Anees TV is an IPTV player and ships with no channels or media of its own — the schedule included. Programme times belong to your provider, posters to a public film database; Anees fetches and arranges both. Neither is ours to invent, so the fix is sometimes on their side.
They fail independently, so a full guide with blank posters — or the reverse — is normal.
Guide data is an Xtream Codes feature. Anees TV asks the panel for its full guide file and joins each programme to a channel by the id the panel publishes for it; if that file is empty, it falls back to asking channel by channel.
A plain M3U link carries no guide at all. An M3U line is a name, a logo and a stream URL — nothing about programmes to read. On an M3U playlist the TV Guide fills every row with "No information". No setting changes that; the upgrade is an Xtream login from the same provider, which usually costs nothing to ask for.
One more silent reason an Xtream guide comes back empty: the file is too big. Anees TV refuses a guide over roughly 12 MB rather than choke a TV box on it, and you get the "No information" grid, not an error.
When the fetch actually fails, the guide screen says so: "Couldn't load the TV guide. Your provider may not offer one, or the connection failed." A grid of "No information" means it loaded empty — a different problem.
This one surprises people. Settings → Refresh → Refresh playlist now re-downloads your channels, movies and series — it does not re-fetch the guide. For a fresh guide, reopen the app, or press Retry inside the TV Guide when it reports a failure.
Show what's on now puts a programme line under each channel name. It is fed only by the full guide file, never by the per-channel fallback — so on a panel where only the fallback works the list looks bare while the TV Guide screen still shows now and next.
A guide file normally stamps each programme with its own time offset, which Anees TV converts to your clock. When a provider leaves that offset out, the only safe assumption is UTC — so the schedule lands shifted by however far you are from it. There is no time-shift setting; it is a provider fix.
The switch is Settings → Metadata (posters & ratings) → Enhance with TMDB. Off, it reads "Off — using provider data only" and you get your provider's artwork and nothing else.
4K, UHD,
FHD, 1080p, x265, HEVC,
WEB-DL, BluRay, MULTI, a leading
[AR] tag — takes the year out of the brackets, and searches for
what is left.A match misses when the cleaned title leads nowhere: a wrong year, a transliteration no database uses, or punctuation spelled differently. From our own demo playlist — TMDB lists the film as Elephants Dream, the playlist said Elephant's Dream, and that apostrophe lost the artwork.
A clean "nothing found" is remembered, so a title stays blank even after the name is corrected — until you use Clear metadata cache in the same section. Accurate ratings and the large backdrop artwork are Pro.
If your provider publishes no guide data, no app can invent one. Another app showing a schedule on the same subscription is reading something your panel does give out — so ask them for the Xtream login, or for the guide to be switched on. Otherwise only a different provider fixes it.
The panel publishes a guide id for some channels and not the others, so there is nothing to join the schedule to. Common on resold packages.
Check Enhance with TMDB is on, then read the titles: a wall of blanks usually means the names carry tags or years that point nowhere.
A remembered miss. Clear metadata cache, then reopen the title.
It is loaded once per session — close the app fully and reopen it.
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Free tier, no ads. Anees TV provides no channels or media of its own. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.