Who is watching

A household shares a television, and almost nothing about how you watch is shared with it. A profile carries everything you choose; what is left over belongs to the device.

Yours	The device's
Favourites	Sources and passwords
Resume points, including per episode	The Movie Database key, and what it has cached
Continue watching	Backup and restore
Theme and colour	Whether the app checks for updates when it opens
Playback tuning — skip, buffering, quality, auto-next
Subtitle style
Hidden, renamed and reordered categories
Hidden writing systems
Which tabs the bar shows
Merging duplicate titles, and collapsing shelves
Channel logo lookup, and the player's ambient light

The dividing line is whether a setting describes the person on the sofa or the television and the account behind it. A theme is a taste; a playlist is the household's, and a home that had to type its Xtream credentials in once per person would rightly call that a bug. The update check sits on the right for the same reason — it decides whether the device makes a request, and a home where that depended on who pressed a profile first could not answer "does this app phone out?" at all.

The settings screen says which is which. It opens on two tabs, Profile and App, and every control sits under the one that owns it. Switching profile redraws the app immediately — the theme, the shelves and the tab bar change with the favourites.

It was not always this way. Until 2026-08-24 a profile carried favourites and resume points and nothing else, and everything in the table's left column was shared. Two people on one television had their own lists and one shared idea of what the app looked like, with nothing on screen saying where the line was. If you are upgrading, see Upgrading — nothing changes until somebody changes it.

The chooser stands in front of the app on both the phone and the television: until somebody has said who they are, nothing is drawn that would have to read a favourite or a resume point to draw itself. It offers the profiles that exist, a field to add another, and Guest.

Your choice is remembered between launches, so the chooser is not a screen you meet every day — only on a first launch, after switching, and after a guest session ends. Switch profile lives under Settings on both apps and brings the chooser back.

Two things are honestly missing today: a profile cannot be renamed or removed once it exists, other than by clearing the app's data. The storage and the plumbing for removal are there; the screen for it is not, and we would rather say so than let you go looking for a button.

Guest is the profile that leaves nothing behind. It favourites and resumes like any other while it is running, and when the guest leaves, all of it is deleted.

It is also deleted at every startup, which is not belt and braces — it is the only version that works. A television is switched off at the wall, and a process the system kills never gets to tidy up after itself. Clearing at startup is a promise the app can keep whatever happened to the last session.

There is at most one guest at a time, because a second would be a second set of throwaway favourites that nobody could tell apart in the chooser.

There is no password and no PIN on a profile. This answers whose favourites are these, not who is allowed to watch what — anybody holding the remote can switch to any profile.

Parental control is a different feature with different requirements, and offering a chooser that looks like a lock without being one would be worse than offering neither. If you need to restrict what a child can reach, Quiblo does not do that today.

Nothing is lost. Everything already on the device — every favourite, every resume point — is moved onto a single profile named Default, and the first launch after upgrading shows the chooser with that profile in it. Pick it and everything is where you left it.

A household of one can pick Default every few weeks and otherwise forget the feature exists.

The same is true of the settings that moved on 2026-08-24. Every profile starts out seeing the settings the device already had — your theme, your skip interval, your hidden writing systems — rather than starting from defaults. They only go their own way when somebody changes one, and then only for that person. Nobody is asked to set the app up again.