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title: How to Pause Your Content in Kitcast
description: Learn how to pause content in Kitcast. Manage your displays effortlessly with step-by-step instructions.
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# How to Pause Your Content in Kitcast
### Pausing a Widget in the Kitcast Dashboard
If you need to temporarily stop a specific playlist item from playing while keeping the rest of your playlist running, follow these steps:
1. **Go to your Kitcast Dashboard.**
2. **Find your active playlist** and locate the slide you'd like to pause.
3. **Hover over the slide** and click the **pause button**:
### What Happens Next?
- The paused widget will no longer be displayed until you manually **unpause** it by pressing the **play button** on that slide.
- Other items in the playlist will continue playing as usual, simply skipping the paused slide.
- If you pause **all** slides in the playlist (or if it's the only item in the playlist), nothing will be left to play, and you’ll see the following message on your screen:
*“The Playlist is empty. Please update it on your dashboard.”*
**Important Note:** Pausing a widget in the dashboard **removes it from your screen completely** rather than keeping it in a "paused" state. It won't reappear until you manually resume it.
### Pausing Content Using Your Apple TV Remote
For a quick pause on a specific screen, you can use your Apple TV remote:
1. Grab your **Apple TV remote**.
2. Press the **Play/Pause button** once to **pause** the content.
3. Press the button again to **resume** playback.
### How This Works:
- This option **freezes everything** currently displayed on the screen, whether it’s a **video, image, or any other widget**.
- Unlike the **dashboard pause feature**, this **only** affects the Apple TV you're controlling.
- If the same playlist is playing on multiple screens in different locations, **only the TV you paused will stop**—the others will continue playing as usual.
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### Choosing the Right Pause Option:
**Dashboard Pause**✔ Skips the widget in the playlist
✔ Other widgets continue playing
✔ Affects all screens playing the playlist
❌ Does not keep the content frozen on screen
**TV Remote Pause**✔ Freezes the current screen on one Apple TV
✔ Works instantly with a single button press
✔ Only affects the Apple TV you're controlling
❌ Other screens with the same playlist keep playing
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