Plex for Android 2026.20.0 Beta 1
Plex for iOS 2026.20.0 Beta 1
NEW:
- Added a manage button to the user switcher that opens Plex Home settings.
- Advanced options when scheduling a Live TV recording, including starting early and ending late.
- Artwork fades in as it loads and crossfades when it changes.
- Zero state for the watch history screen.
- [Android TV][tvOS] Choose a different app icon from Settings > Experience > App Icon.
- [Android TV][tvOS] Movies in theaters show a sponsored Fandango ticket card on movie details, and Fandango in Where to Watch, with instructions to finish buying tickets on your phone.
- [Android TV][tvOS] Play a search result with the play button on the remote.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Closed state for discussions, with a lock on cards and a “See Why” button explaining why a discussion was closed.
- [Android] Pressing the system back button on the Activity Feed scrolls back to the first item.
- [Android][iOS] Closed state for discussions, with a lock on cards and a notice explaining why a discussion was closed.
- [Android][iOS] Opening a notification for a comment, reaction, mention or new follower now marks it as read in Notifications.
- [Android][iOS] Rounded search fields on the search, people and settings screens, matching the web app.
- [Android][iOS][Android TV][tvOS] Theme music can play on movie and collection detail pages.
- [Fire TV] Enabled the system keyboard as the default.
- [iOS][Android] Tapping the Live TV tab now opens the source picker when more than one Live TV source is available
- [tvOS][Android TV] Hold a library in the sidebar to open its actions, and scan library files from the More menu on the browse screen.
FIXES:
- After subscribing, the paywall could briefly reappear before the new subscription was recognized.
- Album detail screens were missing their related items hubs.
- Album detail screens would flash/flicker when opened.
- Artwork that failed or was slow to load stayed blank instead of showing its title.
- Artwork tiles turned a darker shade between their loading placeholder and their artwork appearing.
- Cast and crew would not appear on some libraries.
- Confirmation for deleting an episode was not always clear.
- Expanded hubs could show loading placeholders in the wrong shape.
- Grid loading placeholders sat lower than the content that replaced them.
- Items within a list could be slightly overlapped.
- Long album names were cut off on the album screen.
- Music library recommendations loaded with poster-shaped placeholders.
- Player: Prefer displaying a track’s artist when it differs from the album artist.
- Rows with badges or a “New episode” style line under their tiles were taller than the rows around them, leaving uneven gaps.
- Sending a follow or friend request could change another person’s buttons.
- Server Dashboard: Prefer displaying a track’s artist when it differs from the album artist.
- Server dashboard was not showing a zero state for offline servers.
- Shared servers in All Libraries were not sorted alphabetically by the person sharing them.
- The loading placeholder at the end of a list had no gap above it.
- The spacing on a person’s filmography was incorrect.
- [Android TV] Going back from a screen opened from a menu could leave nothing focused.
- [Android TV] Moving up the All Libraries menu could jump focus to a library or server further down the list.
- [Android TV] Showing or hiding advanced details in File Info could crash the app. The toggle now sits in the list itself instead of the menu.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] Focus could jump back when moved right after a screen opened.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] Focus was missing from the side sheet for a moment after long-pressing a poster.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] Home stuttered while scrolling between rows.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] Moving left from some letters in a library’s jump bar opened the side navigation instead of returning to the library.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] People search results now start at the top again after changing the search.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] Picking a recent search with the system keyboard turned on left the search box empty, with no way to clear the search.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] Player: Refresh rate and resolution switching now also works during Dolby Vision playback.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] Pressing down from an episode on the details screen didn’t move focus to the buttons.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] Pressing up soon after a screen loaded could leave nothing focused, then send focus back to the first item.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] The side navigation was hidden while searching for people.
- [Android TV][Fire TV][tvOS] Rows on the home screen could overlap or leave a gap after it refreshed.
- [Android TV][tvOS] Moving down from a row of buttons or links caused the next row to overshoot before settling.
- [Android TV][tvOS] Opening a link to a comment failed to focus the content.
- [Android TV][tvOS] Rows below the focused one could briefly appear empty while scrolling down.
- [Android TV][tvOS] Search results were laid out in too many columns for a moment, then jumped to the correct number.
- [Android TV][tvOS] The clock in the header could wrap onto two lines.
- [Android TV][tvOS] The focus border could briefly appear in two places at once while scrolling quickly.
- [Android TV][tvOS] The full track list opened with nothing selected, so the remote did nothing until you pressed down.
- [Android TV][tvOS] The side menu’s bottom fade could cover the focused item while scrolling.
- [Android TV][tvOS] When moving down between rows, the newly focused row could briefly appear too high before dropping into place.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] A long comment could be missing its expand button, leaving no way to read the rest of it.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] A trailer preview kept playing after moving focus from its tile to a discussion, list, profile or Fans to Follow card.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Details screens shifted their artwork and text around while loading.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Fixed the streaming service callout in Discover not being focusable.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Opening a movie or show on TV could put focus on Cast & Crew instead of the Play button, moving down while a library item was still loading could leave focus off screen, and the buttons briefly turned into placeholders when adding to or removing from the Watchlist.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Removing an unavailable library from favorites loaded another library instead of returning to the previous screen.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Selecting a letter in a library’s jump bar could land on the wrong title.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The cast and genres were missing from personal media items previews.
- [Android] Back could stop working after visiting the Activity Feed.
- [Android] Closing a menu could highlight a button on the screen behind it.
- [Android] Going back to Home could freeze for a moment on Android 17.
- [Android] On Meta Quest, the bottom navigation tabs sat against the edge of the screen.
- [Android] Text in the comment box could appear duplicated or shifted onto the wrong line while writing a comment with a mention.
- [Android] The app could crash in the background when a push notification arrived.
- [Android] The app was drawn at the wrong scale in a corner of the screen when running on an external display, such as AR glasses or Samsung DeX.
- [Android] With the profile menu open over the Activity Feed, Back scrolled the feed to the top instead of closing the menu.
- [Android][Android TV][Fire TV] Media servers stayed offline after the device lost and regained its network connection.
- [Android][Android TV][Fire TV] Player: The app could crash when the audio or video track couldn’t be decoded.
- [Android][Android TV][Fire TV] TalkBack read nothing for some on-screen text, and read only the visible part of a shortened line.
- [Android][Android TV][Fire TV] The app could crash while laying out text on some screens.
- [Android][Android TV][Fire TV] The app could get stuck on a loading spinner after signing in.
- [Android][Android TV][Fire TV] With Include IP V6 Connections on, servers reached over IPv6 could fail to connect.
- [Android][Android TV][iOS][tvOS] Rows and headers could briefly settle slightly out of place after scrolling.
- [Android][iOS] A completed download with a missing poster showed an empty box.
- [Android][iOS] A library briefly showed two columns of loading placeholders before switching to three.
- [Android][iOS] Activity cards could show another card’s Read more button.
- [Android][iOS] Download rows could show another download’s poster.
- [Android][iOS] Downloads could fail to start for items with missing artwork.
- [Android][iOS] Editing the avatar could result in a low quality image.
- [Android][iOS] Recent searches on the search screen sat right up against their heading.
- [Android][iOS] Scrolling Edit Metadata could mix up field values or hide unsaved edits.
- [Android][iOS] Scrolling after swiping a row open could show Remove on another row.
- [Android][iOS] Search field placeholders were invisible while typing.
- [Android][iOS] Search results sat further from the right edge of the screen than the left.
- [Android][iOS] Starting multiple downloads on a higher latency connection could leave them stalled and unable to retry.
- [Android][iOS] The people search results would not update after following a person from their profile and returning to the search results.
- [Android][iOS][Android TV][tvOS] Artwork downloaded again after switching networks, such as between home Wi-Fi and mobile data.
- [Android][iOS][Android TV][tvOS] Artwork on screen took longer than it should to come back after leaving the player.
- [Android][iOS][Android TV][tvOS] Remote Watch Pass could advertise a free trial to accounts that were no longer eligible for one.
- [Android][iOS][Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Search settings no longer list servers that can’t return any search results, such as one that only shares a single item with you.
- [Fire TV] Remote Watch Pass incorrectly displayed an extended trial that wasn’t available.
- [Fire TV] The app could be slow for several minutes after first opening it.
- [Meta Horizon] Removed the Take Photo option when setting an avatar.
- [iOS] Live TV: The bottom of the guide was hidden behind the tab bar.
- [iOS] Player: The post-play screen overlapped the status bar on iPad.
- [iOS] The last row on Home, Library and Discover no longer slips behind the tab bar after opening an item.
- [iOS] The page title on details pages and My Lists had no background on iOS 27, so it blended into the content while scrolling
- [iOS][Android] Fixed downloads not working for some people after the app was closed while it was updating its downloads list.
- [iOS][Android] Player: The seek preview did not match the aspect ratio of the video after changing the display mode.
- [iOS][tvOS] Player: Live TV channels with a space in their channel ID (e.g. from a VBox gateway) failed to tune.
- [iOS][tvOS] Player: Playback speed went back to normal after moving to the next item.
- [iOS][tvOS] Player: Remote playback failed when the server converted the video to an image format.
- [tvOS] Moving up from the action buttons or from the far right of the episodes row could land on the wrong episode or skip the summary, and the episodes row could open on a different episode than the one you were up to.
- [tvOS] Pressing up from the right-hand column of search results did nothing.
- [tvOS] The app could crash when opening or closing the player, or when pressing buttons on the remote.
- [tvOS] The first item in a filter menu, such as Genre, was not highlighted the first time the menu opened.
- [tvOS] The search keyboard sometimes scrolled out of view while typing.
- [tvOS] The tracks hub on movie details couldn’t be reached with the remote.
- [tvOS] The wrong button could be focused when returning from a screen opened from a menu.
BETA:
- [Android TV][tvOS] Spotlight tiles on TV were too tall, cut off their artwork and showed a grey background instead of the artwork’s colors.
