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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 Messages

16 hours 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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9 Messages

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

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5 Messages

15 hours ago

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

Visitor

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15 hours 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!!!!!!!

Visitor

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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.

Visitor

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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.  

Visitor

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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.

Visitor

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15 hours 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

14 hours 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

13 hours 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? 

New Poster

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13 hours ago

Lost mine today!                             

Any solution?                

Visitor

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11 hours 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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Regular Visitor

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3 Messages

11 hours 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. 

Visitor

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9 hours 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. 👍

Visitor

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8 hours 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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