it, so a viewer can see at a glance whether they have twenty minutes left or two hours before deciding what to start. #### Across whatever they pick up Stop on the television, resume on the phone. The position belongs to the account rather than the device, which is the entire point, because people do not watch one thing on one screen. #### Resume or start again Play from beginning sits directly beneath Resume. Somebody rewatching a favourite should not have to fight a position the platform is convinced they want. ### Fifty Three Minutes Remaining The number matters more than the bar does. A progress bar tells somebody they are partway through. The minutes remaining tell them whether this fits in the time they actually have, which is the real question anybody asks at half past ten on a weeknight. On a phone the two sit directly above Resume, so the decision and the action are in the same glance. Underneath, the ordinary things a viewer wants at that moment are all present without hunting, adding it to their list, rating it, sharing it or downloading it for a journey. Those are covered under [add to list](/features/add-to-list) and [like and dislike](/features/like-dislike-video). What matters here is that stopping and restarting is not treated as an edge case bolted onto a player, but as the normal way people watch. - mx-auto ### The Viewer Can See It, and Clear It Behind the Resume button is a record, and viewers can read their own. Every title they have watched appears with the device they used and the date, and any row can be removed. That last part is not a legal box to tick, it is a courtesy that people notice. Somebody who watched something they would rather not see suggested back to them for the next month can take it out themselves, without writing to support and without a setting buried three menus deep. It also means a shared account stays usable, because one person's viewing does not permanently colour what everybody else is offered. The longer record and what it feeds is described under [watch history](/features/watch-history), and your own view of it under [reports and analytics](/features/reports-and-analytics). - mx-auto ### A Series Remembers Which Episode, Not Just Which Second For a film the position is a number of seconds. For a series it has to be an episode as well, and the difference is what separates a service that feels finished from one that does not. Somebody who watched to the end of episode four should be offered episode five, not episode four again at ninety nine per cent. That behaviour comes from the platform understanding seasons and episodes as a structure rather than as a folder of files, which is described under [series management](/features/series-management). It works the same way on the [TV apps](/features/tv-apps) and in your [mobile apps](/features/mobile-apps), because all of them are reading one position from one account rather than each keeping their own idea of where somebody had got to. **Q: How is continue watching different from watch history?** Watch history is the record of everything somebody has watched. Continue watching is the live position in the things they have not finished, surfaced as a Resume button with a progress bar. One is a log you can look back through, the other is an action a viewer takes without thinking about it. **Q: Does the position follow the viewer between devices?** Yes. The position is held against the account rather than the device, so stopping on a television and resuming on a phone works without anybody doing anything. That is the normal way people watch, and treating each screen separately is the thing viewers notice immediately when a service gets it wrong. **Q: Can a viewer start something from the beginning again?** Play from beginning sits right next to Resume on every screen. It matters for rewatching, and it matters when somebody else in the household got partway through something on a shared profile and the position is no longer meaningful. **Q: Does it show how much is left?** It does, as minutes remaining alongside the progress bar. That is more useful than a percentage, because the question somebody is actually asking is whether this fits in the time they have before bed rather than how far through they are. **Q: What happens with a series rather than a film?** The platform tracks the episode as well as the position within it, so finishing episode four offers episode five rather than the end of episode four. That depends on seasons and episodes being understood as a structure, which is how series are held in Vodlix. **Q: Can viewers remove something from their activity?** Yes, row by row from their own account. It costs nothing to offer and viewers appreciate it, particularly on a shared account where one person watching something unusual would otherwise shape what everybody is recommended for weeks. **Q: Does each profile keep its own position?** Positions belong to the viewer rather than being pooled across a household, which is the reason profiles exist at all. A family sharing one subscription should not be sharing one place in a series. **Q: Does continue watching work for live content?** Resume applies to on demand titles, where there is a fixed position to return to. Live channels work differently, and catching up on something already broadcast is handled by recording, which is described under network DVR rather than here.