How to recover your TV Time watch history after the shutdown
Updated July 2026
TV Time (tvshowtime) shut down in July 2026 and a lot of people never grabbed the official export in time. Here's the part most posts miss: the app kept a full copy of your history locally on your device, separate from that export. If the app is still installed, that copy is very likely still there — and recoverable. This is a step-by-step for getting it off your phone, on both iPhone and Android.
Before you do anything — do NOT do these
- Don't uninstall the app.
- Don't update it.
- Don't factory reset, and don't "clear cache" or "clear storage" for it.
Any of those wipes the local copy, and right now it is the only copy left. Get the file off the device first; decide what to do with it second.
iPhone / iPad
The file you want is DioCache.db — an SQLite database inside TV Time's app container (it's the cache for the app's HTTP client, "Dio"). To pull it:
- Install iMazing (free trial, Windows or Mac).
- Plug in the iPhone or iPad and open it in iMazing.
- Find TV Time under Apps, and browse into its app data / Documents folder.
- Export DioCache.db out to your computer.
3uTools works too if you'd rather not use iMazing. An old iPhone backup works as a source as well, if you have one lying around — you don't strictly need the live phone.
Android
Harder, and honestly a coin flip without root. The thing to try first, from a computer with ADB set up:
adb backup -noapk com.tvshowtime.tvshowtime
It only works if the app allows backups, and newer Android versions often refuse. If it does produce a file, the resulting .ab is a zlib-wrapped tar — strip the 24-byte header, inflate it, and untar — and the same DioCache.db is inside. If backups are blocked and you're not rooted, there isn't a clean answer yet, but the file is still on the device, so keep the phone untouched until a tool shows up.
What's actually in the file
Show and movie names, their IDs, watched-episode counts, per-episode watch flags and dates, follow status, ratings, and poster URLs. One honest caveat people keep running into: the cache reliably knows how many episodes you watched of a show, but not always exactly which ones — so if you watched out of order, that part comes back approximate. Watched-in-order histories come back clean, dates and all.
Where to bring it once you have it
A few people have built parsers and importers for it. There's a browser-only extractor floating around where nothing leaves your machine, and several trackers now read either DioCache.db or the official GDPR export zip directly. It works no matter which tracker you land on — Trakt, Simkl, Serializd, whatever fits you. Getting the file out is the part that isn't recoverable later; the import is the easy part.
bobin reads DioCache.db (and the TV Time export zip) as-is and keeps your original watch dates. Free, no ads, runs in the browser — drop the file in and your history is back.
Import your file into bobin →Frequently asked
I already uninstalled TV Time. Can I still get my data?
If you have an old device backup (iPhone backup, or a previous Android backup) from before you uninstalled, the file may be inside it. If not, and the app is gone from the device, the local copy is likely gone too. The export zip, if you downloaded it before the shutdown, still works.
Is my data safe — do I have to upload it somewhere?
There is a browser-only extractor that reads the file entirely on your machine, nothing uploaded. If you import into an online tracker, only the parsed watch data is sent, not the raw file — but you can always inspect what an importer does first.
Will my original watch dates survive?
Yes, if the tool keeps them. DioCache.db stores per-episode dates; a good importer preserves them instead of stamping everything as "today". The same episode can appear in several cached responses with different timestamps, so the tool should keep the earliest (the actual first watch).
What about the episodes I watched out of order?
The cache always knows the total count per show, but the exact per-episode list can be incomplete for shows you didn't watch straight through. Counts come back reliably; the exact which-episodes can be approximate for those shows.