---
title: "Organize your channels"
description: "Create categories, reorder or hide channels, customize listings, and merge quality variants."
language: "en"
last_updated: "2026-07-28"
canonical_url: "https://getdion.app/support/live-tv/organize-your-channels"
---

# Organize your channels

## Create, reorder, and hide categories

Channel categories come from your provider's playlist, and you can curate them per source:

1. Open **Settings → Sources** and tap the source.
2. Choose **Manage Content** (a [Pro](/support/getting-started/what-is-dion-pro) feature), then open the live category manager.
3. Choose **New Category**, enter a name, and save it. The new category starts empty; add channels from a channel's actions with **Add to Category**. Tap **Edit** to reorder categories, and use the visibility control to hide categories you never watch.

Hiding a category only affects what Dion shows — nothing is deleted from your provider.

## Manage the channels inside a category

Open a category to reorder its current channels or hide individual channels. On iPhone, iPad, and Mac, use **Add Channel** to restore a provider channel previously hidden from that category. To add a channel to a custom category, open the channel's actions and choose **Add to Category**. For a provider category, **Reset Category** restores its original name, channel order, visibility, and channel customizations.

From a channel's actions, choose **Customize Channel** to set a custom name, EPG channel, or EPG time offset. On iPhone, iPad, and Mac you can also set a custom logo URL. These changes affect only how the channel appears in Dion.

## Merge duplicate channels

Many providers list the same channel several times at different qualities ("HD", "FHD", "4K"). **Settings → Live TV → Group Duplicate Channels** controls how Dion handles them.

- **When on** — quality variants combine into a single entry, and you pick a specific variant from the quality picker inside the player.
- **When off** — every entry appears separately, exactly as your provider lists them.

## Hide live TV from a source entirely

If a source should only contribute movies and shows, turn off its **Live TV** toggle under **Manage Content** — see [manage your sources](/support/providers/manage-your-sources).