Hi Community Users!
Thank you for your response.
The "Continue Watching" feature on the Roku home screen is part of the Roku Operating System; thus, removing it is impossible. Please be advised that some publishers control what constitutes content completion (for example, end credits are shown). Once the arrangement has been completed, the channel makes a delete request to remove the content from the Continue Watching row.
For more information on this feature's functionality, you can check it out here.
Best regards,
Janadee
I hate the continue watching on the Roku Home Screen!!! Why can't we turn it off? If we want to continue watching, we can open the app channel. If it works, quit trying to fix it!!! We don't need more on our home screens. This is total bullsh!t. I hate Roku more and more. I am going to rate Roku only 1 star everywhere I can. The Roku channel is going in the Garbage 🗑️!
Blocked. Posting 2nd time. Roku implemented this for third party apps to gather information on what is watched to bring users back to the third party app. Google "continue watching Roku developers". To get rid of it, I did the following and it worked:
1. Press * for Options on each show in continue watching and select hide or remove (don't recall word used).
2. Press * for Options on the Add Channels and Sleep Timer icons on Home Screen and remove. This removes all shortcuts on Home Screen, which Continue Watching fell under.
3. Go into Settings-Home screen and hide What to Watch, Featured Free and Shortcuts.
4. I also removed the Roku channel icon, pressed * for Options on the ad to right of Home Screen and selected hide, reset advertising identifier under Settings-Privacy-Advertising and deselected Personalized Ads and Smart TV Experience, and went to each third party app home page to login and deselect sharing of information with third parties. Not sure all of this was necessary, but Roku obligates the the third parties to obtain a user's consent to show the Continue Watching on Roku.
Gotothebeach I already had all that toggled off and I still had the CW bar. I did do the reset advertiser identifier so thanks for that suggestion.
I didn't see the disabling shading third party option under each app's settings, was that only if you reset the app you get that option?
I just removed them all from the CW bar manually, and the bar did disappear, but I'm guessing it will come back after I watch more content.
Update: yeah it came back after watching some things
None of this works. It seems like someone with a law degree can compel them to stop sharing our information with third parties. I removed all of the permissions on my end but it didn't stop them from sharing my info.
Roku implemented this for third party apps to gather information on what is watched to bring users back to the third party app. Google "continue watching Roku developers". To get rid of it, I did the following and it worked:
1. Press * for Options on each show in continue watching and select hide or remove (don't recall word used).
2. Press * for Options on the Add Channels and Sleep Timer icons on Home Screen and remove. This removes all shortcuts on Home Screen, which Continue Watching fell under.
3. Go into Settings-Home screen and hide What to Watch, Featured Free and Shortcuts.
4. I also removed the Roku channel icon, pressed * for Options on the ad to right of Home Screen and selected hide, reset advertising identifier under Settings-Privacy-Advertising and deselected Personalized Ads and Smart TV Experience, and went to each third party app home page to login and deselect sharing of information with third parties. Not sure all of this was necessary, but Roku obligates the the third parties to obtain a user's consent to show the Continue Watching on Roku.
