Recommendations you already said no to shouldn't keep coming back. A system that keeps showing you the same four titles you've already dismissed isn't really recommending anything, it's just cycling a small pool and hoping you'll change your mind.
In What's My Next, swiping a title left removes it from your pile permanently, not temporarily. It won't come back around after a cooldown period or a fresh app launch. The pile keeps moving forward instead of looping.
This shows up as a recurring theme in reviews of recommendation apps, including Likewise, where the same titles resurface after being dismissed multiple times already.
“constantly getting recommended [titles] I've passed up 5+ times”App Store review, Likewise
It usually comes down to how the catalogue is filtered: some systems apply a temporary cooldown to a dismissed title rather than removing it for good, so it quietly re-enters the pool once enough time has passed or the session resets. From the outside it looks like the app forgot, when really it just never fully removed it.
A swipe left is treated as a permanent decision, not a temporary one. That title is excluded from your pile going forward, and it stays excluded across sessions, so restarting the app or coming back the next day doesn't bring it back. The same applies to titles you swipe up as already seen.
In some systems, a dismissed title only gets a temporary cooldown rather than being removed permanently, so it can resurface later once enough time has passed.
Yes. Once you swipe a title away, it's excluded from your pile going forward, across app restarts and sessions.
Free on iOS and Android. Scan the code, or use a button.
Written by Kevin Mertens · updated 15 September 2026