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Wednesday, August 19th, 2026 12:20 AM

favorites disappeared from cable box but are still available in the app

The favorites have disappeared from cable box but are still available in the app.  I have rebooted and performed a system refresh to no avail.

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2 days ago

I have the same issue here on set top box - no favorites but streaming app shows my favorite channels list.  Xfinity needs to send a notice on the tv box to all customers and then push the update correcting this.  What is the timeframe for this correction?

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Ha ha ha. Timeframe? Whenever you get around to re-adding all your favorites one by one, apparently.

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2 days ago

Same issue this morning, all favorites gone. Fix this please. Diamond level user.

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2 days ago

After spending an hour last night on the phone with Xfinity L1 support to no avail I figured this out this morning. Here is the true fix.

1. Basically what they have done in their infinite wisdom is deleted your favorites. And since your default view is probably set to favorites that’s why you’re getting the pop-up and no guide to display. The fixed is as follows, but it takes a bit.

2. Go to settings, preferences, and set your default view to either all channels or all HD channels as I did. Then your guide will work.

3. At this point, your guide will work well displaying all channels. So reset all of your favorites which will do it for all TVs in your house.

4. Then go Back to settings, preferences, and set your default view back To display favorites.

THIS WORKS!!!!!!!

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@user_7mm355​  so when you say "reset all of your favorites" on step #3, are you saying we still need to go one by one to reset all Favorites using the TV remote?   

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That is the only thing that seemed to work for me. You have to select a channel, mark as a favorite, then when you exit it takes you back to the tv program so you have to reselect guide to pull it back up, go to next one you want and select as favorite, etc.

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oh well, not the end of the world but it will probably take me a half hour or so.  

It still would be nice to hear from an Xfinity rep acknowledging the issue is on their end, and if there's no way they can fix it just tell us so we know.  I am sure there are others who will wait a few days for Xfinity to fix it, so knowing whether or not that might happen would be useful to us.  

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@user_7mm355​ 

IThis did work for me also. I had my preference set to All channels, switched to HD and switched back to All channels.  Now Favorites are back.

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2 days ago

Just got off the phone with "Mark" in customer service who after confessing that this was a system issue with Comcast/Xfinity thanked me for being a Diamond member and tried to upsell me faster internet despite my repeated statements that all I needed or wanted was for them to fix the favorites issue. Typical Comcast "service" [Edited: "Profanity"]. Looks like we're stuck adding favorites one by one as described above. 11 years a Comcast customer even though they continue to try my patience on the regular. As a practical matter finding a different provider, then changing everything (TV, VoIP and Internet) would be more of a headache than putting up with Comcast's incompetence and indifference. [Edited: "Politics"]

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Contributor

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15 Messages

2 days ago

Come on Xfinity, you broke it you should fix it. The data is still out there as everyone can see their favorites in the streaming app but not on the set top box. I really don’t want to spend an hour adding them back in. 

Contributor

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36 Messages

2 days ago

Another lesson in why we test before we push to prod, right Xfinity?  Who wrote your test scripts/test plan?  Or do you even have QA anymore? 

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This, times Xfinity.  Please hire larissaej 

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2 days ago

Lost mine today!                             

Any solution?                

Visitor

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2 days ago

Like others, favorites gone from box.  At first glance, I thought my favorites remained in streaming app, but upon closer scrutiny, only some remained.  Dozens have disappeared.

It's going to be a [Edited: “Profanity”] to recreate my original favorites, and I wish I could feel more confident that if I bother to do that, they won't be all [Edited: “Profanity”] up again by tomorrow.

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2 days ago

I went online and requested a System Refresh. Favorites are now back. Go to their website, select Contact and Support, then Fix An Issue, then choose System Refresh. Took about 5 minutes or so, then voila. 

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I had success!

On my box I went into Settings then Help

From there under Tools I selected System Refresh (NOT Restart)

When it came back I clicked Guide on my remote

My favorites guide came up with all of my favorites available

Strange thing before I went in my View in Guide was set on Free To Me but after the refresh it came back on favorites

Note - I only have one box so I don't know if it works across all boxes or you have to refresh all of them individually 

Visitor

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Fixed mine also! I had 4 boxes, two lost favorites. The system refresh on the main box fixed them all...................................... sofar.

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2 days ago

I hadn't gotten around to doing anything about it, and just now notice that everything is fixed.  All my favorites are back via both the box and streaming. 👍

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@user_a8ev1s thanks for taking the time to let us know it is working again. Sorry to hear about any trouble or frustration this may have caused. 

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2 days ago

Same problem for 2 days. Input all favorites again but the other ones that are not favorites are there also

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1 day ago

9/19/26: same issue, spent literally hours trying to resolve this.  One agent after an hour researching said box was fine, is system issue (this is after the usual frustration of trying to get an agent from their automated assistant who is no help)).  A second agent (after the same frustration going through the automated assistant) said my box needed to be replaced.  So  yesterday I drove to Xfinity store, got new box and installed it only to still have favorites missing.  I have a couple hundred favorites because it saves me from cycling though all the channels I don’t watch.  I could have just re-added them in the time I wasted trying to get Xfinity to solve it.  But some folks here have said that reloading favorites does not necessarily stick.   At this point I have no other option.  Xfinity closed out the chat saying my issue was solved, and sent me a text also.  Had the nerve to ask me to rate the experience.  Since a lot of folks don’t use their X1 box, I can only assume the systems folks aren’t making this a priority to fix.  

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11 hours ago

9/21/26:  turned on the cable last night and it was fixed.  I did not have to go through the process of re-setting my favorites.

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10 hours ago

My favorites also seem to be back. It was a stepwise restore for me - some favorites came back, then seemingly all but without the star markers, and finally today I see the star markers returned. Thank you Xfinity for finally putting this right but please institute another layer of QA prior to pushing further updates -

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Hello @Xannoyed, I'm glad to hear your favorite channels have been restored and that everything appears to be working again. I can certainly understand how frustrating it was not having your channel lineup display correctly, especially when it affected your favorites. Thank you for taking the time to let us know the issue has been resolved and for sharing your feedback with us. We appreciate your patience throughout the process and your suggestion. Feedback like yours helps us better understand the customer experience, and we hope to see improvements in the future.

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9 hours ago

I got mine back back as well without any further action on my part.  I noticed it the night before last.  One strange thing though is I have a few channels that were not in my Favorites prior but are showing up when in Favorites view even though there are no stars next to them like the others.  It's not a big deal though and glad to have the rest of them back intact w/o having to to them manually.     

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We're glad to hear your Favorites list has largely been restored without having to rebuild it manually! 😀As for those extra channels showing up in the Favorites view, that does sound a little unusual, especially if they aren't marked with a star like the others. It may just be a display or synchronization issue related to the recent restoration. If it starts causing problems or the list changes unexpectedly, let us know and we'd be happy to take a closer look. In the meantime, it's great to hear the majority of your Favorites are back and working as expected! 👍

 

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