Plex for Android 2026.18.0 (Google Play)
Plex for iOS 2026.18.0 (App Store)
NOTE: Timings for submissions, approvals, and releases in the app stores can vary. Each release gets rolled out to users over the course of multiple days. If you don’t see the new release available for your device yet, please be patient.
NEW:
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The list items now use a solid background to denote focus.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The weekly activity digest modal now opens as a side sheet.
- [Android][iOS][Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Player: Record the current program while watching an OTA live TV channel.
- [Fire TV] Added a What’s New screen introducing the sidebar navigation.
- [tvOS][Android TV] Added a What’s New screen covering the updated navigation and other recent changes.
FIXES:
- A Live TV & DVR entry could remain in the side navigation with no way to remove it from your favorites.
- Collections that exist in multiple libraries did not link to each other.
- Episode title was not visible when sorting episode list by title.
- Fixed downloads sometimes failing to save right after the app started.
- Fixed links and notifications sometimes failing to open the content they pointed at, landing on Home instead.
- Home took longer to appear than it needed to on startup.
- Improve grid scrolling performance under some conditions.
- Scrolling up through older comments after leaving one snapped back to the bottom.
- The “More On This Title” item could disappear from the “More Ways to Watch” menu on PMS items.
- The app could crash while comments were still loading on a discussion or a list.
- The background colour behind artwork now settles as quickly as the artwork itself, instead of drifting in slowly after it.
- The cast device list could show up empty when a Plex device on the account had no reachable connections.
- The server dashboard could crash when a server had no bandwidth or resource statistics to report.
- [Android TV] Sign In with Google would crash the app.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] A focused action button could show only the first word of its label, like “Add” instead of “Add Review”.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] Canceling a recording from the DVR schedule causes focus issues.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] Fading edges on subtitles menu would sometimes appear over focused content.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] Fixed Live TV guide focus jumping to the channel logo instead of the show above or below when the guide is scrolled ahead in time.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] Fixed the navigation click going silent when moving focus inside a row or list that scrolls.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] Improve some cases where focus could lag behind scroll position.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] Player: Focus would leave the Find Subtitles menu after selecting a different subtitle language.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] Returning to the app after using another one could leave a black screen.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] The search screen could crash when switching the selected filter quickly.
- [Android TV][Fire TV][tvOS] Player: Selecting a trailer that had already played to the end showed a pause ad and a black screen instead of restarting it.
- [Android TV][Fire TV][tvOS] The Home screen took several seconds to load each time you returned to it.
- [Android TV][Fire TV][tvOS] Unable to enter PIN with a keyboard or the number keys on your remote.
- [Android TV][tvOS] Leaving a screen opened from the side nav flyout sent focus back to the profile button instead of the flyout item you came from.
- [Android TV][tvOS] On the Lists screen the more-options button was drawn far too wide, and moving down the list could lose focus entirely so no list could be opened.
- [Android TV][tvOS] Opening an empty list left nothing selected, so there was no way to tell where you were on the screen.
- [Android TV][tvOS] The more-options button on the notifications screen was drawn far too wide, squashing the notification next to it.
- [Android TV][tvOS] With the side navigation, the pivots at the top of a page stayed put instead of scrolling away with the content.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Changing a search filter moved the highlight off the filter you picked.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Dimmed the background further as you scroll a movie or show page, so titles and details stay easy to read.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Fixed opening Search from the side navigation while on a details page.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Focus was lost after declining a friend request from a user’s profile.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Navigation and season tabs you are not on are now dimmed, so the one you are on is easier to pick out.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Nothing was highlighted when you opened an activity from the feed a second time.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Player: The Up Next item on Post Play wasn’t always initially focused.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Scrolling quickly could allow the focus state to lag behind the scroll position.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Switching quickly between tiles no longer makes the background fade twice, and the artwork and the colour behind it now arrive together.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The Directed by text on episode pages was too close to the episode artwork below it.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The artwork on a movie or show page now dims away promptly as you scroll instead of lingering.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The clock in the header now sits on a rounded backdrop that blends into the artwork, and no longer has extra empty space around it on a 24-hour clock.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The exit confirmation now starts on “Yes, Exit”, and no longer appears by default on Apple TV.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The season tabs on a show now sit on the same rounded backdrop as the navigation above them, instead of a dark gradient, and are hidden when a show has no seasons.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The side navigation covered the highlight on discussion posts.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Watch stats were missing from the watch history screen.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Your selection jumped back to the start of a title’s page when community content finished loading.
- [Android][Android TV] Browsing was smoother on lower-powered streaming devices like Chromecast with Google TV and Fire TV sticks.
- [Android][Android TV] Player: Improve media compatibility checking.
- [Android][Android TV] The app no longer slowed down the longer you browsed on Android TV devices.
- [Android][Android TV][Fire TV] Fixed a crash that could happen while navigating between screens.
- [Android][Android TV][Fire TV] Fixed a crash when moving quickly between screens or filters.
- [Android][Android TV][Fire TV] Player: The app could crash when starting playback or when returning to the app during playback.
- [Android][Android TV][Fire TV] The app could incorrectly report being offline, leaving screens stuck loading, when plex.tv was unreachable.
- [Android][Android TV][iOS][tvOS][Fire TV] Player: Fixed a burst of sound from a background trailer when moving on to something else just as it started playing.
- [Android][iOS][Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] A white outline would appear around star ratings.
- [Android][iOS][Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Fixed “See all” button alignment on Cast & Crew hub.
- [Android][iOS][Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The app started in English instead of your device language.
- [Fire TV] The app could crash on Fire TV when returning to it after an Amazon sign-in.
- [iOS] The app could freeze for several seconds shortly after launch on older iPads.
- [iOS] The app could freeze for several seconds while checking for local network access.
- [iOS][Android] The estimated download size only included the first part of a multi-part file.
- [iOS][tvOS] Player: OTA live channel playback failed when DNS rebinding protection was enabled.
- [tvOS] Fixed focus not being able to go back to a details screen when opening the side nav.
- [tvOS] Focus could get stuck after deleting a list from a details screen and then returning to the user’s lists screen.
- [tvOS] Focus would snap to the side nav when loading the profile privacy settings.
- [tvOS] Moving down to a search result no longer left you unable to get back to the search keyboard.
- [tvOS] Nothing was focused after opening the create, edit, or duplicate list screens.
- [tvOS] Reviewing your favorite libraries after signing in started partway down the list instead of at the first library.
- [tvOS] Scrolling through a large library could crash the app.
- [tvOS] Swiping right on the remote would close the sidebar instead of stopping in the account panel.
- [tvOS] Swiping the trackpad remote would not move a favorited library while reordering.
- [tvOS] You could not get back to the search keyboard after scrolling down through search results.
- [tvOS][Android TV] The title of the next row could be pushed off screen on hub screens, especially on rows with text under the posters.
- [tvOS][Android TV][Fire TV] Player: The inline Live TV preview could stay hidden after leaving fullscreen playback.
