How to organise a huge IPTV list: hiding, sorting and favourites

Many lists come with hundreds of categories and thousands of channels, most of them from countries or on topics you never watch. Five minutes of tidying up completely changes the day-to-day: less to scroll through and what you watch always to hand.

1. Hide what you do not watch

In Kastoo, go to Settings → Organise channels (or press the blue button on the remote in Live TV). You will enter organise mode:

With a channel highlighted, press the green button to hide it or show it again.
In the categories column, the green button hides the whole category.
When you have finished, press the blue button again: the changes are saved.

💡 On phones, tablets and computers, tap “Organise” above the list and tap the eye next to each channel or category.

2. Sort the categories

In organise mode, go to a category and use CH+ and CH− on the remote to move it up or down. Put the ones you watch most at the top.

3. Create your favourites

Outside organise mode, the green button marks a channel as a favourite. You will have them all in the “Favourites” category, the first in the list, and favourites appear first within each category.

4. A profile for each person

If people at home watch different things, create a profile for each of them in Settings → Profiles: each profile has its own favourites and its own “Continue watching”. You can also create a children’s profile and lock categories with a PIN; we explain it in profiles and parental control.

5. Choose the channel order

In Settings → Channel order you can leave them as they come in the list, or sort them by number or alphabetically. And in Channel numbers you decide whether they are shown.

6. Customise the home screen

In Settings → Customize Home you choose which sections appear on the home screen and in what order, and in When opening the app you can make it start directly in Live TV or on the last channel you watched.

And to find something, use search

Even if your list is very well organised, the quickest way to find something specific is search: it looks through channels, movies and series at the same time.

Frequently asked questions

Will what I hide be lost when the list is refreshed?

Normally not: it is saved per channel and per category. If your provider changes the name of a channel or a category, it may reappear and you will have to hide it again.

Can I bring back a hidden channel?

Yes: go into organise mode again, you will see the hidden ones dimmed, and press the green button to show them.

Do my favourites carry over to my other devices?

Yes, with the cloud backup you can share them with your other devices.

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Kastoo is just a player: it does not sell, host or include lists, channels, movies or subscriptions. The screenshots use a demo list with openly licensed content.