Google pulls out of Movies Anywhere, leaving users’ libraries split

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If you opened Movies Anywhere this week and thought, “Wait, where did half my movies go?”, you’re not imagining things. Google just quietly ghosted the platform. 

As of October 31st, any movies you buy on Google Play or YouTube are no longer syncing to Movies Anywhere, ending a seven-year run of peaceful digital movie co-parenting.

The news wasn’t exactly delivered with fanfare. 

Movies Anywhere posted a one-sentence breakup note on its help page that basically says: “Yeah, Google’s out. Effective 10/31/25. Thanks, next.” 

No explanation, no dramatic statement, not even a “we still respect each other and remain friends.”

Here’s what that means:

• If you already had Google-purchased movies synced to Movies Anywhere, they’re still there.
• Anything you buy on Google Play or YouTube from now on? Stays locked inside Google’s own ecosystem like a digital snow globe you can’t shake loose.

Neither Disney (which owns Movies Anywhere) nor Google has commented, but the timing is interesting. 

The same day this change kicked in, Disney channels mysteriously vanished from YouTube TV due to, you guessed it, a contract dispute. 

Total coincidence? Sure. And Toy Story 5 probably stars a lawyer now.

Movies Anywhere first added Google Play support back in 2017, uniting your scattered movie purchases from places like Amazon, Apple, Vudu, and, yes, Google. 

The dream was simple: one library to rule them all. But now, the magic portal has closed on Google’s side, meaning your digital film collection is officially more divorced than ever.

The good news: you can still watch your Google Play movies, just not inside Movies Anywhere. 

You’ll need to head to YouTube, Google Play, or the Google TV app like it’s 2016 again.

The bad news: your unified movie library is now slightly less unified. Welcome back to the era of remembering which app you bought Inception on.

Somewhere, a Blu-ray collector is laughing.