8.34
2024-04-10
FIXED:
- Fix bug where user's "Continue Watching" would count towards another user's account.
- Fixed a bug that meant users with Plex Pass might not have been able to change the app icon.
- Managed accounts with no shared libraries could not be deleted.
- The title of items in the Watch History screen could extend off-screen.
8.33
2024-03-20
NEW:
- Added an option to the playlist context menu to show more information about the select item.
- Improved the quality of person search results from servers running PMS 1.28.1 or later.
FIXED:
- Fixed a bug where the app may not have respected the "Download over cellular" setting.
- Fixed an issue where the user picker wasn't shown on sign in.
- Removed legacy option to share synced content.
8.32
2024-02-28
FIXED:
- Fixed a bug where library access may not get set as the user intended.
8.31
2024-02-08
NEW:
- A new context menu has been added to the downloads screen, which allows you to navigate to the download settings screen.
- Added a record button to Live TV search results.
- Added a screen showing some useful download tips.
- Added privacy settings to general account settings and general privacy settings to improve visibility.
- Improved the quality of Live TV search results.
FIXED:
- A crash when opening the details of the currently playing item from the player's context menu.
- Fixed an issue with thumbnails potentially being incorrect in the download queue.
- Fixed a crash that could happen when selecting a new chapter during playback.
8.28
2023-11-15
NEW:
- Added new playback button to completed downloads.
FIXED:
- Avatars in the sidebar would not update after a server owner changes their avatar.
- After changing your avatar with the web app, the sidebar would continue to display the old avatar.
8.27
2023-10-26
FIXED:
- The "Cast & Crew" hub on media details screens would fail to load for managed users.
- The "Cast & Crew" hub on media details screens would fail to load if a library had the "Include adult content" setting enabled.
8.26
2023-10-09
NEW:
- Added a "Cast & Crew" details screen accessible from the new "Cast & Crew" hub.
- The "Cast" hub on media details screens has been replaced by the "Cast & Crew" hub and now also includes crew members.
FIXED:
- View All links would show on hubs that contained no additional content.
- View All links would sometimes disappear.
8.25
2023-09-13
FIXED:
Increased quality of uploaded profile images.
8.24
2023-08-23
NEW:
- Changed default remote streaming quality to 12Mbps, 1080p HD.
FIXED:
- Managed user's details would not be displayed on the library access screen.
8.23
2023-08-02
FIXED:
- Some devices may not be prompted for local network access and therefore couldn't access local PMS.
8.22
2023-07-17
NEW:
- Hubs that can be tapped to show an additional screen display a disclosure indicator.
FIXED:
- When signing out, would temporarily display home screen rather than welcome screen.
8.21
2023-06-21
FIXED:
- Sign In with Face ID would sometimes not show the Face ID prompt after switching between users.
8.19.1
2023-05-22
Adjustments to the sign up process for some regions.
8.19
2023-05-10
NEW:
- Moved 'View all' button from above hubs to the end of the row.
FIXED:
- Fixed a certificate authentication issue that could cause download failures from some servers.
8.18
2023-04-19
NEW:
- Streaming services can be included in search results.
FIXED:
- Fixed a bug which meant episode artwork wasn't displayed on a download.
- Improved design of downloads list.
8.17
2023-03-29
NEW:
- Add/remove from My Services added to navigation bar on Discover service pages.
- Improved reliability of background downloads.
FIXED:
- Remove third blank option on privacy settings.
8.16
2023-03-08
NEW:
- Add/remove from My Services added to long press actions on Discover services.
FIXED:
- Fixed a crash that could occur opening the Timeline on a Photos library.
- Fixed an issue where incorrect file paths could cause a download to fail.
- Opening a person details screen would sometimes cause a media server to start a scan for new items.
8.15
2023-02-15
NEW:
- Person details screens will now fall back to the classic grid view when there is no internet connection.
- The streaming services settings screen now groups different plans offered by the same service under a single item.
- You can now navigate directly to the details of a movie or show by long pressing on its trailer in Discover.
FIXED:
- Avatars for some user's servers would be missing in search results and Discover details screens.
- Context menus for items from Discover would incorrectly include actions to add the item to the play queue.
- Fix stuttering playback that could occur with certain files.
- In some cases Direct Stream DoVi playbacks wouldn't display correctly.
- Playback errors are now presented in a persistent alert message rather than a notification that quickly disappears.
- Playback of Movies & Shows on Plex could fail after watching certain Live TV channels and vice-versa.
- The details screen for a miniseries opened from the activity feed would incorrectly display the series' season instead of its episodes.
8.11.1
2022-11-03
FIXED:
- Fixed ChromeCast position on iOS Cast menu.
- Downloads: Fix for downloaded music tracks repeatedly removed and re-downloaded.
- Downloads: Switch to software transcode after hardware transcode failure.
- Downloads: Updated imagery.
8.11
2022-11-02
NEW:
- Content in libraries with the "Exclude from home screen and global search" setting enabled is no longer shown in the "Watch from these locations" hub on media details screens.
- Refreshed the appearance of the recent searches screen.
FIXED:
- Some MP4 files could play with audio only. (Fix also requires Plex Media Server version 1.29.1 or later)
8.9
2022-09-21
NEW:
- You can now AirPlay Live TV to compatible devices.
FIXED:
- Long pressing a search result for a person would incorrectly open a context menu.
- New font for headings and titles.
8.8
2022-08-31
NEW:
- Added a hub of popular searches to the search screen.
- Price information is now displayed next to purchasable external items on Discover media detail screens.
FIXED:
- Added ratings back to context menu for tracks.
- Discover media detail screens would only show the first 20 seasons or episodes of a show.
- Fix an issue where a message notification might not open to the message.
- Live TV playback didn't work when using the old video player, or auto adjust quality.
- A crash could occur when receiving an error from Plex Media Servers running 1.28.2.
8.7.3
2022-08-17
FIXED:
- Fixed bug causing high battery drain.
- Fixed crash that could occur with background music playback.
8.7.2
2022-08-11
FIXED:
- Other Plex players were incorrectly disabled in the Cast menu.
8.7
2022-08-03
NEW:
- Now automatically removing legacy synced media items.
8.6
2022-07-20
NEW:
- Added a link to the streaming service settings screen from Discover's source settings menu.
- The Free on Demand search section now includes genres.
FIXED:
- Crash when opening the details of an item from your watchlist or Discover.
- Dolby Vision Profile 5 video playback did not work correctly (fix also requires Plex Media Server update)
- Items in the "Watch from these locations" hub were slow to load if a server was offline.
- Seasons with no episodes would show as watched.
- The "Similar Titles in Free To Watch" hub would appear when the Movies & TV source is disabled.
8.5
2022-06-29
NEW:
- Added support for searching for free Live TV channels.
- Non-preferred services are now hidden in the 'Watch from these locations' section on the Discover media details screen.
FIXED:
- Fixed an issue with transcoded downloads failing.
- Fixed an issue with album track titles being empty in certain scenarios.
- Fixed issue of the info text not being displayed correctly on the media details screen.
- Users in a Plex Home would not have access to search results from More Ways to Watch.
8.4
2022-06-08
FIXED:
- Crash or hanging that could occur during sign in.
- Sometimes photos would stop loading correctly after swiping through a large number of photos.
- The share button was missing from Discover's universal details screens.
8.3
2022-05-18
NEW:
- Updated launch animation.
FIXED:
- Discover would sometimes be selected as the default location for playlists.
- Fixed an issue where an album's metadata could overlap with its title on the album info screen.
- Fixed issue that meant episodes with years rather than numeric seasons were prefixed with "S" or "Season" on the homescreen and media details screen.
- Hubs on the home screen would not update immediately after pinning or unpinning a source.
- The watchlist would get stuck in an endless loading state when removing the last item with a filter applied.
8.2
2022-04-27
FIXED:
- A message in Discover to select streaming services appearing in countries without any services.
- A possible crash when closing the Discover what's new screen.
- In some cases ad playback could be paused with no way to resume.
- Search results from Other Videos libraries would include "movie" in the subtitle.
- Streaming service selection screen is no longer shown during set-up in countries with no services.
8.1.1
2022-04-14
NEW:
- Added a setting to disable More Ways to Watch in search.
8.1
2022-04-04
FIXED:
- Managed users would have access to disabled online media sources after switching users.
- Mark as played actions being displayed for artists, albums, photos and collections.
- Fixed an issue that could cause Free Movies & TV Shows playbacks to freeze unexpectedly.
8.0
2022-03-16
NEW:
- Picture in Picture now works without switching back to the old player, meaning switching is more seamless and less content will require transcoding.
FIXED:
- Arrow keys can skip forward and backward during playback on iOS 15.
- Fixed an issue playing Live TV channels from XMLTV guides with channel identifiers containing spaces or other special characters.
7.29
2022-02-23
FIXED:
- Fix potential crash in friends list.
- Fixed an issue that could cause duplicate items in your sidebar.
- Very long audio files would sometimes fail to play.
NOTE: In an upcoming release we will drop support for iOS 13 and older, this will be one of the last releases to support those versions.
7.28.1
2022-02-08
FIXED:
- Fixed an issue that could cause unnecessary requests to plex.tv under certain circumstances.
NOTE: In an upcoming release we will drop support for iOS 13 and older, this will be one of the last releases to support those versions.
7.28
2022-02-02
NEW:
- Account deletion in settings.
- Allow direct play of MOV videos with EAC3 audio.
FIXED:
- 4K content would sometimes be unnecessarily transcoded.
- Audio wouldn't play on some videos with MP3 audio.
- Fixed servers with long names overflowing their switch in search settings.
- Long press actions for online content were missing some user specific options.
- Tapping an item in a playlist and navigating back to the playlist will no longer scroll to the top unexpectedly.
- The recording priority list wouldn't always update when setting new recordings or cancelling existing ones.
- When something went wrong creating a new managed user no error message was shown.
7.27
2022-01-12
NEW:
- Add warning icon to home users that cannot be switched to while offline.
FIXED:
- 2Mbps streams would incorrectly try to play at 720p instead of 480p.
- App would crash on startup when following a broken link.
- Changing search filters would show "no results found" while new results were still loading in.
- Download options showing number of episodes setting twice.
- Downloads would sometimes fail in networking environments that used DNS rebinding protection.
- Play All and Shuffle All options were missing from downloaded libraries.
- Sometimes recording icons wouldn't show on shorter airings in the Live TV Guide.
- Sometimes recording icons wouldn't update when scheduling or cancelling recordings in the Live TV Guide.
- Suggestions not appearing when performing a search.
- The seek bar would stop working correctly when watching time-shifted Live TV programs after the program had finished airing.
- The sharing screen didn't update correctly when turning off "All Libraries" shared to other users.
- Video downloads would sometimes exceed the chosen bitrate.
- When buffering occurred during playback of Live TV on Plex the error message incorrectly said it was caused by "Weak Signal"
- The Live TV Guide wouldn't load program information in the last week of the year.
7.26
2021-12-06
NEW:
- Search results from personal and online media sources are now consolidated on a single screen.
- You can now switch to recently used Home users while offline or when plex.tv cannot be reached.
FIXED:
- Fixed a crash that could occur when reordering the play queue.
- Fixed crash that could occur when disconnecting from Cast players.
- Fixed issue where current video quality selection may not be correctly reflected in playback settings.
- Improved compatibility with Dolby Vision video.
7.24.1
2021-10-12
FIXED:
- Don't include downloads in iCloud Backup.
7.24
2021-09-30
NEW:
- Add ability to choose downloaded video compatibility type.
- Watchlist action added to the long press menu on hub items.
FIXED:
- Detail screens for videos with a duration of just over an hour could incorrectly display the number of seconds.
- Fixed issue where some downloads could not be played using Picture In Picture.
- Fixed issue where some downloads may not play if using the old player.
- Playback settings menu icons could go outside screen boundaries in landscape.
- Selecting a search result on multiple sources crashed on iOS 12.
- Subtitle styles now more accurately reflect the system settings.
- Subtitles are now scaled better on cinematic aspect videos.
7.23
2021-09-08
NEW:
- TV Shows, Episodes, and Albums now show ratings on detail screens where available.
FIXED:
- Downloads wouldn't work in some networking scenarios.
- Fixed issue where downloads may not play if 'auto adjust quality' setting is enabled.
- Fixed the ability to switch users on iOS 12 devices.
- Support IPv6 server addresses.
7.11
2020-12-09
NEW:
- Add support for Dolby Vision video playback.
- Customize your app with a choice of app icons. (Plex Pass only)
- Improved 2FA code entry screens.
- This release requires Plex Media Server 1.18.3 or newer.
FIXED:
- Long filter titles could sometimes overlap with other text.
- Updated alert dialog interface.
7.10.1
2020-11-25
FIXED:
- Fixed a potential crash when browsing Movies & Shows On Plex content using certain devices.
7.9
2020-10-28
FIXED:
- On Deck episode could be incorrect when marking an item as (un)played.
- The app would be left unusable without manually signing out after resetting your password on another device.
7.8.1
2020-10-15
FIXED:
- Sync button was missing for some users
7.7
2020-10-12
NEW:
- Added post-play screen to Movies & TV on Plex.
FIXED:
- Changed "Aired" to "Released" on TV episode detail screens.
- Couldn't change quality of videos inside of a photo library.
- Episodes on show and season detail screens now reload immediately when edited on Plex Web.
- Fixed a crash that could occur while browsing synced media.
- Indicate when video files for episodes or movies are not available.
- It was possible to accidentally swipe to delete pinned sources from the sidebar while swiping to close the sidebar.
- Opening a video in a photo library wouldn't let you view other photos in the library.
- Playback info and quality settings text could be cut off incorrectly.
- Progress bar was missing from episodes on the season screen.
- Seekprint progress bar during music playback now uses smoother curves.
- The app sometimes wouldn't reflect the right quality setting when playing videos on Chromecast.
- IMDB movie ratings were not correctly shown when available.
- Fixed an issue that caused the layout of News Channels to be incorrect.
7.6.1
2020-09-23
FIXED:
- Only ask for local network access when we need it (iOS 14).
7.6
2020-09-16
FIXED:
- Companion was disabled for News clips.
- Fixed an issue that caused tab icons to appear very large with the bold text accessibility setting enabled.
- Hide quick letter jump on browse sections that can't scroll.
- Highlight friends icon in the sidebar when you have a pending invite.
- Live TV would fail if connecting to Chromecast after playback started.
- Play queue button was disabled for News clips.
- Prefer podcast episode thumbnails when browsing all from a show pre-play.
- The sidebar and source menu now have better support for VoiceOver accessibility.
7.5.1
2020-09-02
NEW:
- Option to detect ads on DVR recordings and allow skipping right back to your beloved content! Requires PMS 1.19.4.
7.5
2020-08-26
NEW:
- Newly pinned sources will now be positioned alongside sources from the same server rather than added to the bottom of the sidebar.
- Shared titles now show the owner's username in the search results.
- This release requires Plex Media Server 1.15.2 or newer.
FIXED:
- Artist playbacks are now always shuffled.
- Camera Upload would incorrectly upload some files with a plist extension.
- Fix case where you could get stuck in the user picker.
- Hide "File Info" option on inapplicable content types.
- Indicate played podcast episodes on the show's pre-play page.
- The Resume button on media detail screens will now always ask if you want to resume or start from the beginning.
- The app would sometimes transcode videos unnecessarily and display the wrong codecs for videos with multiple versions.
7.4
2020-08-05
NEW:
- Added File Info button with more in-depth information about personal video files.
- You can now secondary click items to show the context menu with an iPad pointer.
FIXED:
- Fixed some places where albums might incorrectly show a duration of 0 minutes.
- Made it possible to update your Plex Media Server from in the app when it's running an unsupported version.
- Moving the iPad pointer in a video player will now show the controls to allow more easily selecting controls with the pointer.
- Selecting videos in the post-play screen would always start them from the beginning.
- Videos played with Chromecast couldn't be stopped.
7.3.1
2020-07-23
NEW:
- All-you-can-watch Live TV is available now. Stream 80+ channels for the whole family, instantly. Kids, news, game shows, anime, sports, cooking—it’s all on Plex and ready for the watching.
FIXED:
- Show stubbed airings in guide when gaps are detected.
7.3
2020-07-15
NEW:
- Added Sleep Timer for audio and video playback.
FIXED:
- 4K video quality was limited to 3840x2160. Now it goes up to 4096x2160.
- Episode detail screens for special episodes would not show they were specials.
- Fixed a very rare issue that could cause pinned sources or other stored settings to be lost.
- Fixed some problems with reloading after deleting content on another device.
- Home screen hubs from Movies & TV On Plex will now show On Plex in the hub title if shown alongside hubs from a Plex Media Server.
- Newly added libraries from owned servers will now only be pinned to the sidebar by default if they are set to "Include in Home Screen"
- Opening a person in the cast hub might incorrectly load in list view.
- Playlists tab wasn't accessible in synced content.
- Pressing Play Next Episode on a TV Show would sometimes play the wrong episode.
- Sometimes the app wouldn't connect to servers when a secure connection became unavailable.
- The play button on a TV Show would sometimes show "Next Episode" for shows that hadn't been started.
- Watch Together notifications awere covered by the notch.
- When joining a paused Watch Together session, playback would start from the beginning automatically.
- When scrolling quickly through a library screen items might briefly appear in the wrong shape.
7.2.1
2020-06-26
FIXED:
- Transcoded video playback wouldn't work with the new video player when DNS Rebinding Protection is enabled.
7.2
2020-06-24
NEW:
- Browse and play Plex Movies & TV without creating an account.
- Friends can be invited to an ongoing Watch Together session.
- Show a countdown before playing an ad.
FIXED:
- Library tab could be unavailable for synced content.
- Albums on artist detail screens would show the artist on every album.
- Fix an issue that could cause a small white line on media detail screens when the system Bold Text accessibility setting is enabled.
- Fixed an issue that could cause covers to be cut off in Library screens.
- Fixed an issue that could cause library tabs to display incorrect content.
- Fixed playback of videos in photo libraries.
- Make the "Skip Intro" button available in the on-screen controls during the whole intro.
- Opening people in the cast hub failed under certain circumstances.
- Receiving content from online sources from a Companion app wouldn't work.
- Sources were sometimes not refreshed reliably when opening More screen.
- Subtitles with Thai characters would look wrong in the new video player.
- Text on the play button would be badly clipped in some languages.
- The Facebook login button could be truncated on smaller screens.
- The user picker now correctly shows a loading indicator when picking a new user.
- Videos from camera roll would play without audio.
- Watch Together didn't appear for some users.
7.1
2020-06-04
NEW:
- You can now invite someone to be a friend without also needing to share a personal library with them.
FIXED:
- Fix black screen using HDMI out with the Enhanced Video Player.
- Fixed an issue that could cause hub scroll positions to be lost when reloading.
- Fixed an issue where context menus could get stuck on screen.
- Friend request push notifications wouldn't have a clear message.
- Sometimes ad info is displayed before the ad is actually played.
7.0
2020-05-26
NEW:
- You can now invite someone to be a friend without also needing to share a personal library with them.
FIXED:
- Fix black screen using HDMI out with the Enhanced Video Player.
- Fixed an issue that could cause hub scroll positions to be lost when reloading.
- Fixed an issue where context menus could get stuck on screen.
- Friend request push notifications wouldn't have a clear message.
- Sometimes ad info is displayed before the ad is actually played.
6.12.1
2020-05-22
FIXED:
- Fixed an issue that prevented browsing libraries by folder.
- Fixed browsing libraries from older versions of PMS.
6.12
2020-05-13
FIXED:
- Fix an issue where albums could crossfade between tracks when they should not.
- Fixed an issue causing the device name to not show correctly in Plex Web for Live TV playback.
- Swipe gesture to dismiss Playback Settings or Info screens wouldn't resume video playback.
- The Enhanced Video Player wouldn't play unoptimized MP4 files smoothly.
6.11.1
2020-05-07
FIXED:
- The app would sometime crash at launch.
6.11
2020-04-27
NEW:
- Dropped support for iOS 10 & 11.
- The Enhanced Video Player is now available to all users and enabled by default. It can be disabled at any time from the app Advanced Settings.
- Share links to free Movies and TV shows and open them on the web or directly into the item in the app.
FIXED:
- Fixed an issue that caused the library screen to scroll to the top unexpectedly.
- Live TV streams played with the Enhanced Video Player wouldn't show the right bitrate info.
- Music and photo playback from root folder in folder view model would fail.
- Portrait camera roll videos wouldn't use the whole screen with the Enhanced Video Player.
- Seek thumbnails were wrong after skipping to the next video in the play queue.
- The app would crash playing music with visualizers enabled.
- Fixed an issue where the Collections tab wasn't visible with recent Plex Media Server versions.
6.10.1
2020-04-06
FIXED:
- The app would crash at launch on 32-bit devices.
NOTE: This will be the last version of the app with support for iOS 10 & 11.
6.9
2020-03-12
NEW:
- Added support for Sign in with Apple
- Removed custom user interface for News. Now it behaves like other content sources in the app.
- Search by type now includes a Playlists option.
FIXED:
- Fixed a bug where the wrong theme music might play when navigating back to a show.
- Fixed an issue searching for items containing apostrophes.
- Improved Watch From Start when dealing with back to back recordings.
- Sometimes the app would crash trying to play a video after playing content with ads.
- Sometimes the app would crash when stopping video playback.
- Summaries were incorrectly parsed as markdown, causing some visual errors.
6.8
2020-02-19
NEW:
- Improved controls for Companion and Chromecast.
- Seeking thumbnails are now presented faster. Requires pre-generating video thumbnails from the server.
FIXED:
- Enhanced Video Player would show duplicated subtitles and eventually crash under some circumstances.
- Hide signal quality when the tuner doesn't provide it.
- Sometimes servers couldn't be accessed if their addresses changed.
6.7.2
2020-02-03
FIXED:
- Shaking the device would show an internal settings screen incorrectly.
6.7.1
2020-01-30
FIXED:
- Restrict Facebook SDK for login with Facebook only.
6.7
2020-01-29
NEW:
- Added support for HDR playback with the Enhanced Video Player.
- Advanced automatic reloading updates anything on-screen when server content is added, deleted, or changed.
FIXED:
- NEW badge would sometimes be cropped in non-English languages.
- Old library names would incorrectly be shown for offline libraries.
- Small scroll performance improvement for iOS 9.
- Some camera roll images would not load.
- Sometimes "Prefer Offline Content" setting wouldn't work with Podcasts.
- Sometimes empty content views would be missing their images.
- Stored customizations are now reset when signing out.
- The sidebar now scrolls correctly while reordering sources.
- The volume slider had a white background on iOS 9.
Note: This will be the last version of the app with support for iOS 9.
6.6
2019-12-16
NEW:
- Show user avatars next to servers on the More screen.
FIXED:
- App would crash when casting Web Shows to some other devices.
- Disabled sources could be incorrectly shown on the More screen.
- Fixed a crash on iOS 9.
- Fixed an issue where titles in the player could be cropped unnecessarily.
- Fixed crash with Enhanced Video Player when the video contains tracks with non-UTF-8 titles.
- Fixed the skip forward button on the iPad mini player.
- Fixes an issue where the player interface could break when returning from the Play Queue.
- Improve browsing performance when the user has a lot of scheduled DVR recordings.
- Message on loading screens would sometimes get wrongly cropped.
- Music wouldn't resume when playback is paused because audio output device changed (e.g. headphones disconnected).
- Removing a managed user left some records of the user.
- Search results couldn't be added to an ongoing Play Queue.
- Show error screen when the Live TV Guide gets no data from PMS.
- Skip preplay when selecting currently airing items on the EPG.
- Sometimes the app would increase power consumption when having trouble to connect to a Plex Media Server.
- The app as remote controller would show the wrong duration while playing ads.
- The app would sometimes crash when searching.
- The playlists page now updates correctly when adding and deleting playlists.
- Volume slider wouldn't work with Chromecast.
6.5.2
2019-12-04
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6.5
2019-11-27
NEW:
- Added Companion support for Web Shows.
- Added volume slider to the playback menu to allow easier remote volume control, and fine grained local volume control.
- Automatic Home mode that seamlessly configures your home screen based on your pinned sources. Upcoming versions of Plex Media Server will allow unpinned sources to be filtered from your home screen. Automatic Home can be turned on or off from the Home context menu.
- Improved Search screen with Pinned Sources search, type-based searches, and more.
- New Live TV guide with improved performance.
FIXED:
- Change the default for Volume Leveling in the audio player settings to be enabled.
- External subtitles wouldn't work with the Enhanced Video Player if DNS Rebinding Protection is enabled in your network.
- Fixed a layout glitch when initially displaying Continue Watching items on iPhones with larger screen sizes.
- Fixed crash sometimes when trying to play videos.
- Fixed crash with original video player under some circumstances.
- Fixed visual glitch when reordering recording priorities.
- Live TV and transcoded streams wouldn't play with the Enhanced Video Player when DNS Rebinding Protection is enabled in your network.
- Music would not resume after keeping the app in background for a few minutes.
- Sometimes the music bitrate limit for cellular connections wouldn't be applied.
- Thumbnail placeholders might disappear when browsing content.
- IMDB logo would wrongly show up when a movie had no valid rating.
6.4.1
2019-11-11
FIXED:
- Fixed crash playing videos with the original player. This brings back the "auto-resume" issue with AirPlay and Picture in Picture. That will be addressed in an upcoming release.
- Fixed an issue when logging in as a user for the first time with an offline server.
6.4
2019-11-06
NEW:
- New and improved poster styles.
FIXED:
- Video playback would auto resume when paused with AirPlay or Picture in Picture.
- Video quality couldn't change during playback if "Limit Cellular Data" was disabled.
6.3
2019-10-16
FIXED:
- Enhanced Video Player wouldn't render non-UTF-8 subtitles correctly.
- Fixed an issue preventing the login buttons from showing on iOS 9 / 10.
- Fixed an issue where multiple DVRs might not show a subtitle in the sidebar.
- Fixed an issue where sync might not update when coming online.
- Fixed crash on iOS 9 when scrolling the sidebar.
- Fixed screen titles being misplaced on iOS 9.
- Fixed unpleasant loading animation on iOS 9.
- Inviting a new user may lead to an empty screen.
- The Enhanced Player wouldn't play trailers or extras when DNS Rebinding protection is enabled.
- Trying to create an existing managed user leads to a blocked state.
- We had to disable links in summaries on iOS 13.0 and 13.1 due to a bug in iOS that we couldn't work around. The bug has been fixed in iOS 13.2, and links will work there again. Sorry for any inconvenience!
6.2
2019-09-25
NEW:
- Added support for Exclude Labels and Content Ratings restrictions to user sharing settings.
- Record Live TV directly from the player.
FIXED:
- Automatically pause video playback when headphones are disconnected.
- Cancelling a recording would show the wrong message.
- DVR Schedule/Priority tabs would show up for restricted users with no DVR access.
- Don't show post-play screen with Web Shows.
- Enhanced video player would pause automatically after skipping to another video.
- Fix an issue that could cause the wrong number of columns to show in grid views on iPad when in landscape orientation.
- Shuffling podcasts would fail.
- Sometimes duration values for podcasts in the player could have been incorrect.
- User avatar is shown when sharing a library.
- Fixed crash when sometimes switching from the Guide tab in a DVR source.
- Fixed a crash that could occur accessing Podcasts.
- Skipping next repeatedly in the audio player with repeat enabled could have caused a crash.
6.1
2019-09-04
FIXED:
- Change default remote audio playback quality on Wi-Fi to original. This can be changed in the Settings > Quality menu.
- Fixed an issue preventing swipe-to-delete from working on the home hub reorder screen.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the play state of synced items not to sync back to the server.
- Having a linked TIDAL account which was expired could have caused 30 second previews to not work.
- The sync activity spinner was much too big. Deflated it to normal size.
- The "Playlists" tab would sometimes be missing for synced content.
- Sometimes the alphabet index bar would disappear when selecting the Library tab.
- Fix Live TV playback when Enhanced Player is disabled.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent synced music from playing.
6.0
2019-08-21
NEW:
Plex's new iOS experience with many major enhancements including:
- Customizable sidebar navigation.
- Ability to pin your favorite libraries from all your servers to the sidebar.
- Reorder your libraries in the sidebar.
- Quick access to all the rest of your media through the "More" menu item.
- Redesigned tab views that remember your previous view within each library (can be controlled via setting).
- Added the ability to manage users, sharing, and restrictions.
FIXED:
- Fixed "Play Versions" menu identifying synced media as "Original".
- Fixed crash when you stop controlling your device with the web app.
- Movies sometimes wouldn't play from the beginning when cinema trailers are enabled.
- Playback Info screen now indicates when the current video is played from your phone instead of from a server.
- Playback info for videos inside photo libraries was incomplete.
- Search would return no results for synced content when the device is offline.
- Show context menu option to resume audio tracks when library is set to save progress.
- Sometimes the playback info screen wouldn't show the video resolution with the Enhanced Video Player.
- The albums grid in the artist preplay could sometimes be tiny in split screen on iPad.
5.18
2019-07-24
FIXED:
- Audio playback would not adapt quality when connectivity changed.
- Due to compatibility issues, Enhanced Video Player will be disabled when "Automatically Adjust Quality" setting is enabled. We're working on fixing this incompatibility.
- Fixed an issue accessing Artist Radio.
- Fixed an issue where News videos might show a 0 second duration.
- Fixed error when attempting playback of a video file with a TrueHD audio stream from a remote server.
- Remote control from the web app reflects playback state more accurately.
- Show the video info overlay at the end of music videos as well as the start.
- Video player controls would change size under some circumstances.
5.17.1
2019-07-09
FIXED:
- Changing volume when casting to Chromecast may crash the app.
5.17
2019-07-04
NEW:
- Face ID / Touch ID can be enabled to login to PIN protected users.
FIXED:
- Buffering alerts could be shown incorrectly when playing synced content.
- Correctly show how much of a music track is buffered.
- Fixed an issue where password autofill would only fill out the username field.
- Fixed an issue where the user image was positioned incorrect after accessing account settings.
- Fixed issues creating or modifying playlists when using multiple item selection, and improved default playlist titles.
- It wasn't possible to restore your default homescreen after removing all content.
5.16.1
2019-06-17
FIXED:
- The play/pause button should not become unresponsive when playing audio over Bluetooth.
5.16
2019-06-12
FIXED:
- Allow removing TIDAL tracks that were added to a library.
- Available sources now load quicker.
- Don't show thumbnails or controls between music videos.
- Fixed problem playing video files with TrueHD audio streams with the Enhanced Video Player.
- Hide audio player options that do not work when playing on remote players.
- Playing a playlist while connected to a remote player could fail.
- Removed the "Lock to Landscape" setting on iPad (it's still available on iPhone). Unfortunately this feature is not compatible with the recently added Split View support. Instead, we recommend using the iOS setting available in Control Center to lock the device orientation.
- Show more accurate warning message when non-server based content buffers.
- The experimental video player would be offered to devices that are not supported.
- When casting audio always continue from where it was instead of restarting.
5.15.1
2019-05-28
FIXED:
- Fixed crash attempting to play content without signing in.
5.15
2019-05-22
NEW:
- Added a custom volume change indicator to the video player, no longer shows full controls over the video when changing the volume.
- Changed video player interface to introduce the new playback modifiers.
- Improved discoverability of playback modifiers in the music player.
FIXED:
- Cache the last play queue to restore it more quickly on app resume.
5.14
2019-05-01
NEW:
- Added support for iPad Split View and Slide Over.
- Auto Play setting can be changed when casting to Chromecast.
- Subtitle Position setting can be changed when casting to compatible players and Chromecast.
FIXED:
- Changed the skip previous threshold time from 3 to 5 seconds.
- Fixed an issue where home hubs might fail to load in some circumstances.
- Fixed crash that could occur when switching to another player.
- Fixed crash trying to play videos under some circumstances.
- Fixed filter screen performing 2 requests to PMS.
- Renamed audio boost setting to "Multi-Channel Audio Boost" and only show it when applicable (when audio is converted from multi-channel to stereo).
- Sign out the user when restoring an iCloud backup to a different device.
- Sometimes when playback finishes with the Enhanced Video player, the app would get stuck.
- The Enhanced Video Player would show "slow connection" errors unnecessarily.
- The user picker now shows a message if you cannot change users.
5.13
2019-04-10
NEW:
- Auto Play setting can be changed when casting to compatible players.
FIXED:
- An erroneous "Unplayed" filter was shown at the bottom of the list when filtering TV libraries.
- Closed captions could not be disabled during playback.
- Fixed an issue where Podcast hubs might show (null) in the title.
- Music playback might not resume after it had been interupted by other playback.
- Sometimes video playback would be stuck at the beginning in transcoded streams.
- Sometimes when playback finishes with the Enhanced Video player, the app would get stuck.
- Sync button was not always disabled for content that cannot be synced.
- The app would start videos and podcasts from the beginning instead of resuming them in some situations.
5.12.1
2019-03-28
FIXED:
- Fixed pre-roll video not showing when Cinema Trailers are disabled inside the app settings.
5.12
2019-03-20
NEW:
- Added Subtitle Position setting for Enhanced Video Player.
- Allow playback control when using external keyboards.
- Party on your phone with audio visualizers!
- Subtitle Color and Position are used when casting to a ChromeCast.
FIXED:
- Artists & TV shows containing a large number of items weren't displayed correctly.
- Fixed issue with long album names overlapping number of tracks.
- Improved signal quality calculation for Live TV streams and renamed from "Signal Strength" to "Signal Quality"
- Improvement subtitle style matching in Enhanced Video Player.
- Large improvement to app launch time.
- Pause video playback when iPads with Picture in Picture support are locked.
5.11.1
2019-03-06
FIXED:
- Fixed crash on iOS 9 and 10 when trying to resume a video.
5.11
2019-02-28
NEW:
- Added Live TV support to the enhanced video player.
- Added Slovak translation.
- Added support for deinterlacing videos with the enhanced video player.
- Enhanced Video Player uses System's Subtitles & Captioning settings.
FIXED:
- Don't apply smooth fades during consecutive album track playback.
- Don't ignore line breaks in artist bios.
- Enabled more button in My TIDAL to allow Play All / Shuffle All.
- Fix issue with Live TV failing to start playback reliably.
- Fix layout of Podcast category titles.
- Fixed an issue where sources from servers you could no longer access weren't removed.
- Fixed crash after a few minutes of playback with the enhanced video player.
- Fixed some scenarios where app would be stuck in offline mode even with internet connection.
- Import subtitle was only available from the player.
- Improved performance of full time-shifting in LiveTV streams.
- Improved seek times in transcoded streams under some circumstances.
- Music from other apps would pause when the user opens Plex.
- Show artist as subtitle for TIDAL album hubs in libraries.
- Subtitles download is available in the player for videos without subtitles
- Volume Buttons can be used to change volume of Remote Players
5.10
2019-02-06
NEW:
- Added Subtitle Offset adjustment support (only available for the enhanced video player).
- Added a badge to the player when TIDAL HI-FI content is playing.
- Improved Playback Info screen with more useful information.
FIXED:
- Enabling Picture in Picture with the enhanced video player sometimes required tapping the button twice.
- Fix a crash in the DVR guide that could occur with custom XMLTV providers.
- Fixed an issue causing Collections to be in the wrong order.
- Fixed an issue causing News to show some videos in categories with a title of "(null)"
- Fixed an issue that could cause the app badge to remain forever after receiving a friend request.
- Fixed crash when the app is backgrounded while playing a video with the enhanced video player.
- Fixed issue causing the volume controls to be too close to the home indicator on iPhone X models.
- Hide playlist edit controls for readonly playlists.
- Playback would restart in wrong offset when seeking.
- Rely on PMS to name Live TV guide labels.
- Server update prompts were not appearing.
- Show server name on multi-location Live TV search results.
- Sometimes subtitles were partially hidden when zooming with the enhanced video player.
- TIDAL artist music video hub now plays correct video.
- The Offline Browsing setting is now correctly remembered on app launch.
5.9.1
2018-12-19
FIXED:
- Fixed a crash for users with no On Deck or Continue Watching hubs.
- Fixed playlist playback under some circumstances.
5.9
2018-12-17
NEW:
- Grid view guide for browsing DVR channels.
- The new video player can now play HDR videos in SDR mode with tone mapping. It doesn’t currently support HDR output.
- Added support for direct play of VC-1 videos with the enhanced player. This is only available on iPhone 7 and newer, and on iPad Pro from 2017 and newer.
FIXED:
- Fixed issues that may have caused downloaded podcasts to be unavailable while offline.
- Fix setting subtitle size with Enhanced Video Player.
- Queue all music videos when playing from a TIDAL artist.
- Some podcasts could show the wrong duration.
- You can now save TIDAL videos to your My TIDAL library from the player.
- Fixed "Prefer Synced Content" option not working with music.
5.8
2018-12-05
NEW:
- Early access to our new enhanced video player (experimental).
- Subtitle Search is accessible from the video player.
- External Subtitles can be deleted.
FIXED:
- Fix preferred server picker layout on small screens.
- Fixed an issue where playback of all content from a filtered view would ignore the filter.
- Recording details screen would wrongly show a white background.
- The app may have incorrectly entered offline mode when a VPN connection was active.
5.7.2
2018-11-26
FIXED:
- Fix an issue with playing tracks from search results on some servers.
- Resolve audio control issues on recent versions of iOS.
5.7.1
2018-11-21
NEW:
- We've enabled a new audio player with some neat enhancements under the hood which improve performance.
FIXED:
- Fix lyrics sometimes not showing.
5.7
2018-11-14
FIXED:
- Audio and Subtitle are shown in the Video Screen.
- Context menu options were incorrectly made available when browsing by folder.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the volume slider to move in the wrong direction when using the volume buttons.
- Improved HDR detection.
- Player controls would hide behind sensor housing on iOS 12.1
- Prevent device from locking while video is buffering.
5.6.2
2018-11-07
FIXED:
- Fix crash when searching while offline.
- Fixed an issue that caused Plex Pass subscription features to sometimes be unavailable.
- Fixed memory issue that could result in a crash.
5.6.1
2018-11-06
FIXED:
- Don't limit playback to 1 minute on web shows for users who have not activated the app.
5.6
2018-10-29
NEW:
- Allow channel selection when watching a live program airing on multiple channels.
FIXED:
- Don't show a non-functional video quality playback setting for Web Shows.
- Fixed a layout issue with the player controls in future iOS versions.
- Improve the preferred server picker to indicate offline servers, and only automatically add hubs to the home screen from that server.
- Removed discontinued Watch Later feature.
- Search wasn't working properly in offline mode.
- Sometimes radio stations could not render properly.
- Subtitle Search results show more information.
- The source picker could have the wrong title after resetting your preferred server.
- The sync action in the context menu was unavailable in the Home tab.
- You can once again browse the camera roll photo source no matter your offline browsing setting.
5.5.1
2018-10-09
FIXED:
- Fixed a crash on launch on 32-bit iOS devices.
5.5
2018-10-03
NEW:
- When adding a hub to the home screen, you'll now be asked if you want a global hub for that server, or a hub from the specific library.
FIXED:
- Current and upcoming programs could overlap in Live TV player.
- Scheduling a DVR recording could sometimes fail when switching between libraries with multiple locations.
- The "Synced Only" filter was not functional.