Will editing my playlist change anything on my IPTV provider?

No. The editor only changes what your playlist outputs through iptv.domains. Your upstream provider and its account are untouched — you are organizing your own view of the channels, not modifying the source.

Do I have to re-enter my credentials on my TV after editing?

Never. Your devices keep the same permanent username, password and URL. When you save changes in the editor, your player simply shows the updated lineup on its next refresh.

Can I hide adult or unwanted categories completely?

Yes — switch a whole category OFF (or use ALL OFF then enable only what you want). Disabled channels never appear in your playlist or EPG.

Does hiding channels make my playlist load faster?

Yes. A smaller, filtered playlist means less data for your player to download and parse, which speeds up imports and reduces lag on big accounts.

How do I see what my provider added in the latest sync?

When new channels or categories appear, a green "New since last sync" bar shows at the top of the editor. Click it to open a review window listing exactly what was added — new categories on the left, new channels on the right — where you can enable, disable, rename or bulk-handle them before "Mark all seen".

Can I tell when my provider renamed a channel?

Yes. After a sync that renamed a channel, an amber ✏️ Renamed pill appears beside it — hover the pill to see the channel's previous name. Categories containing renamed channels get an ✏️N badge, and a Renamed filter chip lets you list just those categories. Channels you renamed yourself are never flagged; your own names always take priority.

IPTV Playlist Editor Guide: Hide, Reorder & Organize Channels (2026)

A raw IPTV playlist can contain tens of thousands of channels in no particular order, full of categories you will never watch. The iptv.domains playlist editor lets you shape that mess into a clean, personal lineup — hiding what you do not want, reordering what you do, and renaming or grouping channels exactly how you like — all from your browser, with nothing to re-enter on your devices afterwards.

TL;DR: Open the editor → turn whole categories or individual channels on/off → drag to reorder → rename and build custom categories → save. Your permanent IPTV URL instantly serves the cleaned-up lineup on every device.

What the playlist editor does

The editor is a live, two-panel view of your playlist: categories on one side and the channels inside the selected category on the other. Everything you toggle, reorder or rename is saved to your account and served through your single permanent Xtream URL — so the changes appear on your TV, phone or Firestick automatically. Core things you can do:

Show or hide any channel or an entire category.
Reorder categories and channels with drag-and-drop.
Rename channels and categories.
Create custom categories and move channels into them.
Bulk actions — turn everything on/off, or multi-select.
Search the whole playlist instantly, even past the on-screen list.
Channel icons — pick logos from the built-in library.
Review what's new — see and manage everything added in the latest sync in one place.

Opening the editor

Log in to your dashboard and open the stream you want to edit.
Click Edit Playlist (top bar, or per-provider if you run failover/multi-provider).
The editor opens with your categories on the left and channels on the right. Live channel counts show how many are enabled in each category.

Hiding and enabling channels

Every channel and category has a simple on/off toggle. Turn a category off and none of its channels appear in your playlist or guide. This is the fastest way to remove things like duplicate language packs, regional feeds you never watch, or entire sections you do not want on the household TV.

For finer control, open a category and toggle individual channels. The category's "enabled" count updates instantly so you always know what your lineup looks like.

Reordering with drag-and-drop

Grab the drag handle on a category or channel and drop it where you want it. Put your most-watched categories — say Sports and UK — at the top so they load first on your player. You can also multi-drag several selected items at once. Each category remembers its own channel sort too (Provider order, A–Z, Z–A or Custom drag).

If you run Multi-Provider mode, the Final Order button lets you set the order of every category across all providers at once — so you can interleave them (e.g. Main | Sports, Backup | Sports) instead of being grouped provider-by-provider. You can also re-order your providers on the Edit Stream page, which flows through to the editor, the EPG and the served output.

Renaming and custom categories

Provider channel names are often messy (UK| BBC ONE HD ᴴᴰ). Rename them to something clean (BBC One). You can also create your own custom categories — for example a single "Family" group containing exactly the kids' channels you trust — and drag channels into it from anywhere in the playlist.

Custom playlists — build your own lineup from scratch

Switch a stream to Custom mode and the editor gains a Custom Playlist tab where you assemble an entire lineup by hand: import any provider's category as-is, or create your own categories and fill them with channels from any provider. Everything you do here — enabling/disabling, renaming, reordering — stays inside that playlist and never touches your providers or your other modes.

You can keep several playlists (a sports pack, a kids pack, a movie set), switch between them with the dropdown, and choose which one is live with Set active — flip it anytime without reconfiguring your devices. There's also an optional Show source name toggle that appends each channel's source, e.g. BBC One - Main / BBC One - Backup. Full walkthrough: build your own custom playlist.

Bulk actions and search

On a huge playlist, start broad: use ALL OFF to disable everything, then enable only the handful of categories you actually want. Both ALL ON and ALL OFF ask for confirmation so a stray click can't wipe your lineup. The search box looks across the entire playlist (not just the loaded rows), so you can find and toggle a specific channel in seconds.

Full example

Scenario: Sarah trims a 42,000-channel playlist down to what her family actually watches

Sarah's provider gives her a 42,000-channel playlist with dozens of country packs, adult sections and duplicate feeds. She wants only UK channels, Sports, and a clean Kids group — renamed and in order. Here's exactly what she does:

Opens Edit Playlist and clicks ALL OFF (confirms the prompt). Everything is now hidden — a blank slate.
Searches "UK", enables the United Kingdom category, and drags it to the top.
Enables the Sports and Sports Events categories and drags them just below UK.
Creates a custom category called Family. Searches for "cartoon", "kids", "disney", and drags only the channels she trusts into Family.
Renames the messy ones — UK| BBC ONE FHD → BBC One, UK: SKY SPORTS MAIN EVENT → Sky Sports Main Event.
Reorders the channels inside each category so the favourites sit at the top.
Done. Her playlist went from 42,000 unsorted channels to about 300 clean, ordered ones.

On the family's TV, Firestick and phones — nothing changes and nothing is re-entered. The same permanent URL now serves Sarah's tidy lineup, and because the playlist is dramatically smaller, it imports and loads far faster.

Saving and syncing

Changes are saved to your account as you make them. Your players pick up the new lineup on their next refresh — there is no need to delete the playlist, re-add credentials, or touch any device. That is the whole point of editing behind a permanent URL.

Tip: Start with broad strokes (whole categories off, top categories ordered) before fine-tuning individual channels. It is far faster than toggling thousands of channels one by one.

Reviewing what's new since the last sync

Providers add and remove channels all the time. After a sync brings in new content, a green "New since last sync" bar appears at the top of the editor, showing how many new categories and channels were added. Click it to open a review window so you can decide what to keep — without scrolling your whole playlist looking for changes.

The window has two sides: new categories on the left and the new channels grouped by category on the right. From here you can:

Enable or disable any new category or channel with its toggle. The change applies live and is removed from the review list once handled, so you always see what's left.
Bulk-handle channels — turn on select mode, or Ctrl/Cmd-click to pick individual channels and Shift-click to select a whole range, then Enable or Disable them all at once.
Rename a new category or channel by double-clicking its name.
Filter to renamed — jump straight to the items you've customised.
Mark all seen when you're done, which clears the "new" highlights.

Everything you change here updates instantly on screen and is served to your players on their next refresh — same as the rest of the editor, with nothing to re-enter on your devices.

Spotting channels your provider renamed

New channels aren't the only thing that changes on a sync — providers also rename existing channels (a network rebrands, a stream is re-tagged, sponsor prefixes are added like MOVIES| or ✦●✦). These renames used to be silent. Now the editor flags them so you always know what your provider quietly changed.

After a sync that included a rename, you'll see:

An amber ✏️ Renamed pill next to each affected channel. Hover the pill to see a tooltip with the channel's previous name — e.g. "Renamed by your provider — previously: MYTV HD" — so you can tell at a glance what it used to be called.
An amber ✏️N badge on any category that contains renamed channels, where N is how many. Hover it for the count.
A Renamed filter chip at the top of the category list (it only appears when there are renames). Click it to show just the categories that contain renamed channels, so you can jump straight to them instead of scrolling.

If you've already renamed a channel yourself, your custom name is never touched or flagged — the rename detection only watches the names coming from your provider, and your edits always win. The flags clear automatically on the next sync, so they only ever reflect the most recent changes.

Heads-up by Telegram: if you've linked your Telegram account, your post-sync summary also tells you how many channels were renamed ("✏️ N channels renamed by your provider"), alongside the new-item counts — so you know to go look even before you open the editor.

Quick example

Scenario: Tom keeps a tidy lineup after a big provider update

Tom opens the editor and sees "205 new categories & 141 new channels in Live TV". Instead of hunting through 200+ new sections, he clicks the bar.

He scans the new categories on the left and disables the language packs and regional feeds he'll never watch with one tap each.
For the new Sports additions he wants, he clicks the first channel, Shift-clicks the last, and hits Enable — all of them on in one go.
He double-clicks WC| MW FUSSBALL 1 DE FHD and renames it to something readable.
He clicks Mark all seen. The bar disappears and his lineup is current.

The whole review took under a minute, and the new lineup is live on his devices on the next refresh.

Next steps

Once your lineup is clean, make the TV guide match it: see the EPG Editor guide to fix missing or wrong program data. If you run more than one provider, the merge playlists guide shows how to combine them into a single edited lineup.

The Complete IPTV Playlist Editor Guide