Find a missing ABC iview saved or unfinished programme

Start with the account and the row

Confirm the intended ABC Account is signed in. ABC documents Watchlist and viewing-progress features as account-based, so comparing two devices is meaningful only when they use the relevant account and profile.

Then identify what is missing. A programme you deliberately saved belongs in Watchlist. An episode you began and left unfinished belongs in Continue Watching. An edition completed earlier may be easier to identify through Viewing History. Treating all three as one list can lead to an unnecessary deletion.

A Watchlist entry can be temporarily unavailable

ABC says a saved programme can vanish when all its series expire, when its only available series or standalone item expires, or when someone removes it. It retains expired programmes in the Watchlist's memory so they can reappear if offered again.

Open the programme page and check its present availability and saved state before adding it repeatedly. Removing an entry is a programme or series action; ABC's Watchlist help says individual episodes cannot currently be deleted from that list. The list is therefore a route to available programmes, rather than a personal permanent copy of their episodes.

Remove one unfinished entry carefully

Continue Watching contains recent programmes that may not have been completed and can carry progress between signed-in devices. ABC documents moving the video's timeline to the end as one way to remove a particular item from that row.

Use that method only for an item you intend to treat as finished. It changes the episode's progress. It is a different action from removing a series from Watchlist, and it is narrower than clearing the entire viewing history.

Clear all history only when that is the intended result

ABC says viewing history can be cleared on its website or mobile app, while the television app exposes Continue Watching rather than a history-clearing control. On the website, the documented route passes through the profile menu, Switch profile and the pencil beside the relevant profile.

1. Open the intended profile's Viewing History.
2. Check that you want to remove the full recorded activity.
3. Select Remove All only for that full-clear task.
4. Expect the Continue Watching row to clear across associated devices and to populate again as new viewing begins.

Check the result against the original goal

If the aim was to retrieve a title, return to its current programme page after identifying the right account and row. If the aim was to remove one unfinished episode, inspect that one entry rather than erasing unrelated history.

This approach preserves the difference between a saved preference, availability of a programme and recorded viewing progress. Each can change without proving that the others are broken.