A guide can continue showing older information until its source and the player’s cached copy are updated. Last-minute event changes may therefore appear in live programming before they appear in the guide. Compare the official schedule when timing is important.
What matters here
Automatic refresh intervals, source publication and local caching are separate stages. A manual refresh can fetch the latest available data, but it cannot obtain a correction that the source has not published. Avoid promising an immediate schedule update.
Work through these checks
- Check whether the programme changed officially.
- Inspect the player’s guide update status if available.
- Run one supported manual refresh.
- Report a continuing mismatch with the channel and time range.
Avoid this mistake
Do not repeatedly reset the app because a late schedule change has not yet appeared.
How to judge the result
The useful distinction is between an old local copy and the latest source data still containing an inaccurate listing.
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Published 29 October 2026 · Hot IPTV editorial team · How we write and update guides