Paramount+ autoplay skipping current show & jumping to another, issue acknowledged

In recent years, on-demand multimedia services have grown exponentially, receiving more and more big names.

Paramount+ is one of the youngest streaming services. However, it offers an attractive and varied catalog that includes football, classic Nickelodeon content, the entire popular Star Trek franchise, and more.

Like other similar services, Paramount Plus has some features to enhance the user experience. For instance, the ‘autoplay’ feature seeks to speed up binge-watching by automatically loading the next episode of a show.

But currently, there is a bug in Paramount+ where the autoplay feature is skipping the current show and jumping to another.

According to multiple reports, the Paramount Plus autoplay feature is not working properly and thus complicating the user experience instead of enhancing it.

Paramount+ ‘autoplay’ should generate quick transitions to the next chapter of the current show, without the user having to do anything.

But instead, the feature is switching to another entirely different show, forcing viewers to go back to the content list and manually search for the next episode of the show they are watching.

Started for me yesterday as well.. was starting in on season 5 of DS9 and suddenly instead of the Tribble episode it was s1e1 of Voyager!

I also noticed it no longer shows me my Continue Watching section, and ONLY DS9 shows which episodes I’ve watched. All my other series show that I haven’t watched any episodes 😕
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Same here, was watching DS9. Episode ended and instead of playing the next episode it started voyager. Now when I open it up it hasn’t saved Mt progress in DS9. Honestly I’m about done with paramount issues. Sucks that they’re the only place I can watch Star trek.
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The issue is not limited to a particular platform, as there are reports coming from users of Roku devices, Android TV and more.

The same thing is happening with me, only for the show Blue Bloods. Do any Paramount people ever check in here or communicate issues and fixes? Do they know their stuff is badly broken, again?

Edit: I watch on an Roku Ultra (2019 version)
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came here to report the same autoplay bug as many others have. after every episode i am redirected to a different series. i also turned autoplay off entirely to try and mitigate the issue until a fix rolls around but that doesnt seem to have worked. i am on a westinghouse roku 4k tv for context.
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The Paramount+ team is already aware of the issue and is working on a fix. But there is no ETA for its rollout yet.

We will update this story once new events related to the topic arise.

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