Anees TV is an IPTV player and ships with no
channels or media of its own. Your subscription is with your provider, not with
us — so nothing here will bring back a lapsed one. What this page can do is
show how an expiry looks from inside the app, and how to put fresh details in
without losing your library.
Two different expiries — this page is about one
- Your provider's subscription — the channels themselves.
That is this page.
- Anees TV Pro — our own optional upgrade. If that lapses
the app says "Your Pro has ended" and lists under
Still yours: playlists, profiles, favourites, continue
watching and files you already downloaded. Your channels are untouched.
What you actually see when a subscription runs out
One warning first: Anees TV does not put a countdown on the
screen. Xtream panels publish an expiry date, but the app does not
display it today, so the first sign is a failure. Three shapes, depending on how
you connected:
- An M3U link is clearest, because a dead panel normally
answers with an error page instead of a playlist: "The link responded,
but not with an M3U playlist. Your subscription may have expired."
- An Xtream login is the confusing one — an expired account
looks identical to a wrong password or a dead host:
"Couldn't reach your provider. Check the server address (e.g.
http://host:port) and your username and password." Do not take that
as proof the address is wrong; check the renewal date first.
- If you already had a working copy, a refresh fails
quietly with "Couldn't refresh. Showing your last saved
playlist." Every channel is still listed, from memory, and none of
them plays — which is why an expiry so often reads as "everything is broken
except the list".
Renew, then edit the playlist you already have
- Renew with your provider, and ask whether the details
are unchanged.
- Settings → Playlists, then the Edit
icon on that playlist. Put the new values into the same row.
- Save & load. If channels do not come back, use
Settings → Refresh → Refresh playlist now.
Do not add a second playlist for the same provider. The
free tier includes one playlist — several at once is the Pro feature
Unlimited playlists — and when only one exists the
Delete icon is not even shown, precisely because
Edit is the intended route.
What survives an edit — precisely
Anees TV files your favourites and resume positions against your
provider's address and username, not against the row in the list. That
one fact predicts everything:
- Same server and username, new password. Your
series progress carries over. Individual movie
and live-channel favourites and resume points are remembered
against the old stream address and will not follow.
- New server or new username. Nothing carries over — a new
address is a new library. It is hidden, not deleted: put the old
address back and it all reappears.
- Deleting and re-adding the identical server and username
is as safe as editing — the app recognises the same provider and your records
come back.
- Downloads are untouched. They are files on that device,
in a list of their own; editing, deleting or re-adding a playlist does not
disturb them.
Why: the alternative is matching your history by title, which
eventually attaches the wrong film's resume point to the wrong film. A missing
favourite explains itself; a silently wrong match does not.
If you use sync
With Settings → Sync on, the playlist itself — credentials
included — travels to your other devices along with favourites, watch progress
and profiles, so renewing on the phone updates the TV without typing on a
remote. Downloads do not sync; they are files on one device.
Stopping it surprising you next time
- Write the renewal date in your own calendar — the app will not remind
you.
- Ask for the Xtream login rather than a bare M3U link:
better errors, plus categories, seasons and a TV guide.
- On Pro, Auto-refresh playlist is checked when the app
opens and can run hourly; free refreshes when you press Refresh
playlist now.
Troubleshooting
Where do I see my expiry date?
Not in the app today — on your provider's customer page, or the email they
sent when you subscribed.
I renewed and it still will not load
Two usual reasons: the provider moved you to a different host without saying
so, or the pasted password brought a trailing space, which fails exactly like a
wrong password. If the address really is right, work through
"couldn't reach the server".
I switched provider and lost all my favourites
Not lost — filed under the old provider's address. A new provider is a fresh
library: the same shows on a different panel are, to the app, different
entries.
Everything is listed but every channel fails
Classic expired subscription. The list is the last saved copy, kept so an
outage does not empty your screen — check the renewal date before changing any
setting.