Zuno Connect

Zuno Connect is where Zuno links up with everything around your library. Open Settings → Zuno Connect and you’ll find it grouped by what you want to do, with each service’s setup and its alerts on the same page.

What’s inside

Follows & Upcoming: follow shows and people, see what’s coming up in Up Next, keep a calendar of it that updates itself, and get told when a new episode airs, a film on your watchlist comes out digitally, or someone you follow has something new.
Requests: connect Seerr, Jellyseerr or Overseerr to request movies and shows, and get told when a request is approved, declined or ready to watch.
Sonarr & Radarr: get told when a release is grabbed, imported, or fails.
Server Alerts: get told when something new lands on your Plex server: everything, just your watchlist, or your watchlist plus new episodes of the shows you’re watching. Needs Plex Pass and an admin profile, so it only appears when you’re using a Plex profile.
Watch Sync: connect Trakt, Simkl or MDBList if you also use them elsewhere.
Smart Home: let your smart home react when playback starts, pauses or finishes, for example dimming your Philips Hue lights for a film, having them follow the colours on screen, or running an Apple Home scene.
Zuno Remote: control your Apple TV from your iPhone or iPad.

Following shows, movies and people

Tap Follow (the bell) on a show’s or person’s page: it’s in the toolbar on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and next to the play button on Apple TV. Films on your watchlist are followed automatically.

Following a show puts its new episodes on the Upcoming calendar in Up Next, even if it isn’t in your library yet. Your follows sync to your other devices through iCloud, so something you follow on your Apple TV reaches your iPhone too.

Follow a show or person from its page.
Open Settings → Zuno Connect → Follows & Upcoming on your iPhone or iPad.
Turn on New Episode Alerts, Movie Release Alerts or People You Follow.

Tap an alert to open the show or film it’s about. Alerts arrive around 9am in your time zone, on the day something comes out where you live. A show that airs in the evening in another country, such as a US show watched from the UK, is announced the next morning, once you can actually watch it. If you’re alerted before it airs, the alert says it’s out later today.

Film alerts arrive on the day a film comes out digitally in your country, when you can buy or rent it, not on its cinema date. You don’t need Trakt or Simkl for any of this. Zuno works out what’s coming up by itself.

Calendar subscription

Keep a Zuno calendar in your own calendar app with every upcoming episode of the shows you follow and the films on your watchlist. It keeps itself up to date: new episodes appear, changed dates move, and shows you unfollow drop off.

Open Settings → Zuno Connect → Follows & Upcoming on your iPhone or iPad.
Turn on Calendar Subscription.
Tap Subscribe when your iPhone or iPad asks.

Everything is an all-day event on the day it comes out where you live. Through iCloud, the calendar also appears on your Mac and other Apple devices. To use it in Google Calendar or Outlook, tap Copy Link and add it there as a calendar from a link.

While it’s on, Add to Calendar in Up Next only appears for things the subscription doesn’t already include, such as shows you’re watching but don’t follow.

If you share the link by mistake, tap Reset Link. The old link stops working and you subscribe again with the new one. Turning the subscription off empties the Zuno calendar, and you can then delete it in your calendar app.

Watch Sync is optional

Zuno already keeps your watchlist and upcoming episodes on its own. Connect Trakt, Simkl or MDBList only if you also use them elsewhere. They sync your watchlist, mark what you watch, and MDBList can add its lists to your home screen.

Signing in with Apple

The Account row at the top of Zuno Connect lets you sign in with Apple. It’s optional and free, and everything in Zuno works without it. Signing in:

keeps your Zuno account and subscription with you across reinstalls and devices,
sends Seerr, Sonarr and Radarr alerts to every iPhone and iPad you sign in on,
is needed to join the TestFlight beta.

Sign in with Apple only, with no email or password to create. You can sign out or delete your account from the same page on any device. Signing out doesn’t delete your follows or settings.