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Apple TV+ drops at midnight Pacific everywhere, just like Netflix. That's 8 AM in London during BST, 5:30 PM in Sydney, and 6 PM in Tokyo. Pick a show, set your zone, get the exact local time plus a live countdown.
Severance
Season 3
Release date is TBA, drops at 12:00 AM PT when announced.
Apple TV+ drops at 12:00 AM Pacific worldwide. The exact UTC time appears here once a date is announced. After the premiere, new episodes arrive every Friday at the same instant.
Apple is a Cupertino company, and like Netflix down the road in Los Gatos it anchors its streaming release window to the home-office time zone. A new Apple TV+ premiere flips from "Coming Soon" to "Watch Now" at the same UTC instant in every region, and that instant is 12:00 AM in the America/Los_Angeles zone. Because of US daylight saving, the underlying UTC moment is 08:00 UTC in winter (PST) and 07:00 UTC in summer (PDT). The wall-clock time you actually see is just that one instant projected into your own zone, which is what this converter does for you.
The biggest difference from Netflix is rhythm. Where Netflix dumps a whole season at once, Apple TV+ leans on the weekly rollout: most scripted series premiere with one or two episodes, then release a new episode every Friday at the same midnight-Pacific instant. Severance, Foundation, Slow Horses, Silo, and Ted Lasso have all followed this pattern. The countdown here targets the season premiere; once it airs, set the same alarm seven days out and you'll be lined up for every Friday drop after it.
An Apple TV+ premiere is a single global instant, so a VPN cannot unlock it early and no region gets it sooner. What a VPN like NordVPN actually does is keep your stream encrypted on coworking, café, and hotel Wi-Fi, and let you keep watching your home account cleanly while you travel. Apple TV+ is one worldwide catalogue rather than the region-locked patchwork Netflix runs, so the case for a VPN here is privacy and stable streaming on untrusted networks rather than chasing a bigger library.
Weekly shows turn time-zone math into a repeat exercise, and daylight saving stops the answer from staying constant. Take any season that premieres on Friday 9 October 2026. Early in the run the US is still on Pacific daylight time, so the drop instant is 07:00 UTC; by November the US has fallen back and it becomes 08:00 UTC. Watch the local wall clocks move across three Fridays:
| Friday | London | New Delhi | Sydney |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 October 2026 | 8:00 AM | 12:30 PM | 6:00 PM |
| 30 October 2026 | 7:00 AM | 12:30 PM | 6:00 PM |
| 6 November 2026 | 8:00 AM | 1:30 PM | 7:00 PM |
The 30 October episode arrives an hour early in London because UK clocks go back on 25 October while the US holds daylight time until 1 November. New Delhi and Sydney never move in step with the US, so their shift only shows up once the US itself changes on 1 November. The converter resolves each date against real IANA offsets, so none of this has to be worked out by hand.
The countdown on this page always targets the season premiere, the date Apple announces in advance. Follow-on episodes land every Friday at the same Pacific instant, so once the premiere has passed you can treat the wall-clock time it showed you as your standing weekly slot for the rest of the season. The calendar export writes the premiere into your calendar with an alert one hour before the unlock, enough margin to finish dinner in Sydney or set an early alarm in London, and the event displays in whatever zone your device is set to when you open it.
At 12:00 AM Pacific on the release day, in every region at once. That corresponds to 07:00 UTC during US daylight saving and 08:00 UTC in US winter; your local time is whichever of those instants your zone maps to.
Most scripted series premiere and then roll out one episode every Friday, and every show tracked by this tool follows that Friday cadence. Apple sometimes opens a season with two or three episodes before settling into the weekly rhythm.
The anchor is a US zone. When US clocks change, or your own country changes on a different weekend, the projected local time moves by an hour even though the Pacific instant is still midnight.
No. A premiere is one global instant. Countries simply read that instant on differently set clocks, which is why Sydney gets an evening drop while London gets a morning one.
The tool marks it TBA and shows no countdown. It never counts down to a placeholder; the timer starts only once a real premiere date is public.