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Friday, September 11th, 2026

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Can't add certain titles to Check-Ins

Certain titles I can click the Yellow down arrow next to "Add to watchlist" and then add to Check-Ins shows up in the list. This is how I've always done it. But now... Only on certain titles, It's just not an option. The Check-Ins are not there. My other lists are, but Check-ins is gone.

For example, for the movie Heart of the Beast (2026) -- I can still add it manually by opening up Check-ins and searching for it, but no matter how many times I try refreshing the title page, the Check-ins link is gone. 

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This is because a title needs to have a release date in the past before you can either (a) rate it (b) mark it as watched (c) check-in to it and (d) write a review.  This is longstanding IMDb behaviour.  In the example you gave, this title will be available for these features on 23 September: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7526136/releaseinfo/ … unless there is an earlier release date, in which case case you are welcome to add it to IMDb (please see https://help.imdb.com/contribution)?

It seems that any other titles where you are seeing this behaviour are likely to be similarly explained, but please provide details if not.  

Hope this helps.  

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I have plenty of titles in my check-ins list now that do not even release until much later. This seems to be a new behaviour for me.

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@TrevX​ Please provide 3-5 example titles (with links) which have no release date yet to which you were able to check-in from the title page and we will investigate.  

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@Col_Needham​ 

Well, I've been doing it for years. I have 800 titles on my watchlist, so I use the Check-ins as an actual watchlist.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29703112/ - They Follow - This was added over a year ago

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt39161215/ 28 Years Later III - Many months ago

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3088666/ District 10 - Few months ago

All added by clicking "Add to Check-ins" from the title page.

I can no longer do that for any of these.

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@TrevX​  Ah sorry, I minsundestood the problem description ... yes, this will have been a (relatively) recent change.  The "check-in" list is for titles which you have seen and it triggers the "watched" flag when used.  The only thing we can recommend is switching to the proper Watchlist for titles you wish to see and keeping "check-ins" for titles you have seen (or not using it at all if you are not tracking this).